This $910,206 project grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6 supports the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality's (LDEQ) Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) Trust Fund Corrective Action Program. The LUST program provides funding to develop, implement, and maintain Louisiana's underground storage tank regulatory program and advance ongoing petroleum release cleanups from October 2021 through September 2022. As the designated state agency, LDEQ will utilize the...
This $1,021,816 federal Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6 under the Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) Trust Fund Corrective Action Program (CFDA 66.805) provides assistance to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) to support its LUST corrective action program. The key activities funded include investigating suspected petroleum releases, overseeing and enforcing corrective actions by tank owners/operators, and performing...
This $677,640 Project Grant awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Underground Storage Tank (UST) Prevention, Detection, and Compliance Program (CFDA 66.804) provides funding to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) to implement the state's Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) prevention program. The grant supports activities such as conducting inspections of all UST facilities in Louisiana at least once every three years, enforcing state UST...
This $776,204 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6 under the Underground Storage Tank (UST) Prevention, Detection, and Compliance Program (CFDA 66.804) supports the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) in implementing its Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) prevention program. The key program activities include conducting inspections of UST facilities, monitoring compliance, enforcing regulations, maintaining public records,...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 awarded the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality $695,639 under the Underground Storage Tank (UST) Prevention, Detection, and Compliance Program (CFDA 66.804) to support the state's Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) Prevention Program from October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2023. The funding will allow the state to conduct inspections of underground storage tank facilities, implement an enforcement program for state UST...
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...
This $416,002 federal Project Grant awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6 under the Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) Trust Fund Corrective Action Program (CFDA 66.805) provides assistance to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) to address petroleum releases from underground storage tanks (USTs) caused by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria. Key activities to be performed include: Screening sites for the presence of petroleum releases or suspected...
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,...
This two-year, $1.3 million project grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 1 to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection supports the state's Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) Trust Fund Corrective Action Program. Funds will be used to identify sites contaminated by petroleum and hazardous substance releases from underground storage tanks, oversee remediation of contaminated soils and groundwater, and reduce the backlog of sites requiring cleanup. The...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $2,271,955 Project Grant under the Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) Trust Fund Corrective Action Program (CFDA 66.805) to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA). The grant will fund IEPA's administration and oversight of remediation efforts for leaking underground storage tank sites across the state of Illinois. Key activities include investigating contamination, directing cleanup actions by tank owners/operators, and...