Connecticut Transfer Act/Licensed Environmental Professional Services

Partner has experienced LEPs on staff that have an in-depth knowledge of the Connecticut Transfer Act, site investigation and remediation and a demonstrated track record of site closure under the Connecticut Transfer Act. Partners LEPs also have a detailed understanding of PCB site investigation and remediation. Partner’s LEPs have demonstrated experience and success closing Connecticut Transfer Act sites.

The Connecticut Transfer Act can have onerous implications as it relates to property transactions in Connecticut that involve substantial cost and time commitments by a Certifying Party (the responsible party). Partner’s approach to the Connecticut Transfer Act is to provide adequate site characterization to support remedial decisions, use creative approaches to solving complicated remediation problems and work with the client in their best interest to reach compliance with the Remediation Standard Regulations (RSRs).

Partner works with many of the largest and most well-respected developers, private equity firms, corporations, institutions, and attorneys in Connecticut on Connecticut Transfer Act sites. Partner’s LEPs are also the LEP of Record for some of the most complicated remediation sites in Connecticut.

Professional Engineering Services

Partner has a Connecticut licensed Professional Engineer (PE) on staff. Partner’s Connecticut office offers professional engineering services including full site/civil capability, landscape architecture, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) services, and land survey services.

Connecticut Project Experience

Since 2011, Partner has completed over 1,000 projects in Connecticut, including high-profile site investigation and remediation projects, building science evaluations, and due diligence assessments. Partner represents developers and lenders, responsible parties and corporations. Some recent projects and experience that provide insight into our Connecticut consulting practice include:

• Partner is representing a responsible party on a site contaminated with PCBs under a cease and desist order. This ongoing project has involved the representation of the landowner in discussions with the DEEP and United States Coast Guard and Attorney General. Partner has also negotiated a decontamination plan with the DEEP and EPA for the removal of PCB-contaminated equipment at the site.

• Partner has completed numerous site assessments for lenders and banks throughout Connecticut, including some of the world’s largest lenders. Our scope of services have included Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs), Property Condition Assessments (PCAs) and seismic Probable Maximum Loss (PML) reports on properties.

• Partner’s LEP has closed several sites in Connecticut under the Connecticut Transfer Act over the last year by filing LEP Verifications which have resulted in No Audit Letters. These complex projects have included site investigation, remediation, and development of site conceptual models, ecological risk assessments, and administrative filings.

• Partner has assisted our clients in investigating sites under the Connecticut Transfer Act in a manner that has allowed the submission of Form I negative declarations. To date, all of our Form I negative declaration filings have been accepted by the DEEP.

• Partner has recently represented a large corporation with environmental investigation activities to facilitate the closing of one of the largest transactions in Connecticut history. Our LEPs have worked closely on this project with attorney’s developers and corporations to help facilitate the transaction.

• Partner’s office works closely with our Boston office and has completed several large environmental site investigation projects over the last year. These have included a large industrial property in Boston, a PCB electrical equipment storage facility in Western Massachusetts, and numerous other sites.