Clients

Handshake At B Paul Consulting, LLC we take pride in our flexibility to serve businesses of all sizes.  Our clients range from multi-national corporations to small businesses and trade associations. We’ve guided companies through complex and significant PSD permitting processes, and we’ve help companies understand how to manage basic compliance with air quality regulations.

Regardless of your organization’s size, our expertise and experience ensure you achieve the results you want at the best value.

Below is a list of representative industries for our clients.  Click a toggle to view additional information about the type of work performed in these industries.

General Manufacturing

  • Pre-construction permits and Title V Operating Permit renewals for engine testing and manufacturing facilities
  • Operating permit for printer roller refurbishing facility
  • Operating permit for woodworking/surface coating facility
  • Pre-construction and operating permit for heavy equipment repair and maintenance facility
  • Compliance management system development for various facility types

Pharmaceuticals

  • Flexible PSD construction permit and Title V operating permit for a complex pharmaceutical/specialty chemical plant
  • Title V permit modifications
  • Developed New Source Review and PSD permitting guidelines for pharmaceutical manufacturing operations
  • Analyzed potential costs of SO2 and NOx emissions trading programs on manufacturing facilities
  • Compliance management system support

Agricultural Products and Livestock Production

  • PSD permitting for new fertilizer production facility
  • Prepared and negotiated PAL permit to enable agricultural manufacturing facility to expand and modify site operations without triggering PSD permitting requirements
  • Livestock production facility permitting
  • Permitting and compliance management for manure digesters with digester gas engine/electricity production facilities
  • Permitting and compliance management for manure gasification and energy conversion facility
  • SO2 NAAQS and SIP support

Speciality chemicals and plastics

  • New source review and Title V permitting support
  • Flexible permitting development and support
  • SO2 NAAQS and SIP support[/list]

Electric Utilities

  • SO2 NAAQS and SIP support
  • Title V permit modifications
  • Greenhouse Gas Emission Reporting
  • Continuous Release Reporting
  • Toxics Release Inventory Reporting

Public utilities

  • Obtained construction and operating permits for wood chipping operation
  • Permitting and regulatory compliance evaluation for system of water treatment and wastewater treatment facilities

Recycling and resource recovery

  • Obtained construction and operating permits for recycling facilities
  • Construction and operating permit support
  • Development of compliance management system for air permits[/list]

Trade Associations

  • Developed comment letter on proposed EPA source determination rules on behalf of multiple agricultural trade associations
  • Developed comment letter on proposed PM2.5 Implementation Rules for agricultural trade associations
  • Assisted agricultural trade associations with negotiation of state air permitting guidance and regulatory interpretations as applicable to farming operations
  • Developed comment letter on proposed GHG NSPS and ESPS regulations on behalf of an energy industry trade association
  • Developed comment letter on proposed EPA Utility MACT regulations on behalf of an energy industry trade association
  • Conducted a survey of various state air permitting agencies to understand potential impacts of EPA Greenhouse Gas Permitting guidance on behalf of a multi-industry trade association

Coalitions

  • Established and operate the SO2 Project, a multi-industry coalition of sources impacted by Indiana’s implementation of SO2 SIP requirements to work with IDEM on implementation issues
  • Submitted comments on behalf of the SO2 Project on EPA’s proposed SO2 Data Requirements rule
  • Submitted comments on behalf of the SO2 Project on EPA’s draft white paper for SO2 NAAQS implementation
  • Submitted comments on behalf of the SO2 Project on EPA’s proposed SO2 SIP Guidance
  • Submitted comments on behalf of the SO2 Project during Indiana’s rulemaking on new SO2 SIP rules