Underground Storage Tank (UST) Corrective Action

The Underground Storage Tank (UST) Corrective Action Program oversees the initial response, assessment, monitoring, risk evaluation and remediation of releases form underground storage tanks.  The ADEM UST Corrective Action Section staff manages aspects of the program which includes: working with responsible parties and their selected contractors on Trust Fund eligible sites and ineligible sites; reviewing closure site assessments; reviewing technical plans and reports regarding assessment, risk evaluation and remediation of UST releases; reviewing cost proposals for Trust Fund eligible work; and managing contractors for state-lead sites funded under the Federal Leaking Underground Storage Tank program.  Individual ADEM project managers are assigned specific UST releases and they are responsible for overseeing required site activities for those sites.

UST Corrective Action Information

Regulations for UST Corrective Action Activities are located in ADEM Administrative Code R. 335-6-15 and 335-6-16...........

• UST Release Incident List

Owners and operators of underground storage tanks are required to report suspected releases to the Department immediately upon discovery and in no case later than 24 hours following discovery.  The reported releases which are required to have additional investigative and/or corrective actions performed are assigned a UST Release Incident Number by the Department.
  

The Incident Number is comprised of three parts which reflect the fiscal year that the number is assigned, the month of assignment and the consecutive release identified that month.
 

A list of issued release incidents is maintained by the Department and will be updated periodically and posted on the website.  This list is a comprehensive listing of all release incidents assigned by the Department since the UST regulations went into effect.  Those sites having received a No Further Action letter have an “x” in the “NFA Issued” field.
 

Please note that this list will be revised to reflect new information regarding new release incidents, owner address changes, tank owner name changes, etc.   For more information about a specific release, a file review may be scheduled by contacting the Department.

• Alabama Risk-Based Corrective Action for USTs (ARBCA) November 2001

  This is the revised November 2001 guidance manual.  These files comprise the guidance manual for the development of alternate corrective action limits under the underground storage tank program.  The evaluation forms and program software can be obtained through the Groundwater Branch for a fee.

   

• UST Closure Site Assessment Guidance
  (September 2007)

Guidelines for Conducting UST Closure Site Assessments

Alabama Underground Storage Tank Release Investigation and Corrective Action Guidance Manual (May 1995)

(Available upon request from the UST Program Staff) This guidance provides information about the various investigative and corrective action issues within the program.

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