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Georgia environmental records for a Phase I ESA

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Georgia environmental records for a Phase I ESA

This section is written from the pages of one state agency, the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD). EPD names its Land Protection Branch as the branch to contact about brownfields, hazardous waste, investigations and cleanups, scrap and used tires, solid waste, surface mining and underground fuel storage tanks, among other subjects, so most of the programs in this section belong to that branch. This page maps each kind of record ASTM E1527-21 asks for to the Georgia program behind it, and links a page on each program.

The standard record types, in Georgia

ASTM record type Georgia program Agency
State Superfund equivalent Hazardous Site Inventory. EPD calls the Hazardous Site Response Act Georgia's state superfund statute. EPD
Landfills and solid waste sites Regulated Solid Waste Facilities EPD
Leaking storage tanks Underground Storage Tank releases and corrective action EPD
Registered storage tanks Underground Storage Tank registrations EPD
State hazardous waste facilities No single Georgia list is paired here. The Georgia records that bear on it are on the Hazardous Waste Management Program page. EPD
Institutional and engineering controls Uniform Environmental Covenants, which is EPD's list of properties under a covenant: one kind of control. Use restrictions on brownfield properties show in the Brownfield Public Listing, described on the Brownfield Program page. EPD
Voluntary cleanup sites Voluntary Remediation Program EPD
Brownfields sites Brownfield Program EPD

How far each search reaches is on the ASTM search distances page.

Other Georgia records worth reading

These are not on ASTM's standard list, but each answers a question a Georgia Phase I runs into.

One agency, two Atlanta offices and seven district offices

The Land Protection Branch works from two Atlanta offices, and its files are split the same way.

  • Tradeport office, 4244 International Parkway, Suite 104: the Solid Waste Management Program, the Recovered Materials and Abatement Program and the Underground Storage Tank Management Program.
  • Floyd Towers office, 2 Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. SE, East Tower: the Response and Remediation Program, the Hazardous Waste Management Program, the Hazardous Waste Corrective Action Program and the Risk Assessment Program.

The Response and Remediation Program is where the cleanup lists meet. Its units keep the Hazardous Site Inventory, the brownfield public record, and the public records for voluntary remediation properties and properties under environmental covenants.

EPD has seven district offices. Its Emergency Response Program operates from them, and EPD sends general questions and complaints to the district office that serves the county. Underground injection permits are in a different branch, the Watershed Protection Branch.

Other bodies appear at the edges. EPD says the most common exemptions from the Georgia underground storage tank rules are heating oils, tanks used to run heating equipment, boilers and furnaces, and aboveground storage tanks, and it sends questions about heating tanks and aboveground tanks to the local fire department, the city or county government, or the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Do not read the absence of an aboveground tank from an EPD list as the absence of a tank.

Searches that cross EPD's programs

  • GEOS, the Georgia EPD Online System. EPD describes it as a web-based portal where the regulated community submits permit applications, reports and fee payments for several programs, among them Underground Storage Tank, Brownfield, Voluntary Remediation Program, Solid Waste and the scrap tire programs. Its Public Inquiry Portal is organized by submittal, and EPD's voluntary remediation page says no account is needed to view the documents there.
  • Search for a Complaint, the public side of EPD's Complaint Tracking System.
  • EPD's eServices page also links ECHO, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's search of facilities' compliance with environmental regulations.

Getting a file from EPD

A listing says a record exists. The reports and letters are in the file. EPD gives two routes.

  • An open records request. Since March 30, 2026, EPD requires requests under the Georgia Open Records Act to go through its Open Records Request Portal and not to the email address it used before. EPD says that after the first 15 minutes, fees are assessed for the search, retrieval, duplication and supervised inspection of the documents.
  • A file review appointment. If you know which files you want, EPD asks that you make an appointment by email. Its downtown office holds the files for hazardous waste, brownfields and the Voluntary Remediation Program. Its Tradeport office holds the files for underground storage tanks, solid waste, and lead and asbestos. The email address for each office is on EPD's Land Branch Open Records Requests page. If files must come from the records center, EPD asks for 7 to 10 days. The downtown file review line is 404.657.8600 and the Tradeport line is 404.362.2687.

Copies cost money. EPD charges $0.10 for a black and white single-sided sheet and $0.20 for a color sheet, and accepts exact cash and checks. Reviewers may photograph documents with a phone or bring their own scanner. More detail is on the Georgia EPD Online System and file reviews page.

Sources

Georgia Environmental Protection Division pages, read October 7, 2026:

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