Experience

Air

• Negotiation of Title V, NSR and minor source permits
• PSD exemptions
• Defending air emission violations
• Deviation reporting and compliance certification
• Applicability determinations for new source performance standards, new source review and NESHAPs
• Negotiation of agreed orders
• Asbestos removal in demolition and remodeling projects
• Negotiation of odor abatement regulations
• Alternative compliance monitoring approvals

Water

• Negotiation of NPDES permit limitations and compliance schedules and preparation of NPDES permit applications
• NPDES permit requirements and long term control plans for combined sewer overflows
• Negotiation of variances from water quality standards and preparation of use attainability analyses
• Antidegradation reviews
• Negotiation of sewer and wastewater treatment system construction permits
• Defense of Department of Justice multi-million dollar civil action for pretreatment violations
• Negotiation of agreed orders and consent decrees with IDEM and U.S. EPA regarding NPDES permit violations and pretreatment violations
• Negotiation of industrial wastewater pretreatment permit limits and sewer use agreements
• Assistance in responding to Section 308 information requests
• Negotiation of Section 404 dredge and fill permits issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• Land application permits
• Concentrated animal feeding operation permits
• Stormwater discharge permits
• Toxicity reduction evaluations and biomonitoring
• Preparation of SPCC plans and Oil Pollution Act of 1990 spill response plans
• Drafting major revisions to City of Indianapolis pretreatment ordinance
• Safe Drinking Water Act compliance
• Wellhead protection

Petroleum

• Negotiation of corrective action plans for leaking underground storage tanks and other petroleum and hazardous substances releases
• Obtain reimbursements from Indiana’s Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Excess Liability Fund
• Defense of petroleum retailers in contribution claims for petroleum releases
• Defending enforcement actions for failure to report petroleum releases
• Aboveground storage tanks
• SPCC plans

Real Estate Development

• Voluntary Remediation Program, state and federal clean-up programs and Brownfields Program assistance
• Environmental site assessments for lenders and both buyers and sellers of real estate
• Negotiation of environmental provisions in loan documents, mortgages, leases, easements, options and purchase agreements
• Environmental restrictive covenants
• Floodway construction permits
• Wetlands development and Section 404 dredge and fill permits
• Section 401 water quality certifications
• Asbestos removal
• Residential lead-based paint hazards
• Archaeological resources

Solid & Hazardous Waste

• Defending companies accused of illegal interstate shipments of solid wastes
• Permitting of hazardous waste treatment units, tanks and container storage areas
• Negotiation of hazardous waste facility closure plans
• Corrective action
• Preparation of biennial reports
• Defense of hazardous waste violations
• Used oil and universal waste compliance

Remediation & Superfund

• Voluntary remediation program
• State clean up program
• No further action letters
• Vapor intrusion
• Groundwater remediation
• Spills
• Delisting the Carter-Lee Lumber Company Superfund site
• Negotiation of consent decrees among potentially responsible parties and state and federal agencies at Superfund sites
• Removal of client from PRP group at an Indiana Superfund site by demonstrating sludge was a non-hazardous waste
• Asserting an innocent landowner defense on behalf of the owner of an Indiana Superfund site
• Negotiation of prospective purchaser agreement with federal and state agencies
• Representing de minimis PRPs at several Superfund sites and removal actions
• Representing remedial action contractors at Superfund sites
• Preparation and negotiation of remedial action contracts
• Preparation of CERCLA Section 104(e) responses
• Investigations to identify and locate PRPs

Additional Services

• EPCRA compliance
• Emergency notification and other responses to spills and releases
• Prepare and negotiate contracts for various environmental services including engineering, transportation and analytical services
• Environmental compliance audits
• Lobbying before the Indiana General Assembly and before the various environmental rulemaking boards
• Executive branch lobbying
• Personnel training

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