Phase I & II Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs)

Blacktrail Environmental’s consultants in Bismarck, ND, specialize in Phase I & II Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs) at affordable prices! We work across many sectors, deliver comprehensive reports, and will give you expert advice once we’re done. Call to schedule a consultation.

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Experienced Team

Blacktrail Environmental’s professionals have completed over 2,500 Phase I ESAs across the country for lenders, investors, real estate trusts, public agencies, E&A firms, individual borrowers, airport and housing authorities, oil companies, the Small Business Association (SBA), and the USEPA. 


Our professionals specialize in conducting Phase I ESAs on hard-to-perform industrial and oil-field facilities. We pride ourselves on providing comprehensive reports with the appropriate recommendations if evidence of a Recognized Environmental Condition is identified.

About Our Phase 1 ESAs

Blacktrail's Phase I ESAs meet the definition of the standard of good commercial and customary practice for an environmental site assessment of a parcel of property, the goal of the processes established by this practice is to identify "recognized environmental conditions". 


The term "recognized environmental conditions" means the presence or likely presence of any hazardous substances or petroleum products on a property under conditions that indicate an existing release, a past release, or a material threat of a release of any hazardous substances or petroleum products into structures on the property or into the ground, groundwater, or surface water of the property. 

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    The term includes hazardous substances or petroleum products even under conditions in compliance with laws. The term is not intended to include de minimis conditions that generally do not present a threat to human health or the environment and that generally would not be the subject of an enforcement action if brought to the attention of appropriate governmental agencies. Conditions determined to be de minimis are not recognized environmental conditions.


    Petroleum Products are included within the scope of this practice because they are of concern with respect to many parcels of commercial real estate and current custom and usage is to include an inquiry into the presence of petroleum products when doing an environmental site assessment of commercial real estate. Inclusion of petroleum products within the scope of this practice is not based upon the applicability, if any, of CERCLA to petroleum products.

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Quality Reports & Expert Advice

Count on Blacktrail Environmental for expert advice following the completion of the Phase I ESA report and we can discuss your next step in the process. Again, our professionals have been performing Phase I ESAs for over 25 years. Our staff is looking forward to assisting you with your environmental liabilities!

About Our Phase II ESAs

A Phase II environmental site assessment (ESA) sometimes follows a Phase I ESA to identify the presence of hazardous substances at the property including but not limited to those within the scope of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) pollutants, contaminants, petroleum and petroleum products, and controlled substances and constituents thereof. It is performed with procedures based on the scientific methods to characterize property conditions in an objective, representative, reproducible, and defensible manner. The Phase II ESA objectives include transparency in communicating and interpreting sampling results, and specifies adherence to requirements for documenting the scope of assessment and constraints on the conduct of the assessment process.

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    This practice contemplates that the user and the Phase II Assessor will consult to define the scope and objectives of investigation in light of relevant factors, including without limitation the substances released or possibly released at the property, the nature of the concerns presented by their presence or likely presence, the portion of the property to be investigated, the information already available, the degree of confidence needed or desired in the results, the degree of investigatory sampling and chemical testing needed to achieve such confidence, and any applicable time and resource constraints. 


    This practice requires that Phase II activities be conducted so that the resulting scope of work is performed, and the stated objectives are achieved, in a scientifically sound manner.  

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Call (701) 527-0274 for more details on our Phase I & Phase II Environmental Site Assessments.

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