Environmental Compliance Consultant

The Safety and Environmental Base Module is the foundation of eCAP^®. This module is designed to provide ongoing solutions to environmental compliance requirements. It provides routine interaction with the environmental compliance consultant experts and plant personnel to ensure consistent environmental regulation compliance and program improvement. This can be accomplished at three levels: program development, program implementation and compliance monitoring. In addition, training can be provided to employees to establish an understanding of the facility’s environmental, health and safety mission. At least one of these options are required and selections of additional options is dependent upon the facility’s compliance needs.

It is estimated leaking components in facilities nationwide emit more than 40,000 tons of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) each year. Recent EPA audits suggest that actual facility leak rates are over five times as much as what had been previously reported. The EPA is increasing enforcement and more facilities are becoming applicable to Leak Detection and Repair (LDAR) program requirements through the Clean Air Act via New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) and National Emission Standard for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) regulations.

This informative webinar will detail applicability requirements of facilities subject to LDAR program from NSPS and NESHAP regulations. The webinar will also explore implementation options that facilities have to fully execute LDAR.

Click here to view this recorded webinar presented by an August Mack Environmental Compliance Consultant.

Since its inception in 1999, eCAP^® has been implemented for more than 100 clients throughout North America. When trying to determine the top benefits of eCAP, we asked our clients what they thought and four top benefits were mentioned: file organization, fixed cost structure, technical expertise and preservation of institutional knowledge.

Since its inception in 1999, eCAP^® has been implemented for more than 100 clients throughout North America. When trying to determine the top benefits of eCAP^®, we asked our clients what they thought and four top benefits were mentioned: file organization, fixed cost structure, technical expertise and preservation of institutional knowledge.

The benefit of a fixed cost structure is one of the best features of eCAP according to our clients. Our clients demand superior service at a reasonable cost. The only way we can accomplish this is to ensure our eCAP^® service managers are highly trained and knowledge about a wide variety of compliance issues. Doing the job right, the first time reduces our cost and is paramount to the success of the eCAP^® program. Providing a fixed cost structure to our clients for a set service agreement is what our clients demand and ultimately what we give them.

To learn more about how eCAP^® can save your facility money on its environmental compliance programs, click here to read an article written by one of the environmental compliance consultants at August Mack Environmental.

An environmental compliance consultant specialist from August Mack Environmental is likely to ask the following questions regarding waste during the environmental compliance auditing process:

• What is their hazardous waste generator status (CESQG, SQG, LQG or TSDF)?
• Is all waste properly characterized (sludges, dust, etc.)?

• Review all record keeping, manifests and reports
• Inspect all satellite accumulation and hazardous waste storage areas
• Review Universal Waste program

An environmental compliance consultant specialist from August Mack Environmental is likely to ask the following questions regarding SPCC Plan during the environmental compliance auditing process:

• Do they have or do they need a SPCC Plan?
  • Is it updated? Are they following it? Is it PE-certified? Does the plan have all of the necessary elements?
• Where are spill kits located?

• Review all record keeping
• Look at all oil storage areas
• Look at housekeeping

August Mack Environmental, Inc., a full-service environmental, health and safety (EH&S) consulting firm, is pleased to the promotion of Bennett Thayer to Office Manager for the Dublin, Ohio office. Since joining August Mack in 2004, Thayer has served as a field scientist, staff scientist and project manager.

With more than eight years of experience, Thayer specializes in local, state and federal environmental compliance; environmental, health and safety (EH&S) servicing and reporting; environmental management program development and implementation; biological assessment and environmental investigations; groundwater monitoring; subsurface investigations; underground storage tank (UST) closure; environmental site assessments; wetland determinations and delineations; remedial system operations and maintenance; work plan design and implementation; asbestos surveys; Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) preparation and implementation; and Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasures (SPCC) Plan preparation and implementation. In his new role as an office manager, Thayer will be responsible for managing the office’s daily operations, providing technical oversight for projects and managing the office’s growing staff. According to Bryan Petriko, vice president and principal environmental engineer for August Mack, “During the past six years at August Mack, Ben has shown exemplary strength in leadership, technical knowledge, resource management and client management. These qualities made him an excellent choice for the Office Manager position of our Ohio office. I am confident that our Ohio office will continue to flourish under his leadership.”

Thayer received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Environmental Science from Otterbein College.

August Mack Environmental, Inc. is a full-service environmental, health and safety (EH&S) consulting firm specializing in regulatory compliance; environmental due diligence and risk management; site investigation/remediation/closure; and sustainability services to the industrial, legal, financial, health care and government sectors throughout North America. August Mack has offices in Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio and Pennsylvania. For more information on the company’s products and services, call 317.916.8000 or visit www.augustmack.com.

An environmental compliance consultant specialist from August Mack Environmental is likely to ask the following questions regarding storm water during the environmental compliance auditing process:

• Do they have or do they need a storm water permit?
  • Is it updated? Are they following it? Does the plan have all of the necessary elements?
• Where are spill kits located?
• Any sampling requirements? 

• Review the Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP)
• Review all record keeping and reports
• Look at “high risk” areas
• Look at housekeeping

An environmental compliance consultant specialist from August Mack Environmental is likely to ask the following questions regarding wastewater during the environmental compliance auditing process:

• Are they fulfilling the permit requirements?
• Are all reports being submitted on-time and correctly?
• Are all plans developed that are required in the permit (Slug Control Plan, etc.)? Are they following and updating plans, as necessary?
• Is record keeping being completed as required?
• When are the permits due to be renewed?
• Are there any planned expansions?

An environmental compliance consultant from August Mack Environmental also will:

• Look at all permitted discharges and processes.
• Look at discharges that are not permitted and determine whether or not they should be permitted.
• Review the analytical results, DMRs, etc.

• When does ICP apply?
• What is necessary to complete the ICP?
• How long will the ICP process take?
• What closure document is offered by ICP?
• What are ICP limitations?

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) universal waste rules are set forth in 40 CFR Part 273. These regulations streamline hazardous waste management standards for federally designated “universal wastes.” Although other wastes have been mentioned for inclusion into the universal waste rules at the federal level, the current universal wastes include batteries, pesticides, mercury-containing equipment and bulbs (lamps). States can modify the universal waste rule and add additional universal waste(s) to individual state regulations.

To learn more about Universal Waste, click here to read an article written by one of the environmental compliance consultants at August Mack Environmental.

An environmental compliance consultant specialist from August Mack Environmental is likely to ask the following questions regarding air during the environmental compliance auditing process:

• Is the facility fulfilling the permit requirements?
• Are all reports being submitted on-time and correctly?
• Are all plans developed that are required in the permit (CAM, ERP, OM&M, etc.)? Are they following and updating plans as necessary?
• Is record keeping being completed as required?
• Have stack tests been completed?
• When are the permits due to be renewed?
• Are there any planned expansions?

• Look at all permitted equipment and processes (air emissions inventory)
• Look at equipment and processes that are not permitted. Should they be permitted?
• Inspect the roof and look at all stacks
• Review MSDS of any coatings, paints, etc.

• Indiana
• Ohio
• Michigan 
• Pennsylvania 
• Missouri

For those underground storage tanks that are not exempt, Federal UST Regulations are divided into three sections:

• Technical Requirements
• Financial Responsibility Requirements
• State Program Approval Objectives

• Permits
• Environmental Plans
• Environmental Reports
• Record keeping and inspection documents
• Training documentation
• Regulatory agency correspondence
• Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
• Purchasing records

• Sprayed on / troweled on insulation
• Thermal systems insulation (TSI)
• Miscellaneous: drywall, plaster, resilient flooring materials, adhesives or ceiling tiles

During the site walk/inspection portion of an environmental compliance auditing process, an environmental compliance specialist from August Mack Environmental will:

• Try to tour the facility's operations in the sequence of the process
• Ask questions
• Note information on the site/facility map
• Look everywhere (roof, outfalls, maintenance rooms, basement, etc.)
• Note "floor practices"
• Look at surrounding neighbors

• Nosebleeds
• Headaches
• Upper respiratory issues
• Potential fire hazards
• AC coil failures causing metal deterioration and copper turning black

August Mack Environmental developed eCAP^® (Compliance Assurance Program) in 1999 based on the needs of our clients. At the time, corporations were downsizing resulting in the following:

• Loss of institutional knowledge
• Lack of regulatory justification
• Need for improved efficiency
• Significant cost and effort in re-training

Additionally, our clients indicated they were spending a great deal of time and money to stay abreast of ever-changing regulations.

Listening to our clients, August Mack reviewed traditional consulting procedures and evaluated the "true" cost of compliance for our clients. (In 1999, the U.S. Small Business Administration reported that environmental compliance cost a manufacturing facility between $1,800 and $4,000 per employee per year.) As a result of the needs of our clients, eCAP^® was developed as an environmental, health and safety compliance outsourcing service.

Today, more than 60 facilities utilize eCAP^® to manage their day-to-day environmental, health and safety compliance needs.

In the tight economy, companies are tightening belts when comes to environmental, health and safety services. For many, cost cutting measures include overhead, salaries, work force and merging job descriptions within departments. Environmental regulation compliance is often put in the hands of individuals who little to nothing about environmental compliance requirements.

Ideally suited to help a facility achieve and/or maintain EPA environmental compliance and state environmental compliance, eCAP is several things:

• Electronic repository: EH&S records all in one place.
• Accurate budgeting: Administering environmental regulatory compliance as a fixed monthly cost.
• Allows the facility to focus on productivity: eCAP frees your mind knowing you can focus on your business.
• Cost Savings: Save a manufacturing facility money in implementation and administrative costs.
• Real Time Document Management: Ensures consistent, reproducible, reliable environmental compliance that can be tracked on a real time basis.