News And Events

Online learning is steadily becoming an accepted way to meet compliance requirements AND to help operators do a better job keeping us all safe from leaking UST systems. We’ve been gathering feedback since we first started doing online training in 2007 and we continue to work at being the best in the UST Training industry.

Here’s some unedited feedback from Class A/B UST Operators from around the country. If you’re on the fence about the value of online learning versus the traditional classroom setting, consider the following comments.

Hey UST operators. The US EPA has updated another one of its legacy publications Straight Talk on Tanks. Check it out.

Release Detection Methods For Underground Storage Tanks And Piping:  Straight Talk On Tanks is an update to our 2005 publication. This booklet provides easy-to-understand descriptions of several release detection methods for tanks and piping, as well as explanations of the revised regulatory requirements for release detection.

Thanks to EPA’s Office of Underground Storage Tanks for continuing to provide great handouts to support UST operators nationwide.

The Petroleum Storage Tank Committee will be holding a meeting on Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at the old PERA Building, 1120 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM at 10:00 a.m. The meeting will be in Apodaca Hall, on the second floor of the PERA building, and is open to the public. Please see the webpage for further information and agenda.

UST Training is pleased to be returning to the island of Guam to provide refresher and first-time Class A/B UST operator training.

Ben Thomas of UST Training has been awarded the contract from the Guam EPA to provide the training, which is being offered June 15, 16 and 17 at the Guam Hilton in Tamuning.

Our goal is to train every Class A/B UST operator in these three days.

Go here to register and learn more.

The Missouri DNR is preparing operators for the upcoming changes in state rules to accommodate last year’s Federal UST changes. Show Me state operators updates here.

And don’t forget to complete your Class A/B UST operator training by July 1, 2016. Learn more here.

And if you need high quality online Class C UST operator training, we have an excellent online option.

Ben Thomas of UST Training has spent the last year traveling around  the US providing UST operator training at systems previously deferred by State and Federal UST rules. These included airport hydrant systems and field constructed USTs which are now–or may be–subject to Federal regulation under 40 CFR 280 Subpart K).

Want to keep updated on the new EPA UST rules? Join Ben Thomas for a free webinar to learn how these changes might affect you.

Wednesday, April 27, 2016, 11 AM Pacific Time. One hour including Q&A.

Register now!

UST Training’s home state of Washington is getting ready to draft amendments to their UST rules to accommodate last year’s EPA rule changes. To sign up for DOE notices and learn more click here.

Over the years I’ve had the good fortune to know and work closely with Mr. Marcel Moreau, the nation’s top authority on UST systems. Marcel is the quiet intelligence behind many facets of the UST industry, including many PEI’s recommended practices, decades of excellent LUSTLine articles, hundreds of training classes, dozens of conference presentations and some pivotal UST legal cases.

Check out his new improved web page at www.MarcelMoreau.com.

The largest USTs in the US and perhaps the world are being evaluated for upgrade alternatives.  Ben Thomas of UST Training had the good fortune of visiting this one-of-a-kind UST system in Honolulu, Hawaii 2015 and got to see firsthand this engineering marvel. Since then Ben has been leading the nation in operator training for previously deferred tanks such as those at Red Hill and other field constructed tanks and airport hydrant systems that will be subject to UST regulations in the next few years. Stay tuned for more information on the wedding of previously deferred USTs and operator training.

See the article 6 Solutions Considered by the Navy for Red Hill Fuel Storage.