WHEREAS:

1.  The Dudley and Petty, Inc. truck stop is an abandoned 12-acre site in Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
2.  There are two dozen underground tanks (USTs) and aboveground tanks (ASTs) on site that have leaked gasoline, diesel fuel and motor oil.
3.  The chlorinated hydrocarbons DCE and TCE have been detected in groundwater on site and have impacted at least one drinking water well off site.
4.  Other nearby municipal, commercial, and domestic wells are threatened.
5.  The Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board has issued the bankruptcy trustee a Cleanup and Abatement Order (No. 96-701) requiring site cleanup.
6.  The bankruptcy trustee is responsible for cleanup of the leaking USTs and is actively doing so with money provided from the UST Cleanup Fund.
7.  There is no money available to cleanup contamination caused by ASTs and other sources.
8.  The City of Corning has decided to take responsibility for site cleanup associated with AST contamination and estimates the cost of doing so at $627,000.
9.  The Cleanup and Abatement Account (Account) was created by Water Code Sections 13440-13443 and money deposited in the Account is available to public agencies with the authority to clean up waste.
10.  The Cleanup and Abatement Account has a projected uncommitted balance of $3,843,654.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT:

The State Water Resources Control Board:

1.  Commits $627,000 to the City of Corning for AST cleanup work at the Dudley and Petty, Inc. truck stop.

2.  Establishes an end date for this project of August 31, 2004.

The undersigned, Administrative Assistant to the Board, does hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true, and correct copy of a resolution duly and regularly adopted at a meeting of the State Water Resources Control Board held on August 19, 1999.

/s/
Maureen Marché
Administrative Assistant to the Board