Underground storage tank owners face 1998 compliance deadline
Registered owners of underground storage tanks in the United States have less than five years to achieve compliance with new federal regulations. Of the 1.6 million registered tanks in the nited States, nearly all contain petroleum; only 23,500 contain hazardous materials, according to the Federal Underground Storage Tank Office of Communications. Minneapolis-based Environmental Information Ltd.'s recent report The Underground Storage Tank Market: Its current status and future challenges says only 10% of the estimated 440,000 leaking-UST sites in the United States are now clean. Only eight states have cleaned up more than half of their known leaking USTs. The Environmental Protection Agency has slated 1998 as the deadline for replacement of USTs that do not leak but fall short of the corrosion-resistance requirements, which specify that tanks be made of synthetic or cathodic materials. EPA also demands, under penalty of fines, that all unprotected, single-wall steel tanks must be replaced by 1998.
- OSTI ID:
- 6281541
- Journal Information:
- Chemical Processing (Chicago); (United States), Vol. 56:3; ISSN 0009-2630
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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