Underground Storage Tanks (UST)

• Contact UST Staff
• Request to Review Files
• Pictures for UST Activities

Program Requirements:

• Case Closure Information
• Program Requirement Documents:
  • State Board Final Draft Guidelines for Investigation and Cleanup of MTBE and other Oxygenates
  • L.A County/RWQCB Guidelines
  • Lab Reporting Forms
  • DTSC/RWQCB Soil Gas Guidelines
  • AB681 Requirement Sheet
  • Electronic Data Format (EDF) for Submission Laboratory Reports (AB2886)
  • CCR Chapter 16 (UST Regulation)
  • California Well Standard Bulletin 74-81 and 74-90 (rev. 2002)
  • UST E-report Submittal Enforcement Guideline
  • Updated Guidelines for Electronic Report Submittal
    
• Modeling Approach:
• Models for Non-Steady State Contaminant Transport in Groundwater
• Model for Steady State Contaminant Transport in Groundwater

• Depth to groundwater database
• GEIMS/GeoTracker (Leaking Underground Storage Tank Information System (LUSTIS) has been replaced)
• MTBE Data (MTBE Concentration by Site)
• UST Closure Letters (since 2004)
• Unauthorized Release Form
  
  

• State Board UST Program
• Contact local UST agencies
• State Board UST Cleanup Fund
• DHS-ELAP Certificate of an Analytical Laboratory
  
• Dept of Health Services MTBE in Drinking Water
• UST Links

• March 4, 2008 Soil Advisory Forum Agenda and Presentations
• Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, relating to the Orphan Site Cleanup Account (OSCA)
• New Program - Orphan Site Cleanup Account (OSCA) for Cleanup of Petroleum Contamination from Leaking Underground Storage Tanks Located at Brownfields Sites.
  • Funding now available for California's Petroleum Brownfield Grant Program - OSCA: Click here for other OSCA documentation: Regulations, Application and General Program Information.
• Fact Sheet: Leaking Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Program
• Updated Guidelines for Electronic Report Submittal
• Charnock MTBE Project  
  • General Requirements for Subsurface Ivestigations Charnock Sub-Basin Investigation Area
• Meeting Notes and Announcements 
  
  
  

Welcome to the Underground Storage Tank Program (UST Program) of the Los Angeles Regional Board's web page. The UST deals with leaking fuel tanks. There may be other constituents of concern in the effected area, but the materials must be primarily fuels related for the case to be handled directly by UST. Most frequently, the leaks are associated with the common neighborhood gasoline service stations.

The UST Program is carried out exclusively by the Underground Tanks Section under the management of Yue Rong. The Section is divided into three Units, closely following the geographical boundary of the watershed in the Regional Board's jurisdiction: The Los Angeles River Watershed Unit, the San Gabriel River Watershed Unit, and the Los Angeles/Ventura Coastal Unit.

The Los Angeles Watershed Unit does include the Los Angeles River Watershed and the coastal area associated with the Los Angeles River. It also includes the Palos Verde Peninsula portion of the coastal area. This Unit is under the direction of Yi Lu (213) 576-6695

The San Gabriel Watershed Unit does include the San Gabriel River Watershed and the Port of Long Beach. The Unit is under the direction of Gregg Kwey (213) 576-6702

The Los Angeles/Ventura Coastal Unit does include the coastal areas north from Ventura County to the Los Angeles County in the south. It also deals with the Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether problems in the groundwater that impacted City of Santa Monica drinking water program. The Unit is under the direction of Weixing Tong (213) 576-6715

There is a variety of information contained under the UST Program web site. The one that may prove most useful to many people involved in the industry is our Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) database. We are currently tracking our LUST cases online together with the other eight Regional Boards throughout the state. Our data is available to the public and can be accessed through the following link: http://geotracker.waterboards.ca.gov/. If you have any questions regarding to our LUST database, please contact Nhan Bao at (213) 576-6703.