Notice of Public Review and Comment Opportunity
Re: Contaminated Soil Cleanup Project at 5675 Carpinteria Avenue
Padre Associates, Inc. has applied to the Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District (District) for a permit to excavate and remediate approximately 65,000 cubic yards of hydrocarbon-contaminated soil as part of the Carpinteria Oil & Gas Plant decommissioning project. The impacted soil will be excavated and loaded on trucks for transportation offsite to a State-approved disposal facility. The project site is located within 1,000 feet of Farm to Table.
The District has included conditions in the Permit to Operate for this project that will minimize the release of emissions into the atmosphere during the excavation, handling, and transport of the contaminated material. Before our agency issues this permit, state law requires that we notify you, since you are either the parent/guardian of a student attending the schools or are a resident or business located within 1,000 feet of the site. We are providing you an opportunity to review and comment on this proposed permitting action. Further, prior to issuing the final permit, we will submit to the permit’s administrative file our written responses to any comments we receive during the comment period.
A copy of the draft permit document (Permit to Operate 16640) is available for review on the District website.
The comment period begins on October 13 and ends on November 13. Please provide any comments to us within 30 days of the receipt of this notice at the address below (Attn: Zachary Akzin, 805-979-8313, [email protected]).