Assistance program
Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund Corrective Action Program
$479.7 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Protection Agency
- Assistance
- Formula Grants
- CFDA number
- 66.805
- What it does
- To support state (including territories that are included in the definition of state in the Solid Waste Disposal Act) and tribal corrective action programs that address releases from underground storage tanks (USTs). Funding Priorities - Fiscal Year 2024: Cooperative agreements to states and tribes to support activities in making progress in cleaning up petroleum leaks by initiating and completing cleanups and reducing the backlog of sites not yet cleaned up. In FY 2024, at least 80 percent of LUST corrective action appropriated funds will be provided to states to carry out the LUST corrective action program. The priority in FY 2024 is to provide resources to states to perform core cleanup work, with a focus on cleaning up the highest priority sites.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- Cooperative agreements are only available to States and Territories that have UST programs. Additionally, these cooperative agreements are only available to Federally-recognized Tribes and Intertribal Consortia that must meet the requirements, as described in the Federal Register Notice, Vol. 67, No. 213, pp. 67181-67183, "Update to EPA Policy on Certain Grants to Intertribal Consortia."
- Authorized by
- Solid Waste Disposal Act
- 1999 Appropriations Act
- Program site
- https://www.epa.gov/ust ↗
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* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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