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State helps pay for gasoline storage tank cleanup Friday, May 30, 2008 Arkansas News Bureau LITTLE ROCK - A state advisory committee Thursday awarded nearly $450,000 to companies in 13 separate storage tank gasoline cleanup operations in Arkansas, including a project to clean up diesel fuel at the Tyson Feed Mill in Springdale. Tyson reported diesel fuel leaking from an above ground storage tank on Nov. 10, 2005. The Arkansas Petroleum Tank Advisory Committee on Thursday reimbursed Tyson Foods $10,245 for cleanup costs incurred from Jan. 13, 2007, to Aug. 12, 2007. Before Thursday's decision, Tyson Foods had been reimbursed $35,000 for its efforts, said Doug Szenher, spokesman for the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality. The storage tank committee was established by law in 1989. The trust fund used to pay for the cleanups is paid with a two-tenths-of-a-cent per gallon fuel tax. The committee reimburses storage tank owners who act in good faith to report and clean up leaks. The committee can grant up to $1.5 million for cleanup and $1 million for damages per project. Owners of the properties must spend at least a $7,500 deductible and develop a plan before they are entitled to the state funding. Also Thursday, the committee approved a $52,107 reimbursement to Bill Knight of Memphis, owner of Bill's Express, formerly Costal C-Express, in Jonesboro. The leak was discovered in 1997 and the committee has already approved $147,264 for cleanup. The committee reimbursed Ashford and Frost Inc. of Waldron, owners of Fred's Truck Stop on Highway 71 South at Boles, $31,100 for an underground gasoline leak discovered in 2006. The reimbursement was for work done from June 13, 2007, and Feb. 29. It was their first reimbursement. The panel also reimbursed Northwest Oil Company of Fayetteville $2,265 for cleanup of an underground leak at the Fast Trax on North Garland Avenue in Fayetteville. The leak was detected in December 2005 and the reimbursement was for work done between Sept. 1 and Dec. 15. Before Thursday's decision, Northwest Oil had been reimbursed $37,551 for cleanup. |
