Assistance program
Headquarters and Regional Underground Storage Tanks Program
$6.1 Million committed in FY2018–FY2025
- Agency
- Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Protection Agency
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 66.816
- What it does
- This grant program funds activities in both the LUST prevention and cleanup programs. On the Prevention program, grants are used for activities that promote the prevention, compliance, and identification of underground storage tanks. For the cleanup program, grants are used to support activities that promote corrective action, enforcement and management of releases from underground storage tank systems. Funding Priority - Fiscal Year 2025: High priority tasks include: (1) Working with states and tribes within available resources to reduce the number of sites that have not reached cleanup completion; (2) Provide targeted training to states and tribes, such as remediation process optimization and rapid site assessment techniques; (3) Monitor the soundness of financial mechanisms, in particular, insurance and state cleanup funds that serve as financial assurance for LUST releases; (4) Provide support in Indian Country for site assessment, investigations, and remediation of high priority sites; and (5) Provide resources and support to states and tribes to quickly address emergency responses from releases to the environment.
- Who benefits
- State and local governments, territories and possessions, interstate agencies, tribes, intertribal consortia, members of the regulated community and residents in areas impacted by federally-regulated USTs.
- Who applies
- These assistance agreements are only available to public authorities (state, interstate, intrastate, agencies designated by states or territorial Governors to receive UST notifications, Federally-recognized tribes and intertribal consortia, and local), public agencies and institutions; private non-profit organizations and agencies that meet the requirements of Section 8001(a) and (b) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Profit-making organizations and the general public are not eligible. For certain competitive funding opportunities under this assistance listing, the Agency may limit eligibility to compete to a number or subset of eligible applicants consistent with the Agency's Assistance Agreement Competition Policy.
- Authorized by
- National Environmental Policy Act
- Solid Waste Disposal Act
- Program site
- https://www.epa.gov/ust ↗
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