Wastewater Compliance:

APES has extensive experience navigating the complex regulatory world of industrial wastewater compliance. The APES team has worked with many large hospitals, commercial, and industrial clients throughout the Bay Area and Northern California to monitor wastewater discharge by maintaining sampling schedules that adhere to local wastewater discharge permits. Services include deploying an automatic sampling device in the facility’s waste discharge stream and collecting 24-hour composite and grab samples in laboratory provided sampling containers, following appropriate USEPA Guidance, and providing professional technical reporting to the client and the local oversight body.

Hazardous Materials Business Plan (HMBP)

Businesses storing hazardous materials (including hazardous waste) or extremely hazardous substances at reportable quantities, are required to prepare and electronically submit a Hazardous Materials Business Plan (HMBP). The general reportable quantities are equal to or greater than 55 gallons of a liquid, 200 cubic feet of a gas, and 500 pounds of a solid.

The purpose of the Hazardous Materials Business Plan (HMBP) program is to prevent or minimize harm to public health and the environment from a release or threatened release of a hazardous material. By submitting an HMBP, emergency responders can effectively protect the public. The HMBP also satisfies the federal Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA), which was created in 1986 to help communities plan for chemical-related emergencies.

Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure Plan (SPCC)

The purpose of the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) rule is to help facilities prevent a discharge of oil into navigable waters or adjoining shorelines. This rule is part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s oil spill prevention program and was published under the authority of Section 311(j)(1)(C) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (Clean Water Act) in 1974. The rule may be found at Title 40, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 112.  

A facility is required to complete an SPCC plan if it has an aggregate aboveground oil storage capacity greater than 1,320 U.S. gallons or a completely buried storage capacity greater than 42,000 U.S. gallons and there is a reasonable expectation of an oil discharge into or upon navigable waters of the U.S. or adjoining shorelines.