The American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM) Committee on Environmental Assessment, Risk Management and Corrective Action (ASTM Committee E-50) released an updated set of guidelines known as “E1527-21-Standard Practice for Environmental Site Assessments: Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (Phase I ESA) Process,” in November 2021. E1527-21 is a revised version of the previous set… Read More

Now that the looming Right-to-Know (RTK) deadline is nearly behind us, it’s a good time to take a step back and make sure your records are in order to have a good foundation for the rest of the year. In New York State, chemical inventory stored in a facility must have the latest version of… Read More

The deadline to comply with the November 4, 2017 revised Part 360 Solid Waste Management regulations has been extended by two New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) Enforcement Discretion Letters signed on March 16, 2022. These replace the previous letters dated February 12, 2021. The Part 360 compliance deadline has been extended until… Read More

On December 15, 2021, the New York City Council passed an Introduction (2430-A) amending and updating the New York City Fire Code. The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) has posted on its website the proposed 2022 New York City Fire Code. The newly-revised code will be known as the 2022 New York City Fire Code…. Read More

Are you required to report? New York City (NYC) Local Law 84 of 2009 (LL84) enacted requirements to benchmark the energy and water use of city buildings. LL84 applies only to covered buildings, defined by NYC as “… (i) a building that exceeds 50,000 gross square feet, (ii) two or more buildings on the same… Read More

The State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (SPDES) General Permit for Stormwater Discharges from Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4) rules are currently in the modification process. The SPDES General Permit was originally issued in April 2015; this is the second modification proposed. The proposed rulemaking draft (draft GP-0-22-002) and Fact Sheet released by the New… Read More

Effective February 4, 2022, the U.S. EPA has added the chemical 1-bromopropane (1-BP) to the national Hazardous Air Pollutant (HAP) list. This is the first time that the EPA has added a chemical to the Clean Air Act (CAA) list under section 112(b)(1) since 1990.   The compound 1-BP or n-propyl bromide (nPB), CAS #106–94–5,… Read More

For all facilities regulated as Solid Waste Management Facilities, the 2021 Annual Report Forms are now available on-line on the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s (NYSDEC) website. The report forms are due by March 1, 2022. If you haven’t already started, now is the time to begin the process to collect information for… Read More

For most Long Island homeowners living in flood zones, recent updates to the Federal Flood Insurance Program have dramatically increased flood insurance rates. The revised program has been developed over a number of years, but officially went into effect in October 2021.   Since 1968, FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program has calculated flood insurance premiums… Read More

On December 8, 2021, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC) proposed policy document, DAR-21, titled “The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) and Air Permit Applications.”   This policy outlines the requirements for CLCPA analyses developed by the Division of Air Resources (DAR) pursuant to Section 7(2) of the CLCPA… Read More