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Understanding Legal Requirements for Environmental Compliance

This article provides information on various legal requirements for environmental compliance, including permits, restrictions, and bans on activities such as domestic sewer and solid waste disposal. It also explores the importance of tracking and staying up-to-date on legal requirements, as well as resources and tools available for this purpose.

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Understanding Legal Requirements for Environmental Compliance

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  1. Knowing your Legal Requirements Beth Graves EMS Project Coor. NC Division of Pollution Prevention and Environmental Assistance (DPPEA)

  2. “Legal Requirements” • Not just permits; federal, state, local • Includes restrictions • Ex. Domestic sewer not permitted activity but must be kept separate from process water. • Local solid waste disposal bans • Ex. Alamance Co. bans many items from its landfill. Your county? • Possible water conservation restrictions • Suppliers • Ex. Do they have proper training for handling materials (i.e. HVAC, maintenance, building contractors, and landscape contractors)

  3. Tracking Legal Requirements • Consider making a chart to track existing legal requirements • Routine reports • Non-routine reports (ex. In case of spills or exceedences) • Possible Internal compliance reports • May want to capture • Required by? • Report frequency • Deadline • Responsible Party

  4. Keeping up-to-date • Organization makes a “showing” of how keep up-to-date on legal requirements • Ex. Changed procedures, discussion notes describing how topic discussed at a meeting, updating a compliance checklist • Various tools could be used - • Subscription service that tracks env. Regulations • Trade journals • Attend environmental regulation update seminars by public or private agencies • Coordination with corporate env. staff • Working relationship with regulators

  5. DENR Customer Service Center • Customer Service Center – formerly EPIC (Env. Permit Information Center) • Their mission is “to provide prompt, accurate information on the state's environmental and natural resource programs, services, and regulations.”  • Includes information on permits, permit fees and application forms. • Toll-free 877-623-6748 or http://www.envhelp.org/

  6. CSC Website contains Laws and Regulations Federal Laws Clean Air ActClean Water ActResource Conservation and Recovery Act Federal Regulations Code of Federal RegulationsFederal Register

  7. More Laws and Regulations… State Laws  NC General Statutes State Regulations Division of Air QualityDivision of Coastal Management - Division of Environmental Health Environmental Health ServicesOnsite WastewaterPublic Water Supply  - Division of Land Resources Dam SafetyErosion and Sedimentation ControlMining -

  8. And More… Division of  Waste Management Hazardous WasteSolid WasteSuperfund (Registered Environmental Consultant Program) - Division of Water Resources Legislative Mandates - Division of Water Quality Groundwater Section (Several Programs)Non-Discharge Permitting UnitWater Quality Section (Several Programs)

  9. Applications and Forms on the Web Division of Air Quality Applications and Spreadsheets1999 Air Pollutant Point Source Emission Inventory Division of Land Resources Dam SafetyErosion and Sedimentation ControlMining Division of Waste Management Hazardous Waste SectionEPA Notification of Regulated Waste Activity/RCRA Permit Application-Part ASolid Waste SectionTax Certification for recycling and resource recovery

  10. More Applications and Forms Division of Water Resources Aquatic Weed Control ProgramCapacity Use Area No. 1Local Water Supply PlansProject WETRegistration of Water Withdrawals and TransfersStream WatchWater Resources Development Project Grant Program Division of Water Quality Algal Bloom and Macrophyte ReportingAquatic Toxicology UnitGroundwater SectionNPDESNon-Discharge Permitting UnitPretreatmentSection 319 Non Point Source Grant ProgramStormwater and General PermitsWastewater/Groundwater Analytical Laboratory CertificationWetlands/401 Certification Unit

  11. Factsheets and Newsletters • CSC will post factsheets on their website in the future as available. • “FOCUS: Waste Minimization,” free newsletter from DPPEA. Includes section each issue on “Multimedia News Update” for Air, Hazardous Waste, Solid Waste, and Water Quality with news on news rules, grants, inventories due, etc. Contact Norma Murphy, Norma.Murphy@ncmail.net or 919-715-6513. • Other DENR division newsletters or notifications.

  12. “One-Stop Permitting” • DENR committed to having multi-media permitting assistance program available by July 1. Assistance will probably be in regions and cover both new and existing permittees. Emphasis on coordination with multiple permits likely.

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