Kim Chaffee RE: Respond back to letter/ EPA-R9-2017-009089 And official compliant of the Arroyo Grande Oil Field in San Luis Obispo County August 6, 2017 Dear United States Environment Protection Agency, My name is Kim Chaffee and a resident that lives 2 miles from the Arroyo Grande Oil Field in Pismo Beach, California. This letter is in respond to my 5 complaints that I made to you about The Arroyo Grande Oil Field in Arroyo Grande, California and your respond that you never received those complaints. Below is summary of the issues that I have itemized for a quick review and my communities concerns. Please take notice of my wide broad complaints to the local EPA, water control board, air control board, planning, zoning, board of supervisors and major of San Luis Obispo County. No relief has come forward and the people of the state of California needs you and the court to intervene in this dispute for the health and well being of the citizens of San Luis Obispo County. The Arroyo Grande Oil Field has been out of compliance for many years on several issues per my Freedom of Information Act and Records Act request that I obtain from the Central Coast Water Quality Board in San Luis Obispo, California. As stated in my previous complaints. I have provided a link to you to review from the online watchdog, Environment Working Group and my own research from the record of the Central Coast Regional Water Control Board that the Arroyo Grade Oil Field has been out of local and federal violation on The Clean Water Act for 3 years already and it may be a longer time-frame, as more information is audited and the discovery process continues. In the water board records it appears that there is existing issues with failure to adequately design and operate and maintain control over its drilling rigs, tanks, wells,vapor tank pads,equipment pads and control pads. The failure to document and inform the public about spills, cracks and leaks in the immediate area of the Arroyo Grande Oil Field is forcing residents to sign gag orders and not inform the other residents that a spill, crack or leak occurred in their neighbors backyard. 1 of 3 According to the water board records there is fracking chemicals in the water wells of residents and this facility does NOT have a permit to frack at this location and NO one is aware that this is taking place there, because the Arroyo Grande Oil Field has never had a environmental impact evaluations for years. The Central Coast Regional Water Control Board has this information under their nose and have kept it quite for sometime. The wastewater treatment plant violations are rampant and no corrective actions have taken place or any discussion to transitioning from and old plant to a modern one. The locals have to deal with sewage smells and overabundance smell of bleach on a daily bases in our tap water. When family or friends come to visit, they refuse to drink the water from our tap water. The contentious court pending result of a impact environmental review, can not be completed until all the issues outlined in this letter is addressed in a ethical matter. Residents of the Arroyo Grande Oil Field have a cancer cluster occurring and it is obviously upsetting to learn that this urgent matter has been ignored and denied. In fact, it would have not been discovered without environmental activist exposing it to you. The United States EPA needs to go to the site and conduct appropriate surveys and additional testing. The local state (water board) had this damming evidence on their records and no requests for access to the Arroyo Grande Oil Field site under unreasonable conditions occurred, even when the water board was granted access to the property for many years, by their own admission to me. Yet, found it unnecessary to go there. Saving face to avoid culpability is my conclusion. When the state or federal government suppresses and neglects evidence about cancer clusters and the public outcry for protection is ignored an injunctive relief, pollutant and environmental impact statements should be quickly identify along with civil penalties that should be award to the community that is effected. The comment period has come and gone and immediate action needs to take place ASAP. The advantage of health and environmental benefits should take precedent in this case and all cases when fracking chemicals and hazards material puts people's lives in extreme jeopardy and the people of the state make numerous complaints versus calling, e-mailing or writing to you. The shock of being told that any written material you brought forward has suddenly been lost or misfiled,when a civil citizens complaints entails the mentions of a cancer cluster is a crime. 2 of 3 The residents near the Arroyo Grande Oil Field had their constitutional rights ignored, trampled on and violation of due process rights of life, liberty and property for equal protection from an oil company that poisons our land, air and water supply. And to fight any law school question to silence a child, whom family was a victims of a confidential disclosure agreement on a contamination case, is not logically or uniformly to do. Sincerely, Kim Chaffee