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A��+O` ;� ARCO Products Cory or 4 Centerpointe Drive La Palma, California 90623-1066 Mailing Address: Box 5077 Buena Park, California 90622-5077 it Jr-:riGii January 24, 2000 Ronald Rowe, Senior REHS San Joaquin County Public Health Services Environmental Health Division 304 East Weber Avenue, Third Floor Stockton, CA 95202 Re: Additional Change in Schedule for Work to be Performed at Former ARCO Station No. 2168, Located at 441 W. Charter Way, Stockton, California Dear Mr. Rowe: This letter is written to inform you of an additional change in schedule for the fieldwork to be performed at the subject site. This work was proposed by ARCO Products Company ("ARCO") in a work plan submitted to and approved by your office (Pinnacle Environmental Solutions, September 29, 1999). The work plan was submitted to your office in response to your July 23, 1999 letter addressed to ARCO and the Rose V Rodgers Trust ("Trust"). Both ARCO and the Trust are listed as Responsible Parties for the subject property. The change in the schedule for the fieldwork is due to the fact that ARCO has been unsuccessful in obtaining access to the property to perform the assessment proposed in the work plan. One of the current property owners, Lorraine Halvorson, who represents the Trust for this parcel, has not allowed ARCO access to the property. ARCO believes that it already has access rights to perform further assessment activities on the parcel under existing written agreements with Ms. Halvorson and her co-Trustee, Donald Rogers. However, Ms. Halvorson appears to disagree with ARCO's position, and is requiring that a new access agreement be created. Although ARCO's attorney has been working with Ms. Halvorson's attorney for the past three months to develop this new agreement, Ms. Halvorson's attorney has been slow to respond. Consequently, the fieldwork originally scheduled to commence on December 22, 1999, then postponed until January 18, 2000, is now postponed indefinitely by ARCO. ARCO was recently contacted by Ms. Halvorson's attorney to continue negotiations on the access agreement. However, given the length of time it is taking to finalize the agreement, ARCO believes the most expeditious approach may be for the San Joaquin County Public Health Services, Environmental Health Division ("EHD") to obtain access for ARCO. Alternatively, ARCO would request that the EHD direct Ms. Halvorson and Mr. Rogers to conduct the additional CP:\C:\windows\TEMPUtowe.doc-98\rm:l APC-7076 ARCO P,Wugs Company is a Dlvlspn of Aflamlpalpmiswc. party (9-97)