Standards and Practices

  1. Law
  2. CFR 40
  3. Protection of Environment
  4. Environmental Protection Agency
  5. Superfund, Emergency Planning, and Community Right-to-Know Programs
  6. Innocent Landowners, Standards for Conducting All Appropriate Inquiries
  7. Standards and Practices

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Section
312.20

All appropriate inquiries.

Section
312.21

Results of inquiry by an environmental professional.

Section
312.22

Additional inquiries.

Section
312.23

Interviews with past and present owners, operators, and occupants.

Section
312.24

Reviews of historical sources of information.

Section
312.25

Searches for recorded environmental cleanup liens.

Section
312.26

Reviews of Federal, State, Tribal, and local government records.

Section
312.27

Visual inspections of the facility and of adjoining properties.

Section
312.28

Specialized knowledge or experience on the part of the defendant.

Section
312.29

The relationship of the purchase price to the value of the property, if the property was not contaminated.

Section
312.30

Commonly known or reasonably ascertainable information about the property.

Section
312.31

The degree of obviousness of the presence or likely presence of contamination at the property, and the ability to detect the contamination by appropriate investigation.