NESHAP Notifications Tied To Demolition Activity, January 2009 to April 2015

NESHAP is a program of the United States Environmental Protection
Agency that regulates hazardous air pollutants and ensures that construction and
demolition activities are in compliance with federal regulations. As a part of
this program, the State of Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ)
requires notification from all contractors conducting alterations (either
rehabilitation or demolition) on structures that have the potential to contain a
hazardous substance such as lead or asbestos, regardless of whether the
structure is actually found to contain the hazardous material. Because of this
requirement, NESHAP notifications are an excellent proxy for identifying
structures that have been demolished.
This dataset contains information on NESHAP notifications that have
been identified as tied to demolition activity. The notifications date from 2009
through April, 2015, and have been sourced from the MDEQ's website as well as
several tables obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. The data
contain information on the contractors for each demolition, the start and end
date for the notification, and whether the property was surveyed as a
residential structure in the 2009 Detroit Residential Parcel Survey.
Metadata associated with this file includes field description metadata and a narrative summary detailing the creation of the dataset.
The work to produce this file fell under the Motor City Mapping
project. For more information on this project, please visit
www.motorcitymapping.org.