The BEA is a means of limiting the liability for clean-up of existing contamination for future property owners who do not contribute to, or worsen, contamination of a site. The process consists of establishing the conditions at a contaminated site by completing a BEA prior to ownership/occupancy, and thereby obtaining certain exemption to the liability for clean-up. The scope of work includes the followin

• Documentation of Pre-existing Contaminant Conditions
  • Category N - No future use of hazardous substances
  • Category D - Different hazardous substances than currently present
  • Category S - Same hazardous substance uses
• Documentation of proposed uses of the Subject Property
  • Intended uses of hazardous substances
  • Method of differentiating the existing contaminant conditions from a future release