Sentence examples similar to clean up tanks from inspiring English sources
"If you own a gas station, and you know Joe down the street hasn't put up the $50,000 to clean up his tanks, you're calling" state enforcement officials, he said.
The Shell site would be worrisome because of the possible need to clean up underground storage tanks.
Rather than raising the gas tax, as many transportation advocates suggest, the Senate jury-rigged the bill with an array of revenue provisions, tapping a trust fund established to clean up leaking underground storage tanks and adjusting the way pension fund contributions and liabilities are calculated.
Every year, states spend more than $600 million to clean up leaking underground gasoline storage tanks.
The agreement settled a suit filed by the state in 2007 over the extent and pace of oil companies' efforts over more than two decades to clean up spills from refineries and storage tanks at the site, underneath the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn.
That money can only be used to clean up spills, not to find and close leaking tanks or enforce the current tank-upgrade regulations, E.P.A. officials said.
Recently, a material using nanosized oxides (mostly calcium) was used in situ to clean up heating oil spills from underground oil tanks.
