| | Cover Story: Property Environmental Due Diligence: AAI vs. ASTM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Although the AAI rule does not reference specific tribal and local databases to be researched, it does not diminish the requirement that such sources “must be reviewed.” Rather, it reflects the committee’s concerns that the rule could become obsolete over time if new databases surface that are not mentioned in the rule. |
 | | AAI, on the other hand, provides no guidance and leaves this issue entirely up to what can be collected by the EP, as well as his/her opinion about it with respect to drawing conclusions related to past uses of the property. |
 | | Under §312.1(c)(1) of the draft AAI rule, if the environmental inquiry is being conducted to qualify a property owner for one of the three liability protections, the EP must “identify conditions indicative of releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances” under CERCLA. |
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