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BROWN AND C A L D W E L L March 19, 1999 Mr. Ronald Rowe San Joaquin County Public Health Services Environmental Health Division 304 Webster Avenue P.O. Box 388 Stockton, California 95201-0388 017-16271-01/1 Subject: T&T Trucking, 11369 North Highway 99,Lodi, California Dear Mr. Rowe: This letter discusses two important issues regarding the progress of work at the subject site. The first issue deals with clarification of a work directive from the San Joaquin County Public Health Services, Environmental Health Division's (PHS-EHD) for the next phase of work. The second issue is the reporting of the transducer study results requested by you. This letter requests written clarification of PHS-EHD work directive which was faxed to me on January 26, 1999. In order to fulfill the UST Fund pre-approval requirements and expedite the UST Fund pre-approval process for the next phase of work, it is our understanding we need a written directive by PHS-EHD outlining what the PHS-EHD is requiring for the next phase of work. Your January 26, 1999 directive does not clarify the specific needs of the PHS-EHD. Without such clarification PHS-EHD is essentially asking my client to prepare a workplan whose cost and scope of work may not qualify for reimbursement from the UST Fund. Prior to the submittal of the required workplan, we would appreciate a work directive from your office explaining PHS-EHD's preferred approach and in sufficient detail to satisfy the Fund's requirements for directives from Iead agencies. In regards to the second issue of this letter, we discussed the issue of the transducer study results requested by you during a telephone conversation on January 22, 1999. As we discussed, it is acknowledged that the study was not approved by the PHS-EHD. However, you did request the results in writing before you would approve the pending workplan (Installation of Groundwater Monitoring Wells, dated March 3, 1998). We discussed that the March 3, 1998 workplan was prepared irregardless of the results of the transducer study (the purpose of the workplan was to determine the lateral extent of petroleum hydrocarbons and direction and gradient of groundwater flow) and should be reviewed separately from the transducer study. The transducer report and our discussions on the transducer study were not BCSACO I1PAI 6000116271 TORRESPWIR-9.DOC Environmental Engineering And Consulting-Analytical Services 9616 M[CRON AvEnuF, SUITE 600, SACRAMENTO, CA 95827-2627 (916) 444-0123 FAX (916) 856-5277