• Environmental Site Assessments
• Environmental Compliance Audits
• Compliance Management Planning (Tracking, Reporting)
• Pollution Prevention, and
• Permit Application, Tracking and Coordination

Environmental Site Assessment: Environmental Site Assessment is a necessary step in any real estate transaction. In addition, environmental assessments are used to establish the 'Innocent landowner' defense provided by the Federal superfund laws or to obtain written assurances under state-specific investigations and clean-up programs. Sources of environmental contamination can exist on any type of property and may include underground and aboveground storage tanks, asbestos and lead contaminated building materials, construction on prior landfills and disposal sites, and past chemical use, storage and management activities on site. In performing national Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments, Amtec uses guidelines provided by the American Society of Testing Materials (ASTM).

Environmental Compliance Audits provide government agencies with an understanding of the laws and regulations that apply to their operations, assess their current compliance status, evaluate their existing environmental management systems, and recommend corrective actions to bring operations into compliance. They can be used to establish organization's environmental, safety and health policies and procedures. Amtec provides compliance audit services to help comply with existing Federal, state, and local environmental regulations and identify conditions that represent potential environmental liabilities. As a part of the compliance audit, a list of recommendations and a cost estimate for maintaining compliance is submitted to the management and facilities personnel. A pre-audit checklist is prepared to assist in identifying each facility's compliance areas. These compliance areas include wastewater discharges, air emissions, chemical spill control, underground storage tanks, OSHA requirements, community right-to-know reporting, hazardous waste generation, waste storage, waste treatment and disposal.

Compliance Management Planning includes development of management plans, policies, procedures, training, documentation, and assessments in support of compliance management programs and operations. Amtec provides technical expertise and assistance in review, evaluation and interpretation of pending, modified, and final environmental laws, regulations, standards and policies. In addition to legal and regulatory reviews, assess the applicability of codes, standards and industry best management practices pertaining to environmental and waste management issues. Amtec provides monitoring and corrective actions; compliance reports and studies; management reviews and assessments; quality assurance plans; and facilitation of agency-wide planning and program implementation activities.

Amtec's compliance management planning, tracking and reporting services include development of information management systems, office procedures, and administrative controls to support environmental compliance and waste management activities. Also included are the reviews and development of data management programs, procedures and automated systems for compliance management including audit and appraisal findings.

Pollution Prevention: Pollution prevention (P2) services assists federal organizations in moving beyond minimum compliance with environmental regulations to identifying and implementing waste reduction activities that often reduce waste management costs. Amtec pollution prevention professionals can evaluate individual or organization wide processes and operations to identify P2 opportunities that can be achieved through source reduction or elimination, as well as waste stream reuse and recycling.

• P2 planning and oversight
• P2 auditing/ assessments
• Preparing engineering cost analysis and evaluating funding requirements for implementation of P2 projects
• Performing regulatory reporting and internal organizational reports
• Outreach and training
• Creation or revision of P2 policies and procedures
• Establishing and instituting P2 affirmative ("green") procurement

Once processes and operations that have the greatest potential to realize significant P2 benefits are identified and prioritized, Amtec will evaluate the candidates to determine whether alternative production methods or processes could be used to eliminate, reduce or recycle waste streams. When a P2 technology or strategy is selected for a process, the implementation of the chosen technology or strategy is monitored to ensure that its intended benefits are realized. The results of these efforts have been significant savings to the industry and the government in direct material and manpower costs and the benefits of increased compliance, reduced disposal volumes, and reduced waste management, transportation and storage costs.

All of the above environmental compliance services are offered by Amtec and include training and technical assistance, plan development, organizing and facilitating teams, establishing inventories of hazardous materials and waste streams, conducting pollution prevention and waste minimization opportunity assessments, and evaluating the economic and technical feasibility of process changes, material substitutions, and recycling alternatives. Our environmental specialists participate in program assessment and management reviews; develop databases to track progress of achieving pollution prevention goals; and develop and implement pollution control technologies, processes and procedures.

Permit Application, Tracking and Coordination includes identification and development of required environmental permit applications and supporting documentation and analyses; permit planning, assessment, and tracking; permit application renewals and modifications; and interface and coordination with regulators and permitting officials.

To deliver these services Amtec will assist government agencies in defining the scope of work and review with them the major tasks and sub-tasks involved. From the task definition, Amtec's qualified environmental specialists will establish the boundary conditions and customer expectations regarding the outcome of the audit, environmental plan, survey, or permit. Once the agreement is reached with the customer agency, Amtec's extensive library of reference material will be consulted for up-to-date laws, regulations and policies that will drive the analysis toward resolution. Based on the findings, recommendations are formulated and a plan of action is developed to implement necessary actions. As a measure of quality control, all findings and plans are submitted to independent peer review prior to the final publication. Finally, the government agency is apprised of their specific environmental responsibilities.