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Environmental Assessment Tool

Basic Info
Contact Information
Air Quality
Is there a valid air permit/registration for the department?
Emergency Generators
Is there an inventory of these available?
Who exercises these units?
Recent Modifications
Has the department made any recent modifications to existing air emissions sources?
Are any additions or modifications planned for the next two years?
Does the department own or operate an incinerator?
Does the department own or operate cogeneration or fuel-fired chiller system?
Refrigerants
Who is certified to work with refrigerants on campus?
Is there any equipment with > 50 lb of refrigerant?
Who services these units?
Does the department own a reclaiming unit?
Gasoline
Does the department have a gasoline dispensing facility?
Does the department have a graphic arts program?
Does the department have any dry cleaning operations?
Is traffic paint applied on campus by the department?
Asbestos
Has the department undertaken any projects involving asbestos over the past 3 years?
Were notifications submitted to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) prior to the start of each project?
Are they available?
Are the waste shipment records from the projects available?
Did any exceed the 35-day or 45-day shipment times between date shipped off-site and date received at the final disposal site?
Were the projects performed by licensed asbestos abatement professionals?
Are any containers of asbestos containing material (ACM) currently stored on-site?
Are campus vehicles used to transport asbestos on campus?
Does the department have its own asbestos abatement personnel or team?
EPCRA
Does your department have any facilities/research labs/farms/etc... which store extremely hazardous chemicals that are greater than or equal to the threshold planning quantity (TPQ) amount listed on the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations Extremely Hazardous Substances Charts?
Hazardous Substances Release
Does the department store any exemptions for hazardous substances (EHS) on-site in excess of the U.S. Government reportable quantity (RQ)?
Does the department store any hazardous substances in quantities great than 10,000 pounds (the term hazardous substance refers to anything that has a Material Safety Data Sheet, including underground storage tanks, above ground storage tanks, oil, sand, road salt, fertilizer, etc.)?
Is there or has there ever been any storage of chemicals, raw materials, fuels, liquids, or wastes by other means, such as surface impoundments, pits, ponds, lagoons or piles of the property?
Has your department had a release of any hazardous substances?
Lead Paint
Is there any pre-1978 residential housing that have separated kitchens? (e.g., student of faculty apartments, RA/RD apartments, President's house, etc.)?
Have Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) pamphlets been distributed to any residents?
Does the leasing process include lead-paint disclosures?
Have there been any lead-based paint renovations or abatements performed on target holding or child-occupied facilities?
Is there any lead contaminated soil on residential property or on property of a child-occupied facility which exceeds 400 parts per million (ppm) in concentration in child play areas or 1,200 ppm in non-play areas?
Have residential properties been sold by the department which contained lead-based paint?
Pesticides
Does the department employ any certified pesticide applicators?
Are they certified for the types of pesticide applications performed?
Are their licenses current?
Does the department apply any restricted use pesticides?
Are restricted use pesticides applied by certified applicators or under their direct supervision?
Are restricted use pesticides applied according to label directions?
Are records of restricted use pesticides maintained for 2 years?
Is there proper signage at primary entry points?
Does the department follow Worker Protection Standards for pesticides covered by WPS rules?
RCRA - leave blank if not sure
I. Does the department generate or have the following waste:
A. Generate:
Wastes listed as hazardous waste under federal and state law (e.g., solvent wastes, old chemical)?
Ignitable wastes (e.g., waste gasoline, paints, thinners, mineral spirits)?
Corrosive wastes (e.g., acids, bases, boiler treatment chemicals)?
Toxic wastes (e.g., photo developer or fixer waste; wastes containing lead, chromium, cadmium, silver or other metals)?
PCB-containing materials (liquids, rags, equipment)?
Waste sludges?
Filter media (i.e., Ethidium Bromide Gels)?
Paper towels used with solvent?
Waste oil or oil spill debris?
Incinerator ash that contains heavy metals?
Process wastes (i.e., a waste product as a result of processes such as: burning, filtration, neutralization etc.)?
Pharmaceutical wastes (e.g., expired medications)?
Debris, soil, and residual from non-hazardous chemical spills?
Inert fill, construction or demolition debris, dredge spoil, or wood wastes?
Household waste products?
Other wastes (i.e., cooking grease)?
B. Generate:
Over 1,000 kg of hazardous waste in a calendar month?
Over 100 kg but less than 1,000 kg of hazardous waste in a calendar month?
Less than 100 kg of hazardous waste in a calendar month?
Generate or accumulate in excess of 1 kg of P-waste?
C. Treat or dispose of hazardous waste on-site using the following:
Incineration?
Burn in boilers?
Dilution?
Landfill (e.g., placement of materials in landfill)?
Physical/chemical treatment (e.g., neutralization by rendering wastes non-corrosive)?
Biological treatment?
Underground injection?
Wastewater treatment unit?
D. Transport:
Does the department transport hazardous or other wastes off-site using State vehicles or employees?
E. Outside Service:
Does the department use an outside industrial rag laundering service?
II. Container Storage Areas:
Are hazardous wastes storage areas inspected weekly?
Are ignitable or reactive wastes managed in these areas?
Are incompatible wastes handled?
III. Records/Record Keeping:
Was a Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Part A or B application filed?
Are records of hazardous waste characterizations available?
Is a log kept of weekly inspections of the 90-day (if large quantity gen.) or 180-day (if small quantity gen.) storage area?
Is there a Hazardous Waste Contingency Plan?
Is there a hazardous waste training program?
Are employee training records and job descriptions maintained?
IV. Spills and Releases:
Have there been any spills or releases of hazardous waste or hazardous substances to the environment?
Have any releases of reportable quantities hazardous substances been reported to the National Response Center under Superfund or Georgia reporting laws?
Other releases of less than reportable quantities that could have impacted the environment?
Have any releases been reported to the local police or fire department or Local Emergency Planning Committees? This is part of the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA).
V. Past Activity and Closed Units:
Were any wastes disposed of on-site prior to January 1980?
Are any hazardous waste management units (post January 1980) inactive or closed?
VI. Non-hazardous (Solid) Waste Units:
Are there now non-hazardous waste management units owned and/or operated by the department?
Landfill?
Waste piles?
Landspreading?
Wastewater treatment facility?
Has the facility monitored groundwater down gradient of any non-hazardous waste management units?
VII.
Are hazardous wastes storage areas inspected weekly?
VIII.
Does the facility have a license to treat hazardous waste?
Safe Drinking Water
Are there any active or inactive wells (production wells, cooling water wells, groundwater monitoring wells, oil or gas wells, injection wells, other) located on this property(s) owned and/or operated by the department?
Does the facility have a groundwater monitoring program?
Who receives the groundwater analysis results?
Are there available logs of soil borings taken on the property or geotechnical reports from past design or construction work?
Does the property owned by the department have any known or suspected areas of contaminated soil?
Are any water recycling processes utilized?
If there is on-site water treatment, does the department have a licensed well or water treatment works operator?
SPCC
Is there a valid, certified Oil Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) Plan for the department?
Stormwater
Does the department have a stormwater collection system?
Does the department hold a permit for stormwater discharges?
Does the department have a Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan or a Stormwater Management Plan?
Are there known or suspected non-stormwater discharges or connections (e.g., wash waters, floor drains) to the storm drain system or directly to surface waters?
Are there any construction projects currently underway or proposed that will disturb one (1) or more acres of land area?
Has coverage been obtained under a General Permit for Stormwater Discharges from Construction Activity?
Has a Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan been prepared for the construction activity?
Has any stormwater sampling ever been conducted?
TSCA / PCBs
Does the department own or work with any equipment which contains any known Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) (i.e., transformers, capacitors, oil-filled circuit breakers, light ballasts, etc.)?
Is any electrical equipment labeled as containing PCBs?
What fluids from electrical gear owned/operated by the department have been analyzed for PCBs?
What electrical equipment, if any, is owned by the utility which is located on or immediately adjacent to the campus site?
Is there any electrical gear containing PCBs which is being stored on-site?
Has any electrical equipment containing PCBs been disposed of in the past?
Are there any pre-1984 hydraulic oil systems on-site (e.g. elevators)?
Has the oil in the hydraulic systems been tested for the presence of PCBs?
Has the department had any spills of materials containing PCBs?
Underground Injection Control
Does the department have any Class I, II, III, IV, or V injection wells?
Are the wells properly permitted?
Is the the department in compliance with permit conditions?
Are there any obvious problems with the wells? (i.e., injection of unauthorized waste or structural defeciencies)
Is the department operating any prohibited injection wells?
Does the department have floor drains that discharge to other than sanitary sewer?
Do any floor drains discharge to a well?
Universal Waste
1. Does the department accumulate over 5,000 kg of universal wastes at any one time?
2. Does the department maintain records of universal waste shipments?
3. What types of universal wastes are generated (e.g., batteries, pesticides, thermostats, mercury-containing devices, mercury-containing lamps)?
7. Does the department have emergency backup systems (e.g., for the phone system, uninterrupted power supply system, computer network, etc.) that are powered by batteries?
Used Oil
1. Does the department generate used oil?
5. Does the department burn any used oil on-site?
6. Does the department sell any used oil?
UST / ACT
1. Is an inventory (comparison of materials received against material used) on UST's maintained?
2. Were leak/integrity tests performed on any of the USTs?
Tank 1
Location
Tank Registered with Georgia
Tank 2
Location
Tank Registered with Georgia
Have any USTs been removed in the past?
If so, was Georgia EPD informed prior to the removal/abandonment?
Storage Tank 1
Location
High level alarms?
Associated underground pipes?
Structural problems?
Secondary containment?
Tanks registered with a regulatory agency?
Are these included in the campus Oil SPCC Plan?
Wastewater / NPDES
1. Does the department have a wastewater discharge permit(s)?
3. Have there been any changes in department wastewater, wastewater discharges, treatment processes or point of discharge changes in the past three years?
Are any changes planned for the next year?
5. Are wastewater discharges sampled and/or monitored?
1. Are discharge monitoring reports Discharge Monitoring Report (DMRs) submitted?
If so, to whom?
3. Does the department have floor drains?