Environmental Services
Polestar offers a highly skilled and experienced team of environmental
professionals providing cost-effective solutions for our clients'
environmental needs. Our staff works with each client to develop
and implement the best approach for reaching their environmental
objectives.
Polestar is an ideal choice for reaching your environmental goals. We have both the experience and the expertise to provide comprehensive services to meet our client's specific requirements. Our environmental team possesses a strong commitment to providing timely and innovative solutions to even the most intimidating environmental problems.
Polestar's environmental consulting team is comprised of top professionals having hands-on experience with major U.S. corporations, Federal agencies (i.e., Department of Energy and Department of Defense), as well as State and Federal regulatory organizations.
Polestar provides a wide range of technical and consulting services related to environmental protection, waste management, and regulatory compliance. We work quickly to assess your needs and solve your environmental compliance problems. With the experience and resources our environmental team possesses, Polestar can anticipate solutions before problems arise and save you time and money.
The environmental services Polestar provides include
For more information contact:
John Lesser
(509)946-8279
CERCLA Process Support and Documentation Development
Polestar provides guidance, leadership, and technical support in the development of CERCLA documentation and all aspects of the CERCLA process. Polestar's environmental staff has been involved in the CERCLA process in support of Deactivation and Decommissioning of several facilities on the Department of Energy's Hanford Site, including surplus plutonium concentration buildings. Polestar provides environmental and technical support combined with the experience of our consultants to achieve technical excellence in the development of the following:
- Schedule and Cost Estimating
- Data Quality Objectives Process
- Regulator and Stakeholder interviews
- Development of DQO Report
- Documentation Development
- Sampling and Analysis Plan
- Remedial Action Work Plan
- Demolition Plan
- Action Memorandum
- Air Monitoring Plan
- Waste Management Plan
- Negotiations with state and federal regulatory agencies
- Characterization and sampling strategies
- Coordination of analytical services
- Work planning
- Procedure and work package development
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Multi-Media Audits and Assessments/Environmental Compliance
Multi-media audits focus on all aspects of environmental compliance, which include: waste management, permit compliance, emergency preparedness, training, and regulatory documentation. Polestar's staff has been involved with many regulatory agency multi-media audits with several Federal agencies. These sites include the Department of Energy's Hanford Site and the Department of Defense's Umatilla Chemical Depot. Polestar provides technical support combined with experience in interactions and negotiations with state and federal regulatory agencies. Polestar's environmental team possesses the technical skills and knowledge to ensure readiness for audits and a positive outcome. Polestar personnel are available to support the following tasks associated with environmental multi-media audits:
- Perform facility self-assessments prior to audits
- Develop corrective action plans based on self-assessment findings
- Provide technical support during audits
- Develop audit close-out documentation
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Environmental Compliance Management System Development
Computerized environmental management systems are quickly becoming the preferred manner to approach environmental compliance activities for projects around the world. To support the environmental compliance activities provided by Polestar, our environmental staff designed and developed an electronic environmental compliance management system we named the Commitment Tracking System (CTS). CTS is a desk-top, relational database that allows its users to identify and manage requirements that are programmatic, reoccurring, or event-based. This versatile tool enables requirement managers to track scheduled compliance items as well as issues that might arise due to enacting incidents (i.e., spills, leaks, etc.).
The CTS's design is based on the U.S. Army's Umatilla Chemical Depot's Chemical Disposal Facility (UMCDF) need for regulation and multiple permit compliance management. The multi-faceted compliance need of the client is the basis for the system's diversity. Although developed with an environmental focus, CTS was designed so that it can be implemented for all requirement-based activities that require completion and compliance tracking and documentation.
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Environmental Permitting
Polestar provides expertise in all areas of environmental permitting.
The Polestar environmental team has experience in permitting existing
facilities, as well as facilities in the design phase. Polestar
has provided permitting expertise to multiple facilities on the
Department of Energy's Hanford Site, including the $4 Billion waste
vitrification facility. Polestar personnel were key in the development
of air, water, and Resource Conservation and recovery Act (RCRA)
permits to allow for construction and operation of this facility.
Polestar consultants provide project planning, cost estimating,
regulator and stakeholder negotiations, and permit development in
the following areas:
- Air Permits
- Water Discharge Permits
- NEPA Documentation
- Categorical Exclusions
- Environmental Assessments
- Environmental Impact Statements
- RCRA Permits
- Part A and Part B Permit Applications
- Contingency Plans
- Waste Analysis Plans
- Training Plans
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Radioactive and Hazardous
Waste Management
Polestar's consultants are available to provide expertise in all
aspects of radioactive and hazardous waste management, including
compliance with state and federal environmental requirements, Department
of Energy and Department of Defense orders, and facility or project
specific procedures.
Polestar personnel have hands-on experience working with waste
at the Hanford Site, as well as other Department of Energy and Department
of Defense sites.
Polestar's consultants can provide the following services to a
facility or project:
- Hazardous, radioactive, and PCB waste storage area management
- Procedure development for waste handling and packaging
- Waste storage area inspections
- Offsite RCRA unit assessments
- Waste designation and classification
- Waste sampling support
- Waste management plan development
- Regulatory analysis and policy development for waste management issues
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Chemical Management Program Development and Implementation
Polestar's environmental staff has been an integral part at several federal and commercial facilities identifying chemical management requirements and providing compliance support. With their background, the Polestar environmental team can perform and provide all Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act (EPCRA) reporting requirements. At Polestar, we understand that working with a customer's procurement and/or IT group to obtain chemical inventory information is more about developing relationships with people than generating data. Our environmental staff can perform or support the following activities:
- Emergency Planning and Release Notification (Sections 301-304)
- Extremely Hazardous Substances (EHS) Issues
- Section 311/312 Applicability Review/Reporting
- Section 313 Toxic Release Inventory (Form R) Applicability Review/Reporting
- Chemical Emergency response Plans
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Pollution Prevention Program Development and Implementation
Polestar provides comprehensive pollution prevention (P2) analysis and planning services to Federal and commercial facilities. Our environmental team works to identify and document cost-effective strategies for preventing pollution, minimizing waste, meeting permit requirements, and improving regulatory requirements. Polestar's staff has performed pollution prevention opportunity assessments (P2OAs) at various industrial and military facilities and has prepared P2OA reports detailing facility-specific pollution prevention opportunities, return on investment (ROI), and feasibility, and constraints on implementation.
Polestar has also developed site and project specific P2 and waste minimization programs that have enhanced environmental compliance and reduced disposal costs. Most recently, Polestar developed a program for the Department of Energy's Hanford Site waste vitirification facility. The program for this RCRA facility addressed Pollution Prevention in Design as well as the activities associated with construction and the eventual operations of the plant. Polestar is uniquely qualified to plan and implement P2 activities to ensure P2 opportunities are identified, feasible, and effective.
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For more information contact:
John Lesser
(509)946-8279
