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CA Agencies Go Rogue on New Standards for Vapor Intrusion

The California EPA hasn’t declared new measurement standards for vapor intrusion, but regional agencies have started to adopt the federal guideline.

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There could be new more stringent standards to measure vapor intrusion in California—or maybe not. It seems to depend on the agency. The California EPA, which oversees several environmental agencies throughout the state, has not adopted new measurement standards are vapor intrusion, but regional agencies have. These agencies, which include regional water quality control boards, have begun employing the federal EPA guideline, and it is causing a lot of uncertainty for property owners.

“The origin is still a bit mysterious,” Preston Brooks, partner at Cox, Castle & Nicholson, tells GlobeSt.com. “There was a 2015 standard that was adopted by the US EPA, and I think that at the California EPA level, there were good reasons not to follow suit. The standard was based on East Coast conditions, and there are some significant differences between East Coast and West Coast vapor intrusion.”

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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. He work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.

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