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Underground Storage Tanks (USTs)

Estimating Air Emissions from Petroleum UST Cleanups

This guidance document and companion field cards are intended to provide State regulators with a means of estimating air emission rates of VOCs and benzene at individual UST cleanup sites. This information may be used to develop policies regulating such air emissions.

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