ASTM E2091-11
Standard Guide for Use of Activity and Use Limitations, Including Institutional and Engineering Controls
- Standard No.
- ASTM E2091-11
- Release Date
- 2011
- Published By
- American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
- Status
- Replace By
- ASTM E2091-17
- Latest
- ASTM E2091-22
- Scope
Activity and use limitations are typically used in conjunction with risk-based decision-making principles in Federal, state, tribal, and local remediation programs, or where residual chemicals of concern remain following an evaluation of risk or following the implementation of a remedial action (see American Bar Association''s Implementing Institutional Controls at Brownfields and Other Contaminated Sites; EPA''s Institutional Controls: A Site Manager''s Guide to Identifying, Evaluating and Selecting Institutional Controls at Superfund and RCRA Corrective Action Cleanups; EPA’s Interim Guidance Regarding Criteria Landowners Must Meet in Order to Qualify for Bona Fide Prospective Purchaser, Contiguous Property Owner, or Innocent Landowner Limitations on CERCLA Liability (Common Elements Guide); and EPA''s Strategy to Insure Institutional Control Implementation at Superfund Sites). The principal purposes of activity and use limitations are to:
Eliminate exposure pathways for, or reduce potential exposures to, chemicals of concern;
Provide notice to property owners, holders of interests in the property, title companies, utilities, tenants, realtors, lenders, developers, appraisers and others of the presence and location of chemicals of concern that may be present on the site;
Identify the objectives and goals of each activity and use limitation;
Identify the exposure assumptions upon which each activity and use limitation is based;
Identify the site uses and activities which, if they were to occur in the future, would be appropriate and consistent with maintaining a condition of “acceptable risk” or “no significant risk”;
Identify the site uses and activities which should NOT occur in the future (unless further evaluation and remedial action, as appropriate, are undertaken), as those activities and uses may result in the exposure of persons or ecological receptors to chemicals of concern at or near the site in a manner that is inconsistent with a condition of “acceptable risk” or “no significant risk”;
Specify long-term stewardship objectives, and the entity which has responsibility for developing stewardship programs and paying for achieving those objectives, including any periodic statements or certification(s) of compliance; and
Specify long-term performance standards, such as operation and maintenance obligations, or monitoring of an engineering control, that are necessary to ensure that the objectives and goals of activity and use limitations continue to be met.
Activity and use limitations should be implemented to eliminate exposure pathways for, or reduce potential exposures to, chemicals of concern. The following are some examples of situations where an activity and use limitations may be appropriate:
Impacted ground water exists at a site where an alternative water supply is available. A restriction may be placed on the use of ground water for any purpose other than monitoring, or a restriction may place requirements for well construction or evaluation of treatment of ground ......
ASTM E2091-11 Referenced Document
- ASTM E1527 Standard Practice for Environmental Site Assessments: Phase 1 Environmental Site Assessment Process
- ASTM E1912 Standard Guide for Accelerated Site Characterization for Confirmed or Suspected Petroleum Releases
- ASTM E2081 Standard Guide for Risk-Based Corrective Action
- ASTM E2247 Standard Practice for Environmental Site Assessments: Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Process for Forestland or Rural Property
ASTM E2091-11 history
- 2022 ASTM E2091-22 Standard Guide for Use of Activity and Use Limitations, Including Institutional and Engineering Controls
- 2019 ASTM E2091-19 Standard Guide for Use of Activity and Use Limitations, Including Institutional and Engineering Controls
- 2017 ASTM E2091-17 Standard Guide for Use of Activity and Use Limitations, Including Institutional and Engineering Controls
- 2011 ASTM E2091-11 Standard Guide for Use of Activity and Use Limitations, Including Institutional and Engineering Controls
- 2005 ASTM E2091-05 Standard Guide for Use of Activity and Use Limitations, Including Institutional and Engineering Controls
- 2000 ASTM E2091-00 Standard Guide for Use of Activity and Use Limitations, Including Institutional and Engineering Controls
