DEP Asbestos Assessment Report
ACP-5 Filing on Staten Island
The asbestos survey and signed report that keep your Department of Buildings permit from stalling.
The Asbestos Paperwork Behind a Staten Island Permit
Staten Island is one of the five boroughs, so building work here runs through the city's Department of Buildings and the DEP asbestos program. For most DOB permit applications, the city wants to know whether the work will disturb asbestos. The ACP-5, the Asbestos Assessment Report, is how that question gets answered. The signature on it belongs to a DEP-certified asbestos investigator, and it goes on only after that investigator has surveyed the area your job will touch. The survey is the part that matters. The investigator inspects the work area, identifies suspect materials, samples them and has them analyzed by an accredited lab. Clean results for the scope of work mean the ACP-5 gets completed and joins the permit application. If asbestos is present and the work will disturb it, the report says so, and those materials get abated under a project notification before any permitted work begins. Either way, you know where you stand before the filing goes in. Homeowners planning an alteration, contractors and expediters lining up permits, and co-op boards and managers approving apartment renovations all need this step handled cleanly. A filing built on a careful survey is one that does not come back to hold up your job.
What the ACP-5 Service Includes
Survey, lab work and the report, handled as one sequence.
Review of the planned work
The scope on your permit application decides exactly which areas need surveying.
Survey by a DEP-certified investigator
The work area inspected and every suspect material identified.
Sampling and lab analysis
Samples taken and analyzed by an accredited laboratory, each tied to its location.
Signed ACP-5 report
Completed and signed once the survey shows your scope stays clear of regulated material.
Clear answer when asbestos is found
Which materials are positive and what abatement they need before the permit work.
Abatement path if needed
Removal under a project notification, so the job can move to permit once it is done.
Coordination with your team
Your architect, expediter or GC gets the findings directly, so the filing package matches.
Records for your file
Survey findings and lab results kept together for the building's records.
How the Filing Comes Together
Share the permit scope
Tell us what the application covers: an apartment renovation, a basement conversion, a storefront fit-out, a demolition. That defines the survey area.
Survey and sample
The DEP-certified investigator inspects the area, samples suspect materials and sends them to an accredited lab. You hear what each result shows.
Sign or abate
Nothing regulated in the work path: the ACP-5 is signed and handed off. Something regulated in the path: it gets removed first, and the filing follows.
Why It Pays to Get This Right
Fewer permit surprises
A thorough survey means the filing reflects what is really in the walls and floors.
One team end to end
If removal is needed, the same people who found it can scope and abate it.
Straight answers on results
You know what was positive, what was not and what that means for your timeline.
- DEP-certified investigator
- Accredited lab results
- Survey before filing
- Abatement path ready
Permit Application Waiting on an ACP-5?
Tell us what the job covers and where it stands. You will hear how the survey runs, what the report covers and the plan if a sample comes back positive.