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Hazardous Materials and Waste Management Division
Environmental Records Search

Environmental Records Search is a service offered by the Division for a fee to search division databases for sites within a set radius of a site of interest.  The Colorado Board of Health approved a $25.00 per hour fee for staff time expended on an Environmental Record Search (formerly Environmental Audit).  

The record search looks through our databases for known or reported regulated events at or in the vicinity of a specified property. The record search contains no evaluation of the potential environmental impact to the site, nor does the report generated constitute a Phase I Environmental Assessment of the property. Further, the absence of information on a particular parcel or property does not necessarily mean that there are no problems connected with the property.  Access to records is provided under the Colorado Open Records Act.

Databases

We currently search databases noted below for the address/property name and the one-half mile to one mile radius of the requested property you have supplied.

• Methane gas study (1979)

• Investigation of Methane Gas Hazards (1981 Denver Metro)

• CERCLIS (Superfund) & ARCHIVE LIST (No further remedial action planned)

• Solid Waste (current or open landfills)

• Historical Solid Waste (closed or abandoned landfills)

• UMTRA (Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Sites and Vicinity Properties)

• NPL (Superfund/Remediation)

• RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act) Generators list

• RCRA TSD list (Treatment, Storage, And Disposal Facilities) l mile search

• VCRA (Voluntary Cleanup and Redevelopment Act)

ASTM Standards

We are aware that the new ASTM industry standard requires an area search of our various databases as part of a Phase I Environmental Assessment.  A search is made of the above listed databases/lists within a one-half mile radius of the requested address with the exception of hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal facilities (TSDF) and National Priorities Lists (NPL or Superfund), which are searched within a 1 mile radius.

We have current maps of the Denver metro area and will use these maps to pull streets for an area search. We do not have up-to-date maps of all the rural areas. However, if you supply a map indicating street names in the vicinity of the requested site, it will be used in performing a radius search. The search supplied meets the ASTM Standards. Our current turnaround time for this report generation is between 10 to 12 days.

Requests for an Environmental Record Search

To request an Environmental Record Search, you must supply the following information:

Name of your firm
Address to mail report
Address to bill (if different)        AND

Site name or residing company for requested site
Street address
City, zip code, county
Aliases, if any
Geographic coordinates or Township/Range/Section for rural areas
Copy of a map showing requested site, if located outside the Denver area 

Send requests to:

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
HMWMD Records Center
4300 Cherry Creek Drive South
Denver, Colorado 80246-1530
FAX: (303) 759-5355
e-mail: comments.hmwmd@state.co.us

Public Review

You may make an appointment to perform the environmental record search yourself by calling our Records Center at 303-692-3331 or (1-888-569-1831 ext. 3331 toll-free).  Public review hours are 8 am - 12 pm and 1 pm - 5 pm, Monday - Friday, excluding state holidays.