This agreement provides funding to montana DEQ

EPA Region 8 awarded Montana Department of Environmental Quality $1.394 million on October 1, 2025, to support the state's Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) Prevention Program under CFDA 66.804, the Underground Storage Tank (UST) Prevention, Detection, and Compliance Program.

The award funds leak detection, prevention, and related enforcement activities across Montana. Deliverables include inspections and other enforcement-related activities, operator training, secondary containment support activities, delivery prohibition activities, and public reporting. Montana will complete semi-annual narrative reports and submit data to the National LUST4 Database. The expected outcome centers on the number of tank inspections completed statewide, with primary beneficiaries being the state UST program and Montana residents.

The program objectives include encouraging owners and operators to properly operate and maintain underground storage tanks, ensuring compliance with monitoring regulations, and developing the state program to operate independently of the federal program.

The award carries a period of performance through September 30, 2030. No subawards are included in this assistance agreement.

Specifically, the recipient 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:lust prevention programs include inspections and other enforcement related activities, operator training, secondary containment support activities, delivery prohibition activities, and public reporting requirements.subrecipient:no subawards are included in this assistance agreement.outcomes:the anticipated deliverables include semi-annual reporting via narrative report and submissions into the national LUST4 database. The expected outcome of this cooperative agreement is the number of inspections completed of the tanks in the state of montana. The primary beneficiaries are the state UST program and state residents.