Leaking Underground Storage Tank Program Implements The Recovery Act

In the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Congress appropriated $200 million from the Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) Trust Fund to EPA for cleaning up leaks from underground storage tanks.

EPA Allocated LUST Recovery Act Money

$190.7 million to states and territories in assistance agreements to address shovel-ready sites within their jurisdictions
- List of states and territories receiving money
$6.3 million for existing EPA in-house contracts to do LUST eligible work (such as site assessment and cleanup activities) in Indian country
- EPA regional UST programs oversee assessing and cleaning up sites in Indian country
$3 million retained by EPA, shared by headquarters and regions, for management and oversight
- The Recovery Act provides for up to 1.5 percent of the $200 million to be retained by EPA to pay for salary and other expenses to manage, oversee, and report on appropriate spending of the $197 million going to states and territories and for cleanups in Indian country

Provides EPA regional underground storage tank programs with information about implementing the LUST Recovery Act program

Uses Of LUST Recovery Act Money

Oversee assessing and cleaning up underground storage tank leaks, or
Directly pay for assessing and cleaning up leaks from federally regulated tanks where the responsible party is unknown, unwilling, unable, or the cleanup is an emergency response

LUST Cleanup Program Recovery Plan Submitted to OMB

Describes EPA's objectives, activities, funding, and performance measures using LUST Recovery Act money
on EPA's site in PDF format (14 pp, 205K, About PDF) or
on recovery.gov in HTML format

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