DERR-2024-004568

195 North 1950 West • Salt Lake City, UT
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 144840 • Salt Lake City, UT 84114-4840
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State of Utah

SPENCER J. COX
Governor

DEIDRE HENDERSON
Lieutenant Governor
Department of
Environmental Quality

Kimberly D. Shelley
Executive Director

DIVISION OF ENVIRONMENTAL
RESPONSE AND REMEDIATION

Brent H. Everett
Director

ERRL-0181-23

MEMORANDUM

TO: Dan Hall, Individual Permitting Section Manager
Division of Water Quality

THROUGH: Therron Blatter, PST Branch Manager
Division of Environmental Response and Remediation

THROUGH: Avery Holyoak, PST Remedial Assistance Cleanup Section Manager
Division of Environmental Response and Remediation

FROM: Liberty Coe, PST Remedial Assistance Cleanup Project Manager
Division of Environmental Response and Remediation

DATE: June 16, 2023

SUBJECT: Closure of AST Site and Transfer of AST case file to Division of Water Quality
Ruesch Machine, located at 916 North Red Rock Road, Saint George, Utah
Facility Identification No. 6000734, Release Site ODN

A petroleum release from an aboveground storage tank (AST) was reported to the Division of
Environmental Response and Remediation (DERR) on March 9, 2022. The release was reported to
the DERR based on an anonymous caller spill notification to the National Response Center. Below
is a summary of the current status of the suspected release:

Contact Information for Responsible Party (RP)
Name: Don Reusch
Telephone Number: [phone]

The extent and degree of contamination has not yet been determined, and it remains unknown as to
whether any additional sampling, investigation, or corrective action has been undertaken at the site.
Potential immediate threats are not known to exist. On April 19, 2023 a DERR employee spoke to
a crane operator at a tank install who is familiar with the site. This individual claimed that the 500-
gallon AST which is believed to be the source of the release is no longer in use and the AST piping
is aboveground. None of the ASTs at this site sit on soil or gravel.
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Based on this information, the DERR does not have authority to regulate this release as Utah’s
Underground Storage Tank Act does not regulate releases of petroleum hydrocarbons from ASTs
that do not have contact with the ground and/or ASTs that do not have underground piping.

The RP has refused to allow Department of Environmental Quality representatives access to the
property. Due to the lack of cooperation from the RP, the DERR was not able to get an oversight
agreement signed. Therefore, I recommend that the case file (copy attached) be transferred to the
Division of Water Quality for oversight, and that an electronic copy of the release information be
filed in the closed LUST files. DERR will not send a No Further Action Letter for this release.

BHE/LC/rr