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To subscribe, E-mail the words . . Leak detection systems will be required between the first tank and the secondary containment system. Existing tanks holding any of these 701 chemicals must, within 10 years, comply with the same requirements as new tanks. But the EPA has already announced that variances will be available at the end of ten years for those owners who demonstrate that their tank is protected against corrosion and equipped with an effective leak detector. A double-lined tank will leak later, rather than sooner, meaning that our grandchildren will pick up the tab, not we.