The Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 awarded a $1.8 million Project Grant to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to support the state's Underground Storage Tank Prevention, Detection, and Compliance Program through August 31, 2023. Under the grant, the Commission will deliver leak detection, prevention, and enforcement activities to encourage proper underground storage tank operation and maintenance by owners and operators. The Commission will also ensure owners and operators...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Region 6 office provides $1,896,655 in funding to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to support the state's Underground Storage Tank (UST) Prevention, Detection, and Compliance Program (CFDA 66.804). The grant supports TCEQ's Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) prevention activities, including inspections, operator training, secondary containment support, delivery prohibition, and related enforcement...
This Project Grant award, totaling $1,650,680.00, was provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Underground Storage Tank (UST) Prevention, Detection, and Compliance Program (CFDA 66.804). The funding supports the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's (TCEQ) Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) Prevention Program, which includes leak detection, prevention, and related enforcement activities. Key objectives of the LUST Prevention Program are to encourage...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $2,770,757 Project Grant to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) under the Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) Trust Fund Corrective Action Program (CFDA 66.805). This grant will fund TCEQ's efforts to investigate suspected petroleum releases, oversee and enforce corrective actions by underground storage tank owners/operators, and perform direct cleanup activities when responsible parties are unknown, unwilling, or...
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) was awarded a $2,473,872 Project Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6 under the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund Corrective Action Program (LUST Trust Fund CAP). The grant will support TCEQ's activities from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2022 to develop, implement, and maintain an effective program to address releases from underground storage tanks in Texas. Specifically, funding will assist TCEQ in...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 awarded a $2,748,747 Project Grant to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality under the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund Corrective Action Program (CFDA 66.805). The grant provides funding for the state's Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) Corrective Action Program from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2023. The LUST Corrective Action Program investigates suspected petroleum releases and oversees corrective action by owners and...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6, authorized under the Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) Trust Fund Corrective Action Program (CFDA 66.805), provides $2,770,757.00 in funding to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to support their LUST corrective action program. The key products and services to be delivered include investigating suspected petroleum releases, overseeing and enforcing corrective actions by tank...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 awarded the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality a $703,216 Project Grant under the Underground Storage Tank (UST) Prevention, Detection, and Compliance Program (CFDA #66.804). The grant will fund Louisiana's underground storage tank program from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022. Key objectives of the state program include encouraging proper operation and maintenance of underground storage tanks, ensuring tank monitoring compliance,...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 4 awarded the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation a $626,000 Project Grant under the Underground Storage Tank (UST) Prevention, Detection, and Compliance Program (CFDA 66.804). The grant funds TDEC's operation of the state UST program through September 2023. Key deliverables include conducting approximately 1,980 facility compliance inspections, providing compliance assistance, and enforcement activities. The program aims to promote...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 awarded a $585,468 Project Grant to the Arkansas Division of Environmental Quality under the Underground Storage Tank (UST) Prevention, Detection, and Compliance Program (CFDA 66.804). The grant provides funding from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022 to support Arkansas' underground storage tank program. Specifically, the award will help encourage owners and operators to properly operate and maintain underground storage tanks, ensure owners...