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California Integrated Waste Management Board eve:e Linda Moulton-Patterson, Chair P.O.Box 4025 a Sacramento, California 95812-4025 e (916)255-2200 www.ciwmb.ca.gov Winston H.Hickox Gray Davis P Secretaryjor Governor Environmental Protection NOTICE OF EXEMPTION TO: Office of Planning and Research 1400 Tenth Street, Room 222 ] Sacramento, California 95814 PROJECT TITLE: Tracy Tire Fire Site, Phase I PROJECT LOCATION: The Tracy Tire Fire Site (iTFS)is located at 29425 South MacArthur Drive in Tracy, San Joaquin County, California. The site is situated in a former 40-acre gravel pit south of the City of Tracy. Ii PROJECT DESCRIPTION: On August 7, 1998, , 1998, the tires being illegally stored at the TTFS were ignited. It was estimated that the site contained seven million tires when the fire erupted. The fire burned for more that two and a half years before being extinguished by the Board in December 2000. Approximately 45,000 to 60,000 cubic yards of zinc and lead contaminated materials remain on site. The remnants of the burned tires include ash,wire, and pyrolytic oil. The site also contains abandoned vehicles, metal debris,scorch equipment, 50,000+used oil filters, and a number of used of drums. The site remedial action plan for the removal of the contaminated sol is being completed by the California Integrated Waste Management Board and coordinated through the Department of Toxic and Substances Control and the Central Valley Water Quality Board. This report should be available by early June 2003. 3 This Notice and Exemption only covers the removal of the abandoned vehicles, metal debris, scorched equipment, 50,000+used oil filters, used oil drums and site logical issues (i.e., power, communications, access issues and restrictions for Phase II). The Board's remediation contractor will remove and haul the oil filters,solid waste, and drums of used oil to an appropriate facility. Metal debris, including appliances, vehicles, and equipment,will be segregated from solid waste and hauled to appropriate recycling facilities. Once the debris is removed, the Board's contractor will begin setting up a staging area for future remediation work and then demobilize. No new roads or work areas will be created in the gravel pit during this phase of the Tracy Tire Fire Remediation Project. All work will be from previously established roads and work/storage areas. i_ PUBLIC AGENCY APPROVING THE PROJECT: The Board approved cleanup of the site on January 14,2003, by Resolution No.2003-8 under the authority of Public Resources Cade(PRC)Sections 42800 } et seq., the Waste Tire Program. PUBLIC AGENCY CARRYING OUT THE PROJECT: The Board. EXEMPT STATUS:Title 14, California Code of Regulations, section 15308. REASONS WHY PROJECT IS EXEMPT:Class 8 categorical exemption in that the project is an action by a state regulatory agency,as authorized by state regulations and codes, to restore and protect the l environment. &STATE CONTACT PERSON: M;Todd Thalhamer at(916)341-6356. /7 O - 7 2003 Signature: �'. ! why Date:Todd Thalhamer, P.E. Waste Management Engineer LEARING HOUSE California Environmental Protection Aemcy j printed on Recycled Paper ; 1