Your Standard Environmental Site Assessment May Still Be Skipping Over PFAS

With all the attention on PFAS over the past few years, you might assume that your standard Environmental Site Assessment would assess the possibility that the property you're buying has been impacted by PFAS, the "forever chemicals" that are on their way to being regulated by the Federal Government in parts per trillion (and are already regulated in such minute concentrations in many states).

But, as Inside EPA reports,  because PFAS are not yet "hazardous substances" according to Federal law, the current ASTM standard for Environmental Site Assessments doesn't cover them.

That means you need to make sure your site assessment professional adds PFAS to its scope of work.

Examples of properties where one might find PFAS include properties at or in the vicinity of properties where electroplating, semiconductor manufacturing, automobile manufacturing or recycling, waterproofing, stain resisting, or box manufacturing has occurred as well as any property on which