Underground Storage Tanks

Federal Policy on MTBE

• Additions to the Master Testing List -- Categories
  EPA Office of Prevention, Pesticides & Toxic Substances (OPPTS)
• A Drinking Water Standard for MTBE? The Ifs and Whens of Establishing an MCL (PDF) (1 pg, 152K, About PDF)
  Rachel Sakata, U.S. EPA Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, LUSTLine, Bulletin 33, October 1999.
• Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Control MTBE in Gasoline
  Information about EPA's formal regulatory action to eliminate or phase down MTBE under Section 6 of the Toxic Substances Control Act.
• Announcement of the Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List
  Federal Register March 2, 1998 (Vol. 63, no.40, pp.10273-10287) EPA Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water
• Drinking Water Advisory: Consumer Acceptability Advice and Health Effects Analysis on Methyl Tertiary-Butyl Ether (MtBE)
• Drinking Water: Regulatory Determinations Regarding Contaminants on the Second Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List-Preliminary Determinations; Proposed Rule (PDF) (44 pp, 1.3MB, About PDF)
  Federal Register, Tuesday, May 1, 2007
• Map of Current RFG Areas
  EPA Office of Transportation and Air Quality (OTAQ)
• Monitoring and Reporting of MTBE and Other Oxygenates at UST Release Sites (PDF) (4 pp, 16K, About PDF)
  Memo from Sammy Ng, Acting Director, Office of Underground Storage Tanks, that strongly urges and recommends that all state UST/LUST program managers immediately begin monitoring and reporting of MTBE and other oxygenates in groundwater at all UST release sites nationwide.
• Green Book Nonattainment Areas for Criteria Pollutants
  EPA Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (OAQPS)

State Policy on MTBE

• California's Drinking Water Standards for MTBE

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