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SENT BY FACSIMILE DRAFT (916)341-5806 AND U.S.MAIL May 22, 2001 EAI Project No. 232 Mr. Robert Trommer Chief, Technical Review Unit Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund State Water Resources Control Board Division of Clean Water Programs P.O. Box 9444212 Sacramento, CA 94244-2120 SUBJECT: COST PRE-APPROVAL REQUEST FOR PLANS, SPECIFICATIONS, CONSTRUCTION SURVEYING AND MANAGEMENT SERVICES Delta College Robinhood Irrigation Well Replacement Project Claimant: Montgomery Ward Claim No. 001760 Dear Mr. Trommer: As you are aware, it has been determined that destruction and replacement of the Robinhood Irrigation Well (RIW) is the most cost effective remedial action alternative for providing an Joaquin Delta College (College) with a long term irrigation water source to replace the RIW. The RIW was the sole source for irrigation of the College campus and was taken out of seIvice on August 21, 2000, by the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Los Angeles Region (RWQCB), due to identified impact by petroleum hydrocarbons. The RWQCB identified the properties located at 5400 Pacific Avenue (Montgomery Ward site) and 5606 Pacific Avenue (former Unocal site) as the source of impact to the RIW. The RWQCB i sued Cleanup and Abatement Order No. 5-00-707 to Montgomery Ward, Unocal and the owners of the two properties (i.e., Surry California Limited Partnership and Stone Brothers and Associates General Partnership) to remediate the contamination and provide the College with a long-term irrigation water source to replace the RIW. The RWQCB also has requested that the RIW be destroyed and costs for its destruction have already been approved by the UST Cleanup Fund in a letter dated May 4, 2001. Siegfried Engineering, Inc. (SEI) of Stockton, California is the College's engineering firm and is the firm most familiar with the existing infrastructure of the College campus, e.g., location