ASTM Group Recommends Clarifying Role of VI in Phase 1 Reports

The task group that is working on revisions to ASTM E1527-05 is recommending that the standard clarify the role of vapor intrusion in phase 1 site assessments.
The standard is being reviewed as part of the five-year renewal process. Several task groups within the work group that is responsible for E1527 have been established to make recommendations on various aspects of E1527.
The task group on non-scope items agreed to recommend to the work group that the standard be revised to clarify that the vapor intrusion pathway DOES NOT fall within the indoor air quality non-scope item and that EPs must consider the vapor intrusion pathway in phase 1 reports just as they would the soil and groundwater pathways.
The group will be recommending that a new Business Environmental Risk (BER) appendix be added to the standard that will provide EPs with guidance on the non-scope items of section 13.
Finally, the task group is recommending that purpose of E1527 be expanded to satisfying the all appropriate inquires rule adopted by the Coast Guard for the Oil Pollution Act. E1527 already includes petroleum releases within its scope so the task group felt it made sense to include references to the OPA AAI rule.
In a prior post, I discussed the recommendations of the task group that was reviewing the definition of HREC.
These recommendations will be discussed by the work group at the upcoming ASTM meeting in San Antonio.