UST Training Staff
Attention Tribes: New Class A/B UST Operator Training Now Online
Attention Tribal UST operators and inspectors in Indian Country: UST Training is proud to announce the first-ever Class A/B UST Operator Training course designed exclusively for UST operators in Indian [...]
July 29, 2016
EPA’s Publishes Report on Corrosion Inside Diesel Tanks
This just in from the nation’s top UST regulator: (Spoiler alert: Lots of internal corrosion found) Dear UST Industry Association Colleagues: I am writing to notify you that EPA’s report [...]
July 20, 2016
Class C UST Training: Approved or Not?
With New York recently joining the states who now have UST operator training rules, the question comes up again about approval of Class C UST operator training. Do states require [...]
July 06, 2016
Class A/B Operator Training for Hydrants and Large USTs
Ben Thomas of UST Training recently returned from Guam where he taught what is believed to the first agency-approved Class A/B UST Operator Training course that was exclusively designed for [...]
July 01, 2016
Guam and Saipan: Training the Farthest West UST Operators
This week UST Training’s Ben Thomas heads to the Western Pacific to provide live Class A/B UST Operator Training on two US island territories. Ben first heads to the island [...]
June 11, 2016
New Brochure About Water Risk for UST Owners
The Steel Tank Institute has developed an informational brochure for UST owners, encouraging them to monitor and remove water from their tanks. The brochure has easy-to-understand text, a clear illustration [...]
June 07, 2016
Oregon to Amend UST Rules
DEQ will be proposing rule amendments to the Environmental Quality Commission. Oregon operates an underground storage tank regulation program under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s approval. EPA revised their rules [...]
May 23, 2016
Class C UST Worksheets are becoming the norm
We recently learned that another state, Missouri, has borrowed our idea of providing site-specific worksheets to be filled our after a class C UST operator completes an online course. Other [...]
May 19, 2016
28 years later…where does the time go?
I was updating my resume today when I realized nearly 30 years have gone by since I first entered the world of UST systems. From climbing into my first tank [...]
May 18, 2016
Why Online Learning and Why UST Training
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 [...]
May 10, 2016