For projects in the five boroughs
ACP-5 Filing for Bay Shore Owners and Contractors
Your building or job site sits inside city limits? The asbestos assessment attached to most permit applications gets surveyed, signed and put on file.
One Report Standing Between You and a Permit
Lots of people who live around Bay Shore keep property or run work inside the city. A two-family rental in Ridgewood. A restaurant fit-out in Astoria. A general contractor whose crews split the week between Suffolk and Manhattan. If that sounds like you, the ACP-5 will come up sooner or later. Formally, it is the Asbestos Assessment Report from the city's Department of Environmental Protection. Most Department of Buildings applications need one attached any time the permit work steers clear of regulated asbestos. Only a DEP-certified asbestos investigator may prepare and sign it, and only after inspecting the spaces the work will touch. When the report is missing or late, a permit can sit untouched while trades and owners wait. One point worth repeating: this is strictly a city program, covering Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island. Houses and businesses out here answer to New York State's Industrial Code Rule 56 and never file an ACP-5. And if the investigator finds asbestos that your permit work would disturb, the report alone will not do. That material must come out first, with a project notification filed and the removal done by a licensed contractor. We handle that half as well, so the city project does not stall twice.
What the ACP-5 Service Covers
From the walkthrough to a report on file, here is what gets done for your city project.
Survey of the work area
A DEP-certified asbestos investigator walks every room the permit scope covers.
Sampling where needed
Anything questionable sampled and sent to an accredited lab to back up the findings.
Signed assessment report
The ACP-5 written up and signed by that certified investigator.
Filing with the city
The report lodged so it can ride along with your Buildings application.
Abatement if asbestos is found
If the scope would disturb asbestos, removal under a project notification is scheduled ahead of the permit work.
Coordination with your team
Status updates for your expediter, architect or GC, so no one is left guessing.
How an ACP-5 Gets Done
Describe the city project
Share the borough, what sort of building it is and what the permit covers. Those answers set the rooms the investigator needs to see.
Survey and assess
The DEP-certified investigator visits, inspects that area and samples anything doubtful. Lab results show whether the permit work would disturb regulated asbestos.
Sign it, or remove first
A clean survey means the report gets signed and lodged with the city. A positive one means removal is lined up before the permit work begins.
Why Contractors Hand Us the ACP-5
Survey and removal under one roof
A positive finding does not send you hunting for a second company.
Clear about where it applies
City forms for city buildings, state rules for Suffolk ones. No mix-ups about what you owe.
Your team kept informed
Expediters and builders always know where the report stands.
- Certified investigator
- Survey and sampling
- Report filed
- Abatement ready
Have a Permit Waiting on an ACP-5?
Which borough, what type of property, how big the permit scope is: start there. We will lay out how the walkthrough runs, how the report gets lodged and what follows if asbestos shows up.