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Air Pollution Consulting Services
Private Industry New Facilities:
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Project
planning assistance to identify potential pitfalls associated with the
project size, location, and operating requirements as they relate to
air regulatory permitting requirements |
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Development
of emissions inventories and emissions netting analyses to determine
applicability for the major source pre-construction permitting
requirements of the Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) and
Nonattainment New Source Review programs |
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Control technology evaluations to determine Federal BACT and LAER, as well as state control technology requirements |
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Air
quality screening modeling and refined modeling for those pollutants
subject to PSD review or state modeling requirements including
determining impacts in PSD Class I areas to satisfy Federal Land
Manager requirements |
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Cooling
tower modeling to assess the potential for annual hours of
fogging/icing, as well as particulate matter deposition if necessary |
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Ambient air quality and meteorological monitoring subject to PSD requirements |
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Liaison with the regulatory agencies responsible for issuing the air quality permits |
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Related
permitting assistance, including Title V (Part 70) or Federally
Enforceable State Operating Permitting, Title IV (Acid Rain)
Permitting, other permits |
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Private Industry Existing Facilities:
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Government Air Pollution Control Agencies
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Preparation of air quality permits for new and existing facilities |
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Review
and analysis of applicant Prevention of Significant Deterioration air
quality modeling studies in support of new source permit applications |
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Development of training programs for government air pollution control professionals |
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Technical
support in regional emissions inventory development and regional and
local scale modeling for Model Attainment Demonstrations for the ozone
and PM2.5 National Ambient Air Quality Standards and for achieving
Reasonable Progress Goals for reducing Regional Haze in PSD Class I
Areas |
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Supply,
installation operation and maintenance and data analysis and reporting
and performance and systems auditing of government air quality and
meteorological monitoring programs |
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Government Departments of Transportation:
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Air
quality analyses in support of proposed new or expanded roadway or
other transportation projects through emissions inventory development,
and air quality modeling |
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Preparation
of air emissions analyses using the National Mobile Inventory Model
(NMIM), U.S. EPA's Mobile 6 and PART5 emission models and other emission models |
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Development air quality impact analyses for state and regional transportation agencies with the CAMx, CMAQ and AERMOD Models |
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Review of State Implementation Plans for making project consistency determinations with the SIP |
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Assist
agency compliance and enforcement staff on permit requirements and/or
revisions in the context of a compliance or enforcement issue |
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Provide
full range of air quality and meteorological monitoring services as
detailed under the ambient air quality and meteorological monitoring
services |
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Government Airport Authorities and Port Authorities:
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Permitting, emissions estimation and reporting using the Federal Aviation Administration's Emissions and Dispersion Modeling System (EDMS) and other emissions and permitting information |
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Air quality modeling assessments using EDMS |
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Greenhouse
Gas emissions quantification for existing facilities, identification of
mitigation projects and the associated reductions in Greenhouse Gas
emissions, and the third party validation and verification of
Greenhouse Gas emissions |
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Control technology evaluations and control plans |
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Risk Management Plan development and revisions under 40 CFR Part 68 |
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Assistance in dealing with opacity and other air pollution compliance problems |
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Identification of air pollution emission units |
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Quantification of air pollutant emission rates |
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Determination of permitting rule applicability and requirements |
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Air permit application completeness reviews |
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Assist
Agency compliance and enforcement staff regarding permit requirements
and/or revisions in the context of a compliance or enforcement issue |
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Provide
full range of air quality and meteorological monitoring services as
detailed under the ambient air quality and meteorological monitoring
services |
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Assistance with other air pollution issues |
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Greenhouse Gases Consulting Services
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Facility
Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions inventory development for organizations
and projects in accord with the International Organization for
Standardization (ISO) 14064-1 and 14064-2 standards and various GHG
Programs including The Climate Registry, The Regional Greenhouse Gas
Initiative, The California Climate Action Registry, The Midwest GHG
Accord, the GHG Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standards and others
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Identification
of GHG reduction projects including: 1) energy efficiency studies, 2)
landfill methane collection and combustion projects, 3) agricultural
methane collection and combustion projects, and 4) forestry projects |
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Independent
validation and verification of GHG emissions of organizations and
emission reduction projects in accord with ISO 14064-3 and other
protocols |
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Renewable Energy Consulting Services
Wind Resource Analysis Services:
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Site
selection, installation, operation, data analysis and reporting, and
quality control and quality assurance for meteorological towers for
wind energy projects |
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Identify
sites potentially satisfying wind resource, transmission line
infrastructure and other requirements based on existing data |
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Statistically analyze one or more years of wind monitoring data to determine power output potential for project financing |
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Optimize wind turbine site locations |
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Conduct project economic analyses |
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Conduct Viewshed and Shadow Flicker analyses and photo-simulations |
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Certify results and prepare expert reports |
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Conduct wind energy project permitting |
Biomass Energy Project Services
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Same air pollution consulting services as for Private Industry New Facilities |
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Ambient Air Quality and Meteorological Monitoring Services
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Site evaluation, including assessment of compliance with Prevention of Significant Deterioration siting criteria |
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Monitoring network design |
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Preparation of the Quality Assurance Project Plan |
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System design |
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Monitoring equipment supply and financing |
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Installation and startup |
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Operation and maintenance |
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Data acquisition, analysis and reporting, including daily polling |
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Quality Assurance Performance and Systems Audits and other QA functions |
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