---
kind: "unit"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
key: "ch82/schIX"
level: "subchapter"
label: "Subchapter IX"
heading: "Regulation of Underground Storage Tanks"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/ch82-schIX"
sections_count: 14
---

# Subchapter IX — Regulation of Underground Storage Tanks

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 82 — Solid Waste Disposal

## Sections

- [§6991. Definitions and exemptions](/usc/42/6991.md)
- [§6991a. Notification](/usc/42/6991a.md)
- [§6991b. Release detection, prevention, and correction regulations](/usc/42/6991b.md)
- [§6991c. Approval of State programs](/usc/42/6991c.md)
- [§6991d. Inspections, monitoring, testing, and corrective action](/usc/42/6991d.md)
- [§6991e. Federal enforcement](/usc/42/6991e.md)
- [§6991f. Federal facilities](/usc/42/6991f.md)
- [§6991g. State authority](/usc/42/6991g.md)
- [§6991h. Study of underground storage tanks](/usc/42/6991h.md)
- [§6991i. Operator training](/usc/42/6991i.md)
- [§6991j. Use of funds for release prevention and compliance](/usc/42/6991j.md)
- [§6991k. Delivery prohibition](/usc/42/6991k.md)
- [§6991l. Tanks on tribal lands](/usc/42/6991l.md)
- [§6991m. Authorization of appropriations](/usc/42/6991m.md)