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Environmental
Management
The Lamb Group can provide an Environmental Process Audit, Hazardous
Chemical Inventory, Pollution Prevention Plans, and Toxic Release
Inventory for your business or organization in addition to EPA mandated
Risk Management Program.
Please see below for more details |
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Environmental Compliance Audits
A compliance audit will identify which
EPA regulations apply in your facility and what actions are required to
ensure compliance. The benefits of compliance, apart from avoidance of
potential fines and penalties, include a safer working environment,
reduced injuries, and optimum community relations. This confidential
audit affords you the time to budget and schedule corrective actions.
Lamb Consultants will review your facility, property, equipment,
processes, chemicals, technology, and records to ensure you have written
programs, required permits, reports, standard operating procedures, and
record keeping in accordance with applicable rules and regulations. The
agreed scope of audit may include any or all of the following...
- Risk Management Program
- Clean Air Act compliance
- chemical inventories and evaluations
- emergency spills and release reporting
- Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-know Act (EPCRA) compliance
- Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) Title III (Form R)
- SARA (Tier I & II)
Following the detailed audit, you will
receive a confidential report confirming those aspects which are found
not to be in compliance, enabling you to take corrective action..
EPA Risk Management Program
Per section 112(r) of the Clean Air
Act, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is required to
promulgate regulations to prevent accidental releases of regulated
substances and reduce the severity of releases that do occur. The
Chemical Accident Prevention Plan Provisions require facilities that
produce, handle, process, or store certain chemicals to develop a Risk
Management Program, prepare a Risk Management Plan (RMP), and submit the
Risk Management Plan to the EPA.
Hazardous Chemical Inventory
Under SARA, Section 312, a facility is
required to prepare and submit Tier I/II reports to appropriate
agencies, if more than 10,000 pounds of any hazardous substance is
present at anyone time during the reporting year, or if 500 pounds or
the Threshold Planning Quantity (TPQ) whichever quantity is the lesser -
of a Section 302 Extremely Hazardous Substance is present at any one
time during the reporting year. This report is due March 1st of each
year. Lamb Consultants will assist you in determining your hazardous
chemical inventories and in preparing Tier I and/or Tier II reports, in
accordance with SARA requirements.
Pollution Prevention Plans
Pollution Prevention Plans are
required by EPA for all companies with air/water permits and for those
required to file Form R toxic release reports. In developing your
site-specific plan, Lamb Consultants will evaluate your facility and its
processes, develop a hazard analysis on emission sources and potential
sources of fugitive emissions, and develop emergency response
requirements and procedures.
Toxic Release Inventory (Form R)
EPA maintains a list, under Section
313 of SARA Title III, specifying more than 300 chemicals and chemical
groups known to pose a threat to human health and/or the environment. If
a company uses 25,000 pounds or more of any of these chemicals in
manufacturing or processing, or otherwise uses 10,000 pounds or more
during one calendar year, it is required to submit a Form R Report by
July 1st of each year. The company must also detail any pollution
prevention measures it has implemented and project how much pollution
will be reduced in the future, based on production projections and
ratios. In preparing your annual submission, we will identify how and
where hazardous waste is being disposed, perform release calculations,
analyze waste streams, collect facility information, and assist your
designated emergency contact to coordinate activities with your Local
Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC), in the event of an emergency.
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