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Underground Storage Tanks (USTs)

How to Effectively Recover Free Product at Leaking Underground Storage Tank Sites: A Guide for State Regulators

(EPA 510-R-96-001). September 1996.

This technical guidance document helps state regulators and cleanup contractors review those parts of an underground storage tank (UST) corrective action plan that propose free-product-recovery technologies.

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