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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published its proposed 2022 National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Construction General Permit (CGP) for public comment. The following synopsis summarizes several key changes from the current 2017 CGP.

Your facility’s Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines (RICE) can be subject to two federal air regulations that are very complex and confusing. Requirements are dependent on many factors including stationary vs. mobile, area source vs. major source, new vs. existing and whether or not the engine is for emergency use. Aegis has broken down these definitions into an easy-to-follow fact sheet...

In order to maximize business growth and avoid unforeseen costs, it is important to know ahead of time what potential environmental aspects must be considered for a new business venture or project. Planning ahead of time to meet required compliance objectives will reduce later expenses in retrofit or remediation, and limit potential legal costs for non-compliance.

Corporations, and the environmental compliance professionals serving at or for them, need a variety of tools to manage the many varied and dynamic requirements of environmental regulations. Frequently, personnel (from operators to supervisors to engineers) are asked to manage compliance for regulations on which they have little to no formal training; while the demands of their main job tasks often does not allow sufficient time to effectively understand such complex environmental regulations.

One of the easiest ways to save operating costs is by managing waste streams properly from the start. This is true of everything from office wastes to process wastes. Regardless of whether a business growth venture or project involves a new facility or improvements to an existing operation, consideration of waste generation and its appropriate management should be included early on in the planning stages. Perhaps the easiest way to do this is to consider the facility or process as a box.

Your Inspector just called to let you know that tomorrow will be your Environmental Inspection, perhaps in water or air or waste. As you put it on the calendar, you are wondering what the Inspector might find, and worrying about which items could result in violations that are problematic to your facility, and therefore to you…. There are some easy ways to prepare for your inspection that will help it go smoothly. Obviously, being in total compliance with your permits 365 days a year is the very best way to manage an inspection.