For New York City properties
ACP-5 Filing for Commack Owners and Contractors
Own, manage or build in the city? We arrange the asbestos survey and the assessment your Buildings permit depends on.
So What Is This ACP-5 Everyone Mentions?
Lots of people who live around Commack have a stake in the city: a two-family rental in Queens, a co-op renovation in Manhattan, a retail fit-out in the Bronx for a client. Projects like these bump into a rule that has no equivalent out here. Within the five boroughs, the Department of Environmental Protection operates a separate asbestos program, and the Department of Buildings expects an asbestos assessment with most permit applications. That assessment is called the ACP-5, or Asbestos Assessment Report. How does it work? An investigator holding a DEP certificate surveys whatever area the planned work will touch and samples materials that might contain asbestos. If the findings show the work stays clear of regulated asbestos, the ACP-5 gets the investigator signature and then accompanies the permit application. When the findings show the work would disturb asbestos, the material must be abated first, by a licensed contractor working under a project notification, before the job can move on. Commack Asbestos Removal coordinates the survey, the assessment and any abatement the survey calls for, so the permit side of your city project does not stall on asbestos. One clarification matters here: properties in Commack and elsewhere in Suffolk County do not use the ACP-5 at all. Out here, asbestos work runs under New York State rules, chiefly Industrial Code Rule 56, and we follow those on every local job.
What Goes Into ACP-5 Help?
For owners, builders and property managers with work in the city, these are the pieces we coordinate.
A look at the scope
The planned work and the permit type reviewed up front.
The investigator's survey
Every affected area walked by an investigator with a DEP certificate.
Samples and lab work
Possible asbestos materials collected and run by an accredited lab.
The ACP-5 itself
The signed assessment, ready for the Buildings application when no regulated asbestos is disturbed.
Abatement if the survey finds it
Licensed removal under a project notification whenever asbestos stands in the way.
Air sampling
Independent air checks while any abatement runs and once it wraps up.
Updates for your people
Your expediter, architect or general contractor kept current as each document moves.
An organized file
Survey findings, lab reports and filings kept together for later inspections.
How Does an ACP-5 Get Done?
Tell us about the city job
Which borough, what kind of building and what work is planned. From that we work out whether an assessment applies and what the survey needs to include.
Survey and samples
The certified investigator inspects the affected area and collects samples, which an accredited lab then analyzes.
Sign, or abate and then sign
With no regulated asbestos in the way, the ACP-5 is signed for your application. With asbestos in the way, it is abated first under the right notification, with air sampling, and the paperwork follows.
Why Hand Us the City Paperwork?
Your permit stays on track
Survey dates are set with your application timing in view.
No second contractor search
If the survey turns up asbestos, the same team can handle the abatement.
Clear talk about the rules
You hear what the city expects on your job and, just as important, what it does not.
- DEP-certified investigator
- Lab-backed findings
- Ready for the permit
- Abatement crew ready
Permit Application Stuck on the Asbestos Question?
Tell us the borough and the work involved. We will explain whether an ACP-5 applies and what getting one involves.