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Federated Environmental Associates, Inc. (East Coast Headquarters, Baltimore, Maryland) is a privately held, full-service environmental firm offering consulting, training, and portfolio management services to clients nationally. Founded in 1994, Federated Environmental works with most industry sectors in a number of regulatory areas, specializing in environmental due diligence, groundwater quality, chemical waste management and remediation matters, improvement structural analysis, natural resources, and workplace and community safety.

Federated Environmental has a 20-year plus presence in Baltimore, Maryland and the Mid-Atlantic. Federated Environmental takes great pride in being a client-focused, solution-oriented service company. Included among our professional staff and associates are professional chemical, civil, and environmental engineers (P.E.), certified safety and industrial hygiene professionals, professional geologists (P.G.), hydrogeologists, biologists, and environmental scientists.

Federated Environmental offers environmental due diligence services nationally, but its East Coast concentration areas include Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Federated Environmental’s West Coast office operates from Phoenix, Arizona. An Orlando, Florida office is planned for 2014.

 

Federated Environmental was founded September 1994, and since that time, has developed business relationships with hundreds of commercial lenders, law firms, developers, real estate investment trusts (REITs), and other organizations involved in the acquisition, management, and divestiture of commercial real estate.

State-Specific Licenses (New Jersey)

Within the past several years, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) and New Jersey Legislature developed the Site Remediation Reform Act (SRRA). The Act significantly changed and streamlined the process followed to conduct environmental investigations and remediations in New Jersey. SRRA required the NJDEP to use of LSRPs by all parties directly engaged in environmental work in New Jersey. All parties initiating remediation after November 3, 2009 or who opt into the use of the Licensed Site Remediation Professional Program are required to follow the provisions of SRRA, including the requirement to hire a LSRP  to conduct the remediation.

The SRRA likewise established a program for the licensing of Licensed Site Remediation Professionals (LSRPs), namely individuals who through education, experience, and testing are licensed to conduct site investigation and remediation activities in order to obtain closure, or a Response Action Outcome (RAO). Licensure requires that LSRPs adhere to a code of ethics, and failure to adhere to same may result in license suspension or revocation. In some instances, penalties may also apply. Many LSRPs carry specific insurance for their site investigation and remediation work.

The NJDEP “spot reviews” approximately 10% of LSRP-submitted Preliminary Assessments (PAs), Site Investigations (SIs), Source Removals and Remediation of identified Areas of Concern (AOCs), and Response Action Outcome (RAO) reports. In addition, the NJDEP reviews submitted Biennial Certifications associated with Classification Exception Areas (CEAs). In this manner, the NJDEP maintains its authority over the remediation process and ensures that Licensed Site Remediation Professionals comply with applicable administrative and technical regulations.

Licensed Professional Geologists (P.G.)

Federated Environmental has on-staff a number of state-licensed Professional Geologists (P.G.s).  Certain aspects of environmental work is required to be completed by a state-licensed P.G., including subsurface investigations of dry cleaners and gasoline stations. More importantly, many state environmental regulatory agencies require report submittals and “sign-offs” on environmental reports by P.G.s. All national and state organizations sponsoring and credentialing professional geologists require compliance to a code of ethics and professionalism.  All hydrogeologic studies and groundwater modeling performed by Federated Environmental is under the responsible charge of a P.G.