Project Grant 96861701

This $954,000 project grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 8 provides funding to the South Dakota Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources (DANR) to support the state's underground storage tank (UST) program from October 2021 through September 2023. The grant aims to help DANR achieve the objectives of the EPA's UST Prevention, Detection, and Compliance Program (CFDA #66.804), including encouraging proper operation and maintenance of underground storage tanks, ensuring leak detection monitoring compliance, and further developing the state's program to assume primary enforcement responsibility from the federal government. Specifically, the funding will assist DANR's efforts in underground storage tank leak detection, prevention activities, and related enforcement to help protect the environment from petroleum and hazardous substance releases in South Dakota.