Chapter 1 - § 1.1 • INTRODUCTION

• Jurisdiction: Colorado

§ 1.1 • INTRODUCTION

Federal, state, and local environmental regulations all significantly affect the ownership and transfer of real property. The regulations and standards that owners and operators must meet generally fall into one of three categories. First, there are qualitative objectives based on the uses that a community wants for particular property. Such objectives, which are not numeric, can be stated in terms of general goals, such as having water that is clean enough for swimming or soil that is clean enough for kindergartners to eat. Second, there are regulations that translate the qualitative objectives into quantifiable standards for soil or water quality. These regulations establish numeric standards for soil and water quality that owners and operators of property must meet. Third, there are emission or effluent standards and...