Valero Fenceline Grading Application No. G-26-2
Summary
SCH Number
2026080676
Public Agency
City of Benicia
Document Title
Valero Fenceline Grading Application No. G-26-2
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
8/19/2026
Document Description
The applicant requested a grading permit for the installation of open path fenceline monitoring for BTEX (Benzene,Toluene, ethylbenzene, & xylene). Fenceline Paths 1-3 were installed and commissioned late 2018. Fenceline Path 4 is the last pathway to close the gap on the perimeter fenceline monitoring. Reuse same design for the BTEX analyzers, analyzer shelter building, and retroreflectors; only change would be the location of where the shelter is placed and providing electrical infrastructure for power requirements to the analyzer shelter.
Civil/Structural Scope:
1) Provide foundation pad for the analyzer shelter
2) Drilled piers for shelter and retroreflectors (mirror installation), level site
3) Road access for construction, grading, & excavation for analyzer shelter foundation
Contact Information
Name
Vivien Togonon
Agency Name
City of Benicia
Job Title
Associate Planner
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Name
Tina Youk
Agency Name
Valero
Job Title
Manager of Capital Projects
Contact Types
Project Applicant
Phone
Email
Name
Valero
Agency Name
Valero Benicia Refinery
Contact Types
Parties Undertaking Project
Phone
Email
Location
Coordinates
Cities
Benicia
Counties
Solano
Regions
San Francisco Bay Area
Cross Streets
Rose Drive and East Second Street
Zip
94510
Total Acres
0.002
Jobs
2
Parcel #
083-210-220, 083-210-230, 087-230-140
State Highways
I-680, I-780, I-80
Railways
Union Pacific, Benicia-Martinez
Airports
N/A
Schools
Robert Semple Elementary, Matthew Turner Elementary
Waterways
Carquinez Strait, Suisun Bay
Township
3N
Range
3W
Section
25
Base
MDPM
Other Location Info
0 Rose Drive
Other Information
N/A
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Section 15304(a)
Reasons for Exemption
The project is categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act(CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Sections 15304(a) (Minor Alterations to Land), which apply to projects involving minor alterations of grading on land with a slope of less than 10 percent, and is not located in a waterway, wetland, an officially
designated (by federal, state, or local government action) scenic area, nor in officially mapped areas of severe geologic hazard such as an Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zone or within an official Seismic Hazard Zone, as delineated by the State Geologist.
County Clerk
Solano
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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