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  Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. is implementing spill prevention and containment projects at its combustion turbine locations in Miles City, Mont., and Glendive, Mont.

These facilities use diesel as a backup fuel to natural gas for powering electrical generators at the sites and, therefore, have diesel fuel storage tanks on site. While these storage tanks are relatively small and have containment infrastructure in place, the turbines and associated piping are not within the existing containment area.

Montana-Dakota is adding containment ditching and catch basins at the sites and is installing alarms that will notify the company's 24-hour dispatch center if a leak occurs when the site is not in operation.