Environmental Management and Permits
Environmental Management and Permits
Summary
How to manage air emissions, chemicals, hazardous materials, oil, stormwater, wastewater, and waste storage and disposal.
Who is this for?
- Building and operations management.
- Harvard construction project managers.
⚠ Reporting chemical spills
Call the Operations Center to notify EHS about urgent environmental incidents and emergencies, including chemical and oil spills.
Installing and modifying equipment
Contact EHS before you:
- Change existing regulated assets, including ground source heat pumps, oil storage tanks, stormwater treatment devices, and wastewater systems.
- Install or replace fuel-fired equipment or equipment that could impact air quality, including boilers, combined heat and power units, emergency generators, fire pumps, paint spray booths, and parts washers.
Environmental management at Harvard
Building and operations management can use EHS guidance and support to help manage:
- Air emissions and clean air regulations.
- Chemicals and hazardous materials, including hazardous building materials.
- Construction-related environmental permits and issues.
- Environmental permitting and regulatory compliance, inspections, and interactions.
- Groundwater, stormwater, and wastewater.
- Oil storage and tank management and spill prevention, control, and countermeasures (SPCC).
- Waste storage and disposal.
EHS support
Contact EHS for more information about environmental management and permits, including:
- Air emissions sources and emergency generators.
- Annual chemical inventory reporting and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act.
- EHS environmental compliance, inspection, audit, and sampling programs.
- Geothermal well, stormwater, and wastewater management.
- Oil storage and tank management.
- Permitting and design requirements for water-related management systems, including ground source heat pumps, stormwater, or wastewater pH neutralization systems.
- Release reporting.
- SPCC plans.