Commercial buyers and their attorneys
Free guide to the environmental lien and land use limitation search a Phase I needs: where to look, who may do it, and the 180-day window.
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What you get
The check is free. The paperwork after it is drafted at the Phase 1 ESA cost calculator door.
From public data
before you acquire a property is the window in which a Phase I's lien search must be done or updated
Source: 40 CFR 312.20(b), eCFR
Estimate a Phase I environmental site assessment's cost and timing, then fill in the ASTM E1527-21 user questionnaire your consultant needs. Free to read.
Questions
Yes. The All Appropriate Inquiries rule lets the buyer, rather than the environmental professional, search for environmental cleanup liens filed or recorded under federal, tribal, state or local law and give the results to the professional.
Cleanup costs a person owes the United States become a lien on that person's real property affected by the cleanup. It is subject to the rights of buyers and lenders who perfected their interests before notice of the lien was filed in the proper state or county office.
Yes. The records review covers registries of engineering controls and of institutional controls, including environmental land use restrictions, for the property, and engineering controls within half a mile.
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What part or system are you analyzing?
Where is the site that generates waste?
Where is the excavation?
Where is the construction site?
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