UST history

EPA’s semiannual reports show data about UST cleanup and prevention performance since 1987.

Its four-week $2-million ad campaign for New York City touted the Bandits as an alternative to smoking and invited potential users to "take a pouch instead of a puff." By 1990, Bandits comprised five percent of UST's business.

In 1991 alone, however, UST had spent $14 million to distribute free samples of its products.

The University of Santo Tomas College of Commerce Alumni Foundation, Inc (COCAFI), a private non-stock and non-profit foundation, was founded in 1992.

By 1993, all federally regulated USTs had to include a release detection method, or combination of methods, that:

In 1996, and in response to the growing information technology needs of the commercial industry, the College offered a new program: the B.S. Commerce major in Information System Management.

By 1998, all federally regulated USTs systems had to be upgraded or replaced so they had:

In 1999, under Dean Amelia Halili, the College was selected as a “Center of Development” by the Commission on Higher Education.

The January 2002 Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act, in addition to other things, addressed petroleum brownfields by assessing and cleaning up abandoned gas stations and other petroleum brownfields sites.

Congress provided supplemental money from the LUST Trust Fund for EPA to give grants to states for assessing and remediating UST facilities affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005—$15 million divided among Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

The company is incorporated in Delaware, and in the fall of 2006 announced it would move its headquarters from Greenwich, Connecticut to Stamford, Connecticut.

For the first time in 2007, EPA designated tribal inspectors as authorized representatives of EPA to inspect USTs.

Effective January 6, 2009, Altria acquired all outstanding shares of UST Inc. (UST), shareholders of UST are entitled to receive $69.50 in cash without interest and less any applicable withholding tax, for each share of common stock held at the effective time of the merger.

LUSTLine’s December 2015 article (PDF)(28 pp, 11.3 MB), beginning on page 15, discussed an analysis of more frequent inspections and the effect on improved compliance and increased release prevention.

The Petroleum Equipment Institute’s (PEI) October 2019 PEI/RP1200, Recommended Practices for the Testing and Verification of Spill, Overfill, Leak Detection and Secondary Containment Equipment at UST Facilities, is one example of an industry recommended practice.