ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    February 20, 2003
     
    FREEDOM OIL COMPANY,
     
    Petitioner,
     
    v.
     
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
     
    Respondent.
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    PCB 03-54
    (UST Fund)
    PCB 03-56
    (UST Appeal)
    PCB 03-105
    (UST Fund)
    (Consolidated)
     
         
    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by L.P. Padovan):
    Freedom Oil Company (Freedom Oil) has filed three petitions asking the Board to
    review three final decisions of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Agency). All of
    the Agency’s decisions concern a leaking underground storage tank (UST) site—Freedom Oil’s
    service station at 401 South Main Street in Paris, Edgar County. On January 23, 2003, the Board
    accepted the petitions for hearing, docketing the appeals separately as PCB 03-54, PCB 03-56,
    and PCB 03-105. Today the Board grants Freedom Oil’s motion to consolidate the three
    appeals.
    On February 13, 2003, Freedom Oil moved the Board to consolidate because the three
    cases “involve similar factual and legal [UST] appeal issues” and consolidation would promote
    efficiency without prejudicing either party. Motion at 1. The Board notes that the appeals
    involve the same leaking UST site and issues of Freedom Oil’s cleanup and cleanup cost
    reimbursement from the UST Fund. The Board further notes that the Agency, the only other
    party, has represented that it does not oppose consolidation.
    The Board grants Freedom Oil’s motion. Presently, the three appeals do not have the
    same statutory deadline for final Board decision. The appeals are consolidated for hearing, but
    not necessarily for Board decision.
    See
    35 Ill. Adm. Code 101.406. Future filings must reflect
    the amended caption of this order.
    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 February 20, 2003, by a vote of 7-0.
     
    Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board
     

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