Property Transfer Program

The Property Transfer Program (PTP) is run by the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) under the Property Transfer Law, sections 22a-134 through 22a-134e of the Connecticut General Statutes. DEEP's page, last modified April 13, 2026, says the PTP sunset on March 1, 2026, and that Public Act 25-6 Section 2 changes the definition of "Transfer of Establishment" to transactions that occurred on or before March 1, 2026, so form filings are not required for transactions after that date. It says properties already in the PTP continue to be investigated and remediated under it through verification unless they choose to transition to the Release-Based Cleanup Program.

In a Phase I ESA

ASTM E1527-21 does not name this program among its standard record sources. For a Connecticut property that changed hands before March 1, 2026, a Property Transfer filing may exist, and the date matters because DEEP's page ties the filing duty to the date of the transfer.

• It applied to "establishments." DEEP's page says that, for transfers before March 1, 2026, an establishment meant real property or a business operation where more than one hundred kilograms of hazardous waste was generated in any one month on or after November 19, 1980, except as the result of remediation of polluted soil, groundwater or sediment; hazardous waste generated at a different location was recycled, reclaimed, reused, stored, handled, treated, transported or disposed; dry cleaning was conducted on or after May 1, 1967; furniture stripping was conducted on or after May 1, 1967; or a vehicle body repair facility was located on or after May 1, 1967.
• The form number says what the certifying party knew. DEEP describes Form I as used when an investigation showed no release of hazardous waste or a hazardous substance, or when no release of hazardous waste had occurred and a Licensed Environmental Professional (LEP) had verified that any release of a hazardous substance had been remediated to cleanup criteria. Form II was used when a release occurred but the Commissioner had approved in writing, or an LEP had verified, that the pollution was cleaned up to criteria. Form III was used when environmental conditions were unknown, or a release occurred and was not cleaned up to criteria. Form IV was used when an LEP had verified all remediation actions except natural attenuation monitoring, post-remediation groundwater monitoring or recording an Environmental Use Restriction.
• A Form III carries deadlines. DEEP says the certifying party must provide a signed LEP investigation completion document within two years of DEEP's letter acknowledging a complete Form III, initiate remediation within three years, and, for a Form III filed after October 1, 2009, complete remediation within eight years to support an LEP final or interim verification.
• Some cases can move. DEEP says Public Act 25-54 Section 3 sets up a procedure for a certifying party that investigated its establishment in accordance with prevailing standards and guidelines to submit an LEP report cataloguing each release discovered there, and that once the report is accepted each release may be addressed under the Release-Based Cleanup Regulations.

DEEP's page describes how a release at a PTP site is handled as a Significant Environmental Hazard or a Significant Existing Release, depending on when it was discovered and, for a release discovered after the Phase II Report, on whether the evidence shows it occurred before that report. See Significant Environmental Hazards.

Where to look a site up

• DEEP's Contaminated or Potentially Contaminated Sites list says Property Transfer Program sites are among its sources.
• DEEP's Records Center page, content last updated July 2024, lists a Property Transfer List among the documents in its file review area and Property Transfers files dated from 1986 among its Remediation Division holdings.
• DEEP's page says schedule extensions may be requested, and fees paid, in its REACT portal. See the REACT page.

Getting the file

DEEP's Remediation Division Documents page, last modified March 18, 2026, says all Remediation Division files were removed from the file room and scanned into the DEEP Online Document Search Portal. DEEP's Records Center page, content last updated July 2024, lists Property Transfers under the Remediation Division. Neither page names Property Transfer files as scanned.

Sources

Department of Energy and Environmental Protection pages, read October 8, 2026:

• Property Transfer Program, last modified April 13, 2026.
• Environmental Quality Records Records Center File Room, no modified date shown; the page's footer reads "Content Last Updated July 2024".
• Remediation Division Files, last modified March 18, 2026.
• List of Contaminated or Potentially Contaminated Sites in Connecticut, last modified April 8, 2026.