AES’s environmental consultants, subsurface evaluators, and Licensed Site Remediation Professionals (LSRPs) will help guide you through the difficult process toward environmental compliance. Because no two sites are exactly the same, AES offers solutions tailored to your site and your goals. The major remedial milestones are described below by report type in the general order that they would be performed. Not all sites will need to go through all of the remedial phases, and other reports may be needed based on site conditions. The process ends at the issuance of a Response Action Outcome (RAO) by and LSRP or a letter of No Further Action (NFA) by the NJDEP.
ISRA
The Industrial Site Recovery Act (ISRA) is a unique environmental law which requires the remediation of certain business operations (site) prior to their sale or transfer or upon its cessation of on-site business operations. Industrial Establishment is the defined term in the ISRA rule that describes those businesses regulated under ISRA. The remediation of “industrial establishments” has been law in New Jersey since 12/31/83. Compliance with ISRA begins at the time of specified triggering events. If your business is planning on moving, selling or closing please contact us and we will be happy to verify if you are subject to ISRA.
The following reporting phases are part of the ISRA process as well as most Site Remediation Program (SRP) sites.
General Information Notice (GIN)
GINs are the first step in the ISRA process. Five (5) days after an ISRA triggering event, a GIN must be submitted to the NJDEP, which serves as a notice to the NJDEP that the ISRA investigation is starting and gives the facility an ISRA number for future document submittals.
Preliminary Assessment Report
Preliminary Assessments are very similar to Phase I ESAs, but are required for submission to NJDEP for ISRA cases, to issue a site-wide Response Action Outcome, or help determine that contamination is migrating onsite from an offsite source.
Site Investigations
A Site Investigation is an invasive process where a qualified professional will take soil and groundwater samples to verify is contamination is present. If the Site Investigation concludes that the soil and/or groundwater is impacted than a Remedial Investigation is needed to delineate the extents of the contamination. This information will be used to determine the best remedial action for the Client.
Remedial Investigations
Once contamination is identified on a site, as part of NJDEP requirement, the responsible party has to confirm the extents of contamination (horizontally and vertically). AES will develop a plan to attempt to delineate the soil/groundwater contamination.
Remedial Action
Once the contamination is delineated; AES will develop various remedial options for the Clients to make the best business decision on how they want to proceed to remediate the site. We believe that every Client has different goals, some want to clean the site up as fast as possible some want to stay in compliance and spend as little as possible.
Response Action Outcome (RAO)
The LSRP issues an RAO to indicate that Areas of Concern or the entire site has been investigated and requires no further action. Contamination may remain onsite because of other Areas of Concern, contamination coming onsite from an offsite source, or has been controlled by engineering and/or institutional controls. An RAO can be issued after each remedial phase including Preliminary Assessment, Site Investigation, Remedial Investigation, and Remedial Action.
Underground Heating Oil Tank (UHOT) Investigations
AES performs UHOT investigations which can consist of Underground Storage Tank (UST) testing, UST removal, delineation and/or remediation. After completion of UHOT investigations, NJDEP will issue a letter of No Further Action (NFA).