This agreement provides continued assistance to the state of oklahoma's underground storage tank (UST) program

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6 awarded $593,234 to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission under the Underground Storage Tank (UST) Prevention, Detection, and Compliance Program (CFDA 66.804) for the period July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026. This Project Grant provides continued support for Oklahoma's Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) prevention program, which focuses on leak detection, prevention, and related enforcement activities to ensure proper operation and maintenance of underground storage tanks throughout the state.

The funded program delivers comprehensive UST compliance and oversight services including facility inspections conducted at least once every three years, enforcement actions and penalty assessments, operator training, secondary containment support activities, and delivery prohibition activities. Additional deliverables include maintaining public records summarizing inspection results and enforcement actions, reviewing and revising state regulations for secondary containment, and developing Oklahoma's regulatory capacity to operate the UST program independently of federal oversight. The grant recipients must maintain detailed records demonstrating compliance with applicable federal regulations and coordinate with EPA for annual administrative and technical evaluations. No subawards are included in this assistance agreement.

Specifically, this agreement provides funding for the state's leaking underground storage tank (lust) prevention 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. Activities:the lust prevention programs include inspections and other enforcement related activities, operator training, secondary containment support activities, delivery prohibition activities, and public reporting requirements. Specific activities of the program include: (1) encouraging owners and operators to properly operate and maintain usts; (2) ensuring owners and operators monitor usts in accordance with the regulations through an inspection strategy that conducts inspections of all UST facilities at least once every three years; (3) implementing an effective enforcement program that includes for public record summaries of inspections conducted, enforcement actions taken, and penalties assessed; (4) reviewing and revising regulations for secondary containment of usts as necessary; and, (5) developing the state program to operate in lieu of the federal program. The recipient will maintain appropriate records to demonstrate compliance with lust prevention grant award special conditions and regulations in 40CFR parts 33, 35 subpart a, 2 CFR part 200, and part 1500.subrecipient:no subawards are included in this assistance agreement.outcomes:the anticipated deliverables include maintaining appropriate records to demonstrate compliance with lust prevention grant award special conditions and regulations in 2 CFR part 200, 2 CFR PART1500, and 40 CFR part 35; submitting proposed state UST program operating procedures and statutory regulatory revisions to the environmental protection agency (EPA); participating in regional trainings, inspector workshops, and the annual all-states meeting; providing EPA with an overview of operator training procedures and guidelines. The expected outcome of this cooperative agreement is the number of inspections completed of the tanks in the state of oklahoma. The recipient will provide a list of facilities and locations inspected during FY 2025 and verify that a complete on-site inspection was performed at each facility to aid the EPA in performing record reviews or audits as authorized by 2 CFR part 200. The primary beneficiaries are the state UST program and state residents.