UST Forms, Lists, Publications, Reports and Studies

Forms

Form to Certify Purging and Removal of Underground Gasoline Tanks

Underground Tank Registration Form (New! Fill in Form with MS Word) (pdf format) - See also at Maine DHHS Public Water Supplies at Gasoline System

Facility Upgrade Form (New! Fill in Form with MS Word Format) (pdf format)

Notice of Intent to Abandon (Remove) an Underground Oil Storage Facility Form (MS Word format) (pdf format)

Annual Inspection Form (pdf format)

Notification of Temporarily Out-Of-Service Tank(s) Form (MS Word) (pdf format) – If you are taking your tank out-of-service, you must complete and submit this notification form to the Department.

Notification of Return for Out of Service Tanks Form (MS Word) (pdf format) – If you are returning your tank to service, you must complete and submit this notification form to the Department.

Change of Ownership Form (MS Word format) (pdf format)

Sample Inventory Record - Instructions on how to perform daily inventory so it meets Department's requirements for leak detection. (pdf format)

Daily Inventory Form (pdf format)

ATG Set-Up Form (MS Word format) (pdf format)- Circumstances under which a tank owner may use an ATG in lieu of keeping daily product inventory and doing an annual Statistical Inventory Analysis.

Spill Log - (pdf)

GW Monitoring Well Log - Groundwater Monitoring Well Log - Used only for single-walled consumptive use heating oil tanks. (pdf format)

Interstitial Monitoring Log - Used only for double-walled tanks or piping installed prior to 1991 as part of the leak detection system if electronic monitoring was not installed.

Lists

Active and Out of Service Underground Oil Storage Tanks Including Tanks That Have Not Been Properly Abandoned - (this list is updated at the beginning of each month) - (pdf format)

Firms Accepting New Clients for Underground Annual Tank Inspections

Maine Certified Underground Storage Tank Installers and Inspectors (pdf format)

Non Conforming Tanks Report (pdf format)

Precision Tank Testing Companies (MS Word format) (pdf format)

Registered Underground Oil Storage Tanks - (this list is updated at the beginning of each month) (pdf format)

Site Assessors List (pdf format)

Spill Reports Master List - (this list is updated at the beginning of each month) (pdf format) - Spill Code Sheet - Spill Report Status Code Descriptions -

Statistical Inventory Analysis Vendors (MS Word Format) - (pdf format)

Tank Installation Date & Material - Tank information including tank install date, tank size and tank material - (this list is updated at the beginning of each month) (pdf format)

Publications

UST Inspectors Handbook (pdf format)

Maine Installers Newsletters - Replaced in Dec 2005 with Tanks In Maine " newsletter - Replaces "The Maine Installer and includes news for those who install, inspect or manage underground or aboveground tanks in Maine.
Plain Talk on Heating Oil Tanks - An operator’s guide to Maine’s underground storage tank rules for underground storage tanks containing heating oil.

Plain Talk on Motor Fuel Tanks - An operator’s guide to Maine’s underground storage tank rules for underground storage tanks containing motor fuel.

Public Record - Underground Tanks Release Report (pdf format)

Studies

Dispenser and Submersible Pump Studies- (October 2003) A study to quantify the frequency and estimate the severity of leakage from motor fuel dispensers and submersible pumping systems associated with underground storage systems. If you would like a printed copy of this 71 page report, please contact David McCaskill at (207) 287-7056 or Peter Moulton at (207) 287-8161 - (pdf format)

Historical Oil Contamination Travel Distances in Ground Water at Sensitive Geological Sites in Maine- (April 2002) Evaluation of a 75 foot setback versus the 300 foot setback established for the Department’s siting law as a means of protecting drinking water wells from oil discharges. (MS Word document)

Siting of New Underground Oil and Hazardous Substance Storage Facilities in Relation to Drinking Water Supplies & Significant Ground Water Resources- Jan 2001; Study of the risk posed to drinking water and ground water under the siting law of new underground storage tank facilities.

Study of Maine Underground Storage System Annual Inspection Reports- (July 2000) Study and evaluation of the annual inspection program.

Study of Maine Cathodically Protected Underground Storage Systems- (January 2001) Study of the factors influencing corrosion protection on cathodically protected underground storage systems.

Reports

Flexible Piping letter- (December 2003) Letter sent to owners of underground storage facilities that use thermoplastic flexible piping as product piping. (MS Word document)

Hazardous & Oil Spill System Online Report Service - This system is designed to enable web users to access the basic oil and hazardous materials spill data contained within the department's main spill reporting database. Users will be able to search for spills by spill number, spill date, town where the spill occurred and whether a spill involved an aboveground or underground petroleum storage tank. In addition, they will be able to conduct a keyword search.

LUST Program Quality Assurance Plan- Guidelines for environmental sampling and analysis under the Leaking Underground Storage Tanks program.

Reprints from L.U.S.T.Line- Articles from the Tanks Down East section of the quarterly Lustline publication.

Downloadable Tables from Tanks and HOSS Databases

Information from the TANKS and HOSS databases is in the form of tables. The tables need to be downloaded to a user's database to be useful. Users should be familiar with relational databases. Be sure to look at the "Read Me" files associated with the tables before utilizing the data.

Link to the HOSS database tables (Updated Monthly)
Codes for HOSS database tables (Rich Text format) This file has extra benefit as it provides definitions for many of the code values as well.

Here is a link to the TANKS database as a flat table. This table includes Owner, Operator, Site, Tank and Chamber information - updated monthly on the first week of the month. (12 MB)

New! View registered UST, AST and Hazardous Oil Spill System locations on Google Earth. The Maine DEP GIS Unit is now offering selected data, geographically referenced, from a number of the Department's databases to the public via Google Earth. You will need to have Google Earth installed to view this data. This information and a link to download Google Earth is located here: http://www.maine.gov/dep/gis/datamaps/index.htm#Google_Earth_Maps.

Updated June 2008