ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    June 19, 1997
    ILLINOIS LANDFILL, INC.,
    Petitioner,
    v.
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    Respondent.
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    PCB 97-205
    (Variance - Land)
    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by G.T. Girard):
    On May 16, 1997 Illinois Landfill, Inc. filed a
    petition for variance
    regarding its facility located in
    Hoopeston, Vermilion County, Illinois. The petition was accompanied by a wavier of hearing. On June 6, 1997
    the Board received an objection to the wavier of hearing. This matter is accepted for hearing.
    The hearing must be scheduled and completed in a timely manner, consistent with
    Board practices and the applicable statutory decision deadline, or the decision deadline as
    extended by a waiver. The Board will assign a hearing officer to conduct hearings consistent
    with this order, and the Clerk of the Board shall promptly issue appropriate directions to that
    assigned hearing officer.
    The assigned hearing officer shall inform the Clerk of the Board of the time and
    location of the hearing at least 40 days in advance of hearing so that public notice of hearing
    may be published. After hearing, the hearing officer shall submit an exhibit list, a statement
    regarding credibility of witnesses, and all exhibits to the Board within five days of the hearing.
    Any briefing schedule shall provide for final filings as expeditiously as possible and, in
    time-limited cases, no later than 30 days prior to the decision due date, which is the final
    regularly scheduled Board meeting date on or before the statutory or deferred decision
    deadline. Absent any future waivers of the decision deadline, the statutory decision deadline is
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    September 13, 1997 (120 days from
    May 16, 1997
    ). The Board meeting immediately
    preceding the decision deadline is scheduled for September 4, 1997.
    If after appropriate consultation with the parties, the parties fail to provide an acceptable
    hearing date or if after an attempt the hearing officer is unable to consult with the parties, the
    hearing officer shall unilaterally set a hearing date in conformance with the schedule above. The
    hearing officer and the parties are encouraged to expedite this proceeding as much as possible.
    The Board notes that Board rules (35 Ill. Adm. Code 104.180 require the Agency to file its
    recommendation for disposition of the petition within 30 days of filing of the petition.
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    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control Board, hereby certify that
    the above order was adopted on the 19th day of June 1997, by a vote of 6-0.
    Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board

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