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Riddle & Isola 1 Attorneys at Law A j I Patrick D. Riddle 7488 Shoreline Drive, Suite B-1 David R. Isola 9D ''(v 29 PM 1; Stockton, California 95219 Michael L. F. Buck Telephone: (209) 952-6262 Kerry I. Zimmerman Facsimile: (209) 952-9891 March 28, 1995 VIA FAX / U.S. MAIL (209) 468-0138 Donna Heran Director Environmental health Division San Joaquin County P.O. Box 388 Stockton, CA 95201-0388 RE: Account # 0009473 . Facility ID # 006829 Dear Ms. Heran: I am writing on behalf of our client, Mr. Carl Bennett, to request a reduction in the back fees and penalties assessed by the Environmental Health Division (EHD) with regard to residential underground storage tanks (USTs) at 443 Sycamore Street in Manteca. Mr. Bennett is a former owner of the residential property, and desires to apply to the State's Underground Storage Tank Fund for reimbursement of costs required to clean up the petroleum hydrocarbons released from the tanks. Mr. Bennett is seventy-eight year old man in very poor health and with limited financial means. He currently resides in El Monte, CA and undergoes daily kidney di_a!ysis . The current owners of the property, to whom the Account Statements from your office are directed, will not take responsibility for payment. As you may know, paying all back fines and penalties owed to the County is a prerequisite for being accepted into the Tank Fund. Since Mr. Bennett is a man of very limited means, and is the only one willing to step forward and coordinate cleanup of the contamination, we respectfully request that you consider a reduction in the back fees and penalties. Eliminating the past fees and penalties would allow Mr. Bennett to immediately move forward with the cleanup under the Tank Fund. This would avoid delaying the remediation of the site while the parties argue over who is responsible for payment of the fees and penalties.