On December 15, 2022, EPA issued a final rule amending the All Appropriate Inquiries Rule (AAI Rule), 40 CFR part 312, to recognize the updated ASTM International standard for conducting Phase I environmental site assessments...more
On December 15, 2022, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a final rule authorizing ASTM E1527-21 as compliant with the all appropriate inquiries (“AAI”) provisions of the Comprehensive...more
On December 15, 2022, the U.S. EPA took final action to amend the Standards and Practices for All Appropriate Inquiries to reference ASTM International’s E1527-21 “Standard Practice for Environmental Site Assessments: Phase I...more
It has taken a year to obtain greater certainty of what is required to satisfy the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) all appropriate inquiries (AAI) rule (40 CFR part 312). Earlier this year, EPA issued a direct...more
ASTM E1527-21 to Replace ASTM E1527-13 - On December 15, 2022, U.S. EPA published in the Federal Register its final rule updating its AAI Rule, recognizing ASTM E1527-21 as a method for meeting the AAI requirements for...more
On December 15, 2022, the EPA published a Final Rule to amend EPA’s All Appropriate Inquiries Rule to allow the use of the revised American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) E1527-21 Standard Practice for Environmental...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) has withdrawn a direct final rule amending 40 CFR Section 312.1 which would revise the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (“CERCLA”)...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) has received to date 14 comments addressing both a proposed rule and direct final rule amending 40 CFR Section 312.11 which would amend the Comprehensive Environmental...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, on March 14, 2022, issued both a final rule incorporating revised ASTM International standard practices, ASTM International’s E1527–21 ‘‘Standard Practice for Environmental Site...more
On Nov 1, 2021, ASTM International (“ASTM”) released the revised standard for conducting Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (“Phase I ESAs”). The new standard, ASTM 1527-21, which revises the 1527-13, is intended to...more
After a lengthy committee process, ASTM International revised its standard practice for Phase I environmental site assessments (ASTM E1527) for the first time since 2013. Phase I environmental site assessments facilitate...more
On October 6, 2014, EPA issued a final rule mandating the use of the 2013 standard, ASTM E1527-13, for conducting Phase I Environmental Site Assessments for satisfaction of All Appropriate Inquiries ("AAI") under CERCLA. . ...more