DOD Management of Underground Storage Tanks.
Abstract
The audit was performed to determine DoD compliance with the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Subtitle I (RCRA). RCRA requires all underground storage tanks to be equipped with specified minimum spill, overfill, leak detection, and corrosion protection by December 22, 1998. As of March 1996 the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Defense Logistics Agency reported having 11,389 underground storage tanks at 222 installations. Our audit was limited to installations having more than 10 underground storage tanks. The primary audit objective was to evaluate underground storage tank management at DoD installations. Specifically, we determined: the accuracy of underground storage tank data reported to the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Environmental Quality); the status of underground storage tank compliance with RCRA; whether officials at DoD installations established underground storage tank compliance plans and schedules, and provided adequate funds to bring underground storage tanks into compliance by the RCRA deadline; and whether management controls were adequate to ensure compliance with RCRA. DoD will not achieve full compliance with RCRA by December 1998. Management controls were not adequate, at the time of the audit, to ensure that DoD installations would bring at least 76 known underground storage tanks (400 Army-owned storage tanks and 369 secondary tanks attached to oil-water separators) into compliance by the deadline. As a result DoD risked disruption of operations, and fines of up to $10 ,000 per day, per noncompliant underground storage tank, or $7,690,000 per day (769 x $10,000) (Finding A). Management acted promptly on this information and now projects compliance at all but a few sites.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 08, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA367834
Entities
Organizations
- Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense