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MONITORING AND REPORTING ORDER NO. R5-2017-0826 -2- BUCKEYE PARTNERS, L.P.AND TESORO PETROLEUM COMPANY STOCKTON TERMINALS TECHNICAL COMMITTEE STOCKTON, SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY southeast and varies from about two to 11 feet below ground surface. This pollution has impaired the beneficial use of groundwater resources at the Site. 6. This Monitoring and Reporting Order is issued by the Central Valley Water Board, pursuant to California Water Code (CWC) section 13267 and is necessary to delineate groundwater pollutant plumes and to evaluate whether remediation efforts are effective. 7. Existing data and information about the Site show various chemicals, including TPHg, TPHd, BTEX, TAME, MTBE, and TBA are impacting groundwater beneath the Site and nearby properties resulting from the Discharger's current or past operation. The Discharger is responsible for the discharge because the Discharger owns the property and operates bulk fuel facilities at the Site. 8. The Discharger shall not implement any changes to this Order unless and until a revised Order is issued by the Executive Officer or the Assistant Executive Officer. This Monitoring and Reporting Order replaces the monitoring and reporting requirements presented in Order No. R5-2015-0813 for the STTC, which includes the Buckeye and Tesoro facilities. Order No. R5-2015-0813 was issued on 27 July 2015 and outlined monitoring and reporting requirements for Buckeye, Tesoro, and TOC Holdings. 9. Prior to construction of any new groundwater monitoring or extraction wells, and prior to destruction of any groundwater monitoring or extraction wells, the Discharger shall submit plans and specifications to the Central Valley Water Board for review and approval. Once installed, all new monitoring wells shall be added to the monitoring program and shall be sampled and analyzed according to the schedule provided under the 'Required Actions' section of this Order LEGAL PROVISIONS 10. CWC section 13267 states,in part: (b)(1) In conducting an investigation, the Regional Board may require that any person who has discharged, discharges, or is suspected of having discharged or, discharging, or who proposes to discharge waste within its region shall furnish, under penalty of perjury, technical or monitoring program reports which the regional board requires. The burden, including 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 reports. The reports required herein are necessary for the reasons described in this Order, to assure protection of waters of the state, and to protect public health and the environment. 11. CWC section 13268 states, in part: (a)(1)Any person failing or refusing to furnish technical or monitoring program reports as required by subdivision (b) of Section 13267 or falsifying any information provided therein is guilty of a misdemeanor and may be liable civilly in accordance with subdivision (b).