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Property Tax Files
These files are maintained by the local jurisdiction where the property is located and
may include records of past ownership, appraisals, maps, sketches, photos, or other
information pertaining to the property.
Building Permits
The local government agency in charge of building permits maintains records of
buildings and/or demolition on the property.
Local History
Local historical groups often write the history of their area and often include local
businesses, both past and present, in these histories.
7.1.4.3 Regulatory Records Review
The activities involved in this section include further research of a parcel's regulatory history.
This research involves completing a regulatory agency file review for each Phase I ESA site
identified in the regulatory database search and summarizing relevant information. For
example, if a site was identified on a USEPA, OEPA, and/or BUSTR database during the ESA
Screening, then a regulatory agency file review must be conducted. Any pertinent registration,
closure, corrective action, engineering controls, institutional controls, covenants, and/or release
notification information should be reviewed, summarized, and documented in the report.
Typically, copies of the chain of custodies, lab data already presented in a data table, QA/QC
reports, etc. should not be included. This information is particularly important for sites where
the regulating agencies have determined that no further actions are required. These sites
typically achieve this status through a site specific risk assessment. The risk assessment does
not address the waste status for these materials and they often have deed restrictions which
will effect the construction and/or ROW acquisition for the transportation project. The pertinent
raw data from the file review shall be included in an appendix to the report. Examples of this
raw data includes, but is not limited to: soil and groundwater analytical data (tables of
laboratory results will suffice in place of rather lengthy laboratory analytical printouts, as long as
all the laboratory results from the printouts are in the tables), maps that depict the location(s) of
the UST(s), pump island(s), vent pipes, contamination, monitoring wells, soil borings, etc. This
data should be included even if the site has received an NFA. Typically, copies of the chain of
custodies, lab data already presented in a data table, QA/QC reports, etc. should not be
included. If a regulatory database review was not conducted during the ESA Screening process
through either an environmental database search firm or through an ODOT GIS search, then
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