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Underground Storage Tank Program

The purpose of the program is to protect human health and the environment by preventing leaks from underground storage tanks and ensuring that tank owners and operators are in operational compliance with regulations. The program accomplishes its mission through inspections, training, and guidance.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • Leaks (confirmed releases) from underground storage tanks have declined by 75% since the mandatory inspections and tank upgrades in 1998.
  • The 2005 Energy Policy Act significantly expanded the program's responsibilities mandating that all states must inspect underground storage tanks once every three years, develop delivery prohibition or financial requirement programs, and offer additional training to owners and operators.
  • The program lacks a formal measure of efficiency. While the program has two appropriate measures of performance and has realized efficiencies in select areas, the program does not have an efficiency measure with baselines and targets.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Working with stakeholders to develop a measure of programmatic efficiency by March 2007.
  • Collaborating with states to meet the the 2005 Energy Policy Act's statuatory deadlines, and developing performance measures as needed to track associated program performance.
  • Assessing the impact of the 2005 Energy Policy Act on program performance and reviewing existing measures to ensure appropriate and ambitious targets.

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