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Renewable Fuels

renewable fuels: safety and environmental consulting services for renewable fuel producers

Merjent’s Biofuels Team has provided environmental permitting and compliance services, including air quality, water quality, health and safety, RFS2 engineering, and public outreach, to over 200 facilities in 31 states.
We provide unmatched personalized service, knowledge, and regulatory expertise. Our clients benefit from easy-to-use technology solutions such as tablet-based tools for more efficient inspection, data collection, and analysis efforts.
Dry mill ethanol plant in the Midwestern United States. Photo taken by Billy VonSee President of Consulting, Biofuels Permitting Specialist.
Project Planning and Feasibility
  • Due diligence reviews
  • Regulatory applicability determinations
  • Phase I site assessments
Public Outreach
  • Outreach program development
  • Mailing lists
  • Outreach documents
  • Meeting support (coordination, check-in, site setup)
  • Comment tracking and analysis
Construction Compliance
  • Construction stormwater permitting and plans
  • Environmental inspection
  • Environmental third-party monitoring
Environmental Permitting
  • Air quality permit acquisition
  • Water permit acquisition, including water appropriation, stormwater, and industrial discharge
  • Beneficial reuse/solid waste permit acquisition
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) compliance
  • Local zoning and drainage approvals
  • Cultural resourcesthreatened and endangered species, and wetland studies
  • Environmental review and environmental assessment, including those required under NEPA and state environmental policy acts
  • Lead agency approvals, including state and federal environmental protection agencies, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the U.S. Department of Energy
Operational Compliance
Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2) engineering review services
  • Third-party engineering reviews
  • Site-specific pathway petitions
  • Efficient producer petitions (EPP)
  • Compliance monitoring plans (CMP)
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Chemical Facility Anti-terrorism Standards (CFATS)
  • Top-Screen surveys
  • Site security plans
Expert Witness Testimony
  • Review/analyze project documents
  • Draft direct/rebuttal testimony
  • Analyze and draft responses to data requests
  • Prepare for and testify at hearing
Process Safety Management and Risk Management Plans (PSM/RMP)

Your facility’s PSM program sets up lines of defense against unwanted releases of hazardous chemicals.  Our staff can evaluate your program to identify any gaps in implementation and make recommendations to strengthen the effectiveness of your program  Some PSM services include:

Safety Consulting Services
Environmental Health & Safety Manager Training

When the goal is to ensure employee health and safety and achieve regulatory compliance, it’s important to provide training that sticks. Effective training programs are impactful, engage the learner, and provide opportunities to apply knowledge in useful and relevant ways. Our Training and Experience services include:

  • PSM/RMP compliance
  • Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure
  • Water (stormwater and industrial discharge)
  • Site security
  • Facility response
  • Air permit and operational compliance
  • Solid waste
  • Safety
  • Ace Ethanol, LLC – PSM/RMP Program Assistance
  • East Kansas Agri-Energy, LLC – PSM/RMP Compliance Audit and PHA
  • Glacial Lakes Energy, LLC – Low Carbon Fuel Standard Method 2A Applications
  • Guardian Lima, LLC – Start-up Services
  • Pacific Ethanol Magic Valley, LLC – Air Permitting, Dispersion Modeling, and T-RACT Analyses
  • Redfield Energy, LLC – Title V and NPDES Renewal Applications
  • Red Tail Energy, LLC – Stack Test Management

Contacts

Paul Mordorski
Biofuels Sector Lead
paul.mordorski@merjent.com

Support Services

Merjent provides a full suite of environmental consulting services

AIR QUALITY
Pipeline construction right of way through mountains.
CONSTRUCTION COMPLIANCE
CULTURAL RESOURCES
DUE DILIGENCE
High voltage electric transmission power lines at sunset.
ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITTING
GIS
Integrated Vegetation Management (IVM) used to restore prairie habitat on pipeline right of way.
INTEGRATED VEGETATION MANAGEMENT
LCFS & RFS2
LOW CARBON ENERGY TRANSITION
MONARCH CCAA
RESTORATION SERVICES
SAFETY SERVICES
SPECIAL STATUS SPECIES COMPLIANCE
Person typing on a keyboard of a laptop.
TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
WATER QUALITY
WETLAND AND WATERBODY SURVEYS