Environmental Compliance Services

We don't advise your compliance team. We are your compliance team.

NAE manages the full regulatory program for facilities and municipalities that need a consultant who owns the permits, files the reports, and corresponds with the agency by name.

Woman-owned environmental compliance firm. Fort Worth, Texas.

25+years
15+municipal clients
$1.7M+penalty exposure resolved
Water & Wastewater

Discharge permits, treatment plant compliance, reporting. Handled.

NAE prepares and submits TPDES permit applications, manages renewal timelines, compiles and files DMR reports through NetDMR, and coordinates directly with TCEQ regional offices. For municipalities operating wastewater treatment plants without dedicated environmental staff, NAE functions as the compliance department.

TPDES/NPDES Discharge Permitting

Individual and general permit applications for wastewater discharge. NAE prepares the application, manages TCEQ review cycles, and tracks the permit through issuance.

30 TAC Chapter 305

Treatment Plant Compliance & Operator Support

Ongoing compliance management for municipal and industrial WWTPs. DMR data review, operator coordination, effluent quality tracking, and TCEQ inspection readiness.

DMR/NetDMR Preparation & Submission

Monthly and quarterly discharge monitoring reports compiled from plant data, quality-checked against permit limits, and submitted through EPA's NetDMR system on your behalf.

Domestic Wastewater Permitting (TLAP)

Texas Land Application Permits for facilities using land application as the disposal method. NAE handles the full application including agronomic rate calculations and site assessments.

30 TAC Chapter 309

Septage Land Application Permitting

Permitting for land application of domestic septage under TCEQ's Chapter 312 program, including site suitability analysis and operational plan development.

30 TAC Chapter 312

Utility Billing & Metering Analysis

Metering accuracy assessments, billing structure reviews, and flow data reconciliation for municipal utilities. Identifies revenue loss from metering gaps or calibration drift.

Public Water Systems
NAE Differentiator

PWS compliance that most environmental firms don't touch.

Most environmental consultants serve the discharge side. NAE also manages the drinking water side — Lead and Copper Rule compliance, consumer confidence reports, well capacity documentation, and agreed order response for public water systems. This dual fluency means NAE understands what TCEQ expects on both sides of the permit.

PWS Regulatory Compliance

Full compliance management for public water systems — monitoring schedules, reporting deadlines, TCEQ correspondence, and inspection readiness across all PWS requirements.

Lead and Copper Rule (LCR/LCRI)

Compliance with the original LCR and the revised LCRI requirements. Service line inventory development, sampling protocols, and TCEQ reporting for systems of all sizes.

30 TAC §290.117

Consumer Confidence Reports

Annual CCR preparation using your system's monitoring data. NAE compiles the report, formats it per TCEQ requirements, and delivers it ready for distribution to customers.

Agreed Order Response & Compliance

Full enforcement response management for PWS violations — documentation compilation, extension requests, corrective action evidence, and direct TCEQ enforcement coordinator correspondence.

Well Capacity Analysis

Documentation and analysis of well production rates against TCEQ's 0.6 gpm per connection requirement. Identifies capacity deficiencies before TCEQ does.

Interconnect Documentation

Plan review coordination, as-built compilation, and approval letter tracking for distribution system interconnections. NAE locates historical documentation that may not exist in your files.

Stormwater

Industrial and municipal stormwater. Not construction volume.

NAE manages stormwater compliance for industrial facilities under the Multi-Sector General Permit and for municipalities under the Phase II MS4 program. This is not construction CGP permitting — it is ongoing operational stormwater compliance that requires benchmark monitoring, SWPPP maintenance, and annual reporting.

Industrial Stormwater (MSGP)

Authorization under TCEQ's Multi-Sector General Permit TXR050000. NOI/NOT/NOC filing, STEERS account management, and ongoing compliance for your sector's specific requirements.

TXR050000

SWPPP Development & Maintenance

Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plans built from site-specific conditions — not templates. Includes BMP selection, site maps, monitoring schedules, and annual review updates.

MS4 Compliance (Phase II)

Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System compliance management, including minimum control measure implementation, annual reporting, and illicit discharge detection program support.

TXR040000

Stormwater Sampling & Benchmark Analysis

Sampling event coordination, laboratory data review, benchmark exceedance analysis, and corrective action documentation when results exceed sector-specific limits.

Air Quality
NAE Advantage

Air permitting as part of multi-media compliance, not standalone.

NAE provides air permitting support as a component of the full regulatory program — not as an isolated specialty. For facilities with permits across water, stormwater, and air, NAE coordinates all three so nothing falls between programs.

Air Permitting Support

Permits by Rule, standard permits, and New Source Review applicability determinations. NAE evaluates your operations, identifies applicable authorizations, and prepares the registration or application.

30 TAC Chapters 106, 116

Emissions Inventory

Annual emissions inventory preparation using your operational data. Calculation methodology documentation and TCEQ submission through the State of Texas Environmental Electronic Reporting System.

Tier II / EPCRA Reporting

Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act reporting for hazardous chemical storage. Tier II annual reports filed with TCEQ, the local fire department, and the Local Emergency Planning Committee.

EPCRA §§311-312
Chemical & Hazardous Materials

Storage analysis, SPCC plans, and fire code compliance.

Chemical storage triggers overlapping federal, state, and local requirements. NAE maps every applicable threshold — SPCC, RCRA, fire code MAQs, CERCLA reportable quantities — and manages the compliance obligations that result.

SPCC Plan Development

Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure plans for facilities storing oil above threshold quantities. Includes facility diagrams, secondary containment evaluation, and inspection procedures.

40 CFR Part 112

Chemical Storage Regulatory Analysis

Cross-program analysis of chemical storage quantities against EPCRA thresholds, fire code Maximum Allowable Quantities, RCRA generator status triggers, and RMP applicability.

Fire Code Compliance

Hazardous materials inventory statements, fire code permit coordination, and control area analysis for facilities storing chemicals above International Fire Code thresholds.

SDS Analysis & Chemical Inventory

Safety Data Sheet review, chemical inventory management, and regulatory threshold tracking. NAE maintains your chemical inventory and flags when storage changes trigger new requirements.

Federal Programs
NAE Advantage

CWA, CAA, SDWA, RCRA, CERCLA, EPCRA, TSCA — covered.

Most Texas-focused environmental consultants stop at TCEQ. NAE manages federal program compliance directly — the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, and the hazardous materials reporting obligations that many facilities don't know apply to them until an inspector arrives.

Clean Water Act Compliance

NPDES/TPDES permit management, discharge monitoring, and pretreatment program compliance for facilities discharging to waters of the United States.

Clean Air Act Compliance

Federal air quality requirements for stationary sources, including NESHAP applicability, New Source Performance Standards, and Title V permitting support.

RCRA Compliance

Hazardous waste generator status determinations, waste characterization, manifesting, biennial reporting, and RCRA training requirements.

EPCRA / TRI Reporting

Sections 302, 304, 311, 312, and 313 reporting obligations. Emergency release notification, hazardous chemical storage reporting, and Toxics Release Inventory submissions.

TSCA Regulatory Assessments

Toxic Substances Control Act applicability analysis for facilities manufacturing, importing, or processing chemical substances subject to TSCA reporting or restrictions.

Environmental Site Assessments

Due diligence assessments for transactions and development.

NAE performs Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments for property transactions, development projects, and regulatory site evaluations. Site assessments are a service line, not a volume factory.

Phase I ESA

All Appropriate Inquiries site assessments per ASTM E1527-21. Historical research, records review, site reconnaissance, and regulatory database analysis to identify recognized environmental conditions.

ASTM E1527-21

Phase II ESA

Subsurface investigation to confirm or rule out contamination identified in Phase I. Soil and groundwater sampling, laboratory analysis, and regulatory comparison.

Site-Specific Risk Analysis

Environmental risk evaluations for development planning, property condition assessments, and regulatory site-specific analysis for contaminated or potentially impacted properties.

Land Development
NAE Advantage

Environmental permitting for residential and commercial development.

Developers and civil engineers need environmental permitting handled end-to-end — from wastewater treatment plant siting through TPDES permitting to buffer zone analysis. NAE manages the environmental regulatory path so the development team focuses on building.

Residential Subdivision Permitting

Environmental permit applications for residential developments, including wastewater system permitting, plat-level regulatory analysis, and coordination with county and TCEQ requirements.

LGC Chapter 232

TPDES for Development Projects

Discharge permit applications for new development wastewater treatment facilities, including effluent limits analysis, receiving water assessments, and permit application preparation.

Buffer Zone Analysis

Regulatory setback calculations for wastewater treatment plants and land application sites per TCEQ's buffer zone requirements.

30 TAC §309.13

WWTP Siting & Feasibility

Treatment plant location analysis including regulatory setbacks, soil suitability, floodplain constraints, and disposal method feasibility for new development projects.

Enforcement Response
Highest-conversion service

You got a letter from TCEQ. NAE manages it from first notice through case closure.

NAE handles the full enforcement response — NOV and NOE responses, agreed order compliance, extension requests, penalty negotiation, and direct correspondence with TCEQ enforcement coordinators as the recognized compliance representative.

For one Texas municipality, NAE managed six concurrent enforcement tracks across drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater programs — maintaining continuity through staffing transitions without interruption to TCEQ deadlines. Every track resolved. Zero escalations to litigation.

$69K+
Penalty exposure resolved or avoided — single client
6+
Enforcement tracks managed simultaneously
$0
Cases escalated to litigation
Municipal Environmental Program Management
Primary Differentiator

Your outsourced environmental department. Not a consultant on retainer.

For cities and utilities without dedicated environmental staff, NAE manages the entire compliance program — every permit, every report, every deadline, every agency communication. The client's role is to operate the facility. NAE's role is everything between the facility and the regulatory agency.

Full Outsourced Compliance Department

NAE functions as the city's environmental compliance office. Permit tracking, reporting deadlines, inspection readiness, agency correspondence, and regulatory calendar management — all managed under one engagement.

Direct Agency Correspondence

NAE corresponds with TCEQ regional offices, enforcement coordinators, and plan reviewers by name as the recognized compliance representative. TCEQ directs correspondence to NAE alongside the client.

Regulatory Calendar Management

Every permit renewal, DMR submission, Tier II report, CCR distribution, stormwater sampling event, and annual certification tracked against a master calendar. Nothing falls through the cracks because someone is watching every deadline.

Operator Support & Training

Coordination with licensed plant operators on sampling procedures, reporting requirements, and regulatory obligations. NAE bridges the gap between the operator's daily work and the regulatory expectations.

City Council & Leadership Briefings

Compliance status reports prepared for city councils, public works directors, and city managers. Translates regulatory obligations into operational priorities that leadership can act on.

Inspection Readiness

Pre-inspection file review, documentation organization, and facility walkthrough preparation. When TCEQ schedules an investigation, NAE ensures the records are complete before the investigator arrives.

One firm. Every program. Every deadline.

Tell us what you're dealing with. NAE will identify which programs apply, what's due, and what it takes to get compliant.

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