The comprehensive energy bill signed by President Bush on August 8, 2005, amends, for the first time in 19 years, the leaking underground storage tank program under RCRA (42 USC §6901 et seq.) by imposing new inspection and delivery requirements on owners and operators of underground petroleum storage tanks.

Underground storage tanks ("USTs") that have not been inspected since...

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