Underground storage tanks, standards

NFPA 326 Standard Procedures for the Safe Entry of Underground Storage Tanks, 1993 edition. National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA. 

The J 984 Federal Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (HSWA, pronounced "hiss-wa") to RCRA requires phasing-out land disposal of hazardous waste. Some of the other mandates of this law include increased enforcement authority for EPA, more stringent hazardous waste management standards, and a comprehensive underground storage tank program. 

Underground Storage Tanks Technical Standards and Corrective Action... 

In 1989 the Environmental Protection Agency ordered a 90% reduction of industrial benzene emissions over the next several years at a cost of 1 billion. The new standard leaves more than 99% of the exposed population with risks of cancer less than one in 1 million, or one cancer case in the U.S. every 10 years. Hardest hit are the iron and steel industry, where benzene emissions from coke by-product recovery plants are large. Chemical industry plants have already reduced their benzene emissions 98%. EPA estimates that the 390,000 or so gasoline service stations in the U.S. will all have to be fitted with devices to eliminate the escape vapors when fuel is put into underground storage tanks. 

EPA. 1988b. Technical standards and corrective action requirements for owners and operators of underground storage tanks (UST). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Code of Federal Regulations. 40 CFR 280. 

Underground storage tanks create leak hazards. Hazardous materials create much concern. The EPA regulates and sets standards for underground storage tanks. 

UL 1316 Standard for Glass-Fiber Reinforced Plastic Underground Storage Tanks for... 

EPA Test Methods Collections http //www.epa.gov/osa/fem/methcollectnsJitin (accessed October 13, 2010). This resource provides a series of links to related EPA Web sites containing methods and standards for air, drinking water, and wastewater, solid and hazardous waste, including underground storage tanks, pesticides and toxic substances, and microbial methods. 

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