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• 3 L TECHNICAL REPORTING �'' NO. R5-2011-0800 VALLEY PACIFIC PETRO , ZRVICES, INC. 23100 SOUTH KASSON ROAD, BANTA, SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY documenting that soil and/or groundwater at the Site has not been affected by the spills or other operations at the Site. The Discharger has not submitted the requested Work Plan. DISCHARGER LIABILITY g. Water Code section 13267 states, in relevant part: (b)(1) In conducting an investigation . . ., the regional board may require that any person who has discharged, discharges, or is suspected of having discharged or, discharging, or who proposes to discharge waste within its region . . . shall furnish, under penalty of perjury, technical or monitoring program reports which the regional board requires. The burden, including costs, of these reports shall bear a reasonable relationship to the need for the report and the benefits to be obtained from the reports. In requiring those reports, the regional board shall provide the person with a written explanation with regardto.the . need for the reports, and shall identify the evidence that supports requiring that person to provide the reports. As described in Findings 1 through 6, the Discharger.is subject to an order pursuant to Water Code section 13267 because existing data and information about the Site indicate that waste has been discharged, is discharging, or is suspected of discharging at the property, which is owned and operated by the Discharger. The technical reports required by this Order are necessary to adequately investigate the Site to protect the beneficial uses of waters of the state, to protect against nuisance, and to protect public health and the environment. 10.Water Code section'13268 states, in relevant part: (a)(1) Any person failing or refusing to furnish technical or monitoring program reports as required by subdivision (b) of Section 13267 . . . or falsifying any information provided therein, is guilty of a misdemeanor and may be liable civilly in accordance with subdivision(b). (b)(1)Civil liability may be administratively imposed by a regional board in accordance with Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 13323) of Chapter b for a violation of subdivision (a)in an amount which shall not exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)for each day in which the violation occurs. (c)Any person discharging hazardous waste, as defined in Section 25117 of the Health and Safety Code, who knowingly fails or refuses to furnish technical or monitoring program reports as required by subdivision (b) of Section 13267, or who knowingly falsifies any information,provided in those technical or monitoring program reports, is guilty of a misdemeanor, may be civilly liable in accordance with subdivision (d), and is subject to criminal penalties pursuant to subdivision (e). (d)(1) Civil liability may be administratively imposed by a.regional board in accordance' with Article 2.5{commencing with Section 13323) of Chapter 5 for a violation of subdivision (c) in an amount which shall not exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000) for each day in which the violation occurs.