Industry Use Case - Tracking Environmental Liens

Industry Challenge #1

Goal

Identify environmental liens that are recorded with the Clerk of US District Court in the district where the contaminated property is located.

Issues

Environmental liens create financial and legal challenges for property owners and complicate title insurance policies.

Need

Detailed site assessments and proactive monitoring of EPA records on contaminated sites and surrounding parcels are critical for underwriters and stakeholders.

First American Can Solve It

First American Data & Analytics can find properties using your specific criteria.

Tracking Environmental Liens

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is tasked with overseeing compliance and enforcement of environmental laws. If EPA determines that real property and land have been contaminated by hazardous material, it can place a lien on the property and obligate the owner to clean up. The liens are filed with the Clerk of United States District Court in the district where the contaminated property is located.

Title insurance companies take exception to Environmental Liens in the title policy. It is important that underwriters have up to date and detailed information on sites that EPA has declared contaminated and the parcels on, and in the vicinity of, the site that could potentially be impacted.

The example below illustrates the site of The Iron Horse Park Superfund. The 553-acre industrial complex is located in North Billerica, Massachusetts. A long history of industrial activities at the site, beginning in 1913, has resulted in the contamination of soil, sediments, groundwater, and surface water. Site cleanup, operation and maintenance activities, and environmental monitoring are ongoing.

Key Benefits

Identify properties affected by environmental liens.

Our Spatial Data

Industry Challenge #2

Goal

Identify a nationwide portfolio of properties owned.

Issues

You have acquired properties through M&A and the data is inaccurate, outdated or not centralized.
You want to validate the rights and restrictions on your parcels so you are not paying unnecessary taxes and understand your interest in each parcel in your portfolio

Need

Conduct a nationwide search of every property in the US to identify yours.

First American Can Solve it

FADNA Professional Services can strategically run a custom project using your data in an iterative process.

The Data Used

We provide all possible Owner Names, Situs & Mailing Addresses, and APNs. The DNA experts will find any property with one or more of those filters for your team to review.

Our Data Output

We use a custom set of property data from Assessor, Recorder, & Parcel Boundaries. We map and dive deep into the data to find patterns and use DataTree.com, the DNA online research tool to access documents and additional data. We then feedback your findings to the DNA Professional Services team to hone in on your properties and weed out any that aren't.

Our Spatial Data

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