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SEIBOLD CORPORATION P.O. BOX 728 STOCKTON,CA 95201 209-948-21 San Joaquin Local Health District 1601 East Hazelton Ave. April 19, 1989 Stockton, CA 95205 Re. - Letter of 4-11-89 in reference to UGST alleged violations. On March 31, 1989 the SJLHD technician Cynthia Wagner and Charles Hinton arrived at Seibold Corporation yard to witness a tank removal along with Fire u � Inspector Al Cohen. I informed them that the tank was triple rinsed with a high pressure steam cleaner (onsite) with a 5% solution of Simple Green detergent and that material was vacuumed into a drum which was sealed and marked. I demonstrated that the tank was dry by sticking both ends with a tank gauge stick which was shown to Cynthia Wagner. Inspector Cohen asked if I had dry iced the tank. I said I had used 100 lbs. dry ice. I asked if he wished to see the receipt. He said no. He asked if I had metered the tank, I said I had, that the LEL reading was zero. He said go ahead and pull the tank. Prior to Inspector Cohen's arrival, Charles Hinton approached me and asked if our 780 Case Backhoe was big enough to pull the tank. I stated that its maximum was usually 7,500 gallon but I felt that we would not know until we actually tried to lift the tank because we weren't allowed to move the tank out of its excavation until an inspector was on site (so we wouldn't know until the inspectors were on site) . I went inside the office to get him some Pictures of prior jobs to show we indeed had lifted other tanks close to that size out of excavations. When I returned Cynthia Wagner was bent over her paperwork on the ground and said "Clever" to me and then said "Nice try.," I didn't know what she meant by this and then Charlie Hinton said "I thought you were a Christian company". Both of these people were attacking me so suddenly without explanation caused me to become angry and put me on the defensive. She asked me why the dispenser was moved to another area and I shortly replied "because Mr. Frahm asked me to" . At that time someone told me "she thought that was where the dispenser was mounted and "dispensed fuel" and I laughed, pointing to her tank closure form and said you have the location of the dispenser and piping right in front of you. She replied "you probably forgot I had it". What Ms. Wagner didn't realize was that in order to steam clean the product line it was necessary to remove the dispenser from it's base and insert the steam wand in the pipeline allowing the liquid to flow back into the tank before the tank excavation commenced. Mr. Frahm simply asked me to move the dispenser out of the way of the driveway. Absolutely no statements were made by me in any way to deceive Miss Wagner. I answered all questions asked forthright and honestly. When she asked where