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• CALIFORNIA REGIONAL WATER QUALITY CONTROL BOARD CENTRAL VALLEY REGION ADMINISTRATIVE CIVIL LIABILITY COMPLAINT NO. R5-2008-0612 MANDATORY PENALTY IN THE MATTER OF LINCOLN CENTER ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION TRUST GROUNDWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY This Complaint is issued to the Lincoln Center Environmental Remediation Trust, (hereafter Discharger) trustee of the Lincoln Center Site in Stockton, pursuant to California Water Code ;CWC) section 13385, which authorizes the imposition of Administrative Civil Liability, CWC section 13323. which authorizes the Executive Officer to issue this Complaint. and CWC section 7. which authorizes the delegation of the Executive Officer's authority to a deputy, in this case the Assistant Executive Officer. This Complaint is based on findings that the Discharger violated provisions of Waste Discharge Requirements (WDRs) Order 98-062 (NPDES No. CA0084255). The Assistant Executive Officer of the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Region (Central Valley Water Board or Board) finds the following. 1. The Discharger owns and operates a groundwater extraction and treatment system (GETS) to remove volatile organic compounds (VOCs), petroleum products, and lead from groundwater. The treatment system is located at Lincoln Center in Stockton, San Joaquin County. Treated groundwater is discharged to the storm sewer that is owned and operated by San Joaquin County. The storm sewer discharges flow into Fourteen Mile Slough. which is a tributary to the San Joaquin River. a water of the United States. 2 In 1998. the Central Valley Water Board issued Order 98-062 authorizing the discharge of treated groundwater form the GETS. On 21 October 2005, the Central Valley Water Board issued Order R5-2005-0144 (NPDES No. CA0084255). which rescinded and modified Order 98-062. setting new effluent limitations for pollutants not regulated under Order 98-062. 3 The Lincoln Center Environmental Remediation Trust was created in 2003. and is the currently named Discharger. Previous to the Trust. the named Discharger was The Settling Dry Cleaning Defendants, as defined by Consent Decree No. CIV-S-91 DFL (GGH) filed 18 January 1996 with the U.S. District Court, Eastern district of California. 4 CWC sections 13385(h) and (i) require assessment of mandatory penalties and state, in part. the following: CWC section 13385(h)(1) states.