Any person or board may file a petition for rule making with
the board at the following address: Administrator, Iowa Comprehensive Petroleum
Underground Storage Tank Fund Board, 2700 Westown Parkway, Suite 320, West Des
Moines, Iowa 50266. A petition is deemed filed when it is received by that
office. The board must provide the petitioner with a file-stamped copy of the
petition if the petitioner provides the board an extra copy for this purpose.
The petition must be typewritten or legibly handwritten in ink and must
substantially conform to the following form:
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The petition must provide the following information:
1. A statement of the specific rule-making
action sought by the petitioner including the text or a summary of the contents
of the proposed rule or amendment to a rule and, if it is a petition to amend
or repeal a rule, a citation and the relevant language to the particular
portion or portions of the rule proposed to be amended or repealed.
2. A citation to any law deemed relevant to
the board's authority to take the action urged or to the desirability of that
action.
3. A brief summary of
petitioner's arguments in support of the action urged in the
petition.
4. A brief summary of any
data supporting the action urged in the petition.
5. The names and addresses of other persons,
or a description of any class of persons known by petitioner to be affected by,
or interested in, the proposed action which is the subject of the
petition.
6. Any request by
petitioner for a meeting provided for by rule 2.4(17A).
(1) The petition must be dated and signed by
the petitioner or the petitioner's representative. It must also include the
name, mailing address, and telephone number of the petitioner and petitioner's
representative, and a statement indicating the person to whom communications
concerning the petition should be directed.
(2) The board may deny a petition because it
does not substantially conform to the required form.
