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or proceeding as to which consent is sought or gain particular knowledge of the facts thereof during his association with the Agency. (4) One Year Limitation. This subsection shall not apply to any individual or agency who has terminated his association with the Agency for a period of one year or more. 3.3 Disqualification of Agency Member earing Officer Any party to a hearing may, up to five days before the proceeding, file an affidavit that one or more of the members or a hearing officer has a personal bias or prejudice. The member against whom the affidavit is so filed may answer the affidavit or may file a disqualifying certificate with the Agency. If the member or hearing officer chooses to answer the affidavit, the .remaining members shall decide by a majority of all the members to which the Agency is entitled whether that member or hearing officer should be disqualified from proceeding therein. Every such affidavit shall state the facts and reasons for the belief that bias or prejudice exists and shall be filed at least five days before the hearing, or good cause shall he shown for the failure to file it within such time. Any Agency member or hearing officer may disqualify himself by filing with the Chairperson a certificate that he deems himself unable for any reason to preside with impartiality or without the appearance of impropriety in the pending hearing. 3.4 Consolidation The Agency, upon its own initiative or upon motion, may consolidate for hearing or for other purposes or may contemporaneously consider two or more proceedings that involve substantially the same parties, or issues that are the same or closely related, if it finds that such consolidation or contemporaneous hearing will be conducive to the proper dispatch of its business and to the ends of justice and will not unduly delay the proceedings. 3.5 Filing otDocuments a. Time and Place. All requests, appeals, pleadings, submittals, petitions, reports, maps, exceptions, briefs, memoranda and other papers required to he filed with the Agency in any proceeding shall be filed at the office of the Agency within the time limits prescribed by law, the rules of the Agency or by order of the Agency. The date on which the papers are received .if hand delivered, or postmarked if delivered by mail, shall be regarded as the date of filing. b. Fonn. All requests and appeals filed with the Agency shall be written in ink, typewritten, mimeographed or printed; shall be plainly legible; and shall he on strong, durable paper no larger than 8- 1/ 2" x 11" in size, except that maps, charts, tables andather like documents may be larger, folded to the size of the papers to which they are attached. 13