AMERICAN RECOVERY and REINVESTMENT ACT

Overview of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and Leaking Underground Storage Tank Sites in Washington State... (more

FEDERAL REQUIREMENTS -- Energy Policy Act of 2005

The United States Congress passed and President Bush signed the Federal Energy Policy Act of 2005. Among many other things, this federal law requires the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and delegated state agencies to adopt new requirements for their underground storage tank programs. Some of the new requirements include: conducting more frequent routine compliance inspections of USTs; developing an UST operator training program; implementing a delivery prohibition process; requiring secondary containment for new or replacement UST components (double walled tanks and piping and under dispenser containment sumps); and providing reports to EPA and the public.

• Focus on Underground Storage Tank Law (July 2007)
• Public Record -- Sources and Causes of Underground Storage Tank Leaks -- October 2009 to September 2010

CURRENT RULEMAKING ACTIVITY

Ecology is currently in the process of amending Washington’s UST rule to implement new federal requirements and to improve the UST program. 

Find out more by clicking here: UST Rule Revision.

LAWS & RULES 

• UST Statute (chapter 90.76 RCW) -- Updated July 2007. 
• UST Regulations (chapter 173-360 WAC) -- Updated July 14, 1999.
• UST Statute and Regulations (Ecology Publication #95-604), which includes both the statute and regulations in a single published document.
• Regulatory Interpretation Manual for UST Regulations (chapter 173-360 WAC) -- May 2004.
• Focus on Underground Storage Tank Law (July 2007), which explains how the Federal Energy Act changes the UST program.