In October 1995, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) submitted their report entitled, "Recommendations to Improve the Cleanup Process for California's Leaking Underground Fuel Tanks (LUFTs)" to the California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) and the SB 1764 Leaking Underground Fuel Tank Advisory Committee. Recommendations made in this report may be used to revise SWRCB Resolution 92-49 in early 1996. In response to this report, Wait Petit, Executive Director of the SWRCB issued a letter on December 8, 1995, requesting that cIeanup oversight agencies to "proceed aggressively to close low nsk soil only cases," and for low risk groundwater cases (groundwater with a maximum depth to water less than 50 feet of the leak)'* he recommended that "active remediation be replaced with monitoring to determine if the fuel leak plume is stable." The various California Regional Water Quality Control Boards (RWQCBs) are currently preparing their positions associated with the LLNL report and how they will implement the findings within their regions.

GRA's Technical Committee, chaired by Bob Nicholson, are currently reviewing the LLNL report for technical approach. The GRA Board of Directors, Executive Officers, and Branch President's recently held a teleconference with two of the authors of the LLNL report so that we may evaluate our position on the report. We will developing letter containing our technical comments associated with the report and submitting it to Jim Graham, Executive Director, at 916/4441418. In addition, those members who would like to give their comments on the report can transmit them to Susan Garcia via the Internet at 73661.1162@compuserv.com.