EPA’s Mid-Year FY2026 UST Performance Measures Are Out — Here’s What Moved Since FY2025
Twice a year, EPA's Office of Underground Storage Tanks turns the entire national UST program into a spreadsheet. The Mid-Year FY2026 report is out, covering October 1, 2025 through March 31, 2026, and for the first time we can set it next to the End-of-Year FY2025 numbers and see what actually moved.
The fastest way to use a report like this isn't to read it cover to cover. It's to find the states you operate in and put them next to each other. So start there: pin your home state in the tool below, add the others you run sites in, and they line up side by side across every measure EPA tracks, with the strongest value in each row highlighted. The interpretation is underneath, and EPA’s full report and historical data live on the agency’s UST performance measures page.
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A PASS Training & Compliance tool, built on data from the EPA Office of Underground Storage Tanks. Mid-Year FY2026 figures (through March 31, 2026), with the national Technical Compliance Rate change versus End-of-Year FY2025. Pin the states you operate in to compare them side by side.
Your comparison
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What jumps out
One note on honest comparison first: the compliance percentages are trailing-twelve-month measures in both reports, so they line up cleanly. The inspection, release, and cleanup figures are six-month counts — don’t read those as annual totals.
The headline is that the national Technical Compliance Rate slipped to 60.9%, down two points from 62.9% at the end of FY2025. TCR is the strict, all-of-the-above measure: a facility only counts if spill prevention, overfill prevention, corrosion protection, and release detection are all in place at once. A two-point national slide on a bar set that high is worth noticing, even if it isn’t a crisis.
The counterpoint is the measure closest to what we do: operator training compliance rose to 89.7% from 88.6%. Financial responsibility held at 90.4% and walkthroughs stayed essentially flat at 83.2%. The people-and-paperwork fundamentals are steady to improving even as the full technical package got a little harder to hold together.
On corrective action, the program kept its nose in front. Cleanups completed (2,947) outran newly confirmed releases (1,997) over the half year, and the national backlog came down by 918 to 52,859. Still an enormous inventory, but shrinking rather than growing.
The spread is the real story
The national tank count barely moved — about 534,000 active USTs at roughly 190,000 facilities — which means the enormous gap between the strongest and weakest states is about program behavior and operator discipline, not a shifting denominator. Missouri tops the country at 96%; Indiana sits last at 19%. Use the tool above to see exactly where your states fall and how their sub-category numbers break down.
One caution when you spot a big year-over-year move: read it skeptically. States target inspections differently, so the pool of recently inspected facilities can shift hard between reports. Michigan’s drop from 85% to 20% is the clearest example — that’s a sampling shift, not a field collapse. The same logic applies to the big jumps upward, like Mississippi and Oregon.
Bottom line
1. The technical bar got harder to clear — national TCR slipped two points to 60.9%, even as the supporting basics held and training improved.
2. Cleanup is still winning the race — completions outpaced new releases and the backlog fell by 918, though 52,859 sites remain.
3. Where you operate matters enormously — pin your states in the tool above and the spread speaks for itself. Read big swings as inspection-window shifts, not field events.
The next full picture comes with the End-of-Year FY2026 report. Until then, this is the half-year readout: a steady program, holding fundamentals, and technical discipline as the place to push.
Use the tool to find your gaps; use PASS to close them.
PASS Tools (Harmonics, Symphonics, and ATG Connect) keeps compliance, field service, and tank monitoring in one system across every site you run, with ATG Connect putting continuous eyes on release detection — the category these numbers show is toughest nationwide. And since training and walkthroughs are the most fixable lever in the data, PASS Training on PASS Opus keeps your Class A, B, and C operators certified and inspection-ready.
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