Regulatory Analysis and Planning
Environmental regulations represent the foundation for environmental programs. AEC personnel follow the federal and selected state and county rulemaking processes including NSR, NSPS, HAP, Part 70 and Part 72 rules in order to evaluate the potential impact of proposed regulations to their clients. AEC personnel also apply their knowledge of federal and local air quality regulations to work closely with clients in the development of permitting strategies and plans for demonstrating compliance with applicable requirements.

This includes:

  • Developing strategies for permitting new facilities and modifications to existing facilities.
  • Bubbling of emissions in order to obtain optimum permitting and operational flexibility.
  • Evaluating the compliance status for existing facilities including compliance with emission limits, record keeping, and notification requirements.
  • Demonstrating compliance with ambient air quality, meteorological, and emission source monitoring requirements.
Permitting
AEC integrates the regulatory and technical expertise of its staff to offer efficient and cost effective permitting services for new sources, modifications to existing sources, and obtaining Title V and non-title V operating permits.

Permitting services provided by AEC include:

  • Developing permit plans which identify the regulatory requirements, technical analyses, and schedules necessary for securing permits.
  • Performing all required measurements and analyses, and preparation of complete applications, including:
    • Baseline Ambient Monitoring
    • Source Emission Monitoring
    • Emission Inventories
    • Dispersion Modeling Analyses
    • Best Available Control Technology Analyses (BACT)
    • Lowest Achievable Emission Reduction Analyses (LAER)
    • Additional Impact Analyses
    • Identification of Applicable Requirements
    • Draft Permits
  • Providing technical and regulatory liaison services with the permitting agencies in the approval of permit plans and issuance of permits.
Monitoring Services
AEC offers a complete range of environmental monitoring services to complement air quality permitting and compliance projects, and to address related regulatory requirements. AEC's staff can provide a wide array of services from monitoring system design, procurement, and installation to operation, data processing/quality assurance, and report preparation. AEC can respond rapidly to meet many monitoring needs through the availability of in-house monitoring equipment.

Monitoring services include:

  • Ambient Air Quality
    • All Criteria Pollutants, VOCs, Hazardous Air Pollutants
    • PSD, SLAMS, EIS, Visibility

  • Meteorology
    • Real Time/Telemetry
    • Long-term Databases

  • Source Monitoring
    • Compliance/Performance Tests
    • Relative Accuracy
    • Emissions Evaluations
    • CEM and COM Certifications

  • Research and Development
    • Fugitive Emissions
    • Aerosol Size Distributions
    • Hazardous Air Pollutants (TO Methods)
    • Mass Balance Studies