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0 9 2 LIMITATIONS AND UNDERSTANDINGS The scope of work for this historical study was limited to that defined by CalRecycle in the subject work order. Select documents, generally those that were provided, and/or available and/or judged to be the most relevant were reviewed and summarized. Therefore, all existing data for the WDS is not included in this document. Additional information that may be relevant to this project may not be included for various reasons including the documents were not available at the time and the volume of information received precluded lengthy reviews and limited comments due to project budgetary constraints. Documents were received from CalRecycle staff and subsequently requested from and received from Advanced GeoEnviromental Inc. (AGE), the consulting firm that conducted the majority of environmental investigation and remedial action activities at the site (defined as APN 198-120-09). In addition, approximately 50+ emails, many of which included additional (earlier chains of) correspondence, were obtained from AGE for the purpose of more accurately documenting the history of the project. While many of these emails did not indicate information contained was confidential and privileged, some of the AGE emails contained the following language: "This email/fax message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution of this email/fax is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by email/fax and destroy all paper and electronic copies of the original message." It was assumed that since AGE provided the emails to N&M for this limited historical study, they indicated their approval to use the information included in the correspondence. A significant portion of this project was related to organizing the large volume of background information, including partial and draft documents, final documents and correspondence provided by CalRecycle and AGE. To the extent possible, available information is generally summarized chronologically. However, many documents consisted of only a figure or table, submittal of draft and/or partial information and sometimes the date on the document may not have reflected the actual time that the document was requested and/or submitted. There were what appeared to be duplicate documents, parts of documents, and multiple file names for the same documents from different sources, which required a complete organization of information provided. Numerous documents consisted only of figures or tables and there was uncertainty of the dates they were used/submitted. Sometimes file names and document titles did not appear to correspond to the contents of the document. The study was further complicated by what appeared to often be more than one version of the same document, with earlier draft versions often signed and stamped by a registered professional. Further confusion was related to submittal and partial submittal, multiple times in some cases, of figures or other documents at Ninyo&Moore 1 500 E.Louise Avenue,Lathrop,San Joaquin County,California 1 104690095 1 August 11,2017 2