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...
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 $1,021,816 Project Grant to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) under the Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) Trust Fund Corrective Action Program (CFDA No. 66.805). This 1-year award provides funding for LDEQ to investigate suspected petroleum releases from underground storage tanks, oversee and enforce corrective actions by responsible parties, and perform direct cleanup activities when owners/operators are...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 awarded the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality a $1,367,588 Project Grant under the Underground Storage Tank (UST) Prevention, Detection, and Compliance Program (CFDA 66.804) for the period of September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2022. The grant funds the state's UST program activities including administration, compliance monitoring through 3-year inspections, enforcement, and maintaining public records to meet the objectives of encouraging...
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...
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 $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...
The 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 funding will support IEPA's administration of the LUST program and corrective actions for petroleum releases from underground storage tanks within Illinois. Key activities include investigating contamination sources, overseeing cleanup by tank...