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Pollution Control Board

Clerk’s Office

Illinois Pollution Control Board

100 W Randolph Street, Suite 11-500

Chicago, IL 60601

Re:

#R04-22/23

Proposed 732/734 LUST Regulation Changes

To Whom It May Concern:

As an interested party in the proposed LUST regulation changes to Parts 732 and

734,

I

would like to request that a minimum of one additional hearing be held. To date, an

adequate delineation of tasks associated with subpart H pay items has not been made.

This results in a far too open-ended scope ofwork which places undue financial liability

on tank owners. Additionally, it concerns me to see such gross misconduct by

administrators to neglect to encompass and accept facts and data provided by professional

personnel with real world experience. It also concerns me that costs and activities

endorsed by the regulatory community blatantly disregard sound mathematical (i.e.

statistics) and engineering principles. Therefore, I suggest that the following items be

discussed:

Statistical analyses ofhistorical reimbursement costs should be conducted

to ensure that Subpart H maximum payment amounts are inclusive of

representative projects and an appropriate sample set size, and;

Scopes ofwork should be discussed for each pay item.

As a citizen of Southern Illinois, I have also been unable to attend any hearings to date

since they have been held in the northern part ofthe state, therefore I am requestingthat a

downstate hearing be held somewhere around Marion or Mount Vernon. Ifyou have any

questions please feel free to contact me at (618)437-5184.

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DaitKing

306 West

3rd

Street

ma, Illinois 62846