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Spirit Environmental, LLC services

Air Dispersion Modeling Services

Success in air permitting requires the ability to perform air dispersion modeling. Spirit Environmental`s staff is extremely familiar with the mechanisms of air dispersion models, and how changes in stack and modeling parameters affect off-site concentrations. We are up-to-date with the latest models, including CALPUFF, AERMOD, and ISC. Spirit Environmental`s staff can work with your staff to make cost-effective emission reductions that minimize off-site concentrations.

Air Quality Permitting Services

Air permitting is Spirit Environmental’s primary strength. Spirit Environmental’s staff has prepared over 500 federal, state, and local air permit applications. Spirit Environmental’s air permitting work has ranged from simple applications to the most complex, including construction projects valued over one billion dollars. The types of air permits Spirit Environmental has successfully prepared and negotiated include:

Compliance Assistance Services

Spirit Environmental assists clients with environmental self-audits or third-party regulatory audits. Collectively, our staff has performed over 100 environmental audits in over 20 states and several foreign countries. We offer a variety of ways to assist with your auditing goal, including:

Environmental Due Diligence Assistance Services

Spirit Environmental has extensive experience with environmental due diligence assignments in the U.S. and abroad. Our staff has been involved in a variety of industries including refineries, petrochemical and chemical plants, utilities, and all types of manufacturing. Our extensive and detailed knowledge of air regulations, requirements, and pollution controls allows us to quickly identify environmental risks and liabilities in order to provide accurate capital cost estimates to bring a facility into compliance.

Emergency Planning Services

Spirit Environmental offers numerous services to ensure our clients are prepared when responding to emergency situations. Our experienced staff can help identify potential hazards by completing a thorough analysis of facility operations and developing detailed response action plans associated with those operations. Spirit Environmental not only offers the development of these plans, we assist in implementing these full-scale programs and conducting onsite training and training exercises to facility personnel. These services provide our clients with the knowledge required to familiarize individuals with their role in emergency response and enable them to successfully carry out their responsibilities. While regulations require written documentation of these plans, Spirit Environmental`s additional goals are to minimize the risks associated with emergencies and allow our clients to quickly return to normal operations.

Nepa Documentation Services

The National Environmental Policy Act (`NEPA`) requires all federal agencies to integrate environmental values into their decision-making processes by considering the environmental impacts of their proposed actions and reasonable alternatives to those actions. This is accomplished by preparing an Environmental Assessment and, if necessary, an Environmental Impact Statement of the impact of any federal decision or action that can affect the human environment. In their implementation of NEPA, most federal agencies have shifted the burden of developing the information necessary for such assessments to the applicant seeking permits, approvals or other actions on the part of the federal government. Spirit routinely supports our clients` needs for NEPA documentation through the conduct of specialty studies and analyses as necessary to comply with each regulatory agency`s unique permit application requirements.

Sustainable Development Services

Sustainable Development is the global environmental movement of the 21st century, and Spirit Environmental is ahead of the trend. At a time when other environmental consulting firms are beginning to add sustainability issues to their repertoire, Spirit Environmental offers staff whose involvement in “green” energy efforts goes back to 1990, when RCRA permits and requisite compliance requirements were first required for boilers and industrial furnaces recycling hazardous wastes as fuel.

Waste Management Services

Federal and state laws regulating the generation, storage, transportation, and disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous waste are becoming more rigorous. Spirit Environmental`s waste management specialists have extensive capabilities in interpreting these complex laws and determining a facility`s regulatory applicability in order to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. In addition, we help our clients improve their environmental performance and manage their environmental activities in a cost effective manner. Spirit Environmental`s hazardous and solid waste management experience includes a broad spectrum of facility classifications that range from Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generators (CESQGs) of hazardous waste to Large Quantity Generators (LQGs) of hazardous waste and industrial non-hazardous waste generators.

Water Quality Permitting Services

Spirit Environmental provides extensive expertise in water quality permitting, including storm water, wastewater, and utilities permitting services. The Clean Water Act (CWA) regulates the discharge of pollutants into the waters of the United States and regulates the quality standards for surface waters. Spirit Environmental assists clients in managing the quality and quantity of discharge to minimize or prevent the release of pollutants, as well as maintaining water quality in order to protect our largest natural resource and achieve compliance with federal, state, and local environmental programs.

Litigation/Enforcement Support Services

Virtually every environmental issue has a technical basis and a legal basis. Very few environmental consulting companies are able to bridge the gap between the two disciplines to provide the best advice to their clients. Spirit Environmental is one of the few who can. Spirit’s senior staff has the technical knowledge and experience with the legal process to provide the most comprehensive view possible of every issue we address. As such, Spirit Environmental is uniquely qualified to serve the needs of legal counsel seeking technical guidance or services.