The Underground Storage Tank Section invites all Underground Storage Tank Owners, Operators, and others interested to our 1st UST Owner/Operator Conference and Exhibition at NC State University's McKimmon Center in Raleigh.

This conference will be organized differently than ones we have provided in the past. In addition to offering training sessions on several different UST compliance issues throughout the day, there will be an exhibition hall with booths staffed with UST equipment contractors and service providers (see list of exhibitors below) that you can stop by and discuss how their equipment and services can help you manage your UST systems.  Refreshments will be provided in the exhibition hall for all attendees.

The training offered at this conference will focus on some of the more common methods that are being used to comply with the UST regulations. Each session for a topic will last approximately 30 minutes with time at the end of each to ask questions. We will have a booth in the exhibition hall for you to meet and ask one-on-one questions with North Carolina’s UST inspectors, so come with lots of questions. To attend, each person from your company must register for the conference.

Tentative Schedule for Sessions 

Session times are subject to change based on the number of attendees registered for a session. We will notify attendees by email and post the final schedule on our website (http://www.wastenotnc.org/ust/WhatsNew.html) the week before the conference, if any changes are made to the schedule.  

• 9:00 am sessions 
  • UST Equipment Basic Overview: Spill, Overfill, Etc. 
  • Tank Leak Detection (ATG, SIR, Interstitial prior to 11/1/07)
• 10:00 am sessions
  • Piping Leak Detection (LTT, ALLDs, SIR, Interstitial prior to 11/1/07)   
  • Corrosion Protection of UST Systems
• 11:00 am sessions 
  • The UST Inspection Process
  • Secondary Containment Requirements for UST Systems Installed or Replaced on or after 11/1/07
• 1:00 pm sessions
  • Tank Leak Detection (ATG, SIR, Interstitial prior to 11/1/07)
  • Alternative Fuel Storage in UST Systems
• 2:00 pm sessions
  • Piping Leak Detection (LTT, ALLDs, SIR, Interstitial prior to 11/1/07)
  • Financial Responsibility and Ownership Changes
• 3:00 pm sessions
  • Secondary Containment Requirements for UST Systems Installed or Replaced on or after 11/1/07
  • Suspected Releases and the Investigation Steps Required

Alternate Registration Procedures: Call Alice Lunsford at (336) 771-5017 and she will collect the information needed to register you for the conference and training seminars.

**Exhibitors**  If you have previously registered your company as an exhibitor with Andria Merritt then all of the personnel that will staff your exhibition area must go to http://ncdenrexhibit.eventbrite.com and register. Registration of a company as an exhibitor has closed and only registration of the personnel for the companies listed above should register at the above listed site. If you would like to exhibit at a future conferrence then contact Andria Merritt at (919) 733-1325 or andria.merritt@ncmail.net to provide your companies contact info for future announcements.