European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                . Fuel by Janet Howells Tierney Washington Bureau Washington a overseas military installations Are not alone in having to Deal with the headache of leaking underground storage tanks. Of the 2 million underground tanks in the United states hundreds of thousands of them Are leaking according to the environmental Protection Agency. And officials Are concerned that the leaks have or will contaminate ground water a a major source of drinking water for half the nation a or cause fires and explosions. Most of the leaks Are caused by Loose pipe fittings improper installation or in the Case of older tanks corrosion said Dave of Brien from the Epars underground storage tanks office in Washington. As of october 1990, the Epa found that 25 percent of the systems checked failed the tightness test and were leaking Petroleum. The faulty tanks problems often began when they were installed of Brien said. Sometimes leaks were the result of tanks being overfilled he , n6vember19, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 9 age"tanl8�?Tlovm�?zehc underground Stor Lii ,n7 i y 0 Cean up their act. By that dead corrosion offi protected against it called tax a Law a a re a  a do a be inst incl a in Mpr a to for owners wih leak Rorr ? 1s requirement to have a own m of system in place by the end of this year. ,ii 1993 of Tui i he meeting he Epa requirements Are s ring Hanngan expert to assess problems at a rude who Quot a Sia station owner about $10,000, said Tok j ? a amen can Petroleum Institute. Sm0 to Fri can Cost Here from $200 to $7,000 to install and maintain according to an Epa pamphlet. The new equipment will discover More than 300,000 leaks Over the next few years the Agency estimates. For those tank owners unable to shoulder the entire financial Burden of cleaning up Petroleum leaks clean up deadline there is Federal funding available under the resource conservation and recovery act. The Federal fund capped at $500 million each year is doled out to individual states on a Case by Case basis. Cleaning up ground water and soil around leaking tanks costs about $55,000 per tank although roughly 5 percent of cleanups result in Bills higher than $1 million officials said. A leak caught Early can Cost from $3,000 to $30,000 to clean up White said. When All else fails and the underground storage tank must be replaced an owner can expect to pay from $40,000 to $80,000 to install a single 10,000-gallon tank. A California is the most expensive state for new systems and the Southeastern states Are the cheapest because of labor costs a White said. In nearly every state local officials have stepped in to assist tank owners in meeting the Epars requirements. At least 36 states have created Trust funds and 11 offer owners financial assistance in upgrading or replacing old tanks. 3 Stuttgart stations closed indefinitely  . _ a a a Stuttgart Germany a officials Are not sure How Long the pumps will be locked at three army and air Force Exchange service filling stations that were shut Down in Stuttgart. Filling stations at Robinson Barracks and Patch Barracks were closed because of gasoline leaks. The station at Pattonville housing area in nearby Ramseck was shut Down because of a Hole in the lip or upper Flange of the tank but there is no evidence of leakage there according to Dale Bickenbach of Stuttgart a directorate of engineering and housing. Officials now must look for possible pollution where the tanks were found to be leaking he said. Bickenbach said he could not estimate the amount of leakage or the Cost of cleanup until drilling tests Are Complete. The Stuttgart Community command will decide whether the stations will be reopened after engineers figure the Cost of replacing the tanks with new double walled models required by German Law. An cafes spokesman said it costs about $45,000 to replace a gasoline storage tank. Each of the Stuttgart stations has two tanks. The tanks at Patch Barracks were installed in 1945 and have a capacity of 6,500 Gallons each. Those at Robinson were installed in 1953 and have a capacity of 13,000 Gallons each while the ones at Pattonville were installed in 1952 and have a capacity of 3,900 . Still bars former e. German communists Bonn Germany a amps a . Visa regulations currently prohibit about a fifth of All former East germans from travelling to the United states because of their links to the communist party or its successor the party of democratic socialism. A the problem cropped up when we heard reports that several germans from former East Germany were held and questioned at american airports denied entry and sent Back Home a said a spokes Man for the ads in Bonn. A spokesman for the . Embassy in Bonn said the former East germans probably tried to enter the country under the visa free Pilot program for germans. A we done to know the details of their particular Story but under the current Pilot program germans who belong to a communist or any subversive organization must apply for a visa before entering the  before the Berlin Wall and East German government fell a year ago there were More than 2.3 million members of the East German communist party. There Are now 350,000 members of the ads. Many of them did not belong to the old communist party so nearly 3 million people Are affected by the travel ruling the ads spokesman said. A a we re not a communist party we Are socialists and we done to consider ourselves subversive in any negative Way a a party spokeswoman said. A the . Ruling seems like a throwback to the 1950s.�?� in fact . Restrictions on subversive organizations Date Back to 1952, according to the . Embassy spokesman who added that an updated regulation is due next year. A the new travel regulation has been updated to realities in world politics a he said. A was of june 1991, the United states will not prevent members of the communist party from travelling to the United states. But members of the National socialistic party of Germany will still be denied  of fancy he a i be 8 fatalistic plane gets the once Over y red Barker president of flight innovations c. In Arlington Wash. Called the sky commuter. K vertical Takeoff and Landing the Light of in crap is designed to cruise at speeds of about 85 Mph for up to 225 Miles. Army sergeant 3 others held in theft of military weapons Jacksonville Fla. Apr an army sergeant who had served in the persian Gulf and three other men have been arrested in the theft of a huge Cache of military weapons and explosives Federal and local officials said saturday. The Materiel seized Friday and saturday from a warehouse and one suspects Home in Jacksonville included enough military explosives to destroy an entire City Block said Willi Ellison agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms in Jacksonville. Michael Tubbs a . Army special forces sergeant had been brought Back from operation desert shield in saudi Arabia within the past several weeks Ellison said. Tubbs was already facing possible Federal firearms and explosives charges in connection with a january 1987 incident at fort Bragg n.c., in which two soldiers were jumped and tied to a tree by two masked men who stole their rifles. He remained restricted saturday to the base at fort Campbell ky., Ellison said. Another Soldier warrant officer Jeffrey Jennett has already been arrested and charged in the 1987 incident. Jennett was arrested in Charleston s.c., on thursday night and charged in Federal court with assault with intent to commit felony theft and with stealing an m-16 Rifle Ellison said. Also seized Friday and saturday were military weapons manuals magazines describing How to wage Urban warfare and make homemade bombs and hate Materi als including videotapes of speeches by Adolf Hitler Ellison said. A fall the literature focused on just a Litany of hate against jews Blacks and other minorities a Ellison said. A they were Well equipped to engage in major  a your preliminary indications Are that these individuals Are related to the Kkt and the aryan nation a added John Gordon Deputy director of police operations at the Jacksonville sheriffs office. Arrested in Jacksonville on Friday were Michael Tubbs brother John and Stephen Fussell a 26-year-old Handyman. Both men face Federal firearms and conspiracy charges. The seizures and arrests resulted from a multistage investigation by Federal and local agencies focusing on the theft of weapons and explosives from military installations Ellison said. A this investigation spans several states a Ellison said. A a we re talking about Tennessee Kentucky North Carolina and  much of the firearms and explosives Are believed to have been stolen from fort Bragg and fort Campbell Ellison said. The Arsenal recovered at John Tubbs Home and a min warehouse included soviet ar-15 and . M-16 automatic rifles thousands of rounds of ammunition an anti aircraft machine gun anti personnel land mines numerous handguns and shotguns a 40mm grenade launcher hand grenades smoke grenades tear Las dynamite blasting Caps Booby traps and other Ligh explosives