The standard for the Phase 1 Environmental Site Assessment,ASTM E1527-05,is up for renewal. We’ve known that this was coming for quitesome time, but now the decision time is upon us.

This week ASTM met in Atlanta and the committee tasked withreviewing and updating the Phase 1 Environmental Site AssessmentStandard discussed the potential changes on the table. Afterthis week one or more rounds of voting will finalize the newstandard. The deadline for finalizing the new standard, withor without any changes, is 2013 – thus the new standard will becalled ASTME1527-13.

Some of the suggested E1527-13 revisions could impact theindustry’s understanding of environmental risk and the process forconducting Phase 1 ESAs. A few of the more significantpotential changes include:

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