[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: Underground storage tank violations at Joint Base Langley-Eustis (VA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

News Releases
U.S. EPA
January 28, 2014

EPA Settlement with Virginia Military Bases Protects Soil and  
Groundwater from Contamination

PHILADELPHIA (Jan. 28, 2014) -- In separate agreements with the U.S.  
Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force  
have settled alleged violations of underground storage tank (UST)  
regulations at three Virginia military bases: Fort Pickett, in  
Blackstone Va.; Joint Base Langley-Eustis, near Newport News, Va.;  
and Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story, in Norfolk, Va.

These settlements address alleged non-compliance with federal and  
state environmental safeguards designed to prevent, detect, and  
control leaks of petroleum and other hazardous substances from  
underground fuel tanks.

The U.S. Army paid a $41,427 penalty for allegedly failing to conduct  
required annual fuel line leak detectors for 13 USTs at Fort Pickett.  
An October 2012 EPA inspection revealed that leak detection  
inspections were not conducted for seven diesel fuel tanks, ranging  
in capacity from 8,000 to 20,000 gallons; five tanks storing jet  
fuel, ranging from 10,000 to 30,000 gallons; and one 10,000-gallon  
gasoline tank.


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For the entire release, see
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/ 
0/9ba04a61528f223785257c6e006e98df?OpenDocument


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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