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Information about LUST Recovery Act Assistance Agreement between U.S. EPA Region 4 and the State of North Carolina as of July 9, 2009

In the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Congress appropriated $200 million from the Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) Trust Fund to EPA for assessing and cleaning up leaks from underground storage tanks. This money will pay for activities at shovel-ready sites and may be used either to:

Oversee assessing and cleaning up eligible underground tank leaks, or
Directly pay for assessing and cleaning up leaks from federally regulated tanks where the responsible party is unknown, unwilling, unable, or the cleanup is an emergency response.

Because the underground storage tank program is primarily implemented by states and territories, EPA allocated the vast majority of LUST Recovery Act money to state and territorial underground storage tank programs.

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Assistance Agreement between U.S. EPA Region 4 and the State of North Carolina

Date Assistance Agreement was awarded: July 9, 2009

Amount of Assistance Agreement: $7,554,000

Summary of Work: This funding will allow the State of North Carolina to:

Conduct assessment and remediation activities at 172 sites in 62 of the state’s 100 counties
Contract with four environmental service provider companies to conduct assessment and remediation activities
Contract with two analytical laboratories to provide chemical analyses of soil and water samples
Hire two hydrogeologists for a two-year period to oversee these activities and assist in ARRA reporting requirements

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Please note the information provided here comes from the EPA/state assistance agreement. Activities described are subject to change.