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Underground Storage Tanks (USTs)

Dollars And Sense: Financial Responsibility Requirements For Underground Storage Tanks

(EPA 510-K-18-001). July 2018.

This 14-page booklet provides a plain language summary of underground storage tank (UST) owners' and operators' financial responsibilities under federal UST regulations. Includes definition of financial responsibility - evidence of owners' and operators' ability to ensure, through insurance or other means, that they can pay for cleanups and third-party damages associated with a release.

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