All4 Inc. services

The ability to continuously monitor and gather data to assist our client’s air compliance programs is an important part of ALL4 services.  Whether we are supporting a client in identifying the optimum continuous in-stack, pollutant monitoring system to address the requirements for a new rule, gathering real time ambient pollutant concentration data for regulatory planning purposes, or monitoring meteorological data to as part of the permitting effort around a client’s new project , ALL4 staff have years of experience with these activities.  Our monitoring work is often a critical aspect of the strategic planning process intended to support our client’s growth and success.  Our capabilities in each monitoring area are discussed in the following subsections.

Providing the highest level of air quality compliance support available to our clients is part of the underlying foundation of our company.  People working in all business sectors talk about the concept of “ownership” and as a result it often seems like another buzzword.  For us at ALL4, the concept of ownership is very real and very practical.  When we work with our new hires to develop this ownership mentality the example is simple.  You are not just here working on a report for this facility Kansas, you are the manager of the plant and this report to the agency will impact the success of your facility, the owners, and all of the employees working there.  We preach this mentality to our new folks and live it with the seasoned - along with the notion that if our clients are successful, we’ll be successful.

There was a time when air dispersion modeling was a minor subset of the services that ALL4 provided to our clients.  Modeling was typically conducted to support PSD permitting or state-specific air toxics requirements, for visibility analyses for assessing impacts on Class I areas, or to support the development of multi-pathway or inhalation health risk assessments.  All of that has changed with the establishment of the new short-term NAAQS for SO2, NOX and fine PM.  In 2011 U.S. EPA issued guidance directing states to include air dispersion modeling results along with available ambient monitoring data when establishing SO2 attainment designations.  When this approach was paired with the stringent new 1-hour standards, air quality modeling became a critical tool, not only for evaluating compliance, but as importantly, for strategic facility planning.

ALL4 provides environmental services to our clientele in many different ways – both traditional and non-traditional.  One service delivery option that has proven to be effective in many instances occurs under the Environmental Program Management label.  While the Environmental Program Management services can be provided in many different ways, a particularly effective version is based on the concept of ALL4 as an extension of the facility or corporate environmental staff.  Under this scenario, ALL4 can provide services for a particular service area (e.g., air quality) or across all media (e.g., air, water, and waste).  While ALL4’s core service area is recognized as air quality, our staff includes personnel with years of multi-media plant experience and expertise in non-air media.

The pace of regulatory and legislative activity related to climate change has increased exponentially.  U.S. EPA continues to move forward aggressively with proposed and final rulemakings that require facilities across the entire national economy to report, obtain permits for, and potentially reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs).  In addition, while previously regulated on the outer fringes of air quality, the GHG Tailoring Rule has integrated GHGs into the primary air permitting considerations and evaluations.

Obtaining a permit to construct for a new major source or for a major modification at an existing major source is arguably one of the most challenging tasks facing environmental managers today.  Increasingly stringent national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS), changes in attainment designations, nuances in State air permitting programs, revised U.S. EPA interpretations and guidance, rule revisions (e.g., tailoring rule,) and regulation by litigation (i.e., precedence) have made an already complex program even more complicated.  The two new source review (NSR) permitting programs that apply to major sources, prevention of significant deterioration (PSD) and/or nonattainment new source review (NNSR) are often viewed by sources as “dead-end” options to be avoided at all cost.

Understanding the impacts of current and future regulations is vital to our client’s businesses. All4 provides clients with Multimedia Regulatory Analysis on a variety of fronts with ALL4’s RegTech playing a prominent role. Areas in which ALL4 provides Multimedia Regulatory Analysis include: -EnviroReview™ -Regulatory Development Tracking -Developing regulation response comments on behalf of clients -Regulatory Applicability Analyses and Compliance Demonstration Our analyses focus on customization to our client’s specific operations and needs while being visionary and realizing our client’s long term goals. Our services range from ALL4’s environmental regulatory update product EnviroReview™ to commenting on impending regulations on behalf of our clients.