DENIED: April 18, 2007


                            CBCA 129-R


              INTERFREIGHT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS, INC.,

                                        Appellant,

                                v.

                    DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,

                                        Respondent.

     Sarah Syers, President of InterFreight Transport Systems, Inc., Fredonia, WI,
appearing for Appellant.

     Christie J. Meller, Office of the General Counsel, Department of Agriculture, Kansas
City, MO, counsel for Respondent.

Before Board Judges VERGILIO, POLLACK, and DeGRAFF.

VERGILIO, Board Judge.

     Concluding that the contractor is liable for amounts due on various Government
claims, this Board issued an opinion denying the underlying appeal.  InterFreight Transport
Systems, Inc. v. Department of Agriculture, CBCA 129 (Mar. 14, 2007).  On April 12, 2007,
the Board received a request from the contractor asking the Board for relief from the
decision.  The request is that "this Board relieve the Appellant from the Board's decision on
grounds that the Appellant does not have the financial ability to pay the debt in full and/or
reduction of interest only."  On the same day, the Government submitted its opposition to the
request.  The Government states that financial hardship should not serve as a basis to relieve
a party from the operation of a decision.  Further, the Government specifies that it has offered
to set up a payment plan with the contractor.

     The contractor has not justified a basis for relief from the decision.  The Board
DENIES the request of the contractor.


                                   ______________________________
                                   JOSEPH A. VERGILIO
                                   Board Judge

We concur:


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HOWARD A. POLLACK                  MARTHA H. DeGRAFF
Board Judge                             Board Judge