ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    March 5, 1998
    CITY OF FREEPORT,
    Petitioner,
    v.
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    Respondent.
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    PCB 98-108
    (Permit Appeal - Land)
    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by K.M. Hennessey):
    On February 18, 1998, the City of Freeport filed a petition for review of a permit regarding its landfill
    facility located in Freeport,
    Stephenson County, Illinois. 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 will promptly issue appropriate directions to that
    assigned hearing officer.
    The assigned hearing officer must inform the Clerk of the Board of the time and
    location of the hearing at least 30 days in advance of hearing so that a 21-day public notice of
    hearing may be published. Within five days after the hearing, the hearing officer must submit
    to the Board an exhibit list, a statement regarding credibility of witnesses, and all exhibits.
    Any briefing schedule must provide for final filings as expeditiously as possible and, in
    time-limited cases, no later than 30 days before 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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    June 18, 1998 (120 days from
    February 18, 1998
    ). A Board meeting is scheduled for
    June 18, 1998
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    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 will 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 105.102) require
    the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Agency) to file the entire Agency record of the
    permit application within 14 days of notice of the petition.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
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    I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control Board, hereby certify that
    the above order was adopted on the 5th day of March 1998, by a vote of 6-0.
    Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board

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