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Introduction EPA The United States Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) United States Environ- Emergency Response Office (ERO) conducted an emergency mental Protection Agency response at a large tire fire site near Tracy, California. Fire ERO Departments responded to a blaze at about 5 p.m. on August 7, Emergency Response 1998 at the Royster Tire facility at 29425 South MacArthur Road, Office about 3 miles south of Tracy, San Joaquin County, California. It was estimated at the time that approximately two to seven million QASP tires were stored on the 30-acre site. The EPA's Superfund quality assurance sam- Technical Assessment and Response Team (START) contractor pling plan Ecology & Environment, Inc. (E&E) arrived on-site at 0140 on August 8. Emergency response activities were conducted by local E& E fire and police departments, San Joaquin County Health, EPA, Ecology and START, and the State of California's Environmental Protection Environment, Inc. Agency's Integrated Waste Management Board. The majority of START the emergency response activities were completed by August 10. Superfund Technical As- Some air monitoring and sampling was conducted after August 10, sessment and Response by the State of California's Air Resource Board. On August 14, the Team START conducted water well sampling at three locations surrounding the site. A reconnaissance was conducted by two ERO members and one START member on October 1, 1998. During this visit it was noted that many tire piles were still burning. Future site activities will commence only after the majority of these fires have burned themselves out. Future site activities will include sampling of tire fire residue, ash, soils and groundwater. Specific attention will be paid to contaminates normally associated with tire fires, volatile organic compounds (VOC), semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOC), and metals. This Quality Assurance Sampling Plan (QASP), prepared by the START for the EPA, describes the START's plan for conducting sampling activities at the site. The QASP was developed and field activities will be conducted to gather data in accordance with the EPA's OSWER Directive 9360.4-01 Quality Assurance/Quality Control Guidance for Removal Activities. The following elements are addressed in this QASP: • Background(Section 2), • Objectives (Section 3), • Analytical Methods and Procedures (Section 4), • Approach and Sample Methodologies (Section 5), • Quality Assurance Requirements (Section 6), • Disposal of Investigation Derived Wastes (Section 7), 09.C:\MyFiles\PROJECT\Tracy_Tire\QASP\QASP_0339.wpd-11/30/98 1—I