Underground Storage Tank Management

This practical guide to regulatory compliance and good management practice addresses key issues in UST management. The author offers recommendations for developing and maintaining UST management programs that not only minimize the risk of a release but also reduce the potential for costly repercussions. This 5th Edition contains five new chapters that address updates to the EPA's approval of state regulatory and trust fund programs, soil sampling and analytical guidelines, the evolution of tank testing strategies, National Fire Protection Pamphlet 329, new state-of-the-art technology, and SPCC plans. Chapters cover regulatory highlights, inventory control, leak prediction, tank closure, testing, monitoring and release detection, tank design, secondary containment, installation, maintenance and retrofit, storing hazardous substances, remedial action, and more.