EPA seeks public comment on underground storage tank operator training grant guidelines

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is asking the public to comment on draft grant guidelines for states for operator training on underground storage tanks. The draft guidelines establish three distinct classes of underground storage tank operators, describe how and when states will implement the guidelines, and discuss when operators must be trained. EPA will accept public comments on the draft guidelines until May 10, 2007...

April 17, 2007

WASHINGTON, DC, April 11, 2007 -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is asking the public to comment on draft grant guidelines for states for operator training on underground storage tanks. The draft guidelines establish three distinct classes of underground storage tank operators, describe how and when states will implement the guidelines, and discuss when operators must be trained. EPA will accept public comments on the draft guidelines until May 10, 2007.

EPA worked with states and other partners to develop the grant guidelines and, when final, will incorporate them into grant agreements between EPA and states. In summer 2007, EPA plans to issue the final grant guidelines, which will provide states with requirements they must meet in order to comply with the operator training provision of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Grants provide resources to help states implement the underground storage tank program. EPA's Web site and the April 10, 2007 Federal Register provide the public with the draft guidelines as well as details about how and where to submit comments.

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Also see:
-- Draft operator training grant guidelines: http://www.epa.gov/oust/fedlaws/epact_05.htm#Drafts

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