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Leaking Underground Storage Tank Program Annual ReportLeaking Underground Storage Tank Program
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View the 1999
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Risk-based cleanup objectives and a healthy UST Fund mean more tank owners and operators are remediating their sites and earning releases from liability. This year, the LUST Program issued 1,022 No Further Remediation letters to tank owners and operators -- a 26 percent increase from 1998 -- and paid reimbursement claims totaling $36.3 million, up 29 percent from last year.
We are picking up the pace with information technology improvements as well. Most notably, we added the LUST database to our website so now anyone with access to the Internet can explore our database of reported tank leaks to find out the status of each investigation and cleanup.
Also in 1999, the LUST Program celebrated its tenth anniversary. In the past decade, tank owners and operators have reported over 19,000 tank leaks and spills, remediated over 8,000 LUST sites, and received more than $325 million from the UST Fund to help pay cleanup costs. Who back in 1989 could have imagined such numbers?
I am delighted with the progress we have made and hope you'll share in our enthusiasm about the work ahead.
Thomas V. Skinner
Director, Illinois EPA
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