ORDERING INFORMATION ON
UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANKS
• Go to EPA's Web site at http://www.epa.gov/oust/pubs/ to order, read, or download documents online.
• Call EPA's toll-free RCRA/Superiund Hotline at 800-424-9346 and order free copies or ask questions.
• Write and ask for free publications by addressing your request to our publication distributor: National Service Center for
Environmental Publications (NSCEP), Box 42419, Cincinnati, OH 45242.
• For free copies, call our publication distributor's toll-free number at 800-490-9198 or fax 513-489-8695.
TITLES
Catalog Of EPA Materials On USTs
An annotated list of UST materials, including ordering information. Most of the leaflets, booklets, videos, and software items listed provide UST
owners and operators with information to help them comply with federal UST requirements (32 pages).
Musts For USTs: A Summary Of Federal Regulations For Underground Storage Tank Systems
Plain language summary of federal UST requirements for installation, release detection, spill, overfill, and corrosion protection, corrective
action, closure, reporting and recordkeeping. Updated & revised 1995 (36 pages).
Straight Talk On Tanks: Leak Detection Methods For Petroleum Underground Storage Tanks
Explains federal regulatory requirements for leak detection and briefly describes allowable leak detection methods.
Updated & revised 1997 (28 pages).
Getting The Most Out Of Your Automatic Tank Gauging System
Trifbid leaflet provides UST owners and operators with a basic checklist they can use to make sure their automatic tank gauging systems
work effectively and provide compliance with federal leak detection requirements.
Doing Inventory Control Right: For Underground Storage Tanks
Booklet describes how owners and operators of USTs can use inventory control and periodic tightness testing to temporarily meetfederal
leak detection requirements. Contains recordkeeping forms (16 pages).
Manual Tank Gauging: For Small Underground Storage Tanks
Booklet provides simple, step-by-step directions for conducting manual tank gauging for tanks 2,000 gallons or smaller.
Contains recordkeeping forms (12 pages).
Introduction To Statistical Inventory Reconciliation: For Underground Storage Tanks
Booklet describes how Statistical Inventory Reconciliation (SIR) can meetfederal leak detection requirements (12 pages).
Operating And Maintaining Underground Storage Tank Systems: Practical Help And Checklists
Owners and operators of UST systems will find this manual contains checklists and information that will help them properly operate and
maintain their USTs. UST inspectors can use the manual and its checklists to help educate UST owners and operators..
Closing Underground Storage Tanks: Brief Facts
Tritbld leaflet presents "brief tacts" on property closing USTs in order to comply with federal closure requirements.
Underground Storage Tanks: Requirements And Options
Trifbld leaflet alerts UST owners and operators who are "nonmarketers" (who do not sell stored petroleum) that they need either to find
alternatives to managing their USTs or to make decisions about UST compliance.
Dollars And Sense: Financial Responsibility Requirements For Underground Storage Tanks
Booklet summarizes the "financial responsibility" required of UST owners and operators (16 pages).
List Of Known Insurance Providers For Underground Storage Tanks
Provides UST owners and operators with a list of insurance providers who may be able to help them comply with financial responsibility
requirements by providing suitable insurance mechanisms (12 pages).
An Overview Of Underground Storage Tank Remediation Options
Information about technologies for remediating petroleum contamination in soil and groundwater(26 pages).
Controlling UST Cleanup Costs
Fact sheet series on the cleanup process includes: Hiring a Contractor, Negotiating the Contract, Interpreting the Bill, Managing the Process,
and Understanding Contractor Code Words (10 pages).
Pay-For-Performance Cleanups: Effectively Managing Underground Storage Tank Cleanups
Booklet explores potential advantages of using pay-for-perfbrmance cleanup agreements to reduce the cost and time of cleanups and more
effectively manage cleanup resources (32 pages).
Financing Underground Storage Tank Work: Federal And State Assistance Programs
Booklet identifies potential sources of financial assistance to cover the costs of upgrading, replacing, or closing an UST, or of cleaning up an
UST release (23 pages). Revised and updated, March 1999.
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VIDEOS
TITLE/COST
AVAILABLE FROM
Tank Closure Without Tears: An Inspector's Safely Guide
Focuses on explosive vapors and safe tank removal (30 minutes).
Video and Booklet Cost $35; Booklet: $5
What Do We Have Here?: An Inspector's Guide To Site Assessment At
Tank Closure
Inspecting sites for contamination where tanks have been removed.
Part 1: Site Assessment Overview (30 minutes); Part 2: Field Testing Instruments
At A Glance (14 minutes); Part 3: Soil And Water Sampling
At A Glance (7 minutes). Video and Booklet Cost: $45; Booklet: $5
Searching For The Honest Tank: A Guide To UST Facility Compliance
Inspection
Covers major aspects of UST inspections, including protocols, equipment,
cathodic protection, and leak detection. Directed at inspectors, yet also helpful to
owners and operators (30 minutes). Video and Booklet Cost: $40; Booklet: $5
New England Interstate
Environmental Training Center
ATTN:VIDEOS
2 Fort Road
South Portland, ME 04106
207767-2539
Tank Time
Humorous presentation explains what UST owners and operators must do to
comply with the December 1998 deadline to upgrade, replace, or close tanks
installed before December 1988 (18 minutes). Cost: $24
Scene Three, Inc.
ATTN:'Tank Time"
1813 Eighth Avenue, South
Nashville, TN 37203
615385-2820
Doing it Right
Illustrates proper installation of underground tanks and piping for installation crews.
Part 1: Tanks (24 minutes); Part 2: Piping (16 minutes).
Doing It Right II: Installing Required UST Equipment
Illustrates installation of spill and overfill equipment, observation wells, and piping
leak detection (23 minutes).
Keeping It Clean: Making Safe And Spill-Free Motor Fuel Deliveries
Making pollution-free deliveries to USTs. Includes Stage 1 vapor recovery, overfill
prevention and spill containment. For fuel tanker drivers and UST
owner/operators (25 minutes).
Petroleum Leaks Underground
How liquids and vapors move in the subsurface and why early response to leaked
petroleum is so important. Part 1: How Liquids Move (14 minutes);
Part 2: How Vapors Move (15 minutes).
Straight Talk on Leak Detection
Overview of the leak detection methods available for complying with federal
regulations (30 minutes).
Contact EPA's Hotline at
800 424-9346 for cost and ordering
information.
RBCA: Initial Site Assessment
Overview of risk-based corrective action process (25 minutes).
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