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VERIFICATION SERVICES
Environmental management is changing
at both the federal and state levels. In the past, regulatory agencies
mandated what industries and local governments could or could not do in order
to meet environmental targets. They prescribed technologies, measured
compliance, and enforced impact mitigation and environmental outcomes.
Today, regulatory agencies are recognizing prudent environmental management
by industries and communities. They realize that industries and communities
are uniquely positioned to embrace environmental stewardship and to accept
the responsibilities of compliance with regulatory standards. As a result, regulatory agencies are less
interested in how industries and communities solve environmental problems
and more interested in assurances that environmental performance standards
are being met.
Regulatory oversight is being replaced with self-assessment
and self-regulation, and the burden
of compliance assurance is shifting from agencies to facilities and
operations that directly impact the environment. This change offers flexibility and
freedom to industries and communities in choosing how best to meet
socially-desired environmental outcomes.
It reduces the pressure of environmental compliance, lessens its
cost, and provides robust incentives to adopt best management practices.
Even more compelling, the public demand for quality environment requires
that self-regulating industries and communities do more than report
compliance. They must verify that they are meeting the performance
standards expected by an environmentally sensitive public.
Verification is the key to the new regulatory approach that is
transforming environmental management from regulatory mandates to an obligation of environmental
stewardship by industry and communities.
Verification gives credibility to self-regulation and evidence about
performance standard compliance. It is the public’s way of knowing that national
environmental goals are being achieved by private and local environmental
management.
SES provides
verification of environmental performance.
Our expertise includes all areas of environmental management,
including verification of rangeland practices and outcomes, watershed
management performance, agricultural compliance, industrial and urban waste
management, disturbed site mitigation and restoration, and wetland
condition and function.
We have the unique experience and
capability to provide the level of environmental assessment and
verification that you need to meet regulatory obligations and reduce
compliance pressure. We can assist
you with meeting performance standards, mitigating environmental conflict,
protecting market reputation and position, enhancing community relations, and
reducing the overall costs of environmental management.
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