DERR-2024-005256

MEMORANDUM

TO: Therron Blatter, PST Branch Manager
Division of Environmental Response and Remediation

THROUGH: Avery Holyoak, RAC Section, Manager
Division of Environmental Response and Remediation

FROM: Mark Crim, RAC Section, Project Manager
Division of Environmental Response and Remediation

DATE: March 16, 2023

SUBJECT: Transfer of all hard copy information to a closed PST case file
Suspected Release at Payson Diesel, located at 838 North Main Street, Payson, Utah
Facility Identification No. 1000501, Release Site OGR

I have reviewed the file for the suspected release at Payson Diesel, including information obtained by
the Division of Environmental Response and Remediation (DERR). My recommendation for no further
action at Payson Diesel, release ‘OGR’ is based on information contained in its case file. I recommend
that no Reporting and Remediation compliance schedule(s) be sent to the responsible party, no Leaking
Petroleum Storage Tank (LPST) file be maintained other than the UST database LUST module file,
and that all information be filed in a closed PST case file. This recommendation for closeout is based
on a report that an aboveground, waste-oil/heating-oil tank experienced a spill event due to the actions
of an employee at the site. The report was called into the DERR by a person wishing to be anonymous.

File information justifying no further action includes the following: On January 3, 2023, an anonymous
caller reported a waste-oil spill that was alleged to have released 100 gallons of waste-oil onto soil, due to a
valve damaged by an employee. The caller indicated the spill occurred more than one-year ago, and that the
spill was simply covered with soil. On March 15, 2023, following a previous attempt to reach the owner,
the DERR contacted the site owner and discussed the reported spill. The owner said that the anonymous
caller was probably a terminated employee, and that representatives of the Utah Division of Waste
Management and Radiation Control (DWMRC) had inspected his site in January. The DERR contacted
project manager, Leo Calcagno, DWMRC, and obtained information about the Payson Diesel inspection
that occurred on January 23, 2023. Inspection notes by the DWMRC indicate that the reported spill was not
observed, and that several issues relating to waste-oil container labeling were addressed at that time.

Because there is no evidence of the reported spill, no further action (NFA) is recommended.

The NFA package with supporting documents can be found in Google Drive Location:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yxgPJidZ4MMtzlQrHpspXkfNGBl3fe6k/view?usp=share_link

Please initial this memo when your closure package review is complete. If you have questions, comments
or concerns with the closure, please discuss with the project manager.


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