Headquarters and Regional Underground Storage Tanks Program

 

This grant program funds activities in both the LUST prevention and cleanup programs. On the Prevention program, grants are used for activities that promote the prevention, compliance, and identification of underground storage tanks. For the cleanup program, grants are used to support activities that promote corrective action, enforcement and management of releases from underground storage tank systems. Funding Priority - Fiscal Year 2023: High priority tasks include: (1) Working with states and tribes within available resources to reduce the number of sites that have not reached cleanup completion; (2) Provide targeted training to states and tribes, such as remediation process optimization and rapid site assessment techniques; (3) Monitor the soundness of financial mechanisms, in particular, insurance and state cleanup funds that serve as financial assurance for LUST releases; (4) Provide support in Indian Country for site assessment, investigations, and remediation of high priority sites; and (5) Provide resources and support to states and tribes to quickly address emergency responses from releases to the environment.

Active 66.816 Environmental Protection Agency B - Project Grants Fiscal Year 2016 No content available. Four applications were received and will be awarded as incremental funding on existing assistance agreements. Recipients provide states and/or tribal staff with opportunities for training and dissemination of information to help with meeting the program's UST and LUST performance measures, as identified in the FY 2015 National Program Guidance.
Fiscal Year 2018 In FY 2018, EPA worked with grantees under a cooperative grant to engage states and tribes and provide guidance, training, and assistance on Underground Storage Tank and Leaking Underground Storage tanks program implementation.
Fiscal Year 2019 Since the inception of the UST program in 1984, EPA and states have cleaned up more than 490,000 releases nationwide; in FY 2019 alone, 8,358 cleanups were completed. EPA and states have also been making significant progress in the backlog of releases remaining to be cleaned up - from a high of almost 172,000 in 1995 down to 64,670 in 2019. This represent only 11% of the LUST backlog of releases that remain to be cleaned up. For additional information on accomplishments under this program, please visit: https://www.epa.gov/ust/ust-performance-measures
Fiscal Year 2020 Since the inception of the UST program in 1984, EPA and states have cleaned up more than 497,407 releases nationwide; in FY 2020 alone, 7,211 cleanups were completed. EPA and states have also been making significant progress in the backlog of releases remaining to be cleaned up - from a high of almost 172,000 in 1995 down to 62,493 in 2019. This represents only 11% of the LUST backlog of releases that remain to be cleaned up. For more information on accomplishments associated with this assistance listing, please visit: https://www.epa.gov/ust/ust-program-facts.
Fiscal Year 2023 For accomplishments under this assistance listing, please visit the following website: https://www.epa.gov/ust/ust-performance-measures. National Environmental Policy Act, Section 102(2)(I)
Solid Waste Disposal Act, Section 8001 These assistance agreements are only available to public authorities (state, interstate, intrastate, agencies designated by states or territorial Governors to receive UST notifications, federally-recognized tribes and intertribal consortia, and local), public agencies and institutions; private non-profit organizations and agencies that meet the requirements of Section 8001(a) and (b) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Profit-making organizations and the general public are not eligible. For certain competitive funding opportunities under this assistance listing, the Agency may limit eligibility to compete to a number or subset of eligible applicants consistent with the Agency's Assistance Agreement Competition Policy. State and local governments, territories and possessions, interstate agencies, tribes, intertribal consortia, members of the regulated community and residents in areas impacted by federally-regulated USTs. EPA may request that applicants document their nonprofit status. Preapplication coordination is required. Regarding pre-application assistance with respect to competitive funding opportunities under this assistance listing, EPA will generally specify the nature of the pre-application assistance, if any, that will be available to applicants in the competitive announcement. For additional information, contact the individual(s) listed in the competitive announcement. 2 CFR 200, Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards applies to this program. Applicants, except in limited circumstances approved by the Agency, must submit all initial applications for funding through Grants.gov. For competitive awards, EPA will review and evaluate applications in accordance with the terms, conditions, and criteria stated in the competitive announcement. Competitions will be conducted in accordance with EPA policies/regulations for competing assistance agreements. For competitive awards, deadlines will be specified in the competitive announcement. More than 180 days. Approximately 180 days. Assistance agreement competition-related disputes will be resolved in accordance with the dispute resolution procedures published in 70 FR (Federal Register) 3629, 3630 (January 26, 2005). None. EPA may incrementally fund grants and cooperative agreements under this program. Approval of subsequent funding increments is dependent on satisfactory project progress, continued relevance of the project to EPA's priorities, and availability of funds. The evaluation and selection criteria for competitive awards under this assistance listing will be described in the competitive announcement. Grants and cooperative agreements are available to support recipients' eligible and allowable direct costs incurred under an approved work plan plus allowable indirect costs, in accordance with established EPA policies and regulations. Funds awarded under Section 8001(a) and (b) of RCRA must be used for projects that may include the following types of activities: research presentations, educational materials, surveys, training, studies, demonstrations, investigations, special projects and the development or use of methods to improve UST systems management and performance to reduce the actual and potential risks to human health and the environment. Performance Reports: EPA conducts baseline and advanced post-award monitoring of the recipient's performance. Grants and cooperative agreements are subject to inspections and audits by the Comptroller General of the United States, the EPA Office of Inspector General, other EPA staff, or any authorized representative of the Federal government. Reviews by the EPA Project Officer and the Grants Specialist may occur each year. Recipients must keep financial records, including all documents supporting entries on accounting records and to substantiate changes in grants available to personnel authorized to examine EPA recipients grants and cooperative agreements records. Recipients must maintain all records until 3 years from the date of submission of final expenditure reports as required by 2 CFR 200.334. If questions, such as those raised because of audits remain following the 3-year period, recipients must retain records until the matter is completely resolved. Statutory formula is not applicable to this assistance listing.

Matching requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing. The length and time phasing of the assistance agreement shall be determined prior to the award.. The length of the assistance agreements may be from one year to seven years. The funding is released to the recipient according to the recipient's accounting requests, e.g., quarterly, monthly, etc. For state-specific opportunities, EPA encourages potential applications to communicate with the appropriate EPA Underground Storage Tank Program Area Contact. For a list of the Headquarters and Regional UST Program Contacts, please visit: https://www.epa.gov/ust/underground-storage-tank-ust-contacts. Richard Canino
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. (Mail Code: 5401T)
Washington, DC 20460 US
Canino.Richard@epa.gov
Phone: 202-564-0394 https://www.epa.gov/ust 68-8153-0-7-304 (Project Grants (Discretionary)) FY 22$245,117.00; FY 23 est $160,500.00; FY 24 est $160,500.00; FY 21$390,000.00; FY 20$570,000.00; FY 19$500,000.00; FY 18$661,286.00; FY 17$164,242.00; FY 16$1,182,503.00; - (Fiscal Year 2022 - Includes grants to five (5) Tribes). In FY 2023, the range was $7,500 - $50,000 and the average was $21,750. 2 CFR 200 and 1500 (EPA Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards); 40 CFR Part 33 (Participation by Disadvantaged Business Enterprises in United States Environmental Protection Agency Programs); 40 CFR Part 35 SubPart A (Environmental Program Grants) and 40 CFR 35 SubPart B (Environmental Program Grants for Tribes). Fiscal Year 2016 No content available. 1) Training Support: Provide underground storage tanks (UST) and leaking underground storage tanks training activities for states and tribes, e.g., Tribal Conference, training on the effective implementation strategies and the tools utilized among the states with regulatory programs underway, program initiatives, compliance with UST systems, and UST releases. 2) Electronic Newsletter (LUSTLine): Provide state and tribal regulators, the general public and the regulated community with technical information on UST systems. 3) State/Federal Partnerships: Provide technical assistance, topic-oriented meetings and forums for information exchanges to assist States in developing their program capabilities to manage their UST/LUST programs in the most efficient and effective manner possible. 4) Studies: Gather information and provide a summary on technical issues, e.g., study on the impact of using on-site measurement technologies for site assessment and contaminant conceptualization at petroleum release sites. 5) Disseminate technical information to states, tribes and Intertribal Consortia on UST/LUST program implementation.
Fiscal Year 2017 No content available.
Fiscal Year 2020 For examples of the types of activities funded under this assistance listing , please visit: https://www.epa.gov/ust.
Fiscal Year 2023 For examples of the types of projects funded under this assistance listing, please visit the following website: https://www.epa.gov/ust.