Underground Storage Tanks: Building on the Past to Protect the Future
(EPA 510-R-04-001). March 2004.
This 26-page report describes how EPA, states, Tribes, and industry have successfully worked together to close 1.5 million unsafe tanks, upgrade or replace nearly all other tanks, cleanup over 300,000 releases, and dramatically reduce the number of new releases from a high of over 66,000 in 1990 to roughly 12,000 in 2003. The report also looks to future challenges such as cleaning up 130,000 remaining known releases, reusing 200,000 abandoned gas stations and petroleum brownfields sites, and improving compliance at every site to prevent new releases.
For current information on UST releases and cleanups, please see our semi-annual performance measures reports. at https://www.epa.gov/ust/ust-performance-measures.