Environmental Compliance Office

Governments

Governments
Federal, State/Provincial and local government agencies are tasked with developing rules and regulations to protect health and the environment from increasingly complex and diverse threats with continuous pressure on staff and budgets. The depth and breadth of ECO’s manufacturing experience and regulatory expertise is increasingly being called upon to provide support and assistance in performing needed studies and developing implementation guidance.
For instance, ECO developed regulatory guidance documents for certain sections of the Air regulation, Ontario Regulation 419 for the Ontario Ministry of the Environment.

Select Project Profiles:

USEPA Project - Potentially Responsible Party (PRP) of the Lower Rouge River - Old Channel. The project involved performing a PRP Search by conducting a search of available data sources, both electronic and other, to identify entities that may have been responsible for the discharge of contaminants into the Lower Rouge River Old Channel (LRROC) by point and non-point sources. The emphasis of the search was to identify entities responsible for discharge of PAH contamination in LRROC sediments, but other contaminates such as PCB and metals were also considered. Sources included direct discharges, site run-off, overflows, sewers, spills, and releases. The PRP search conducted was primarily by review of available data sources but was supplemented by general site visits from publicly accessible areas and personnel interviews to obtain data and information clarifications.
Development of a Background Report and Separate Technical Bulletin on the Capture and Control of Process Fugitive Air Emissions in Foundries, Steel Mills and Mining operations. Ontario Ministry of Environment Project. The report was well received by the Ministry and other stakeholders. The report addressed in some detail ventilation design, installation and maintenance with respect to fugitive emissions capture and control at Foundry operations, Steel mills and Mining operations. Some of the aspects discussed include, Fundamentals of Fume Capture; Strategies for Minimizing Process Fumes; Fugitive Emission Capture systems including, enclosures, hoods, barriers and the building; Fundamentals of Industrial Ventilation, including hood and exhaust stack design; Pollution control equipment for process fugitive emissions.
The Development of a Background Paper and the Application of Cost under Ontario Regulation 419: Air Pollution – Local Air Quality- 2008-2009- Ontario Ministry of Environment Project. The project involved developing a methodology to evaluate various air emissions control technologies, develop detailed costing methodologies and calculations and comparing the costs to a threshold or indicator value (based on the principles of risk management) to determine cost-effectiveness.
Development of Regulation 419 Technology Benchmarking Guidance document. The Technology Benchmarking Review Guidance provides instruction to Ministry personnel and business interests preparing Alternate Standard Requests.

Many Federal, State, Provincial, County, Township and City governments operate facilities and engage in activities subject to most of the same environmental requirements as businesses and the community. ECO is uniquely positioned with extensive knowledge of environmental requirements across multiple jurisdictions to provide support to the range of government entities.

Project Profiles

ECO is a prime contractor to the State of Michigan and has a discretionary contract to provide Professional Environmental services.

ECO has an environmental staff augmentation contract with the State of Michigan

ECO has extensive experience in working with multi-stakeholder initiatives and rule/guidance development processes in both Ontario and the U.S.