ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    April 5, 2001
    PRAIRIE RIVERS NETWORK, )
    )
    Petitioner, )
    )
    v. ) PCB 01-112
    ) (Permit Appeal – NPDES, Third Party)
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL )
    PROTECTION AGENCY and BLACK )
    BEAUTY COAL COMPANY, )
    )
    Respondents, )
    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by S.T. Lawton, Jr.):
    On January 30, 2001, Prairie Rivers Network appealed the decision by the Illinois
    Environmental Protection Agency to issue a National Pollution Discharge Elimination System
    permit to Black Beauty Coal Company for an extension of its mining operation in Vermilion
    County, Illinois. On March 5, 2001, Vermilion Coal Company (VCC), by its attorney, filed a
    motion with the Board to intervene in this proceeding. VCC subsequently filed a motion with
    the Board on March 16, 2001, for a hearing on its right to intervene.
    The Board directs VCC to provide more information on the basis of its motion to
    intervene within seven days of the date of this order. The mailbox rule does not apply in this
    instance. The Board, at this time, does not address the merits of either the motion by VCC to
    intervene or its motion for a hearing on the matter.
    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 5th day of April 2001 by a vote of 7-0.
    Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board

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