SEPA
United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
Office of Solid Waste
And Emergency Response
(5401G)
EPA 510-F-00-007
October 2000
www.epa.gov
Underground  Storage

Tanks  And  Brown fields   Sites
                                                       NEW HAMPSHIRE/Nashua
EPA's USTfields Initiative will fund pilots in Brownfields communities to assess and clean up petroleum contamination from
federally-regulated underground storage tanks (USTs) at idle or abandoned commercial properties. Petroleum contamination is
generally excluded from coverage under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
(CERCLA) and is not, therefore, covered under EPA's Brownfields Program. In its USTfields Pilot Program, EPA's Office of
Underground Storage Tanks (OUST) has selected 10 state/local pilots in which the state will partner with a local area to assess
and/or clean up two or more petroleum-impacted underground storage tank sites. Each pilot state will receive up to $100,000 of
LUST Trust funds to be used to assess and clean up the local area sites. This will help to ready them for future reuse.
BACKGROUND

EPA selected the State of New Hampshire as an
USTfields Pilot. The state is taking steps to
decrease the environmental impacts that have been
created by abandoned gasoline stations and
petroleum sites across its predominantly rural
landscape. The state will be working closely with
the City of Nashua, which has found gasoline at its
Brownfields site. However,  petroleum products
generally cannot be cleaned up through the
Brownfields program, and this has been an  obstacle
to cleanup efforts. Nashua is a recipient of a
Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilot.


OBJECTIVES

With USTfields pilot funds, the state will work with
the city to conduct activities such as determining
each potential site's current environmental status,
installing monitoring wells, investigating MTBE in
groundwater, and cleaning up petroleum
contamination.  Nashua will be able to continue its
Brownfields work on the Broad Street Parkway
Highway project once sites have been assessed
and cleaned up.
                                                        Region 1
                                               Nashua,
                                               New Hampshire
                            Applicant Name: New Hampshire

                            Local Partner: City of Nashua

                            Date of Selection: October 2000

                            Profile: The state will help the city assess and
                            clean up former petroleum sites to remove an
                            environmental obstacle to future reuse.
                                                Contacts:

                                                EPA Region 1

                                                Susan Hanamoto
                                                (617) 918-1219
                                            New Hampshire Department
                                            of Environmental Services

                                            Gary Lynn
                                            (603) 271-8873
                                                For further information, go to www.epa.gov/oust/
                                 EPA USTfields INITIATIVE
   EPA and the state have not yet negotiated the Cooperative Agreement to fund this pilot; therefore, activities are subject to change.

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