Last month, Mr. R. Ryan Posten who is the Director of the Office of Hazardous Materials Enforcement at USDOT visited IFCA and asked for our assistance to communicate USDOT's concerns about nurse tank compliance issues.  USDOT conducted numerous inspections of ammonia facilities in the Midwest and found some bad/illegal welds on tanks, many tanks with missing or illegible data plates that are not enrolled in the Nurse Tank Inspection Program and lack of proper marking and maintenance of the tanks.  While it's important to note that the majority of non-compliance issues were discovered at ammonia facilities in Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa and Indiana, USDOT did also visit one Illinois facility and found some minor violations as well. 

IFCA asked Mr. Posted to provide us with a letter outlining USDOT's concerns that we could share with our members.