Federal regulation does not currently require States to be present at the initial installation or start-up of underground storage tanks. Because of this, some States have created internal policies to have UST inspectors present at the time of installation or start-up. These inspections often rely on PEI’s RP100 document or industry manuals rather than federal guidelines.
This webinar will provide an overview of federal installation regulations, a State perspective on installation inspections and start-up testing, commentary from the Petroleum Equipment Institute (PEI) on their RP100 installation recommended practices, and an industry perspective.
This is Part 2 of the LUST 101 webinar series. This webinar covers remediation, monitoring, and closure of LUST sites. Today’s presenters are Peg Bastien, New Hampshire DES, Corie White, South Carolina DES, and Becky Fiedler, Illinois EPA.
This Fact Sheet serves as an introduction to the LUST Trust Fund by providing an overview on its history, usage, and funding challenges. The Fact Sheet was put together by the Tanks Subcommittee using data provided by U.S. EPA.
In March 2020, ASTM released E3225-20, Standard Practice for Performing a Liquid Test of Spill Prevention Equipment and Containment Sumps Used for Interstitial Monitoring of Piping by Visual Examination. ASTM E3225-20 provides a practice for inspection of spill prevention equipment and containment sumps by visual examination (“naked eye”) that does not use vacuum, pressure, or liquid testing. This position paper has been revised and retained by the ASTSWMO Board of Directors on October 22, 2025.
Please note: Since publishing this Position Paper, ASTM has updated the Standard Practice for Performing Visual Examination of Containment Sumps (now ASTM E3225-24). The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) has not issued guidance on this updated standard. Consistent with U.S. EPA practice, ASTSWMO will continue to cite the 2020 ASTM Standard.
This introductory webinar provided by the Release Prevention Task Force covers a variety of inspection topics, including, spill buckets, containment, overfill, CP, ATGs, interstitial monitoring, and shear valves.
Part 1 of this introductory webinar to leaking underground storage tank (LUST) clean-ups covers regulations, initial reporting, and site characterization of LUST cases. Part 2 will cover remediation, monitoring, and closure of LUST clean-up and will be released at a later date.
Our Presenters are Corie White with the South Carolina Department of Environmental Services, Joshua Stevens with the Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment, and Rachel Ingram with the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
This webinar is designed to provide an overview of the financial responsibility (FR) requirements for Underground Storage Tanks (UST). These requirements often live in the background and are overlooked even by the those that have extensive experience working with USTs. This webinar will also provide an overview of the federal regulations, along with some state specific regulations, and is intended for those that are new to working with USTs as well as those who are interested in learning about the role of financial responsibility for USTs.
The ASTSWMO Release Prevention Task Force continues to conduct information requests for data collection on compliance violations found during UST inspections conducted by State UST programs. Previous data collection results from 2010, 2012, and 2014 are available on the ASTSWMO website here.
The Release Prevention Task Force summarizes the information they receive into another report with recommendations on actions they can take to improve compliance rates in the future.
If you find inaccurate data or want to submit your missing data, please email Tanks Program Manager, Anna Gayle Griffiths.
The Financial Responsibility Task Force has created a document that captures the programmatic details of State and Territorial Tank programs that fund UST release prevention, also known as pay for prevention programs (PFPs). Each program summary is formatted with program contact information, associated web addresses, and brief summaries of each program.
The ASTSWMO Financial Responsibility Task Force has collected data from thirty-eight States on their reimbursement rate establishment processes regarding cleanup costs associated with tank releases with contamination. This document serves as a Part I as it focuses on States that establish their rates every 1-3 years.
