Policy Development

Strategic Environmental Analysis , L.C. (SEA) is an environmental management consulting firm that serves clients in the hazardous waste, radioactive waste, solid waste, recycling and wastewater fields by analyzing the impact of business, regulatory and technology factors on the environmental services marketplace, and by devising strategies to cope with future market conditions. SEA's areas of practice include custom market surveys, due diligence investigations, regulatory analysis, expert witness testimony and litigation support, and technology assessments, multi-client research, and policy development and representation projects.

Occasionally firms seek a modification of an existing regulation or the establishment of a new policy to facilitate the deployment or permitting of a given technology or waste management approach. SEA has worked with over 200 firms on a wide variety of policy development issues at the Federal and State level since 1979, many involving implementation of the 1984 HSWA and the 1980 and 1986 amendments to CERCLA or Superfund. See Richard Fortuna Staff Profile for additional detail on SEA’s leadership in waste policy development. The links listed below summarize some of SEA’s recent and historical Policy Development projects:

Developed policy and comments on EPA’s proposal to revise regulatory standards for Central Wastewater Treatment Facilities.

Mercury Recycling Regulations

SEA worked with a leading recycler of mercury wastes to address various loopholes in current regulations and to develop new legislation to enhance the recovery of mercury from a wide range of manufacturing and consumer wastes.

Historcial Projects

Development of Education Materials
Hazardous Waste Identification Rule
Inorganic Chemical Recycling
Recycling Of Filter Media
MACT Rule for Hazardous Waste Combustors
Mercury Waste Treatment
National Engineering Lab - Mission Redefinition
Petroleum Waste Listing Litigation
Recycling Of Steel Industry Wastes

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