Environmental Services Consulting

• Transactional Due Diligence (Phase I & II ESA)
• Brownfields Redevelopment
• Brownfields Applications, Corrective Action Plans & Compliance Status Reports
• Site Characterization/Soil & Groundwater Studies/Remedial Design
• Vapor Intrusion Assessment & Management
• Human Health & Ecological Risk Assessments
• Optimization of Monitoring & Remediation Systems
• Ecological & Natural Resources
• Pre-Demolition Building Surveys (Asbestos, Lead-Based Paint, Mold & Radon)
• Comprehensive Industrial Hygiene Capabilities (IAQ & Exposure Assessments)
• Occupational Safety & Health Plan Reviews, Development & Training
• Storage Tank Management, Removal & Closure
• Hazardous Waste/Materials Management & Permitting (RCRA/CERCLA)
• Landfill Siting, Characterization & Design
• Solid Waste Materials/Residuals Management & Permitting
• Regulatory Compliance & Permitting (Air, Water, EMS Development)
• Expert Legal Support (Expert Witness Testimony)

The NOVA environmental team applies its knowledge of federal and state regulations, technical skills, and analytical abilities to provide innovative solutions to its Clients’ complex environmental challenges. We partner with our Clients to ensure that the environmental aspects of their on-going operations comply with applicable regulations and permit conditions. We also routinely prepare permit applications for new and modified commercial and industrial facilities that involve working closely with both Client and regulatory agency personnel, and participating in or leading public stakeholder outreach activities. Further, NOVA’s environmental professionals closely track rulemaking proceedings and newly adopted rules and assess their business risk and applicability to its Clients’ operations. This allows development of cost effective, value-added, technically sound, fact-based strategies to identify, evaluate, and manage the Clients’ multimedia environmental compliance challenges.

NOVA offers more than preliminary evaluations of environmental impairment to real property. Environmental studies frequently identify conditions that could be interpreted by regulators in various ways. Our professional staff maintains a current understanding of the local regulatory preference regarding site closure strategies including remediation and alternative closure pathways. Such an understanding is particularly useful when real estate transactions must be accomplished within rigid time frames and review of specific site conditions by regulators is not possible. The NOVA team prides itself in outside-the-box thinking to solve its Clients’ unique challenges within the context of the applicable regulatory framework. Further, we fully understand the importance of the liability and confidentiality issues often associated with our Clients’ unique environmental challenges.

The NOVA environmental team has experience working on a wide variety of commercial, residential, academic, and government projects as well as diverse types of industrial and manufacturing facilities, including:

• Automotive
• Bulk storage terminals
• Chemical manufacturing/recycling
• Cement/Ready – Mix plants
• Electronics manufacturing/recycling
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing
• Hazardous waste transfer, storage, and disposal
• Industrial waste
• Landfill
• Manufactured gas plants
• Metal fabrication/recycling and machine shops
• Mines and quarries
• Oil and gas
• Ports and marine
• Steel mills/fabrication/recycling

The NOVA environmental team brings experience, knowledge, technical expertise, work ethic, responsiveness, and agility to each of its projects. NOVA approaches each project assignment in a positive and professional manner and takes the time to understand our Clients’ needs and objectives at the outset to identify project targets and/or exit strategy, initiating each project with the end-in-mind.