[CPEO-BIF] A Stakeholder's Guide to "All Appropriate Inquiries"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Today CPEO releases the first of its Brownfields Briefs series,
"A Stakeholder's Guide to 'All Appropriate Inquiries' (AAI):
U.S. EPA's new proposed rule for environmental site assessment,"
by Lenny Siegel (August, 2005)

It begins: "On August 26, 2004, U.S. EPA proposed a new rule, 'Standards 
and Practices for All Appropriate Inquiries.' Required by the January 
2002 'Brownfields Amendments,' when finalized this rule is expected to 
become the national standard for conducting 'All Appropriate Inquiries,' 
a process commonly referred to as Phase One Environmental Site 
Assessment. ASTM (formerly known as the American Society for Testing and 
Materials), which for many years has provided the industry standards for 
environmental site assessments, is revising its 'Standard Practice for 
Environmental Site Assessment' (E-1527) to be compatible with the new 
EPA standard. EPA based its proposal on the Brownfields Amendments and 
the work of a Negotiated Rulemaking committee, 25 people representing 
diverse interests who met several times in 2003 to develop the rule's 
language...."

To download this 6-page document as a PDF file, go to
http://www.cpeo.org/brownfields/SGAAI.pdf


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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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