For a Georgia underground storage tank (UST) site, choose the source by the question you need to answer. The Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) UST Data and Reporting page provides facility and tank status by county in one statewide file and confirmed petroleum-release and cleanup status in a separate Corrective Action Projects and Cleanups file. A tank’s inventory status and its release history are separate records, and the full site file holds more than a cleanup-list entry. Record the facility identifier and the date of each export before comparing them.
Choose the two exports by question
- Is a facility or tank listed, and what status does EPD report? Start with Data for All Georgia Counties on the UST reporting page. EPD labels this file information about facilities, including tank status by county, and marks it revised March 2026. Use the facility identity, county, address and tank identifiers shown in the file to frame a follow-up.
- Has a petroleum release entered corrective action, and what cleanup status is reported? Use the separate Corrective Action Projects and Cleanups file on the same page. EPD says it covers facilities that reported a petroleum release and includes the confirmed release date and cleanup status. It says the file is updated every six months and marks the linked version revised April 2026. If a property is missing from it, check the file’s scope and update date before drawing a conclusion.
- Do you only need statewide annual counts? The Public Record Report for FY25 gives aggregate numbers such as facilities, inspections and confirmed releases for a reporting period. For a single facility, request its release report, cleanup correspondence or tank-closure documents.
The March and April dates are different dataset revisions, rather than one synchronized snapshot. A facility may be described differently across the files because they track different events and were refreshed at different times. Keep a copy of the column names and source date with any conclusion. Join records by facility identifier when several operators share a parcel or street name. Our permit lookup by address guide offers a general way to organize location and identifier checks; EPD’s identifiers remain controlling for its own facility file.
Get the underlying facility record
If a spreadsheet leaves open whether a tank was removed, when a release was confirmed, or how cleanup was closed, use EPD’s UST File Reviews instructions. They divide access by document date, rather than promising that every historical file is online:
- 2019 to the current year: EPD says electronic documents may be in its GEOS Public Inquiry Portal. The file-review page links the portal. Search or ask for the facility’s specific release, corrective-action, closure or correspondence file; some supporting documents for a listed facility may be outside GEOS.
- 2008–2018: EPD says facility documents for these years are hardcopy only at the EPD Land Branch Tradeport location. External reviewers must arrange a file-review appointment; a link to file-review procedures is on the official page.
- Before 2008: EPD says most files have been archived offsite and need additional retrieval time. Give a wider approximate period and older facility name if the business changed hands. A GEOS no-result says little about this era.
For a precise request, supply the facility name or former name, site address, county, EPD facility or release number if known, approximate document years and the record class you need. Ask for the dated source document behind a status entry: for example, a tank notification or closure report for inventory, or a release confirmation, cleanup report or closure correspondence for corrective action. EPD’s file-review page lists 404-362-2687 for help locating material; it also gives the appointment route for hardcopy review.
What a Georgia EPD status entry shows
An export row shows what EPD reported at its revision date; later work and earlier releases need the facility file. A cleanup status should be checked against the project’s final correspondence or other dated EPD decision before describing a release as closed. Likewise, a tank listed as closed in the inventory says nothing about the outcome of a petroleum-release cleanup. These documents concern underground tank regulation; the building permit and certificate of occupancy for the structure above the site are separate local records. Our final inspection status guide explains how a status label differs from the underlying final record.
If EPD finds no file under the current facility number, ask it to check predecessor names, historic addresses, release numbers and the archive period. A missing result leaves the question open until the relevant file range and custodian have been checked.
Georgia EPD UST reporting and file-review pages checked September 29, 2026.