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Information about LUST Recovery Act Assistance Agreement between U.S. EPA Region 4 and the State of South 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 South Carolina

Date Assistance Agreement was awarded: July 9, 2009

Amount of Assistance Agreement: $3,324,000

Summary Of Work: The outcome of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) LUST Trust Fund Cooperative Agreement Work Plan will be leaking underground storage tank sites cleaned up to levels necessary to protect public health and the environment and allow reuse of contaminated properties, while creating and/or preserving jobs. Assessment and site rehabilitation activities will be conducted at over 65 LUST sites where the tank owner/operator is unwilling or unable to undertake necessary actions or where the site is an orphan without a viable owner/operator.

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