Engineering Services

Enviromental Program Management

We are nationally known for our ability to combine process knowledge and regulatory requirements, with adherence to quality in these areas:

• Multimedia compliance audits
• Multimedia compliance plans
• Environmental management programs

Your organization can benefit from our vast experience and in-depth understanding of existing and developing environmental regulations. Some of our core services include:

• Regulatory interpretation and applicability determinations
• Environmental permitting
• Tracking and participation during regulatory development
• Recordkeeping and reporting
• Report verification such as GHG reporting
• Waste management/treatment
• Landfill design and management
• P.E. certifications
• Emissions testing
• Test plan development and negotiation
• Test oversight, interpretation and reporting
• Spill control and discharge plans and permits
• Monitoring and sampling

Strategies and Solutions

You have a partner in planning with Schreiber, Yonley & Associates. Our team of engineers and scientists is highly skilled to help your environmental programs run smoothly.

• Strategies for compliance and permitting
• Guidance on operations and development of operating plans
• Regulatory training plan development and training services
• Cost benefit analysis
• Agency communications assistance
• Community relations support
• Expert witness testimony and technical support to legal counsel
• Health and safety training/guidance

You can be assured that our industrial environmental strategies address today’s most pressing issues. Our comprehensive studies are timely and pinpoint environmental and operational priorities.

• Air pollutant studies and strategies
• Control technology feasibility studies
• Process and operational efficiencies
• Sustainability initiatives
• Environmental and site assessments
• Greenhouse gas monitoring and reduction strategies
• Pollution prevention and waste minimization
• Beneficial reuse (alternative fuels/biomass and raw materials)
• Multi-pathway risk assessments
• Corrective action and remediation strategies

Air Quality

Schreiber, Yonley & Associates has a long-term history partnering with business, industry and government entities to help responsibly manage the full spectrum of today’s pressing environmental initiatives. As the Clean Air Act regulations continue to evolve, SYA continues to be known for providing leadership to industry and other regulated entities.

Air Pollutant Strategies and Studies
We conduct air pollutant studies to determine the source, fate and optimal control solution. Our studies emphasize our understanding of the regulatory framework, emissions characterizations, process operations and agency concerns. As part of this, we:

• Design and oversee test plans for criteria pollutants and HAPs that are based on:
• Appropriate sampling and analytical procedures
• Meeting regulatory requirements and guidance
• Providing reliable, meaningful results and strategies for going forward
• Providing greatest flexibility for operations after testing
• Identifying/speciating anticipated and unknown emissions to address specific concerns/questions
• Develop and perform studies to formulate your company’s air quality strategies. We determine whether a control technology is effective, compatible and economical for your application.
• Guide and implement multi-pathway risk assessment studies.

Compliance
SYA’s staff understands the growing maze of regulations that apply to your facility. We are skilled in these critical areas:

• Regulatory interpretation
• Performing audits
• Understanding your operations and developing fully compliant operating plans
• Training plan development and implementation
• Communications with agencies and the public
• Helping you and your legal counsel respond effectively to agency information requests, and/or enforcement

Permitting
We have long-term and a wide range of expertise on air permitting for many industries, including:

• Major source PSD/NSR permitting activities
• Regulatory review and analysis
• Documentation of control technologies and costs
• Air contaminant dispersion modeling and visibility analysis modeling
• Minor source construction permitting
• Title V and minor source operating permits, permit renewals and modifications

MACT, NSPS and BART
SYA addresses the range of requirements for MACT and NSPS compliance:

• Applicability determinations
• Pollutant studies and strategies
• Compliance plans for operations and maintenance, training and other procedures
• Emission test plans, oversight, data interpretation and reports
• BART: Response to agency information requests related to visibility, BART evaluations and comments on BART selection

Greenhouse Gas Strategies
As part of the developing Climate Change requirements, we can help you:

• Track and apply regulatory requirements
• Develop GHG inventories or provide verification services
• Use our engineering expertise to support facility GHG reduction strategies by using alternative fuels/biomass and other operational/process modifications.

Waste Management and Alternate Fuels

We have earned a national reputation for decades of work supporting commercial TSDFs and on-site waste management facilities. We are especially recognized for our hazardous waste combustion and beneficial reuse program expertise. Industry and business alike depend on our technical expertise with the CAA, RCRA and TSCA waste management and combustion regulations. We work hand-in-hand with agencies and the regulated community to design, develop and permit waste management facilities. We can assist you in many ways:

• Ensure your facility complies with the complex regulatory structure during permitting and subsequent operations
• Work with you to fully implement MACT and NSPS combustion rule requirements, including:
• Commenting on and negotiating achievable emissions and operating limitations
• Compliance plans for operations and maintenance; startup, shutdown and malfunctions; and other operating procedures
• Test plans and reports, test oversight, data interpretation and report preparation
• Training plan development and training
• Conduct comprehensive multi-media audits, specializing in hazardous waste TSDFs and combustion units.
• Guide and perform direct and indirect risk assessments
• Provide P.E. certifications for RCRA applications, equipment installations and closure

We service waste generators and treatment industries— whether you are a generator or TSD facility, we provide:

• Waste generator and TSD regulatory compliance assistance
• Operating plans and procedures development
• Waste processing and minimization studies
• Strategic industrial waste reuse programs
• OSHA/MSHA compliance
• Regulatory negotiations and public communications support

We can help you with all your alternate fuels and raw materials solutions such as;

• Guidance on all areas of program development
• EPA and state permitting – all media
• Compliance program development
• Emission tests and studies

Industrial and Solid Waste

Our unique blend of capabilities pertain to all aspects of industrial and solid waste management, including landfill design and construction, permitting and compliance. We also specialize in solutions for industrial byproducts, such as cement kiln dust, ash and slag. You can rely on us for these services:

• Siting demonstrations—Detailed hydrogeologic and geologic assessments performed for proposed waste management facilities.
• Permitting—Development of permit application content; coordination with EPA, state and local agencies; permit language negotiation and community relations assistance.
• Construction oversight—Complete construction oversight and quality assurance services provided for landfill facility development.
• Closure/post-closure activities—Observation of cap installation, gas extraction, well installation and routine facility inspections provided during the post-closure period for landfills. We also provide observation and P.E. certifications for these activities.
• Monitoring—Complete facility monitoring provided for stormwater, leachate, methane gas, groundwater and process wastewaters.
• Comprehensive environmental compliance— Development of compliance plans and coordination with regulatory agencies across environmental regulations.

Water Quality

Schreiber, Yonley & Associates’ engineers, scientists, and technicians have the expertise to perform environmental compliance projects and on-site studies and monitoring to address the requirements of the Clean Water Act and other environmental policies. Examples of types of assistance we provide include:

• NPDES permitting and compliance (including storm water and general NPDES permits)
• NPDES sampling activities
• Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) development
• Pretreatment compliance assistance (including categorical pretreatment standards applicability determinations, preparation of baseline and compliance reports, and providing recommendations for wastewater treatment systems to comply with pretreatment standards)
• P.E.-certified Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) plans
• Industrial discharge monitoring reports for submittal
• Industrial user discharge questionnaires requested by POTWs
• Receiving stream and watershed evaluations
• Groundwater monitoring and sampling
• P.E.-certified construction/operating permit applications
• Comments to regulatory agencies on draft NPDES permits
• Assistance with regulatory agency enforcement issues
• Environmental support (including expert witness testimony) in environmental litigation

Our in-depth understanding of facility operations and corresponding enviromental compliance is the core strength of our staff.

Risk Assessment

Schreiber, Yonley & Associates (SYA) has extensive experience assisting manufacturers with coordinating and reviewing the complex details of multi-pathway risk assessments. Our risk assessment work has been performed in conjunction with our comprehensive assistance in analyzing plant operations, emissions testing and monitoring, and communicating with agencies and the public on behalf of a facility. Much of our risk assessment work has been performed for the range of chemical constituents measured in stack emissions. Some assessments have been tailored to study specific high-profile constituents, such as mercury.

With respect to the cement industry, SYA has been involved with a significant amount of the U.S. multi-pathway risk assessment work since the early 1990s, mostly associated with permitting for use of hazardous waste fuel. After the draft National Combustion Strategy was announced in 1993, we worked with all of the Region 7 BIF cement facilities to coordinate a common approach that was approved by the EPA and used by all the facilities in the RCRA permitting process. Additionally, we have worked with all of the Region 4 BIF cement facilities and some of the Region 5 facilities in coordinating and providing technical review of their risk assessments. Moreover, we have been involved with permitting most of the new kiln systems at hazardous waste burning facilities in the U.S. over the last decade, which has required updating the original risk assessments to reflect future operations. Most recently, SYA is assisting facilities in performing risk assessments on individual pollutants for assessing and communicating the impact of emissions to the regulatory agencies and the public.

Throughout all of our work on risk assessments, SYA has provided a range of services, from managing the overall project to providing the following types of services:

• evaluating and hiring a toxicologist,
• managing the project,
• providing technical guidance over the course of the project,
• generating emissions data for input to the models,
• performing detailed air and risk modeling,
• providing detailed review of all technical components,
• preparing risk assessment protocols and reports
• communicating with agencies and permit negotiation, and
• assisting with public communications.

The technical components of the studies we have been involved with include development of a detailed protocol, working with the agencies for protocol approval, providing guidance on the technical input throughout the air dispersion modeling and risk assessment modeling phases, and communicating the results and negotiating terms based on the results of the assessments. Although the risk assessment community has generally turned to the use of the HHRAP model in recent years, there are many potential options for how the models are used and the decisions that ultimately will impact the final result. SYA has been involved with numerous projects working with various risk assessment firms and state and regional staff. This experience allows us to be aware of different solutions that can be applied toward obtaining the desired result.

Cement Industry Profile

Schreiber, Yonley & Associates is an environmental engineering and consulting firm that has specialized in providing professional services to the cement industry for the last two decades. We have worked with many of the plants and corporate offices throughout the United States, and have become known as a resource for providing effective technical expertise. Our staff includes a highly experienced group of professionals, most of who have worked extensively with the cement industry on environmental issues. We have a unique blend of capabilities with all aspects of air permitting and emissions testing, CKD management and landfill design, RCRA permitting and compliance as well as other environmental programs. Along with our industry experience, we have an in depth knowledge of environmental regulations, have the ability to apply reasonable operating solutions and are uniquely experienced in developing appropriate communications with the Agencies.

Specific services provided to the cement industry include:

Comprehensive Environmental Compliance:
We are known for providing expertise in all aspects of environmental management programs and for complying with the regulations. Through our environmental auditing program, we can evaluate a plant’s current status with respect to the spectrum of environmental regulations. We also routinely track new regulations to assist in maintaining our clients’ environmental programs. On the plant level, we develop compliance plans, permit applications, and coordinate with the regulatory agencies. Along with these capabilities, we provide expert witness services on environmental topics.

Our comprehensive environmental services include permitting and compliance for the wide range of environmental regulations, preparation of stormwater pollution prevention plans and SPCC plans, recommendations on recycling and waste issues, SARA Title III compilation and reporting, and NPDES permits and sampling at the individual facilities. As part of our environmental services, our staff assists with the interpretation of regulatory applicability, compliance sampling, evaluation of sample results and report completion. In addition, we perform environmental site assessments for property transactions.

Clean Air Act (CAA):
We provide our clients with a wide range of high quality services specific to the CAA. These services include air compliance audits and permitting for PSD, NSR, NSPS, MACT and Title V. Either as part of a larger project or as independent tasks, we also perform emissions inventories, process hazard review, air contaminant dispersion modeling, air toxic evaluations, stack/source testing, ambient air monitoring, and visual emissions assessments.

Unique to our firm is our ability to provide engineering, modeling, and permitting with in-house personnel and resources, allowing our clients an option to assess emissions, ensure compliance and develop permits utilizing the services of only one firm. We have developed Title V Operating Permit applications and construction and operating permit applications for multiple cement manufacturing facilities located throughout the United States. In addition, our assistance extends to developing strategies and preparing CAA permit applications for the use of tires and other alternate fuels.

CKD Management:
Although the final regulations are not yet issued, facilities are currently contemplating CKD management methods to address specific state requirements, and to plan for future landfill design requirements. Our engineers and hydrogeologists are assisting facilities in developing CKD management plans, communicating with the Agencies as regulations are developed, performing CKD sampling and analysis, and preparing landfill design and stormwater permits, as well as pollution prevention plans.

Our background in CKD management is extensive. We were contracted in 1992 by the PCA to define contingent management practices for CKD and to demonstrate this management method as practical and effective. In 1994, we crafted the technical portions of the cement industry’s response to the U.S. EPA's Report to Congress on CKD. We also provided technical response for the industry to the California EPA on a study performed by the University of California on CKD. In addition to our services to these industry trade groups, we have worked with individual facilities to plan and manage their CKD projects.

Testing and Data Coordination:
Schreiber, Yonley & Associates has been involved in stack sampling and fugitive emissions sampling at cement plants throughout our history. Our firm has designed test plans, conducted emissions tests, managed, and provided on-site coordination for tests ranging from an individual parameter to complex MACT and RCRA test programs. We perform detailed analysis of the results and preparation of emissions testing reports. Our engineers are familiar with the manufacturing process, so that a testing approach can be developed which best matches a facility’s particular needs. Our emissions testing experience combined with our operations and permitting expertise provides clients with necessary services for continued compliance with combustion regulations.

Dioxin Formation Research and Control:
Cement plants have been addressing dioxin/furan formation and control under air emission regulations. Our extensive background in dioxin research and cement kiln technology makes us particularly qualified to develop dioxin strategies specific to a particular plant. Our experience has included working with plants, regulatory agencies and the public in developing and implementing dioxin-testing programs for emissions and CKD. Since 1979, we have studied the formation and behavior of dioxins and furans, and have presented data to U.S. EPA headquarters, the regions and state agencies. A number of years ago, we were retained by the CKRC to analyze and prepare a report on dioxin testing results from several cement plants. Since that time, we have continued to study results from the most recent testing and to develop theories and strategies to address dioxin issues.

Alternate Fuels and Raw Materials Programs:
Schreiber, Yonley & Associates is known nationwide for our capabilities to assist clients in establishing and implementing alternate fuels and raw materials programs, both for non-hazardous and hazardous materials. Our firm has worked with many facilities in recommending equipment and operating approaches, developing and updating permit applications and compliance plans, developing and training facility staff on procedures, planning and managing testing and emissions studies, and coordinating with Agency personnel to help with their understanding of the projects. In addition, we audit programs and manage risk assessment projects, where required.

For hazardous waste facilities across the nation, we have assisted cement plants in developing and implementing closure plans and corrective action programs. Our assistance has included developing plans, coordinating meetings with the Agency representatives and providing independent professional engineering oversight of the implemented plans. We are familiar with the RFA/RFI process and have worked with the industry to develop appropriate measures for assessing contamination and performing remediation.

Another specialty of our firm has been managing work groups on hazardous waste permitting and compliance issues among the cement industry, the U.S. EPA and state agencies. A sample of the issues discussed in the work group includes regulatory implementation details, indirect risk assessment, metals and chlorine tracking, CKD compliance, CEMS and closure.

Community Relations/Technical Support:
We provide services to our industrial clients including technical support for community relations and related activities to support a client’s needs in addressing environmental issues with the public. Having the necessary background in both the sensitivity of public issues and in the technical aspects of cement operations and associated issues, we support our clients in achieving the goal of building trust and a foundation upon which to exchange information within a community.

 

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Power & Utilities Profile

Schreiber, Yonley & Associates is an environmental engineering and consulting firm that has specialized in providing professional services to the combustion industry, including utilities, boilers, and waste to energy plants for over two decades. We have worked with many facilities throughout the United States, and have become known as a resource for providing effective technical expertise. Our staff includes 18 professionals, most of whom have worked extensively with the combustion industry on environmental issues. We have a wide range of capabilities encompassing all aspects of environmental management, with a unique emphasis in air permitting and compliance, alternate fuel/biomass programs, and other permitting, compliance and field activities. With our long-term industry experience and in-depth knowledge of environmental regulations, we have demonstrated the ability to apply reasonable operating solutions, and are uniquely experienced in working through issues with positive communications with EPA and state Agencies.

Highlights of our services provided to the combustion industry include:

Comprehensive Environmental Compliance:
Schreiber, Yonley & Associates is known for providing expertise in all aspects of environmental management programs and compliance with environmental regulations. We routinely track new regulations to assist in maintaining corporate-wide programs. On the plant level, we develop compliance plans, permit applications, and coordinate with the regulatory agencies. Along with these capabilities, we provide expert witness services on environmental topics.

Through our environmental auditing program, we can evaluate a company’s or plant’s current status with respect to the spectrum of environmental regulations. Audits can be as narrow or broad in scope as desired by our clients. Schreiber, Yonley & Associates has expertise in auditing for strict compliance at the time of the audit or auditing the environmental management systems (EMS) to ensure that all key factors are in place to maintain total compliance into the future.

Our comprehensive environmental services include permitting and compliance for all environmental regulations starting with air and waste permits, and including implementing GHG monitoring and auditing programs, preparation of stormwater pollution prevention and SPCC plans, recommendations on waste issues, SARA Title III compilation and reporting, and NPDES permits and sampling at the individual facilities. As part of our environmental services, our staff assists with the interpretation of regulatory applicability, compliance strategies, sampling and evaluation of sample results and data compilation. In addition, we perform environmental site assessments for property transactions.

Clean Air Act (CAA):
We provide our clients with a wide range of high quality services specific to the CAA. These services include air compliance audits, permitting for PSD, NSR, NSPS, MACT, and Title V and pollutant control strategies. Either as part of a larger project or as independent tasks, we also perform emissions inventories, combustion emission studies, process hazard review, air contaminant dispersion modeling, air toxic evaluations, and visual emissions assessments.

Schreiber, Yonley & Associates is able to work with clients, state agencies, and EPA to streamline the PSD/NSR process. The resources to complete successful PSD/NSR applications include: air dispersion modeling using the latest EPA version; New Source Review guidance material; documentation of control technologies and costs; and visibility screening material. Our experience has included conducting PSD/NSR permitting for a variety of new and major plant expansions, in addition to assisting in day-to-day plant modification regulatory interpretations.

The strength of our firm is our ability to provide engineering, modeling, and permitting with in-house personnel and resources, to perform permitting projects utilizing the services of only one firm. We have developed Title V Operating Permit and construction permit applications for combustion facilities located throughout the United States, and are uniquely positioned to derive proactive and acceptable permitting strategies. Our assistance also extends to developing strategies and performing CAA permitting for the use of alternative energy sources such as biomass or a wider range of alternatives.

Testing and Data Coordination:
Schreiber, Yonley & Associates has been involved in stack sampling and fugitive emissions sampling at combustion facilities since 1986. Our firm has designed test plans, managed, and provided on-site coordination for tests ranging from an individual parameter to complex trial burns. We perform detailed analysis of the results and preparation of emissions testing reports. As MACT rules are developed, we provide assistance to combustion facilities and trade associations that are assessing upcoming emissions requirements against industry-specific operations. Our engineers are familiar with various combustion processes, allowing pertinent and effective test plans and emissions studies to be developed.

Solid Waste and Field Services:
Our staff of experienced engineers, geologists, and technicians has extensive experience in services related to solid waste landfills and field operations projects. Landfill services we provide industry include detailed hydrogeologic and geologic assessments for proposed solid waste facilities, developing detailed solid waste applications, developing static and seismic slope stability analysis, complete construction oversight services, post-closure activities, facility monitoring for stormwater, leachate, methane gas, and groundwater. We also have comprehensive field services including surface sampling, soil boring, monitoring well installation, and fugitive emission monitoring to gather data necessary for developing and implementing solutions to contamination situations. . Our experience includes a variety of projects addressing beneficial use of industrial byproducts, such as coal combustion ash and cement kiln dust.

Community Relations/Technical Support:
We provide services to our combustion clients including technical support for community relations and related activities to support a client’s needs in addressing environmental issues with the public. Having the necessary background in both the sensitivity of public issues and in the technical aspects of combustion and associated issues, we support our clients in achieving the goal of building trust and a foundation upon which to exchange information within a community.

 

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Waste Combustion Industry Profile

Schreiber, Yonley & Associates provides compliance services in all aspects of environmental regulations and requirements, and specializes in applying non-hazardous and hazardous waste combustion regulations. Our technical expertise in dealing with the various combustion-related regulations is nationally recognized. Our highly experienced technical staff allows Schreiber, Yonley & Associates to provide outstanding service, not only on technical issues, but also by developing relationships with the regulatory agencies and community members.

The services that we provide include environmental permitting, regulatory compliance; environmental compliance audits, trial burn/comprehensive performance test and risk assessment coordination and oversight; regulatory interpretation and agency communication; air quality management; and communication and public relations support. Technical services that our staff provide to waste combustion facilities address the realm of environmental regulations, with a specific focus on Clean Air Act (CAA), including National Emission Standard for Hazardous Air Pollutants from Hazardous Waste Combustion (HWC NESHAP or HWC MACT), Commercial and Industrial Solid Waste Incinerator Rules (CSWI) and the solid and hazardous waste components of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). In addition, we perform technical studies on issues ranging from dioxin, metals and organic emission determinations, to appropriate practices for management of wastes. Some of the key service areas that we provide to hazardous waste combustion facilities are as follows.

Permitting and Compliance:
Schreiber, Yonley & Associates has extensive experience assisting clients in planning for and complying with the complex requirements of the RCRA and MACT combustion rules. This experience has included working with industry to coordinate with EPA during the development of the BIF, HWC MACT and CISWI rules. We have developed RCRA permit applications and compliance plans for many facilities, and have worked extensively with the HWC MACT portion of the cement industry in communicating regulatory and technical issues. We have also organized and coordinated work groups on Boiler and Industrial Furnace (BIF) and MACT compliance issues among the cement industry, the U.S. EPA (Regions 4, 5 and 7) and state agencies since the mid-1990s.

The constant change and development of environmental regulations continues to have a significant effect on waste management facilities. Our in-depth understanding of the regulations applicable to the combustion industry has made us a leader in providing technical assistance with interpreting, developing and implementing regulatory programs.

MACT Implementation:
Our engineers have assisted many hazardous waste combustion facilities with implementing the HWC MACT rules. We have worked with facilities to provide comprehensive assistance analyzing plant operations, records, permits, and emissions testing and monitoring to demonstrate and facilitate compliance with the MACT rules. Our services include strategic planning to help regulated facilities plan implementation steps, preparing and updating HWC MACT required plans and procedures, evaluating emissions for complying with the emissions standards, coordinating and overseeing emissions testing programs, and managing associated CAA permitting.

Environmental Compliance Audits:
Schreiber, Yonley & Associates has performed numerous comprehensive and media-specific environmental audits for the non-hazardous and hazardous waste combustion industry. An on-site inspection of the facility and a detailed examination of applicable records is conducted to determine the facility’s compliance with CAA, RCRA, Clean Water Act (CWA), Superfund Amendment and Reauthorization Act (SARA) and other applicable environmental regulations. We have particular expertise auditing facilities to assess their procedures for operating in compliance with the BIF and MACT rules.

Trial Burn/Comprehensive Performance Tests and Risk Assessments:
We are able to use our extensive knowledge and experience with combustion facilities to assist clients in developing and implementing trial burn/comprehensive performance tests, and coordinating risk assessments under RCRA and the CAA. Schreiber, Yonley & Associates has participated in all aspects of testing including preparing test plans, participating in agency negotiations, overseeing testing, assessing data quality, and preparing comprehensive test reports.

Our staff has also been extensively involved in coordinating with industry, EPA and risk assessment firms on preparing risk assessment protocols and reports for combustion facilities as part of the overall permitting process.

Regulatory Agency Communications:
For both the prevention and resolution of enforcement actions, Schreiber, Yonley & Associates is a leader in assisting and representing combustion facilities in communications with regulatory agencies. A number of our staff have worked at and/or managed state or federal regulatory agencies. This insight not only helps in interpreting regulations, but also in working with the agencies to develop plans for implementing compliance. We routinely work with corporate attorneys or with outside legal representation to develop and implement compliance and business strategies.

Clean Air Act Implementation:
Schreiber, Yonley & Associates’ staff provides a wide range of services specific to CAA requirements. These services include CAA compliance audits, emissions inventories, air toxic evaluations, stack/source testing, CEM certification, process hazard review, ambient air monitoring, visual emissions assessments, air contaminant dispersion modeling, data management and air permitting including Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD), New Source review (NSR) and Title V.

Our firm has the ability to provide engineering, modeling, permitting and testing with in-house personnel and resources, allowing the client an option to assess emissions, ensure compliance, and develop permits utilizing the services of only one firm. We have completed Title V Operating Permit applications for multiple cement manufacturing facilities located throughout the United States

Dioxins Formation Research and Control:
Our experience in working with dioxins and furans includes working with clients, regulatory agencies, and the public in developing and implementing dioxin testing programs and source testing programs. Since 1979, we have studied the formation and behavior of dioxins and furans and have presented data to U.S. EPA headquarters as well as several U.S. EPA regions and state agencies. Schreiber, Yonley & Associates’ extensive background in dioxin research and combustion technology allows us to develop dioxin strategies specific to a particular facility.

Communications, Training, and Community Relations Programs:
Our staff has experience working independently with the client or in conjunction with a public relations firm to provide technical support for public meetings and media events. Our experience includes coordinating industry work groups to collectively communicate environmental concerns to state and federal regulatory agencies. Having the necessary background in the sensitivity of public issues, the regulations, and in the technical aspects of hazardous waste management and cement operations, we support our clients in achieving the goal of building trust and a foundation upon which to exchange information within a community.

Other services our firm provides include Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) training for hazardous waste operations (HAZWOPER), operations training with respect to combustion issues; and development of health and safety plans, community exposure evaluations and health profiles.

 

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Mineral Products Profile

Schreiber, Yonley & Associates (SYA) is an environmental engineering and consulting firm that has specialized in providing professional services to many industries for more than two decades, with a main focus on mineral product industries. We have worked with many individual facilities, corporate entities and associated trade associations throughout the United States, and have become known as a resource for providing effective technical expertise and solutions. Our staff includes a highly experienced group of professionals, most having industry or regulatory agency backgrounds focusing on environmental issues. We have a unique blend of capabilities with all aspects of air permitting, emissions studies and testing, solid and hazardous waste management, monitoring and reporting, as well as other environmental programs. Along with our industry experience, we have an in depth knowledge of environmental regulations, have the ability to apply reasonable operating solutions and are uniquely experienced in developing and maintaining positive communications with the environmental agencies.

Comprehensive Environmental Compliance:
We are known for providing expertise in all aspects of environmental management programs and in complying with the regulations. Through our environmental auditing program, we can evaluate a plant’s current status with respect to the spectrum of environmental regulations. We also routinely track new regulations to assist in maintaining our clients’ environmental programs. On the plant level, we develop compliance plans, permit applications, and coordinate with the regulatory agencies on the more interesting aspects of the regulations. Along with these capabilities, we provide expert witness services on environmental topics.

Our comprehensive environmental services include permitting and compliance for a wide range of environmental regulations, including preparation of stormwater pollution prevention plans and SPCC plans, recommendations on recycling and waste issues, SARA Title III compilation and reporting, and NPDES permits and sampling at the individual facilities. As part of our environmental services, our staff assists with the interpretation of regulatory applicability, compliance sampling, evaluation of sample results and report completion. In addition, we perform environmental site assessments for property transactions

Clean Air Act (CAA):
We provide our clients with a wide array of high quality services specific to the CAA. These services include air compliance audits and permitting for PSD, NSR, NSPS, MACT and Title V. Either as part of a larger project or as independent tasks, we also perform emissions inventories, process hazard review, air contaminant dispersion modeling, air toxic evaluations, stack/source testing oversight, ambient air monitoring, and visual emissions assessments.

Unique to our firm is our ability to provide engineering, modeling, and permitting with in-house personnel and resources, allowing our clients an option to assess emissions, ensure compliance and develop permits utilizing the services of only one firm. We have developed PSD and Title V Operating Permit applications and construction and operating permit applications for multiple mineral products manufacturing facilities located throughout the United States. We are also known for negotiating the nuances of CAA permits or related issues the EPA and state agencies.

Testing and Data Coordination:
Schreiber, Yonley & Associates has been involved in emissions sampling and data analysis at mineral products manufacturing plants throughout our history. Our firm has designed test plans, conducted emissions tests, managed, and provided on-site coordination for tests ranging from an individual parameter to more complex MACT test programs. We perform detailed analysis of the results and preparation of emissions testing reports. Our engineers are familiar with manufacturing processes, so that a testing approach can be developed which best matches a facility’s particular needs. Our emissions testing experience combined with our operations and permitting expertise provides clients with necessary services for continued compliance with air emissions regulations.

Pollutant Research and Control:
As the MACT rules for air emissions from the mineral products industry are being implemented, many plants have been addressing emissions and control for individual pollutants. Our extensive background in pollutant research and industrial technology makes us particularly qualified to develop operations and control strategies specific to a particular plant. Our experience has included working with plants, regulatory agencies and the public in developing and implementing emissions testing programs. We have specialized in studying the emissions source and behavior of high profile pollutants, and have presented data to U.S. EPA headquarters, the regions and state agencies on behalf of the minerals products industry.

Community Relations/Technical Support:
We provide services to our industrial clients including technical support for community relations and related activities to support a client’s needs in addressing environmental issues with the public. Having the necessary background in both the sensitivity of public issues and in the technical aspects of minerals products operations and associated issues, we support our clients in achieving the goal of building trust and a foundation upon which to exchange information within a community.