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MONITORING AND REPOOG ORDER NO, R5-2011-0813 BRITISH PETROLEUM COMPANY, BUCKEYE PARTNERS, L.P., 2 TESORO PETROLEUM COMPANY, AND FORMER TIME OIL COMPANY STOCKTON TERMINALS TECHNICAL COMMITTEE STOCKTON, SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY 4. This Monitoring and Reporting Program (MRP) is issued by the Central Valley Water Board pursuant to California Water Code (CWC) section 13267 and is necessary to delineate groundwater pollutant plumes and determine whether remediation efforts are effective. 5. Existing data and information about the Site show the presence of various chemicals, including TPHg, TPI-Id, BTEX, TAME, MTBE, TBA, and MBAS beneath the property resulting from the Discharger's current or past operations. 6. The Discharger shall not implement any changes to this MRP unless and until a revised MRP is issued by the Executive Officer. This MRP replaces the requirements listed in MRP No. R5-2004-0823, which was issued on 5 May 2004. 7. Prior to construction of any new groundwater monitoring or extraction wells, and prior to destruction of any groundwater monitoring or extraction wells, the Discharger shall submit plans and specifications to the Central Valley Water Board for review and approval. Once installed, all new wells shall be added to the monitoring program and shall be sampled and analyzed according to the attached schedule. LEGAL PROVISIONS 8. CWC section 13267 states, in 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 regard to the need for the reports, and shall identify the evidence that supports requiring that person to provide the reports. The reports required herein are necessary for the reasons described in this Order, to assure protection of waters of the state, and to protect public health and the environment. 9. CWC section 13268 states, in 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 5 for a