NPDES Stormwater Permitting
Complete preparation of facility-specific Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans (SWPPPs), Notice of Intent (NOI) submittals, outfall mapping, sampling training, and DMR reporting across all 50 states.
Senior-level environmental consultants guiding industrial, manufacturing, and commercial facilities through EPA, NPDES stormwater, SPCC oil plans, Tier II, TRI reporting, and audits—with radical pricing transparency and zero retainer traps.
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Defensible, right-sized compliance engineered to withstand EPA and state agency scrutiny without unnecessary legal bloat or inflated scopes.
Complete preparation of facility-specific Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans (SWPPPs), Notice of Intent (NOI) submittals, outfall mapping, sampling training, and DMR reporting across all 50 states.
Full compliance for facilities storing over 1,320 gallons of petroleum, fuels, lubricants, or used oil. Tier I self-certified and Tier II PE-stamped plans, secondary containment calculations, and monthly inspection logs.
Annual hazardous chemical inventory calculations and official digital filings submitted before the statutory March 1st deadline to SERCs, LEPCs, and local fire departments via Tier2 Submit and E-Plan.
Mass-balance modeling, chemical throughput threshold assessments, emission factor calculations, and certified EPA TRI-MEweb filings complete with 3-year audit-defense calculation packages.
Systematic, objective facility evaluations identifying compliance deficiencies before government inspectors or customer auditors arrive. Includes plain-English Corrective Action Plans and EPA Self-Disclosure consultation.
Lender-approved property transaction evaluations conducted in strict compliance with ASTM E1527-21. Exhaustive historical research, site reconnaissance, and definitive REC/CREC/HREC liability determinations.
Navigating New Jersey's intricate recycling utility laws for Class A, B, C, and D facilities. Handling exemption renewals, county solid waste plan inclusions, and Soil Fill Law compliance.
Precise waste characterization (characteristic vs. listed wastes), satellite and central accumulation compliance, EPA ID number acquisition, drum labeling, and contingency plan creation.
Complete outsourcing of your facility's environmental department. RMA manages all ongoing inspections, sampling routines, permit filings, training sessions, and regulatory agency relations year-round.
We reject the typical consulting model of bloated retainers, hidden junior staffing, and legal scare tactics.
You won't be sold by a senior partner and then passed off to an inexperienced entry-level technician. Senior consultants with 10 to 30+ years of regulatory tenure lead your project from day one.
We openly publish real price ranges, project drivers, and instant calculators online. You receive fixed-scope proposals so you know exact deliverables and investment amounts before signing.
We don't trap clients in open-ended billable contracts. We scope each project with a clear beginning, middle, and end. Ongoing support is always available when you want it, never forced.
If your facility does not trigger a regulatory threshold, we tell you immediately and advise against spending money. When compliance is required, we build legally defensible programs engineered for audits.
Our field personnel are thoroughly OSHA-trained, fully PPE-equipped, and experienced in heavy industrial environments. We eliminate site liabilities and seamlessly integrate into your safety protocols.
Your operational data, chemical inventories, and internal compliance statuses are safeguarded under strict privacy protocols and formal Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs).
A structured, predictable progression engineered to turn regulatory complexity into clear operational routines.
A zero-pressure discovery discussion reviewing operational realities, facility footprint, regulatory notices, and specific timelines.
Senior walkthrough inspection, recordkeeping audit, drainage mapping, chemical throughput analysis, and regulatory applicability verification.
Drafting defensible SWPPPs, SPCC plans, certified engineering submittals, permit filings, or Tier II/TRI data packages ready for agency approval.
Establishing routine sampling protocols, training facility personnel, scheduling 5-year reviews, and providing on-call regulatory audit defense.
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Decades of long-term partnerships with ready-mix producers, asphalt plants, recycling operations, and national manufacturers.
“I have known RMA for many years and I greatly respect their knowledge. They've served on concrete industry committees in leadership roles and have helped develop and professionalize the concrete industry's body of knowledge with regard to environmental management. When our statewide permit was last revised, Doug (and RMA's) work was excellent.”
“Resource Management Associates is a key influence to our environmental program. We operate several ready-mix concrete plants in three states and RMA has always been available to help with our environmental needs. They maintain our inspection readiness and ensure every permit is defensible.”
“Thank you for the continuing support and dedication given to Newark Asphalt Corp. over the last twenty years. Your consulting services regarding our Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan and coordinating with NJDEP has kept us on the right side of the law.”
“Simply put, as a consultant to the ready mixed concrete industry, Doug Ruhlin and the staff of RMA are one of the foremost authorities on environmental regulations affecting the ready mixed concrete industry today.”
“Dennis and the RMA team are super helpful, responsive, and organized. I would not have been able to put an SPCC plan together as a small business owner without RMA. They've been amazing and make complex oil compliance straightforward.”
“I've worked regularly with RMA since 2018. The team is outstanding and every interaction has been positive. They have a legacy of industry expertise already built and they're constantly exploring new ways to help clients succeed.”
Plain-English answers to the questions industrial and commercial facility owners ask most often.
We're an environmental consulting firm that helps businesses handle "environmental stuff" in a way that's clear, organized, and manageable. We work with companies that don't want to deal with confusion or unnecessary risk when it comes to their environmental responsibilities and goals.
Lots! We help with things like permits, plans, approvals, required reports, waste management, audits, inspections, due diligence, and broader environmental program organization. Sometimes it's just one specific document or a deliverable. Sometimes it's coordinating multiple moving parts. It depends entirely on what your business wants and needs.
We don’t do everything, and we won’t pretend to. We’re not attorneys, so we don’t handle lawsuits or provide legal representation. We’re not a lab, so we don’t run soil, water, or air samples. We’re not engineers designing bridges or treatment systems. We’re not wildlife surveyors, construction contractors, or emergency hazmat responders.
Our lane is regulatory compliance, due diligence, and practical environmental management for operating facilities. If something falls outside that lane, we’ll tell you. We’d rather point you in the right direction than try to win work we’re not built to do.
We work across the United States and internationally. Most of our clients are on the East Coast since that’s where we’re headquartered, but we regularly support facilities across the country. If your company operates in multiple states or even overseas, we can help coordinate those environmental requirements in a practical way.
Probably yours. We’ve worked with companies across industrial, manufacturing, recycling, logistics, tech, marine, utilities, construction materials, warehousing, and multi-location operations. We’ve seen a wide range of facilities and operational setups, and there’s a good chance we’ve worked with something similar to yours before.
It’s not really a "sales process" in the traditional sense. When you reach out, you talk to someone who actually does environmental work every day, not a salesperson reading from a script. We don’t run you through a funnel, sign you up for endless marketing emails, or pressure you into anything. We have a straightforward conversation about your situation and decide whether it makes sense to work together. Sometimes it does. Sometimes it doesn’t. Either way, you’ll get a clear answer.
This is one of those questions that’s almost impossible to answer in a single paragraph because the range is so wide. We’ve done small projects for under $1,000, and we’ve worked on large, multi-site programs that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. It completely depends on what you’re asking us to solve.
What we can say is this: we’re transparent about pricing. We’ve built detailed pricing pages, resources, and calculators throughout our website so you can get a realistic sense of what things cost before you even talk to us. And once we understand your specific situation, we’ll give you a clear number based on what you actually need.
No. Most projects have a clear beginning and end. Ongoing support is available if you want it, but it's never mandatory.
An environmental program looks different for every business. For some, it’s as simple as following the rules outlined by one permit. For others, it means managing multiple pieces, like approvals, plans, inspections, and training. And for some, it’s a streamlined system that goes beyond compliance and helps them to run leaner and more efficiently. We help you build what fits your business, nothing more, nothing less.
Sure! Some clients prefer that we manage everything so their leadership and operations teams don't have to track deadlines, changing regulations, or documentation details. We're happy to take the wheel if that's what you want.
Environmental compliance means following the environmental regulations (rules and laws) that apply to your business and being able to show that you’re following them. It’s not just about doing the right things, it’s about having the documentation and systems in place to prove it if you’re ever asked.
The honest answer? It can be complicated. There are thousands of pages of federal and state regulations, and you could spend hours trying to piece it together on your own. Or you could just have a quick conversation with someone like us. We’ll ask a few basic questions about what you do and tell you whether it sounds like anything applies. If you don’t need help, we’ll say so. We’re here to build long-term relationships, not sell services you don’t actually need.
That's exactly why we exist! We're not regulators and we don't report clients. Our job is to help you identify gaps, fix them, and move forward confidently.
Absolutely. Compliance is the baseline, not the finish line. Many companies come to us when things are technically compliant but feel disorganized, inefficient, or hard to manage. We help tighten things up, streamline processes, reduce risk, and build a system that’s easier to maintain as your business grows.
Great. We often work alongside internal environmental or EHS teams. We can handle specific projects, provide extra bandwidth, or serve as a second set of experienced eyes.
That's completely fine. If you're realizing responsibilities apply to your business and you don't have internal resources, we can step in and manage things for you.
Hiring internally can be expensive once you factor in salary, benefits, training, and overhead. With RMA, you get access to an experienced team with decades of combined experience, without building an entire department from scratch.
We’re a good fit for businesses that have real environmental responsibilities and want to handle them correctly. That might be a company opening a new facility and needing permits in place before they can operate. It might be a manufacturer managing reporting, inspections, and required plans across multiple sites. Or it might be a leadership team that’s tired of guessing and wants someone else to handle everything.
We’re especially a strong fit for companies in that middle space, not tiny, not massive, with meaningful regulatory needs and no desire to decode government rules on their own. If you value clear communication, defined pricing, and work that holds up when it matters, we’re probably a good match.
We’re not the right fit if you need services outside our lane, like lab testing, complex engineering design, wildlife surveys, legal representation, or emergency spill response crews. That’s not what we do.
We’re also probably not the best match if you’re a massive global operation with highly specialized, in-house teams and enterprise-level consulting needs. On the other end of the spectrum, if you’re a very small, one-person operation with minimal regulatory exposure, you may not need a firm like us either.
And if you’re only looking for the absolute cheapest template with little review of your actual operations, we’re probably not your firm. We focus on practical, defensible compliance work for real-world facilities that fall somewhere in that middle ground. If that’s not you, we’ll tell you.
Start with a conversation. That’s it. Call us, email us, or fill out a form. You don’t need to prepare anything or know the right terminology. Just tell us what you do and what’s on your mind. We’ll help you figure out what applies, what matters, and whether working together makes sense.
Whether you need a single SPCC plan, an urgent stormwater renewal, full Tier II filings, or a complete review of your facility's environmental health, our senior team is ready to assist.