ACP-5 Filing for White Plains Owners With NYC Projects

Let us clear up the geography first. An ACP-5 belongs to New York City. It governs projects inside the five boroughs and has nothing to do with a remodel in White Plains or elsewhere in Westchester, where asbestos work runs under the state's Industrial Code Rule 56 instead. Still, a lot of folks living or working up here own, manage or build down there, and this service exists for them. The ACP-5 is the Asbestos Assessment Report that the city's Department of Environmental Protection relies on, and the Department of Buildings wants it with most permit applications. Producing one means an investigator holding DEP certification walks through whatever the work will touch, samples questionable material where it makes sense and signs a statement that the project will not disturb regulated asbestos. When the inspection turns up asbestos the work would disturb, the route changes. That material has to come out first, under a project notification, and only then does the permit resume. We cover both paths. Inspection and report come first, and when removal proves necessary, the same team can scope it and do it. That keeps a builder from waiting on a permit while juggling two outfits and two piles of forms. Co-op boards, condo managers, landlords, expediters and GCs all use it.