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How Much Work Remains To Be Done?
State and federal regulatory agencies, working with the regulated industry, still have a significant amount of work to do to make underground storage tank (UST) sites as safe as possible. EPA, together with our UST partners, will work to:
- Raise operational compliance levels at UST sites. Too many USTs do not have or do not use properly the protective equipment that could help eliminate new releases.
- Continue evaluating the efficacy of the UST requirements. We need to be sure the UST requirements identify equipment and methods that work.
- Increase the pace of cleanups. Releases from UST systems continue to occur faster than they can be cleaned up and there is a significant backlog of cleanups still to be completed.
- Use the USTfields Initiative to increase cleanups. UST releases may have occurred at nearly 200,000 Brownfields sites; these may be candidates for cleanup and redevelopment.