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Jimco Truck Plaza - 2 - 25 March 2009 1022 Eas, Frontage Road` Ripon, San Joaquin County there had also been a release to of fuel hydrocarbons from the above-ground storage tanks (ALTs) at the Site. SJCEHD does not have an AGT cleanup program. Therefore, in order to provide consolidated oversight for both the UST and AGT releases, SJCEHD referred oversight ead of the Site to the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Region (Regional Water Board) by letter dated 6 February 2009. Pursuant io CWC section 13267, you are required by this Order to submit a Corrective Action Plan (CAF') which evaluates at least three remedial alternatives to clean up the identified contamination, selects the most cost-effective remedial alternative, and includes a proposed schedule for implementation of the selected remedial alternative. The CAP is a technical report anc is to be submitted by 1 July 2009. In additior,, pursuant to CWC section 13267, you are required by this Order to submit quarterly groundwa.er monitoring reports, both paper copies to this office and electronic copies to the State Water Resources Control Board's (State Water Board) GeoTracker database. The quarterly groundwater monitoring reports are to be submitted by the 30th day of the first month of the following quarter until directed otherwise in writing by Regional Water Board staff. Your first quarterly report, due 30 April 2009, is to include a separate section that details, to the best of your knowledge, past and current property ownership, UST owner/opE rator history, and any records/evidence regarding the time and origins of the hydrocarbon release(s), including the USTs and the AGTs. Information in this report may be used to identify additional responsible parties that may be added to this or future Orders, and to determiie whether there is commingling between the two groundwater plumes. All reports are to follcm the Appendix A - Reports. Tri-Regional Recommendations for Preliminary Investigation and Evaluation of Underground Storage Tank Sites (Appendix A - Reports) which is attached and made a part of this Order CWC sect-on 13267 states, in relevant part: ,b)(?) In conducting an investigation the regional board may require that any persor, who has di 3charged discharges. or is suspected of having discharged or, discharging.. or who proposes to discharge waste within its region . shall furnish, under penalty of perjury techni:al or monitoring program reports which the regional board requires. The burden, includ ng 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 report You are subject to this Order because, pursuant to California Code of Regulations, title 23, section 2720, "[a)ny person who had or has control over a underground storage tank at the time of or following an unauthorized release of a hazardous substance," is a responsible party with a legal obligation to investigate and remediate the contamination. Because you owned the property at the time of the release and you had or now have legal control following the unauthorized release from the underground storage tanks, you are a "person who has discharge) ... waste" within the meaning of CWC section 13267. The reports are necessary for the reasons described in this letter and as documented in the files of the Regional Water Board to e ssure protection of waters of the state, and to protect public health and the environmE!nt