Industrial Siting Permitting and Compliance
Compliance with regulations by industry has always been important, whether that is in obtaining permits in a timely and efficient manner or in maintaining operations in alignment with those permits. The evolution of the concept of sustainability, or resiliency, and the embrace of that concept by shareholders has elevated compliance and operating smartly to an even higher level of importance.
S&ME has a long history of supporting industrial operations across a variety of business sectors encompassing site selection, new construction, plant expansion, refurbishment of aging infrastructure, merger and acquisition opportunities, and decommissioning/demolition. Our service starts with being your trusted advisor and focuses on solutions that are environmentally-protective and sustainable, yet optimize your control of capital and operations and maintenance costs within the context of regulatory requirements, corporate goals and community partnership commitments. Our services include:
Air Quality Services
We assist industry in establishing an efficient and manageable program for compliance with requirements under the Federal Clean Air Act and Amendments and State equivalents by providing:
- Dispersion modeling
- Permitting – construction and operating; major and minor
- Controls design
- Emissions inventories
- Stack testing plans
- Risk management plans
- Risk and hazards analysis beyond the fenceline
Water and Wastewater
We assist industry in establishing an efficient and manageable program for compliance with requirements under the Federal Clean Water Act and State equivalents by providing:
- Direct discharge permitting
- Discharge to potw permitting with and without pre-treatment
- Treatment system design/optimization
- Whole effluent toxicity identification and reduction evaluation
- Total maximum daily loads/mixing zones evaluation
- Withdrawal permitting and inter-basin transfer
- Sampling for discharge monitoring reports
Waste Management
S&ME assists industry in establishing an efficient and manageable program for compliance with requirements under the Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and State equivalents by providing:
- Waste identification and characterization
- Waste disposal permitting and management
- Waste reduction evaluations and re-use options
- Beneficial use demonstrations
Ongoing Facility Operations
Environmental regulatory compliance can be a complicated endeavor with the layers of requirements that may pertain to facility operations. We assist industry by clear and concise analysis of regulations applicability and provide integrated time- and cost-efficient approaches to achieving, maintaining and documenting compliance through:
- Multi-media compliance audits
- Compliance guides and manuals
- Operational plans
- Recordkeeping algorithms and spreadsheets
- Annual right-to-know reporting
- Community involvement/interaction support
Siting and Planning
As business grows and changes, facility and site infrastructure to support that growth and change can be impacted. We assist industry in front-end loading evaluations of consequences and identification of options and then execution of those changes through:
- Environmental constraints analysis for site selection
- Integrated exit strategy development and execution management
- Decommissioning surveys
- Demolition planning and management
- Sustainability reviews and evaluations