Uniform Environmental Covenants Act
On Dec. 18, 2007, Act 68, the Uniform Environmental Covenants Act (UECA), was signed into law. Act 68 provides a standardized process for creating, documenting and assuring the enforceability of activity and use limitations on contaminated sites. Under UECA an environmental covenant will be required whenever an engineering or institutional control is used to demonstrate the attainment of an Act 2 remediation standard for any cleanup conducted under an applicable Pennsylvania environmental law.
DEP is obligated under UECA to maintain a registry for public display of covenants received. To meet that requirement, DEP has developed the Pennsylvania Activity and Use Limitations (PA AUL) Registry.
The PA AUL Registry is a user friendly map-based website that allows users to identify properties within the commonwealth where any type of Activity and Use Limitation (AUL) has been imposed and of which DEP has been informed. AULs are restrictions or obligations with respect to real property. The term includes engineering controls and institutional controls.
Click here to proceed to the Pennsylvania Activity and Use Limitations Registry
To assist with the implementation of UECA, DEP has developed the following documents for the publics use.
Questions regarding Pennsylvania's Uniform Environmental Covenant Act and its implementation may be sent to Troy Conrad at tconrad@pa.gov.
