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Used and Waste Tire Survey Inspection at 10:am, Thursday April 20, 2006 at Brannon/Fleet Tire 3730 N Wilson Way, Stockton, CA. Present were Jerold Brannon, owner of Brannon Tire, Laura Niles of CIWMB, Robert McClellon, Supervising REHS at San Joaquin County Environmental Health, and Jenni Ruiz,REHS at San Joaquin County Environmental Health. Facility personnel Jaime Alvarez and Fred were called in for assistance. Laura Niles (LN) stated that the Minor Facility Waste Tire Storage Permit at this address had expired at the request of the facility in the presence of Terry Smith, CIWMB, in 2004, and the current status of this facility and the facility at 1624 E Alpine (Alpine Yard) were in violation of used and waste tire storage standards. The Alpine yard had never been permitted. Jerold Brannon(JB)responded that he believed the Alpine yard did not need to be permitted because the tires there were in containers, and that it was impossible that the permit had expired for the facility at 3730 N Wilson, and denied the possibility that it was at the request of anyone at the facility to cancel any permit. JB called his daughter Carey, part owner and employee of facility,into the office and asked her what she knew about the permit. She agreed with JB, that no permit expired to her knowledge. LN asked her to provide the last permit for this facility from CIWMB for Waste Tire Facility. Carey went to retrieve it form another office. When it was not located, LN offered to get a copy from CIWMB. It was faxed to the office at 3730 N Wilson Way. JB questioned storage violations because as a retreader he understood that he was exempt from permitting and could store 3,000 waste tires on site. He then admitted he had more than 3,000 used tires but they were restorable casings, and to date $28,000 has been paid to Tri-C Recycling for waste tire disposal. Last year's total was over$100,000 paid to Tri-C. LN explained that regarding the Alpine yard,the storage standards for containers had been revised in 2003 and a letter from CIWMB had been mailed to every facility informing of the change. She provided a copy of the letter sent to him dated July 22, 2003. LN also noted the quantity of tires at each site and the fact that both sites would need to be permitted in order to meet storage standards. Jenni Ruiz (JR)provided applications for Permit, Operations Plan, and Environmental Information Form. LN then explained the difference between used and waste tires which is basically that in p � Y order to be considered not waste tires, used tires are to be stored"racked and stacked"in rows of two, no more than six foot high. By these standards, LN told JB, both this facility and the Alpine yard were in violation of storage standards. JB asked why his facilities had been in compliance for the past few years by county standards and now they've become in violation. LN explained that these issues had been addressed at these facilities by CIWMB officer Steve Posner(SP) in 2003, at which time SJ County had not yet been granted Lead Enforcement Agency authority(LEA). SP was not able to follow through at that time and those issues were being taken up now by the LEA. Prior correspondence between the CIWMB and the facility were not available to the LEA until the LEA questioned the sites' the storage standards in response to a complaint at the Environmental Health Department. FILE Co" Py