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When you need expert consulting services tailored to your needs in the refining, chemical manufacturing, and oil and gas sectors—call on Alliance Technical Group’s highly qualified team of environmental consultants.
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Partner with Alliance Technical Group to benefit from our industry expertise and commitment to your best interests. As active members of multiple trade organizations, we ensure you stay ahead of regulatory changes. No matter the size of your project, you can expect the same dedication and exceptional customer service from us. With Alliance Technical Group, you’ll enjoy:
- Timely, efficient, and cost-effective solutions
- Consistent best-in-class products
- Swift engineer deployment and resolution
- Long-term business relationships with greater strategic value
Air
Alliance delivers expert strategic services in air permitting, aiding industrial and institutional clients in attaining cost-efficient adherence to air regulations at the local, state, and federal levels.
With diverse air permitting experience in the refining, chemical manufacturing, and oil and gas industries, Alliance has led the way with everything from permitting multiple, high-profile capital projects to miscellaneous permitting actions.
Alliance is frequently involved in strategy meetings with facility project, environmental, and operation teams necessary to deliver permit applications that mitigate enforcement exposure to the maximum extent possible. Additionally, Alliance has experience interfacing with local, state and federal Agency contacts to deliver timely permits and avoid delay.
Our permitting proficiency extends to the following services:
- Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) Permitting
- Nonattainment New Source Review (NNSR) Permitting
- Development of New Source Review (NSR) Analyses
- Reasonable Possibility Review and Tracking
- Miscellaneous Permitting Actions
- Agency Coordination
- Public Notice Coordination
Get tailored compliance and tracking solutions developed just for your organization. These compliance solutions include, but are not limited to:
- Assisting in initial applicability determinations
- Developing comprehensive compliance programs
- Providing guidance and recommendations for successful compliance programs
- Providing implementation strategies for newly promulgated rules
- Assisting with day-to-day challenges that are necessary for maintaining ongoing compliance
Alliance Technical Group offers nationwide support for dispersion modeling of air pollutants. Our team provides NAAQS impact evaluations and state toxics screening, and is proficient in air dispersion models such as:
- SCREEN3
- ISC3
- AERSCREEN
- AERMOD
Our air dispersion modeling and risk assessment services have been completed as part of air permit applications within several states, including Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Ohio, and Texas.
Make air quality compliance a walk in the park with Alliance Technical Group (ATG) and our Geospatial Measurement of Air Pollutants (GMAP) unit.
Why ATG GMAP?
Born from a partnership with Ken Garing and Associates, LLC (KGA), and backed by extensive expertise from the EPA’s Office of Research and Development (ORD) GMAP program, the GMAP unit is designed for success:
- Expert Craftsmanship: Designed and built by the same hands responsible for the US EPA GMAP units.
- Trailblazing: KGA pioneered the use of the GMAP unit as a screening tool for EPA inspections.
- Continued Support: KGA remains involved to provide ongoing GMAP training and project assistance.
What’s in it for you?
- Forewarned is Forearmed: Real-time mobile air monitoring uncovers hidden emission sources.
- See the Big Picture: Our vehicle-mounted unit specializes in tracking BTEX compounds, total VOC, and SO2, offering a detailed snapshot of your air quality.
- Swift Action: Our industry-leading geospatial mapping software enables swift, targeted action on potential emission sources.
- Customizable: Stationary or mobile, GMAP adapts to your specific needs.
- EPA Standard: Our system aligns with EPA monitoring practices, making comparison a breeze.
Get more details on proactive air quality management with GMAP. From identifying unknown emission sources and enhancing existing programs to assisting with EPA inspections and rapid response during emission events, we’ve got it covered.
Let’s revolutionize your air quality management today.
Alliance has extensive experience with Federal (NSPS, MACT, RCRA) and State-level LDAR standards impacting the chemical manufacturing, petroleum refining, and oil & gas industries. Additionally, Alliance is well-versed in enhanced LDAR programs required under US EPA Consent Decree. Alliance leverages this expertise to provide clients with high-quality LDAR service offerings, including:
- Consent Decree Third-Party LDAR Auditing
- Consent Decree Quarterly QA/QC Analyses
- LDAR Compliance Program Gap Assessments
- LDAR Enforcement Assistance and Section 114 Request Responses
- LDAR Regulatory Applicability
- LDAR Program Development and Implementation
- LDAR Database Solutions
- Development of Written LDAR Program Policies and Procedures
- LDAR/Method 21 Training Courses
- Periodic/Semiannual LDAR Report Development
- LDAR/Fugitive Emissions Quantification
With increased activity observed by environmental non-governmental organizations (NGO), our clients rely on accurate and timely reporting. Alongside a significant track record of successful reports that adhere to regulatory requirements, Alliance also has demonstrated proficiency in providing detailed, internal documentation commonly required to obtain responsible official certification.
Reporting formats include the following:
- Emissions Inventory (EI)
- EPCRA Section 312 (Tier II)
- EPCRA Section 313 (Toxic Release Inventory)
- Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Mandatory Reporting Requirements (MRR)
- Title V Certification Reporting
- Periodic New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) Compliance Reporting
- National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) Reporting
- Periodic Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) Compliance Reporting
- Consent Decree Compliance Reporting
- BWON Total Annual Benzene (TAB) Reporting
To complement Alliance’s reporting experience, our team delivers navigation, submission, and troubleshooting services associated with the following online Agency reporting interfaces:
- Emissions Reporting and Information Center (ERIC);
- State of Texas Environmental Electronic Reporting System (STEERS);
- Louisiana State Police (LSP) Right-to-Know (RTK) Tier II Filing Site;
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Central Data Exchange (CDX);
- Toxic Release Inventory Made Easy (TRIME);
- Electronic Greenhouse Gas Reporting Tool (e-GGRT); and
- Compliance and Emissions Data Reporting Interface (CEDRI).
Water
Alliance provides top-tier water quality services to cater to the complex needs of the industrial sectors. Whether it’s addressing regulatory needs through permit review, fish tissue sampling, and wetlands science, or providing non-regulatory offerings like stream and wetlands restoration and enhancement, our multifaceted approach ensures that the clients have the support they need at every stage.
Alliance has completed numerous hydrological and hydraulic studies for a wide range of applications. Many studies have been completed in support of TMDL and waste load allocations or for flow analysis. Projects often include dye tracer studies to determine time of travel, flow modeling (including HEC-RAS analysis) and direct instream measurement of flow using the velocity area method. On several occasions Alliance has calculated new regulatory low flows (7Q10, 7Q2, etc) for permittees resulting in increases to stream background flows and associated allowable increases in pollutant loading to the receiving stream. Alliance has a long-time relationship working with state, USGS, and EPA Environmental Quality staff on hydrological and other water quality issues.
Alliance provides strategic NPDES Permitting Services to industrial and municipal clients in order to minimize costs associated with compliance with water quality standards and effluent guideline requirements. Specific service areas include: permit application development (including clean sampling for metals), permit review and negotiations, adjudication support, preparation of pollution prevention plans, and NPDES data systems management including DMR preparation.
Alliance provides strategic stormwater permitting services to assist industrial, construction, and municipal clients in achieving cost-effective compliance with local, state, and federal stormwater discharge regulations. Specific service areas include attainment of applicable stormwater permits, Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) development, development and implementation of Best Management Practices (BMPs), site inspections, sampling and monitoring, training, record keeping, and reporting.
Alliance provides expertise to municipal and industrial clients in order to develop technically sound TMDL and waste load allocation studies. We have considerable experience in running EPA supported water quality models including QUAL2E, WASP, and CORMIX. Alliance field crews are experienced in conducting studies that directly effect the results of TMDL modeling including low flow analysis, hydraulic and dye studies, and collection of water quality and in-situ data on both large and small streams. Alliance has long-term working relationships with State and EPA staff in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Louisiana. We have successfully negotiated permit limits, results of TMDL studies and approval of special water quality studies with personnel in each of these states.
Alliance provides expertise to industrial and municipal clients related to their NPDES required WET testing application. We have extensive experience in issues related to the implementation both routine WET testing and the development and implementation of TREs and TIEs in compliance with NPDES mandated toxicity testing. Ever increasing focus on WET testing as a method to measure permit compliance requires increased attention to routine monitoring of WET test results to document both test success and test failures. EPA and State application of reasonable potential determination requires ever vigilant attention to both lethal and non-lethal WET test performance. GBMc individualizes EPA/state methods to cost effectively address WET testing and TRE issues applying a tiered approach to facility WET test compliance.
Alliance has significant experience in the area of watershed management. Detailed watershed analysis and characterization studies have been completed to identify causes/sources of stream corridor disturbance and potential measures to restore natural conditions and protect water quality. Experience includes; point source and non-point source pollutant loading assessments, flow studies, geomorphology surveys, stream and riparian habitat assessments, land use/land cover assessments, rapid bioassessments, and water quality modeling. Assessment findings have led to development of watershed management plans and protection strategies including; best management practices (BMP’s), storm water treatment features and aquatic habitat restoration.
Natural Resources
Harness expertise and project oversight in natural resources management for the industrial, government, and nongovernmental organization sectors.
Whether it’s developing a habitat management plan for enhanced biodiversity, conducting waterfowl surveys, or managing land use and conservation, Alliance’s flexible and innovative approach ensures that each project receives specialized attention and care, resulting in effective and sustainable solutions. By focusing on critical environmental issues and employing scientifically sound methodologies, they contribute to the protection and enhancement of our natural world.
Alliance provides environmental site assessments to identify existing or potential recognized environmental conditions in connection with a subject property. These services are offered at an expedited schedule to facilitate quick commercial and industrial real estate transactions.
Alliance provides a broad range of services relative to the assessment of aquatic biological communities in both streams and lakes. Fish, macroinvertebrate, periphyton, zooplankton, phytoplankton and habitat collection and analysis techniques have been used over a wide range of habitat types and sampling conditions. Alliance maintains a variety of field equipment to facilitate multiple site surveys in various size waterbodies. Alliance have maintained appropriate state collectors permits, allowing sampling and preservation of aquatic macroinvertebrates, and fish since the mid-1980’s and for multiple states including Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Mississippi, Virginia and Kansas. Key attributes of our bioassessment program are listed below.
Alliance has completed ecological risk assessments and human health risk assessments for industrial clients with concerns ranging from heavy metals to organic pollutants. Our team of scientists, toxicologists and engineers have over 50 years of combined experience assessing risk of toxic pollutants to the environment. Our experience spans all media types including water, groundwater, soil/sediment and air. Alliance has the field resources and expertise to not only evaluate ecological risk from the desktop but to conduct comprehensive risk assessment studies that include field data collection and fate and transport modeling.
Alliance has completed multiple ecological restoration projects including wetlands, streams, lakes and upland areas. Our experience includes mitigation plan development, design of restoration/enhancement projects and construction management. Several members of our mid to senior level staff have been trained in Natural Channel Design (Rosgen, 1996) and have field experience surveying stream channels, classifying streams and evaluating restoration potential. Our staff of ecologists, hydrologists and engineers form an ideal restoration team that has successfully designed restoration projects in several stream reaches that have included; step-pools, riffles, veins, thousands of feet of bank stabilization and in-stream habitat features. The same team, coupled with our wetlands scientists have successfully restored and/or enhanced wetland habitats for mitigation and water/stormwater treatment.
Alliance utilizes geospatial information and technology as an aid in assessing and visually demonstrating complex sets of geo-referenced data, both from a “stand alone” project perspective and internally as a key component of technical studies. Alliance uses the ESRI ArcGIS platform and extensions along with additional tools (QGIS, Google Earth, etc.) to create, analyze, and maintain geospatial project-specific and reference data.
Alliance provides strategic US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Permitting Services to a range of clients in order to reduce, avoid, or minimize impacts to Waters of the US and to minimize costs associated with permitting and mitigation. Specific service areas include: identification and delineation of Waters of the US, development of pre-construction notification packets (permit applications) for Section 404 of the Clean Water Act and Sections 9 and 10 of the Rivers and Harbor Act, correspondence and negotiations with the USACE, and mitigation support including guidance on avoidance of Waters of the US and development of compensatory mitigation plans.
Expert Witness Services
Alliance’s seasoned professionals are available as top-tier consulting and testifying experts for environmental regulation and compliance. Whether it’s bioassessment, stack testing, air dispersion modeling, or regulatory compliance, our experts cover a broad spectrum of specialties, ensuring you have access to the right expertise for any challenge. Enjoy unparalleled knowledge and experience across diverse industries.
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