ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    October 17, 2002
     
    RANTOUL TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL
    DISTRICT NO. 193,
     
    Petitioner,
     
    v.
     
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
     
    Respondent.
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    PCB 03-42
    (UST Appeal)
     
    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by C.A. Manning):
     
    On October 7, 2002, Rantoul Township High School District No. 193 (District) timely
    filed a petition asking the Board to review a September 5, 2002 determination of the Illinois
    Environmental Protection Agency (Agency).
    See
    415 ILCS 5/40(a)(1) (2000); 35 Ill. Adm. Code
    105.404. The Agency rejected the budget for the high priority corrective action plan regarding
    an underground storage tank site located at 200 S. Sheldon Street in Rantoul, Champaign
    County. The District disputes the Agency determination regarding lack of documentation
    concerning costs for specified personnel, relocation of underground utilities, removal of
    migration pathways, bid proposals, and handling charges, and contends that all costs were
    necessary and required. The District’s petition meets the content requirements of 35 Ill. Adm.
    Code 105.408. The Board accepts the petition for hearing.
     
    The District has the burden of proof. 35 Ill. Adm. Code 105.112(a). Hearings will be
    based exclusively on the record before the Agency at the time the Agency issued its
    determination. 35 Ill. Adm. Code 105.412. Hearings will be scheduled and completed in a
    timely manner, consistent with the decision deadline (
    see
    415 ILCS 5/40(a)(2) (2000)), which
    only the District may extend by waiver (
    see
    35 Ill. Adm. Code 101.308). If the Board fails to
    take final action by the decision deadline, the District may deem its request granted.
    See
    415
    ILCS 5/40(a)(2) (2000). Currently, the decision deadline is February 9, 2003 (the 120th day
    after October 7, 2002).
    See
    35 Ill. Adm. Code 105.114. The Board meeting immediately before
    the decision deadline is scheduled for February 6, 2003.
     
    Unless the Board or the hearing officer orders otherwise, the Agency must file the entire
    record of its determination by November 7, 2002. 35 Ill. Adm. Code 105.410(a). If the Agency
    wishes to seek additional time to file the record, it must file a request for extension before the
    date on which the record is due to be filed. 35 Ill. Adm. Code 105.116. The record must comply
    with the content requirements of 35 Ill. Adm. Code 105.410(b).
     
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
     
     
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    I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control Board, certify that the Board
    adopted the above order on October 17, 2002, by a vote of 6-0.
     
     
    Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board
     

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