Joe Thacker, Manager

The PSTD Technical Department’s duties and responsibilities include regulating all corrective actions performed and remediation implemented at leaking petroleum storage tank sites and determining the scopes of work and reasonable costs that will be reimbursed by the Petroleum Storage Tank Indemnity Fund.  Staff Project Environmental Analysts (PEAs) deal with hydrogeology issues at leaking PST sites, and must be skilled in six differing areas of responsibility, each requiring specific capabilities that may, or may not, overlap.  Staff PEAs are proficient in the areas of; Regulatory Issues, Corrective Actions, Remediation Technologies, Indemnity Fund issues relating to each case site and Communication.  Generally, each Hydro is required to manage 40 to 50 active release cases.  Additionally, each is assigned Extra Duties that fall outside his/her case management duties.

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