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Ms. Laurie Casias <br /> September 3, 1993 <br /> Page 2 <br /> prospective buyer. Petitioner worked with the Regional Water <br /> Quality Control Board -- Central Valley Region ( "Regional Board" ) <br /> and PHS/EHD in an attempt to obtain regulatory oversight of the <br /> property, and finally succeeded in having the Site placed in the <br /> LOP in December 1991. Petitioner voluntarily undertook <br /> investigation of the Site and to date has expended in excess of <br /> One Hundred and Twenty-Six Thousand Dollars ($126, 000 .00) to <br /> remediate the soil contamination. <br /> Consequently, Petitioner applied to the Underground Storage <br /> Tank Cleanup Fund (SB 2004 or Fund) to recover the costs <br /> associated with the investigation and remediation. Petitioner <br /> was rejected from the Fund as ineligible because Petitioner was <br /> never the "owner" of the tanks. <br /> Over the past year, we have been successful in having <br /> additional responsible parties named and have made repeated <br /> demands on all responsible parties to undertake the <br /> responsibility for the investigation and remediation. Thus far, <br /> NONE of the parties responsible for the contamination have made <br /> an effort to cooperated with us . <br /> PHS/EHD is now insisting on a comprehensive groundwater <br /> investigation. At this point, the Petitioner's are at their wits <br /> end. We believe an extensive groundwater investigation is <br /> inappropriate because the soil contamination discovered at the <br /> Site, as discussed below, could not have contributed to the <br /> groundwater contamination. Thus, we are petitioning the State <br /> Board to make the appropriate findings that will mandate that <br /> those parties truly responsible for the soil and groundwater <br /> contamination assume THEIR legal obligation for investigation and <br /> remediation of the contamination found at the Site. <br /> This letter shall serve as our petition and will follow the <br /> procedures set forth in the "Underground Storage Tank Program <br /> Cost Recovery Billing Petition Process. " Section 2 (B) ( l ) - ( 10 ) of <br /> the State Board procedures specifies the requirements for each <br /> petition and our discussion will utilize corresponding numbering <br /> to the subsection numbering in Section 2 (B) . <br /> ( 1 ) NAME AND ADDRESS OF PETITIONER: <br /> Roek Brothers <br /> 3736 South Highway 99 <br /> Stockton, California 95213 <br /> F:\TAN\17093\D\ROER3.EEH <br /> 75376-17093/=/09/03/93/4 <br />