ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

February

7,

1974

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,

Complainant,

vs~

PCB 72~ll4

APEX SMELTING COD, INC~,

ORDER OF THE BOARD

(by Mr~Seaman):

On February

6,

1974, Apex Smelting Company, Inc~,

Respondent

in the above~captionedcause, filed its Motion

For Oral Arqument~

Apex submits the following reasons

for its

request:

l~ That the nature of the business involved is

extremely complex and that the evidence presented before

the Hearing Officer was highly complex, technical and

voluminous

2,

That the oral arguments will enable the parties to

clearify the evidence to assistthe Board to~better evaluate

the evidence in reaching its decisidn.

Having reviewed the Record in this

cause,

we agree

that the evidence is highly complex, technical~andvoluminous

and that oral argument on certain disputed issues would be

helpful

The

parties hereto

are advised

that

oral argument will

be

heard by the Board on February 21,

1974, beginning at

3:00 pam.

Each party

will be allowed fifteen

minutes to

present

its case.

IT

IS

SO

ORDERED~

I, Christan

L.

Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution

Control

Board, certify~thatthe above Order

was

adopted

on

this

~7___

day of

1974 by a vote

of

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