Underground Storage Tanks

• American Petroleum Institute (API) MTBE Resource Center
• Analytical Issues for MTBE and Related Oxygenate Compounds (PDF) (3 pp, 181K, About PDF)
  Crumbling, D.M. and B. Lesnik. LUSTLine, Bulletin 36, November 2000, pp.16-18.
• Analytical Methods for Fuel Oxygenates (PDF) (8 pp, 474K, About PDF)
  White, H., B. Lesnik, and J.T. Wilson. LUSTLine, Bulletin 42, October 2002, pp.1-8.
• Anaerobic Biodegradation of MTBE at a Gasoline Spill Site (PDF) (13 pp, 282K, About PDF)
  Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation Vol. 25, no. 3, Summer 2005, pp.103-115, by J.T. Wilson, C. Adair, P.M. Kaiser, and R. Kolhatkar.
• An evaluation of MTBE Impacts to California Groundwater Resources (80 pp, 387K, About PDF)
  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories report UCRL-AR-130897, June 11, 1998. This report (by Happel, Beckenbach, and Halden) was co-funded by the California State Water Resources Control Board UST Program, DOE Office of Fossil Fuels, and Western States Petroleum Association.
• A Preliminary Assessment of the Occurrence and Possible Sources of MTBE in Ground Water of the United States, 1993-94.
  U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 95-456.
• California MTBE Research Partnership Reports
  bibliography of reports published by the National Water Research Institute (NWRI)...some are free, others are available for a fee...must write to NWRI to receive copies
• Diving Plumes and Vertical Migration at Petroleum Release Sites (PDF) (4 pp, 69K, About PDF)
  J.W. Weaver and J.T. Wilson. LUSTLine, Bulletin 36, November 2000, pp.12-15.
• Environmental Behavior and Fate of MTBE
  Water Online Newsletter, Vol. 2, Issue 2, Thursday, November 5, 1998.
• Evaluation of Standard Methods for the Analysis of Methyl tert-Butyl Ether and Related Oxygenates in Gasoline-Contaminated Groundwater (PDF) (About PDF)
  Halden, Happel, and Schoen, 2001, Environmental Science & Technology, Vol.35, no.7, pp.1469-1474.
• Evidence for Contamination of Heating Oil and Diesel Fuel With MTBE (PDF) (2 pp, 171K, About PDF)
  Robbins, G.A. and B.J. Henebry. LUSTLine, Bulletin 32, June 1999, pp.22-23.
• Health and Environmental Assessment of MTBE
  Report to the Governor and Legislature of the State of California as sponsored by SB521. November 12, 1998.
• Interagency Assessment of Oxygenated Fuels, June 1997 (PDF) (264 pp, 4.2MB, About PDF)
  From the Executive Office of the President, Office of Science and Technology Policy. June 1997.
• Motor Fuels - Issues Related to Reformulated Gasoline, Oxygenated Fuels, and Biofuels (PDF) (About PDF)
  Report to the Honorable Tom Daschle, U.S. Senate, U.S. General Accounting Office, June 1996
• Maryland's MTBE Journey: As States Continue to Tackle the MTBE Problem on Their Own...(PDF) (4 pp, 82K, About PDF)
  Herbert Meade. LUSTLine, Bulletin 49, March 2005, pp 15-17.
• MTBE: A Gasoline Additive Caught in an Environmental Debate.
  Jim Barker, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Waterloo
• MTBE Contamination From Underground Storage Tanks. Statement of John Stephenson Director, Natural Resources and Environment. GAO-02-753T May 21, 2002 (PDF) (19 pp, 642K, About PDF)
  Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials, Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives
• MTBE in Gasoline: Clean Air and Drinking Water Issues (PDF) (25 pp, 167K, About PDF)
  Congressional Research Service, Report for Congress 98-290 ENR.
• MTBE Research at the Oregon Graduate Institute.
• MTBE Taste And Odor Thresholds: The Myth Of Protectiveness (PDF) (2 pp, 243K, About PDF)
  H. White, LUSTLine, Bulletin 39, November 2001, pp.6-7.
• MTBE: To What Extent Will Past Releases Contaminate Community Water Supply Wells? (PDF) (8 pp, 121K, About PDF)
  R.Johnson, J.Pankow, D.Bender, C.Price, & J.Zogorski, Environmental Science & Technology, American Chemical Society, May 1, 2000.
• MTBE - Where Is It, And How Did It Get There?
  HydroVisions, Jan/Feb '96, Chemist's Corner
• New API Report on Characterizing Releases with MTBE Provides Useful Technical Information But Overlooks Important Regulatory Considerations (PDF) (2 pp, 153K, About PDF)
  LUSTLine, Bulletin 35, June 2000, pp.17-18.
• Occurrence of the Gasoline Oxygenate MTBE and BTEX Compounds in Urban Stormwater in the United States, 1991-95.
  U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigation Report WRIR 96-4145, 6p.
• Status and Impact of State MTBE Bans (revised March 27, 2003) (PDF) (7 pp, 221K, About PDF)
  Energy Information Agency, U.S. Department of Energy
• The Eleven Myths About MTBE (PDF) (8 pp, 454K, About PDF)
  LUSTLine, Bulletin #42, pp.9-16, October 2002.
• The Use of Ethanol in California Clean Burning Gasoline: Ethanol Supply/Demand and Logistics (PDF) (About PDF)
  Prepared by Downstream Alternatives, Inc. for the Renewable Fuels Association, February 5, 1999.
• Tracking Troubling Vapor Releases in New Hampshire (PDF) (6 pp, 152K, About PDF)
  Gary Lynn. LUSTLine, Bulletin 47, June 2004, pp. 13-16, 30
• University of California-Davis MTBE Research
• Using Direct Push Tools to Map Hydrostratigraphy and Predict MTBE Plume Diving (PDF) (10 pp, 1.0MB, About PDF)
  Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation Vol. 25, no. 3, Summer 2005, pp.93-102, by J.T. Wilson, R.R. Ross, and S. Acree.

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