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i r SITE ACCESS AGREEMENT This Site Access Agreement is entered into this day of . 1997,by and between Chevron Products Company,a division of Chevron U.S.A., Inc.,a Pennsylvania corporation, its successors and assigns, (hereinafter"Chevron")and Hagop Manuelian (hereinafter"Owner"). WHEREAS,Owner is the holder of record title to certain real property located near the intersection of Byron and Corral Hollow Roads in the City of Tracy,also referred to APN number 238-030-18,situated in the County of San Joaquin,State of California„hereinafter(the "Property"); and WHEREAS,Chevron is the successor in title and interest in and to easement and rights of way for one or more pipelines for the transportation of oil,petroleum or gas("Pipeline"), which Pipeline easements and/or rights-of-way intersect with a portion of the Property;and WHEREAS,xylenes have been detected in groundwater beneath the Property;the source of which has not yet been established;and WHEREAS,the known possible sources of the xylene detection in groundwater,should the detection be confirmed,are the following: 1)from a documented gasoline tank leak from an adjacent property;and 2)from operations of Chevron's historical Pipelines; WHEREAS,as of the date hereof,no duly constituted federal,state,or local governmental authority(hereinafter"Agency") has ordered either Party to remediate any portion of the potentially impacted groundwater beneath Property,but the Parties nonetheless desire to provide for certain investigation/assessment measures to be taken in connection with this potentially-impacted groundwater; NOW THEREFORE,in consideration of the material promises contained herein,the parties agree as follows: 1. As part of its investigation of environmental conditions present on the Property,Chevron shall have access to the Property and shall perform such soil and groundwater investigation activities as may be reasonably necessary to determine if the site has been impacted by historical operations of Chevron's Pipelines. In addition,at the Owner's request,Chevron agrees to have the groundwater samples collected during its investigative activities analyzed for methyl tertiary butyl ether(hereinafter"MTBE"),which is not associated with Chevron's historical operations. By analyzing groundwater samples for MTBE,Chevron is not admitting responsibility for its potential presence in groundwater,but is simply performing this analysis as a good-will gesture to the Owner since Chevron is already intending on analyzing the groundwater samples. Site Access Agreement 1 JNR/12.19.96