AAI

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

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.

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

CAA

Clean Air Act

CAP

Corrective Action Plan

CERCLA

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability 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

DCP

Due Care Plan

DDCC

Documentation of Due Care Compliance

DO

Dissolved Oxygen

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

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

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

IDEM

Indiana Department of Environmental Management

IEPA

Illinois Environmental Protection Agency

LARA

Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs

NEPA

Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs

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

OEPA

Ohio Environmental Protection Agency

O/M

Operation and Maintenance

OPA

Oil Pollution Act

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)

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

SARA

Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986

SDWA

Safe Drinking Water Act

SQG

Small Quantity Generator

SWDA

Solid Waste Disposal Act

TCLP

Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure

TSCA

Toxic Substances Control Act

TSD

Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facility

USGS

United States Geology Survey

VAP

Voluntary Action Program

VOC

Volatile Organic Compounds