All Appropriate Inquiry: the process of evaluating a property’s environmental conditions and assessing potential liability for any contamination.
AAQS
Ambient Air Quality Standards
AQC
Air Quality Criteria
ARAR
Applicable or Relevant and Appropriate Standards, Limitations, Criteria and Requirements
AST
Aboveground Storage Tank
ASTM
ASTM International, formerly known as American Society for Testing and Materials, is an international standards organization that develops and publishes voluntary consensus technical standards for a wide range of materials, products, systems, and services.
ATSDR
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
B
BEA
Baseline Environmental Assessment
BER
Business Environmental Risk is defined by ASTM Standard E 1527-13 as: A risk which can have a material environmental or environmentally-driven impact on the business associated with the current or planned use of a parcel of commercial real estate, not necessarily limited to those environmental issues required to be investigated in ASTM Standard E 1527-13. Consideration of business environmental risk issues may involve addressing one or more non-scope considerations. BERS may have a material impact on the value of property that is utilized as collateral.
BGS
Below Ground Surface
BOD
Biochemical/Biological Oxygen Demand
BUSTR
Bureau of Underground Storage Tank Regulations (Ohio)
C
CAA
Clean Air Act
CAP
Corrective Action Plan
CERCLA
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Laiability Act (aka "Superfund")
CFC
Chlorofluorocarbons
CFR
Code of Federal Regulations
CREC
Controlled Recognized Environmental Condition is defined by ASTM Standard E 1527-13 as: A recognized environmental condition resulting from a past release of hazardous substances or petroleum products that has been addressed to the satisfaction of the applicable regulatory authority with hazardous substances or petroleum products allowed to remain in place subject to the implementation of required controls
CWA
Clean Water Act
D
DCP
Due Care Plan
DDCC
Documentation of Due Care Compliance
DO
Dissolved Oxygen
DOT
Department of Transportation
E
EDD
Environmental Due Diligence
EGLE
Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy
EIS
Environmental Impact Statement
EPA
United States Environmental Protection Agency
EPCRA
Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act
ESA
Environmental Site Assessment
F
Facility
is defined in Part 201 of Michigan’s Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act (NREPA) EGLE 324.20101 Definitions Sec. 20101 (1)(s) as “any area, place, or property where a hazardous substance in excess of the concentrations that satisfy the cleanup criteria for unrestricted residential use has been released, deposited, disposed of, or otherwise comes to be located.”
FAR
Final Assessment Report
FASB
Financial Accounting Standards Board
FDIC
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
FOIA
Freedom of Information Act
FWPAC
Federal Water Pollution Control Act
G
GRCC
Generic Residential Cleanup Criteria
H
HREC
Historical Recognized Environmental Condition is defined by ASTM Standard E 1527-13 as: a past release of any hazardous substances or petroleum products that has occurred in connection with the property and has been addressed to the satisfaction of the applicable regulatory authority or meeting unrestricted use criteria established by a regulatory authority, without subjecting the property to any required controls.
HRS
Hazard Ranking System
HW
Hazardous Waste
HWI
Hazardous Waste Index
HUD
United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
I
IDEM
Indiana Department of Environmental Management
IEPA
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
IRAA
Indoor Radon Abatement Act
L
LARA
Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs
LUST
Leaking Underground Storage Tank
M
MSDS
Material Safety Data Sheet
N
NEPA
National Environmental Policy Act
NREPA
National Resources and Environmental Protection Act
NFA
No Further Action
NOHSCP
National Oil and Hazardous Substances Contingency Plan
NOI
Notice of Intent
NPL
National Priorities List
NPDES
National Pollution Discharge Elimination System
O
OEPA
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
O/M
Operation and Maintenance
OPA
Oil Pollution Act
OSHA
Occupational Safety and Health Act
P
Part 201
Part 201 of Michigan’s NREPA
Part 211
Part 211 of Michigan’s NREPA referring to underground storage tank regulation
Part 213
Part 213 of Michigan’s NREPA referring to leaking underground storage tank regulation
PCB
Poly-Chlorinated Biphenyls
PEC
Potential Environmental Concern
PFAS
Poly-and per-Fluorinated Alkyl Substances
PNA
Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbon
PPA
Pollution Prevention Act
PPB
Parts Per Billion (e.g. ug/kg, ug/l)
PPM
Parts Per Million (e.g. mg/kg, mg/l)
PPT
Parts per Trillion (e.g. ng/kg, ng/l)
PRP
Potentially Responsible Party
R
REC
Recognized Environmental Condition is defined by ASTM Standard E 1527-13 as: The presence or likely presence of any hazardous substances or petroleum products in, on, or at a property:(1) due to any release to the environment; (2) under conditions indicative of a release to the environment; (3) under conditions that pose a material threat of a future release to the environment. De minimis conditions are not recognized environmental conditions.
RA
Remedial Action
RAP
Response Activity Plan
RBSL
Risk Based Screening Levels (Part 213)
RCRA
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
RFA
RCRA Facility Assessment
RFI
RCRA Facility Investigation
RFP
Reasonable Further Progress
ROD
Record of Decision
RQ
Reportable Quantity
S
SARA
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986
