Thirteen years after the last major revision of federal requirements to prevent accidental releases from underground storage tanks (UST), EPA is proposing to bring the UST program up to date with new release prevention and detection technologies. Also, while stating that it is “sensitive to future costs for UST owners and operators” and, as a result, has minimized required retrofits, the proposed changes will impose additional management requirements on the regulated community. As EPA characterizes it, the changes would “focus on ensuring equipment is working, rather than requiring UST owners and operators to replace or upgrade equipment already in place.”
Read the complete article at Enviro.BLR.com
Take a look at EPA’s proposed amendments to the 1988 UST program.