The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) selected PEER as a qualified contractor to provide consulting expertise in the Authority’s Environmental Management and Industrial Hygiene (EMIH) compliance programs, policies, and procedures, including performing surveys and assessments, developing and implementing sampling plans and corrective actions, conducting compliance audits and planning studies, and documenting its work through the draft and final reports.
The team will be responding to a wide variety of regulatory compliance and engineering tasks that may require specific expertise including, but not limited to, environmental science, geotechnical, civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, engineering, and industrial hygiene, can provide operations and maintenance support for environmental remediation, pretreatment, and other systems as required, and can provide engineering assistance in the preparation and/or review of plans for the construction of new facilities, the modification of existing facilities, and the abandonment and/or closure of facilities no longer used by the Authority.
The Office of Environmental Management and Industrial Hygiene (EMIH) is responsible for the overall management of design, construction, operation, and maintenance of environmental systems including wastewater, stormwater, asbestos, air emissions, groundwater and soil remediation, underground and aboveground storage tanks, monitoring equipment, control equipment, information systems, sampling and testing, and anything related to environmental compliance. In addition, the Office is responsible for industrial hygiene oversight to include periodic testing for air quality and noise, chemical evaluations, program development, and implementation.