SIN 899-2
Environmental Compliance Services
The services EQ provides for SIN 899-2 include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Environmental compliance audits
- Pollution prevention
- Permitting (air, hazardous waste, wastewater, solid waste)
- Underground storage tank services
- Spill prevention, control, and countermeasure plans
- Solid waste management plans
- Hazardous waste management plans
- Spill contingency plans
- ISO 14000/Environmental Management Systems
- Emergency Planning and Community Right to-Know Act reporting
- Environmental baseline surveys
- Air emissions inventories
- Community relations
A brief discussion of our capabilities for providing these services follows.
EQ has comprehensive broad-based experience in the development of environmental regulations and interpretation, development of plans to meet environmental regulations, and compliance auditing. EQ has evaluated new technologies and automated systems in support of environmental compliance activities performed under SIN 2. We routinely provide environmental compliance services relating to regulatory requirements under the Clean Water Act (CWA); Clean Air Act (CAA); Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA); Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA); Pollution Prevention Act (PPA); Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (HSWA); Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA); and state and local environmental laws.
EQ has a large staff dedicated to multi-media environmental compliance services. Examples of these services include regulatory applicability assessments, preparation of permit applications for construction and operation of new installations and equipment, preparation of release prevention and response plans, environmental reporting assistance, pollution prevention studies, environmental compliance data management system development, environmental compliance and management program development, and compliance audits.
We also assist with permit notifications and with compliance measurement/monitoring, recordkeeping, and reporting, and we will develop site-specific environmental compliance management tools (e.g., database systems, compliance management plans, calendars) to facilitate future compliance efforts. We understand the challenges of environmental compliance management and can assist by developing information management systems and modifying management tools that will ease ongoing compliance efforts.
As part of our multimedia assessment services, EQ provides compliance assistance with requirements that cross different media. This assistance includes annual reporting under EPCRA (i.e., toxic release inventory [TRI] reporting and hazardous chemical inventories) and multimedia compliance auditing. EQ staff have completed TRI and hazardous chemical inventory reports for more than 100 facilities since 1991.
EQ typically performs pollution prevention projects as part of a client's overall strategic environmental management program or as part of media-specific source reduction projects. We will guide or serve as a member of a facility's pollution prevention team. After characterizing sources, we identify source reduction methods and technologies and evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of each alternative. EQ staff also help to establish the benchmark or baseline for the reduction and the best method for measuring progress toward the goal of zero discharge.