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Are We There Yet? 1998 and Our Journey in Release Prevention
The year 1998 was filled with interesting events, such as the Denver Broncos winning back-to-back Super Bowls. Most underground storage tank (UST) owner/operators and many regulators remember December 22, 1998, as the deadline for compliance with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations. In late December 1998, I remember driving a U-Haul truck through a blizzard…
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Making the Most of the National Tanks Conference
“Think Tank” with Mahesh Albuquerque How NTC Has Benefited My Career I heard it all started back in November 1988, when around 250 state UST regulators convened in Santa Fe, New Mexico for a national workshop hosted by the EPA Office of Underground Storage Tanks. During that two-day workshop, they engaged in panel discussions on…