Washington Demilitarization Company, LLC (WDC)
Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (UMCDF)
Hermiston, Oregon

WDC is the co-operator and co-permittee for a chemical weapons incineration facility in northeastern Oregon. EnviroMet is currently providing air permitting, air modeling, and risk assessment support to WDC and to the U.S. Army through WDC.

EnviroMet’s air support has included:

• Air quality modeling to support a state air permit renewal.
• Development of the initial Title V operating permit application for the facility and several application revisions. EnviroMet is currently supporting WDC as the Oregon DEQ reviews the application and begins drafting the Title V permit.
• Development of the site’s state air permit Renewal Application.
• Providing comments on proposed DEQ air quality permitting regulation changes.

EnviroMet has also supported WDC in implementing the Hazardous Waste Combustor MACT requirements. This support included:

• Review of EPA’s proposed HWC MACT Replacement Standards
• Implementation strategy development
• Assistance in developing a MACT Application for Approval of Construction
• Assistance in initial MACT implementation discussions with DEQ
• Drafting HWC MACT Operation and Maintenance Plan, Startup, Shutdown, and Malfunction Plan, and Emergency Safety Vent Operating Plan

EnviroMet currently provides risk assessment support services for a complex human health and ecological risk assessment of the UMCDF. EnviroMet developed numerous comments on the UMCDF Risk Assessment Work Plan (protocol) and currently supports WDC with air quality modeling and the development of an emissions database containing measurements of hundreds of substances from numerous trial burns.

Fortune 150 Energy Company
Northeast U.S.

EnviroMet is currently assisting a Fortune 150 corporation in developing a GHG inventory and data management system. This support includes the development of an Inventory Management Plan. EnviroMet also assists the corporation in developing its climate change strategy and tracks and reviews numerous climate change initiatives and publications at the international, federal, and state level.

Fortune 500 Energy Company
Northeast U.S.

EnviroMet continues to provide air quality consulting services for this major energy supplier and distributor under a General Services Agreement and has done so since 2001. Services have included complex dispersion modeling studies of existing and proposed generating units (including coal-fired as well as oil and gas-fired boilers, combined cycle plants and simple cycle units), permitting of increased emissions and analysis of fogging and icing potential from evaporative cooling systems, permitting of multiple new simple cycle combustion turbines, and strategic planning support for new generation projects including assessment of regulatory and other potential hurdles and constraints.

Major Electric Utility Company
Northeast U.S.

EnviroMet has served this company and its generation subsidiary, which operates more than 9,000 MW of predominantly coal-fired generation, since inception in 2001. EnviroMet operates under a Master Services Agreement and provides assistance to in-house environmental staff on an as-needed and special project basis. EnviroMet has produced numerous and varied work products including Title V renewal applications for several stations; Best Available Retrofit Technology (BART) analyses, including Class I CALPUFF modeling for 5 coal-fired stations; dispersion modeling analyses and stack height determinations for FGD retrofits at several stations; site selection assistance; permitting and dispersion modeling of natural gas and coal seam methane-fired simple cycle combustion turbines (six facilities in the jurisdictions of four separate regulatory agencies), permitting and modeling of a 540 MW combined cycle facility; forensic meteorological investigations; and assistance with specification and installation of meteorological measurement systems.