Title: Unit 2 Glossary
Course: BLD 163 Basic Site Assessment > Section: BLD 163 Basic Site Assessment

Unit 2 Glossary

Terms

Term | Definitions
AAI | All Appropriate Inquiry
ASTM | American Society for Testing and Materials
Bona Fide | Latin, means “in good faith”
CERCLA | Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act = Superfund. Enacted by Congress September 11, 1980
Institutional Controls | “non-engineered controls such as administrative and legal controls that help minimize the potential for human exposure to contamination and/or protect the remedy.”
Lien | a security interest placed on the property, a notice attached to a property and filed as a public record.  Examples are: –Environmental liens: placed on the property by entities such as EPA or ...
REC | Recognized Environmental Condition: “the presence or likely presence of any hazardous substances or petroleum products in, on, or at a property: (1) due to release to the environment; (2) under ...
Sanborn Maps | historic fire insurance maps
USGS | United States Geological Survey