ASTM Int'l Revises Forestland Site Assessment Standard for EPA Compliance - ASTM E 2247
August 12, 2008 // Published as a news service by IHS
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ASTM International revised ASTM E 2247 - Practice for Environmental Site Assessments: Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Process for Forestland or Rural Property to be compliant with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) All Appropriate Inquiries (AAI) Rule (40 CFR Part 312, Standards and Practices for All Appropriate Inquiries).
"Committee E50 believes that referencing [ASTM] E 2247-08 in the AAI Regulation will provide the needed guidance to parties purchasing large tracts of land and seeking CERCLA [Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act] liability protection as bona fide prospective purchasers or innocent landowners," said David Parsonage, vice president, American Geosciences Inc., and chair of the ASTM task group on ASTM E 2247.
"The forest industry, other natural resource industries, conservation organizations, forest and rural real estate professionals, lenders, resource management agencies and environmental consultants are examples of the variety of parties that apply [ASTM] E 2247."
Purchasers of forestland have adapted ASTM E 1527 - Practice for Environmental Site Assessments: Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Process to their application in order to claim one of the landowner liability protections under CERCLA.
However, ASTM E 2247 more clearly addresses property uses and environmental concerns typical of forestland and provides for the use of remote sensing methods such as the use of aerial photography or flyovers, said ASTM International.
ASTM E 2247 is under the jurisdiction of Subcommittee E50.02 on Real Estate Assessment and Management, part of Committee E50 on Environmental Assessment, Risk Management and Corrective Action.
Source: ASTM International.