McLane Environmental has assisted commercial and government clients with environmental compliance issues under federal, state, and local regulatory programs relating to soil and groundwater contamination, requirements for remedial response actions, and wastewater and water supply permitting requirements. Our data analysis skills and thorough understanding of relevant regulations allow us to develop and clearly present our findings and recommendations, leading to a streamlined and cost-effective compliance program.

The particular areas in which McLane Environmental can provide expertise include:

• Regulatory Compliance (RCRA, CERCLA, SARA, NEPA, VCP, NESHAP/MACT)
• Permitting and Planning
• Exposure & Risk Assessment (Human Health and Ecological)
• Resource Evaluation
• Receptor Studies
• Classification Exception Area (CEA) Delineation
• Environmental Risk Management

Representative Experience

McLane Environmental has consulted with corporate and government clients regarding strategic environmental reporting issues and the advisability of pursuing a variety of cost-effective compliance alternatives including:

• Voluntary cleanup programs
• Groundwater classification exception areas
• Technical impracticability waivers
• Alternate concentration limits
• Risk-based cleanup standards

Our staff has performed groundwater flow and transport modeling analyses to optimize the performance of remediation systems to meet compliance and liability reduction objectives, while lowering costs and reducing disruption to site operations. We are also experienced in statistical methods for pollution monitoring including statistically based sampling plans, hot spot delineation, outlier detection, and trend analysis.

McLane Environmental has assisted clients in a number of regulatory compliance areas including:

• CERCLA remedial response activities and NCP requirements;
• Environmental media sampling plans;
• Establishing risk-based cleanup criteria for soil, groundwater, surface water, and sediment;
• Groundwater monitoring network design;
• Innovative methodologies for RCRA clean closures;
• Negotiating site-specific disposal area closure requirements;
• Oversight of field investigations and peer review of ongoing site investigation activities;
• Oversight of modeling analyses to meet USEPA site-specific remediation standards;
• RCRA permit applications;
• CEA delineation studies in New Jersey;
• Subsurface wastewater disposal requirements;
• Utilization of advanced data management and data visualization tools such as GIS to organize, display, and understand site data.

In all of these activities, our goal is to provide the appropriate scientific input to the regulatory review and compliance process, to ensure that our client’s position is properly supported while addressing the concerns and requirements of the applicable regulatory agency.