ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

January

21,

1982

SOURS GRAIN COMPANY,

)

Petitioner,

)

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ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

)

AGENCY,

Respondent.

ORDER OF THE BOARD

(by

I.

Goodman):

On January

13, 1982 Petitioner filed a Motion

for Continuance

with the Board.

Pursuant to Procedural

Rule 308(f), the Board has

considered

this

Motion

to be an interlocutory appeal of

the

hearing

officer’s denial of Petitioner’s oral Motion for a Continuance

made at the January 12,

1982 pre—hearing conference.

Respondent

objected at that time to a total continuance but agreed to a

bifurcated hearing.

The hearing officer denied the continuance

for the hearing on the merit because public notice of

a January 25~

1982 hearing had already been issued.

However,

the hearing officer

granted Petitioner a second hearing date to present the economic

evidence Petitioner claimed to be developing and was therefore

unavailable for the January hearing.

Since Petitioner raises no

arcjuments

in its appeal other than inconvenience, the Board

finds

no reason sufficient to overrule the hearing officer in this

matter.

The appeal is denied.

Mr. Dumelle concurred.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

I, Christan

L,

Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution

Control Board,

hereby certify that the above Order was

dopted on

the

~

day of~

,

1982 by a vote of

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Christan

L.

~t,

Clerk

Illinois Pollution Control

Board

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