Underground Storage Tanks

Our attorneys have extensive hands-on experience with the regulatory, litigation, and transactional matters related to under- and above-ground storage tanks. One of our attorneys drafted most of the amendments to Virginia's aboveground and underground storage tank laws from 1992 to1999, and in Georgia we studied and commented on the state's underground storage tank regulations.
Sample representations include:

• Successfully representing a nursing home developer in an action against an environmental engineer who gave a site a clean Phase I report. When construction began, our client discovered that there were approximately 20 leaking underground storage tanks on the property. Our work resulted in a very favorable large settlement on behalf of our client;
• Representing shopping center owner in successful implementation of site assessment and corrective action for historical petroleum releases from and abandoned underground storage tank located on the shopping center premises. The representation included obtaining expedited review and approval of the response actions, avoiding significant disruption for the tenants;
• Advising large electric utility on pro-active underground storage tank removal and corrective action activities taken in advance and in lieu of future-effective underground storage tank upgrade requirements;
• Providing advice to a large petroleum products retailer on Virginia's underground storage tank laws and the use of Virginia's Leaking Storage Tank Fund;
• Advising a bank contemplating a loan for the purchase of petroleum contaminated property; and
• Evaluated the regulatory response options on behalf of the former owner of a site with abandoned underground storage tanks containing residual fuel oil.