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<br />EDR BUILDING PERMIT REPORT
<br />About This Report
<br />The EDR Building Permit Report provides a practical and efficient method to search building department records
<br />for indications of environmental conditions. Generated via a search of municipal building permit records gathered
<br />from more than 1,600 cities nationwide, this report will assist you in meeting the search requirements of EPA's
<br />Standards and Practices for All Appropriate Inquiries (40 CFR Part 312), the ASTM Standard Practice for
<br />Environmental Site Assessments (E 1527 -13), or custom requirements developed for the evaluation of
<br />environmental risk associated with a parcel of real estate.
<br />Building permit data can be used to identify current and /or former operations and structures /features of
<br />environmental concern. The data can provide information on a target property and adjoining properties such as the
<br />presence of underground storage tanks, pump islands, sumps, drywells, etc., as well as information regarding
<br />water, sewer, natural gas, electrical connection dates, and current/former septic tanks.
<br />ASTM and EPA Requirements
<br />ASTM E 1527 -13 lists building department records as a "standard historical source," as detailed in § 8.3.4.7:
<br />"Building Department Records - The term building department records means those records of the local
<br />government in which the property is located indicating permission of the local government to construct, alter, or
<br />demolish improvements on the property." ASTM also states that "Uses in the area surrounding the property shall
<br />be identified in the report, but this task is required only to the extent that this information is revealed in the course of
<br />researching the property itself."
<br />EPA's Standards and Practices for All Appropriate Inquires (AAI) states: " §312.24: Reviews of historical sources of
<br />information. (a) Historical documents and records must be reviewed for the purposes of achieving the objectives
<br />and performance factors of §312.20(e) and (f). Historical documents and records may include, but are not limited
<br />to, aerial photographs, fire insurance maps, building department records, chain of title documents, and land use
<br />records."
<br />Methodology
<br />EDR has developed the EDR Building Permit Report through our partnership with BuildFax, the nation's largest
<br />repository of building department records. BuildFax collects, updates, and manages building department records
<br />from local municipal governments. The database now includes 30 million permits, on more than 10 million
<br />properties across 1,600 cities in the United States.
<br />The EDR Building Permit Report comprises local municipal building permit records, gathered directly from local
<br />jurisdictions, including both target property and adjoining properties. Years of coverage vary by municipality. Data
<br />reported includes (where available): date of permit, permit type, permit number, status, valuation, contractor
<br />company, contractor name, and description.
<br />Incoming permit data is checked at seven stages in a regimented quality control process, from initial data source
<br />interview, to data preparation, through final auditing. To ensure the building department is accurate, each of the
<br />seven quality control stages contains, on average, 15 additional quality checks, resulting in a process of
<br />approximately 105 quality control "touch points."
<br />For more information about the EDR Building Permit Report, please contact your EDR Account Executive at (800)
<br />352 -0050.
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