At its semi-annual
meeting in early April, the ASTM E50 committee approved three new or revised
Standard Guides pertaining to Compliance Audits, Activity and Use Limitations,
and Phase I Environmental Site Assessments.
The Standard Practice
for Environmental Regulatory Compliance Audits outlines a series of steps for
conducting an environmental regulatory compliance audit. It also defines
commonly used terms and clarifies the responsibilities of the auditor and the
audited entity. Frank Priznar of PRIZIM chaired the Task Group that developed
this standard practice.
The Standard Guide on
the Use of Activity and Use Limitations, Including Institutional and Engineering
Controls, is the first guidance of its kind to be issued by either a private or
regulatory entity. The Guide clarifies commonly used terminology (and attempts
to correct some common misuses of terminology), describes the four principal
types of institutional controls (proprietary controls,
