This agreement provides funding to the maryland department of the environment's (MDE) underground storage tank (UST) program

Environmental Protection Agency Region 3 awarded the Maryland Department of the Environment $710,404 obligated funds on October 1, 2025, under the Underground Storage Tank (UST) Prevention, Detection, and Compliance Program (CFDA 66.804), with an additional $952,231 in federal funds contingent upon availability. The award funds the state's UST program leak detection, prevention, and enforcement activities in Baltimore, Maryland, through September 30, 2028.

MDE will conduct facility compliance inspections, operator training, secondary containment support activities, delivery prohibition activities, and public reporting to bring all USTs into compliance with release detection and release prevention requirements. The program objectives include encouraging owners and operators to properly operate and maintain USTs, ensuring monitoring in accordance with federal regulations, and developing the state program to operate in lieu of the federal program. Anticipated deliverables include improved and implemented facility compliance inspections and a follow-up enforcement program that reduces risks, ensures rapid response to accidental releases and environmental emergencies, and protects groundwater from petroleum and hazardous substance contamination. The expected outcome is the number of inspections completed on tanks across Maryland. Primary beneficiaries are the state UST program and Maryland residents. No subawards are included in this assistance agreement.

Specifically, the recipient will provide funding for the state's underground storage tank (UST) program, which includes leak detection, prevention, and related enforcement activities. The main objectives of the lust prevention program include: encouraging owners and operators to properly operate and maintain their usts, ensuring owners and operators monitor usts in accordance with regulations, and developing the state program to operate in lieu of the federal program. These objectives protect the environment by preventing petroleum and hazardous substance releases. This action partially funds the grant in the amount of $113,375 federal funds in the amount of $952,231 are contingent upon availability. Activities:lust prevention programs include: inspections and other enforcement related activities; operator training; secondary containment support activities; delivery prohibition activities; and public reporting requirements. The activities are working toward the implementation of federal UST regulations and taking the appropriate steps to adopt new regulations, which applies to state program approval. Subrecipient:no subawards are included in this assistance agreement.outcomes:the anticipated deliverables include the improvement and the implementation of traditional facility compliance inspections, and a follow-up enforcement program. These tasks have proven successful in reducing and controlling risks; ensuring rapid response to accidental release and other environmental emergencies associated with hazardous substances; and petroleum products. The expected outcome of this cooperative agreement is the number of inspections completed on the tanks in the state of maryland. The primary beneficiaries are the state UST program and residents of maryland.