BlueScape Environmental services

You may have to obtain an air permit before beginning a project that will generate increased air emissions. The city may not allow occupancy of your project until the air permit approval has been secured. A number of costly consequences can result from not understanding the air permitting process and not knowing the right agency people. Permitting delays, loss of exemptions, unnecessary control equipment and source testing costs, and numerous compliance requirements are all issues that will hinder operational flexibility and result in loss of business revenue.

BlueScape works with you to design a permit feasibility study that helps you understand your air permitting options and the consequence of different options on your company`s future operations.

Air dispersion models are tools to assess impacts from air pollution sources. Why are these tools important? Air permit applicants must show that potential air quality impacts will not exceed specific health thresholds. If used before pollution sources are actually built, air dispersion models can be more advantageous than air monitoring.

Global Warming has become a hot environmental issue. `Going green` has become good business practice. Increasingly, customers, agencies, and communities expect businesses to be part of the solution, not the problem. However, relatively few have accounted for GHG emissions.

How can we possibly stay in compliance? Air quality permits and regulations can require source testing, recordkeeping and emissions reporting to verify compliance. To avoid violation notices and/or expensive fines, a solid air quality compliance management program must be in place.

For industrial projects that will result in air toxic emissions, public health risks can become a central point of debate within the public forum. Many state and local air agencies have created health risk assessment requirements for various industries and chemicals. The agencies require that company processes do not exceed established health risk impact thresholds. In California, companies can be sued under Proposition 65 for alleged significant community health risk impacts.

What technical information do we need to successfully present our case? Is your company being sued for alleged, significant off-site air toxic impacts? BlueScape will assist you through the litigation process: We will provide you with expert support for air toxic tort litigation cases, including Proposition 65. We will review the plaintiff`s air toxics health risk and exposure assessment assumptions for scientific validity. We will determine methods needed to refine predicted health risks, using the latest air dispersion modeling tools and exposure assessment techniques. Whether your case is dropped, goes to settlement, or to court, BlueScape will work with you and your attorney to establish and present the facts.

Your company plans to operate a new industrial process, but you need to calculate air emissions for an air permit application or health risk assessment required by a regulatory agency. Or, you want to know if air emissions will cause smoke or odors that would be a nuisance to your neighbors.

CEQA and NEPA require air quality impacts to be identified and mitigated in environmental impact reports (EIRs). BlueScape can help develop complete air quality impact sections of EIRs: We will characterize the existing air quality. We will calculate short-term and operational air quality emissions. We will determine potential air quality impacts using dispersion models. We will recommend mitigation options for impacts that may be significant.

BlueScape provides comprehensive services to help companies and public agencies manage the quality of discharges to sewers, surface waters or wastewater processing systems. We have extensive experience working with the construction industry and industrial facilities to eliminate or minimize water discharge streams, as well as experience advising on how to minimize stream concentrations to meet health guidelines.