Leaking Underground Storage Tank Program Implements The Recovery Act
In the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Congress appropriated $200 million from the Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) Trust Fund to EPA for cleaning up leaks from underground storage tanks.
EPA Allocated LUST Recovery Act Money
- $190.7 million to states and territories in assistance agreements to address shovel-ready sites within their jurisdictions
- $6.3 million for existing EPA in-house contracts to do LUST eligible work (such as site assessment and cleanup activities) in Indian country
- EPA regional UST programs oversee assessing and cleaning up sites in Indian country
- $3 million retained by EPA, shared by headquarters and regions, for management and oversight
- The Recovery Act provides for up to 1.5 percent of the $200 million to be retained by EPA to pay for salary and other expenses to manage, oversee, and report on appropriate spending of the $197 million going to states and territories and for cleanups in Indian country
EPA's LUST Recovery Act Program Guidance
- Provides EPA regional underground storage tank programs with information about implementing the LUST Recovery Act program
Uses Of LUST Recovery Act Money
- Oversee assessing and cleaning up underground storage tank leaks, or
- Directly pay for assessing and cleaning up leaks from federally regulated tanks where the responsible party is unknown, unwilling, unable, or the cleanup is an emergency response
LUST Cleanup Program Recovery Plan Submitted to OMB
- Describes EPA's objectives, activities, funding, and performance measures using LUST Recovery Act money
- on EPA's site in PDF format (14 pp, 205K, About PDF) or
- on recovery.gov in HTML format
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