A Phase I Environmental Site Assessment is how a buyer or lender gets All Appropriate Inquiries (AAI) under CERCLA — the innocent-landowner / bona fide prospective purchaser path. It is a records-and-reconnaissance job, not a sampling job. The value is entirely in whether the environmental professional found the history and called the Recognized Environmental Conditions (RECs) honestly.
Hiring someone who rubber-stamps “no RECs” on a former dry cleaner or marina is how you buy a tank field. Hiring someone who invents RECs to sell a Phase II is the other failure mode.
What “qualified” means here
ASTM E1527 and the AAI rule have an environmental professional definition (education + experience). Beyond the credential: they have to know Gulf Coast site types — marinas, shipyards, timber, gas, agriculture — and they have to go to the site.
Cypress Environment & Infrastructure performs Phase I ESAs. We will not quote a fee on this page; the scope depends on the property.
Questions about how this applies to a Gulf Coast site? Cypress Environment & Infrastructure works from Biloxi, Mobile, and Pensacola. Office hours are Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Start at Contact us or Services.