The
EPA's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI)
Program requires that industries report annually on
the release of over 600 toxic chemicals. These chemicals are
released to the air, land, and/or water. The reports
are posted online for the public to view so that communities can
see what is being released into their environments. To learn
more about reporting or viewing TRI data, visit the EPA's TRI
Program webpage by clicking
here.
August Mack specializes in
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During the last ten years, August Mack's eCAP program (Compliance
Assurance Program) has expanded and grown from a regional
initiative to a national program that has served more than 100
facilities. The genesis of the program began in 1998 and the
natural evolution has seen the eCAP program morph into a fully
functional sustainable Environmental Management System
(EMS) and in one instance, approved as a Supplemental
Environmental Program (SEP).
According to our
clients, the top four benefits...
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There are two ways to help the
bottom line...spend less or make more. Let's talk about spending
less. Several ways to spend less are to buy less or get a better
deal on the things you are buying. But one area where a facility
could end up spending money that can be unpredictable is if you had
to pay a monetary fine for violating an US EPA or state
environmental regulation. These monetary fines can be
costly! Additionally it projects a very poor public
image of the organization that can...
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It can be daunting, trying to maintain compliance in an
ever-changing regulatory world. Really, it is too large and onerous
of a job for any one person to hope to maintain by themselves. New
regulations are promulgated all the time and older regulations can
be spotlighted at any moment. Support is needed in order to
keep track of both old and new regulations as well as their affect
on a facility. This is where August Mack and its Compliance
Assurance Program (eCAP®) is of
assistance. To learn...
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Your company has enough to worry about, let August Mack's
Compliance Assurance Program (eCAP) lighten the load by ensuring
your environmental, health, and safety compliance. There are
many benefits to this program including:
- File organization
- Fixed cost structure
- Technical expertise
- Institutional knowledge
To learn more about eCAP, visit
http://www.ecapsolution.com/ or
call August Mack at 317.916.8000.
Do you have an Environmental
Compliance Specialist on your staff to ensure you are in compliance
with all of the regulatory requirements? If you have a problem, do
you have the right environmental compliance solution? It's not
always as easy as you might think.
There are a lot of places to ascertain information but navigating
through the maze of regulations and staying up-to-date with all the
changes can be challenging. If you Google the issue, are you
confident that the items you are looking at...
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The initial step of August Mack's
Compliance Assurance Program (eCAP®) is to complete a
comprehensive audit. There are numerous advantages to this audit.
First and foremost, it provides a company with a summary that
breaks down and describes which regulations apply to the audited
facility. Without having comprehensive knowledge of what applies to
a facility, it is nearly impossible to maintain compliance or
implement a strong, thorough compliance program. Not only does the
audit highlight...
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This webinar will review the
changes to the Part 201 Environmental Remediation Rules implemented
by Michigan legislature and signed by the Govenor in early December
2010, which include changes to Michigan’s Baseline Environmental
Assessment Program.
To register for this February 24th
Michigan Environmental
Compliance webinar, visit
augustmackevents.webex.com.
Under the new construction and
development rule for storm water discharge, the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) Construction General Permit (CGP) is to be
changed, and the deadline is June 30, 2011. The new CGP will
incorporate a range of sediment and erosion controls and pollution
prevention measures (authorized states will make similar changes).
And, starting August 1, 2011, larger construction sites must sample
and test runoff to meet certain criteria.
Additionally, EPA expects to issue...
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The Ohio Environmental Protection
Agency (Ohio EPA) is issuing a renewal of the National Pollutant
Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) general permit that would
authorize storm water discharges associated with industrial
activity. This permit may result in changes to your facility’s
storm water program, including new storm water sampling protocols.
This webinar will discuss the new permit terms and conditions, as
well as safety considerations for sampling procedures.
To register for this April...
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What is your biggest fear when the
person in your organization who has managed all of the
environmental compliance programs decides to leave the company? If
the regulatory inspector shows up at your facility shortly
thereafter, are you confident you can easily demonstrate
compliance? Hopefully you can answer a resounding “yes”. But, in
the majority of cases, the person who is now chartered with this
responsibility feels like they are “walking on thin ice” for an
extended time. The goal in your...
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One of the
components of an annual compliance certification (ACC) report
is source compliance information. In this section of the report, a
facility must indicate its compliance status with respect to its
permit conditions.
-
Continuous compliance
- the ENTIRE reporting period the facility had no
deviations from a given permit condition.
-
Intermittent compliance
- a deviation has occurred from a given permit
condition.
Additionally,
the facility must indicate how the compliance status was...
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I am Tom
Anderson with August Mack Environmental. August Mack is a
full-service environmental, health and safety compliance consulting
firm that has been in business for over 22 years. Our goal is to
provide common sense business solutions to any EH&S issue when
companies and organizations need help from the outside. We do a
wide range of work but it typically falls into several areas of
expertise. One major area is our compliance group that
concentrates on many of the day-to-day compliance...
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Any company
using eCAP® can feel confident knowing that the
following is occurring:
- Consistent and
proactive environmental, health and safety program
inspections
- Collect and maintain all
pertinent corporate environmental compliance data
- Processes are reviewed
- Reporting is conducted
- Electronic repository of
all environmental, health and safety
compliance records
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eCAP® (Compliance Assurance Program provided by August
Mack Environmental can prove to be a significant cost savings for
most facilities. Below are a few ways eCAP® can provide
a cost savings to your facility:
- eCAP® is ideally suited to help a facility achieve
and/or maintain environmental compliance.
- eCAP® outsources a facility’s EH&S duties to a
team of experts for a fixed monthly cost.
- The program can save a manufacturing facility money in both
implementation and administrative costs.
- The...
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Whenever you want to improve in a
specific area or program, just the process of increasing awareness
with the stakeholders will yield improvements. If you want to
improve your Environmental
Compliance Programs, letting the personnel who have
the greatest impact know about all the issues will help facilitate
improvement. Tracking results and communicating this information
also will help your mission.
If you want to minimize energy usage, post information that
describes how the personnel in your...
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August Mack's Compliance Assurance
Program (eCAP®) provides facilities with a team of
environmental compliance consultants with expertise in all
areas of environmental, health and safety
(EH&S) regulatory compliance. This team will implement,
review and maintain the EH&S management system that ensures
compliance with current and future regulations. You need a team!
Have us join your team.
August Mack
specializes in environmental, health and safety compliance;
environmental due diligence;...
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