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Inspection Report Date: Friday, August 27, 1992 Place: 8000 Waverly Road Name: EI Rancho People present at the site: Mark Rishwain, attorney for Terra, EI Rancho Daniel Rumsey, Assistant General Counsel for Terra International, Inc. Sheila Lang, Manager, Regulatory Affairs M.L. (Bud) Busch, Vice President and General Manager for Concrete Inc. Greg Martz, Foreman for EI Rancho Rock and Sand Bud Busch stated that two environmental audits were done at this location, one in February and he was unsure when the other (the one by the buyer) was done. A later conversation with Shiela Lang indicated that both environmental audits were done by the buyer. Bud Busch stated that according to Dave Barney (Supervisor or Operations Manager at Concrete Inc.), the oil spill on the ground near the "scraper" (owned by Larry Aksland) was caused on Friday, August 20, 1993 when a mechanic of Larry Aksland was draining the oil from the scraper into a 55 gallon drum that had been cut in half and 3-5 gallons of oil were in this drum when a truck owned by RG trucking and driven by Brian ran over the drum and spilled it, the truck ran into a pile of rock and stopped. According to Greg Martz, no one was injured however the Aksland mechanic was splashed with oil, in fact "...he was drenched, sopping wet with oil". Greg Martz also stated that the 1/2 drum that previously held the oil was taken away by the employee covered in oil. Greg Martz said that the Aksland employees often take their used oil to Larry Aksland's home where Larry Aksland keeps a 5000 gallon aboveground tank for waste oil collection. The hoses that drained the oil continued to drip oil for 4-5 days where it pooled on the ground. On August 25, 1993, Greg Martz called Dave Barney to ask him what to do about the pooled oil on the ground (after Eric Trevena, Michael Kith and David Irey inspected the site) and Dave Barney told him to throw sand on the area then dig up the soaked sand and place it on Visqueen. Greg Martz said he dug up what he could but the ground was too hard so he called Dave Barney again who said he had just been told to not do anything with the contaminated area until the DA's office told him he could. As we were leaving the area, Ray Gonzalez of R&G Trucking came over and David Irey asked him if he had an employee named Brian who reported an accident at this site. Ray Gonzalez said he did have an employee named Brian but he did not report an accident of any kind for that particular day at this site. Ray Gonzalez stated that we could speak with Brian by calling Carmen (Ray's wife) at 823-1010 to get Brian's full name and phone number. We then went to the diesel tank area where a concrete berm surrounds an aboveground