1.1 This guide presents a framework for a stakeholderfocused Consensus-based Environmental Decision-making (CBED) process, which is a stakeholder-empowered, process to prioritize and select actions to be initiated with the goal of optimizing many types of environmental decisions that may affect a community or communities.
1.2 This guide is intended to describe a highly flexible CBED process, and therefore does not recommend a specific course of action for this activity.
1.3 This guide is intended to assist in implementing a CBED process, which allows assessing the full impact of any projector issue-related decisions related to human health, ecological, socio-cultural or economic impacts.2
1.4 This guide is not intended to replace existing environmental decision-making or public participation processes. It may be used with other processes or standards that address stakeholder involvement in environmental decision-making.
1.5 Limitations—This standard does not address the specific methods for generating or evaluating technical data related to assessing a particular environmental issues. The user should seek other sources on methods to gather information for completion of models or other analyses that may be used during a CBED process. This standard may not fully address the rights of owners of real property or the potential impact (positive or negative) on the value of real property of a decision made using this process.
ASTM E2348-17 Referenced Document
ASTM E1739 Standard Guide for Risk-Based Corrective Action Applied at Petroleum Release Sites
ASTM E1984 Standard Guide for Process of Sustainable Brownfields Redevelopment
ASTM E2205 Standard Guide for Risk-Based Corrective Action for Protection of Ecological Resources*, 2024-04-21 Update
ASTM E2876 Standard Guide for Integrating Sustainable Objectives into Cleanup*, 2020-11-01 Update
ASTM E2348-17 history
2024ASTM E2348-24 Standard Guide for Framework for a Consensus-based Environmental Decision-making Process
2017ASTM E2348-17 Standard Guide for Framework for a Consensus-based Environmental Decision-making Process
2006ASTM E2348-06(2010) Standard Guide for Framework for a Consensus-based Environmental Decision-making Process
2006ASTM E2348-06 Standard Guide for Framework for a Consensus-based Environmental Decision-making Process