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the piping was I said "I don't know for sure I wasn't here when it was installed" . At that time Joel Gentles walked up and said the piping was along the wall of the building. I said that was a vent line and was not the product line and that the product line was most likely under the patch area of concrete. I never stated the line had already been removed. We leave lines in until the Health Dept. specifies where they want soil samples taken because when we dig down at 20' intervals we can extract pipe from those areas without excavating the total area. After the tank was rigged the backhoe was having difficulty breaking the tank loose from the hole. What I need to state here is that was that a tank in a hole compacted on sides and ends holds the tank in the ground with a suction like grip. Once the grip on the tank was broken the operator proceeded to easily lift the tank out of the hole. Halfway out to the hole Inspector Cohen told me to stop. I asked why. He said it was unsafe. I then asked him to explain himself and he said that by dragging the tank out of the hole I could possibly cause a spill. I explained to him that the tank was triple rinsed and was "sticked" to show no water was in the tank and he asked me if I would assume liability for the leak if it occurred. I said I would. He then said shut down the job. Charlie Hinton then walked up and proceeded to say that upon reinspection he wanted 120 lbs. of dry ice. I stated that I was instructed by Mr. Frahm to obtain 100 lbs. of dry ice in tank. At no time did I deceive anyone about the amount of dry ice in tank. I fact, the inspectors agreed to permit me to pull the tank using 100 lbs. of ice and then later increased the amount of dry ice required. I said, wait a minute if you originally wanted 120 lbs. all you needed to do was inform me. I was short 20 lbs. and I would have gladly met your request. In summary, no violations of any kind occurred due to the following facts: 1. Tank was pulled using 120 lbs. of dry ice as requested by Health Dept. 2. After it was demonstrated that the 780 Backhoe would not lift the tank clear of the ground and upon Al Cohens request I ordered a larger backhoe and removed the tank as requested by Charlie Hinton on second inspection. 3. The associated piping was removed as required in the closure plan after soil samples were obtained. 4. The dispenser was removed from its original location which in itself is no violation of any rule or regulation. No statements were ever made under any circumstances that we had tried to disguise piping run. This is a very important issue. To Cynthia Wagner it may have appeared as though we were trying to disguise the piping run because the dispenser had in fact been moved from its original location - but for the purpose stated elsewhere in this letter and not for the purpose of deception. It is a normal part of tank removal procedure to relocate dispensers while rinsing product pipe line; Cynthia concluded that we were trying to disguise the direction of the pipe line. The unfortunate thing is that if Cynthia had said "The closure plan show the product line to be here and the dispenser is over there . . . why is that?", we could have explained all of this to her and eliminated all of these problems. If she had asked a specific question a specific answer would have been given and if we then had misrepresented ourselves the basis of these charges would be valid. When she did