Environmental Hazard Site Databases
For ASTM Compliance

The JCP Commercial EnviroCheck^TM Report is based on an electronic search of certain federal- and state-level environmental-hazard record systems, or databases. These databases are searched for hazard sites within certain radius distances around the subject property. The databases and distances searched comply with the government records inquiry guidelines of ASTM International (formerly the American Society for Testing and Materials).

The government databases searched are identified below, along with the abbreviation used in our report, and a brief explanation about the nature of the hazard sites included in those databases.

1. Federal National Priorities List, or "Superfund" sites (NPL):
   This is a list compiled by the Federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of contaminated sites with the highest priority of cleanup. The federal EPA is required to force clean up of these sites under the authority of a law called the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), which is commonly called "Superfund."

2. Federal Sites Investigated for Possible Inclusion in the NPL (CERCLIS):
   The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act Information System (CERCLIS) is a list of sites that the Federal EPA is investigating for possible inclusion on the NPL. After investigation is complete, the sites on this list will either be closed because no contamination was found, added to the NPL to be cleaned up, or sent to a local state overseeing agency for clean-up.

3. Sites of Potential Generators of Hazardous Materials (RCRA GEN):
   Small scale and large scale generators (GEN) are included in this list, as required under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). This list is maintained by the Federal EPA of facilities that generate hazardous substances. Depending on the quantity, they will be listed as small or large. Sites on this list are not necessarily contaminated, but they are tracked because they deal with hazardous substances on the site. RCRA is a federal law that governs how hazardous substances are produced, transported, stored, and disposed of.

4. Treatment, Storage and Disposal Sites for Hazardous Materials (RCRA TSD):
   TSD stands for Treatment, Storage and Disposal. This list of facilities is maintained by the Federal EPA, and includes sites that are licensed to treat, store, or dispose of hazardous substances. They are not necessarily contaminated.

5. Corrective Action Sites, sites with Known Contamination (RCRA COR):
   Also known as the RCRA CORRACTS List, this is a list also maintained by the Federal EPA of RCRA sites at which contamination has been discovered and where some level of corrective clean-up activity has been undertaken. For example, a site may have been on the RCRA TSD or a RCRA GEN site list (see above), and was placed on the CORRACTS list once contamination was discovered and remediation was underway.

6. State Equivalent of the National Priorities List (AWP):
   Like the federal EPA, states can maintain their own list of sites identified as being contaminated and requiring clean up. In California, the Department of Toxic Substances Control maintains this list, which is called the Active Work Plan (AWP) list. It may or may not include all of the federal NPL sites, and typically includes additional known contaminated sites.

7. State Equivalent of Federal CERCLIS Sites (CALSITE):
   This is a list maintained by California's Department of Toxic Substances Control of sites the state is investigating for possible contamination that would require clean up. It may or may not include all of the federal CERCLIS sites, and typically includes additional sites under investigation.

8. State List of Leaking Underground Storage Tanks (LUSTIS):
   California's Water Resources Control Board maintains this list through the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Information System. As the name implies, the list includes only tanks underground that are known to be leaking contaminants.

9. Solid Waste Landfill Facilites (SWIS):
   The Solid Waste Information System is maintained by California's Integrated Waste Management Board. This system tracks known landfills. Sites on this list are often reported as "unlocatable" because the site address information on the state list is frequently insufficient for precise location (landfills are typically distant from population centers, in undeveloped or rural areas where there are no street names or address numbers).