Endpoint Environmental

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EndpointSolutions' success is based on the level of experience of its employees and the delivery of a superior product within a fixed budget and on schedule. Lasting client relationships are paramount and therefore Endpoint employs the best professionals to serve these clients.

Robert A. Cigale, P.G., Principal, brings over 30 years of diversified professional environmental consulting experience to Endpoint. Mr. Cigale is a licensed Professional Geologist in Wisconsin and Illinois and registered PECFA consultant. His areas of expertise include: soil and groundwater investigations related to PECFA, BRAC and Brownfield redevelopment sites, remedial options evaluations, Phase I & II ESAs, remedial design and due diligence associated with third-party liability transfers. Mr. Cigale's client base includes chemical manufacturers, redevelopment authorities, municipalities, real estate developers, attorneys and utilities. He also currently participates as a member of a community advisory committee for a local chemical manufacturing facility. Download vCard

Mark J.K. Penzkover, P.E., Principal, brings over 30 years of professional environmental consulting and civil engineering experience to Endpoint. Mr. Penzkover is a licensed Professional Engineer and PECFA consultant in Wisconsin. His areas of expertise include: the evaluation, design, specification and implementation of innovative remedial technologies; management of third-party liability transfer projects; design of traditional remedial systems; contract administration; and construction project management on a wide range of civil and environmental engineering projects. Download vCard

Kirk L. Kapfhammer, P.G., Principal, possesses over 25 years of professional environmental consulting experience. Mr. Kapfhammer is a licensed Professional Geologist in Wisconsin as well as a Wisconsin certified tank assessor, and PECFA consultant. His areas of expertise include: environmental project management, Phase I & II ESAs, Brownfield redevelopment, remedial action evaluation and implementation, third party liability transfer evaluations, regulatory compliance planning and audits, safety and environmental planning, environmental due diligence and international project management. Mr. Kapfhammer's client base includes manufacturers, attorneys, redevelopment authorities, municipalities, real estate developers and utilities. Download vCard

Nick W. Draskovich, Engineering Designer, has a professional background which includes working as a Civil 3D Instructor, trainer and mentor of CAD staff. Mr. Draskovich is proficient in CAD drafting operations in Civil, Environmental and Architectural disciplines and oversees Quality Assurance and Quality Control for drawings and standards for Endpoint. He is trained in Autodesk AutoCAD, Autodesk Civil 3D, Autodesk 3ds Max Design, Autodesk AutoCAD 360, Microstation basics, Chief Architect, Trimble GPS handheld GeoXH units, Terrasync, Pathfinder Office and Autoturn. Mr. Draskovich also assists with field support to projects including GPS operations, construction management, groundwater, soil and sediment sampling. Download vCard

Robert J. Schoenhard, Senior Consultant, Mr. Schoenhard has nearly 20 years experience with environmental, health and safety compliance with a specific emphasis on the food and beverage industry. Mr. Schoenhard has developed and maintained compliance programs for facilities to meet state, EPA and OSHA requirements. Responsibilities have included participation in OSHA PSM and EPA RMP audits, EPCRA Tier II reporting, TRI reporting, wastewater and storm water permitting, industrial hygiene monitoring and safety program development and auditing.

When developing noise management action plans, national authorities must consult the concerned public. The plans are available here by selecting: the Member State, EU obligations, Environmental Noise Directive, Noise maps/Action plans.

The Directive does not set limit or target values for environmental noise, nor does it prescribe the measures to be included in the action plans. This is for the competent Member State authorities to decide.

Noise is a health problem for at least 1 in 5 EU citizens. There is therefore a need to coordinate efforts at EU level to reduce this burden on the everyday life of millions of citizens. The Directive acts as the framework legislative tool linking all actions at international, EU and local level. Noise is a complex issue, so effective solutions come from coordinated EU and local actions.

The Directive aims to establish a common EU approach to avoid, prevent or reduce the harmful effects of exposure to environmental noise. The Directive does not include a common noise reduction objective nor EU noise limits.

Annex II of the Directive describes the common EU methods for calculating exposure to different noise levels. These methods comprise a set of formulas and coefficients to be used to calculate noise levels at the faade of the buildings. The common methods were adopted through a revision of Annex II in 2015, and improved further in 2020.

Annex III of the Environmental Noise Directive describes the methods for calculating the burden of disease caused by exposure to specific noise levels. The methods include dose-effect relations for a set of health endpoints such as cardiovascular disease, annoyance and sleep disturbance. Annex III was revised in 2020 following the latest scientific review of the health effects of noise that is being performed by the WHO.

The Commission published an evaluation of the Directive in 2016, addressing questions of effectiveness, efficiency, coherence, relevance and EU added value. The results are summarised in a Staff Working Document with and Executive Summary in English, French and German.

As required by the Directive, the Commission prepares a report on the implementation of the Directive every five years. The first implementation report was published in 2011, summarising progress in implementing the Directive and outlining possible improvements to enhance its effectiveness.

The Commission published a third implementation report in 2023, setting out how noise can be further reduced. The report shows progress achieved since the second implementation report, which includes a more systematic assessment of noise levels and the adoption of noise management action plans by Member States. However, it warns that the current number and intensity of actions must be increased if the number of people affected by transport noise by is to be reduced by 30% by 2030, as set out in the Zero Pollution Action Plan. A major study on the entire noise policy was performed in 2021 and informed this implementation report.

Midpoint indicators focus on single environmental problems, for example climate change or acidification. Endpoint indicators show the environmental impact on three higher aggregation levels, being the 1) effect on human health, 2) biodiversity and 3) resource scarcity. Converting midpoints to endpoints simplifies the interpretation of the LCIA results. However, with each aggregation step, uncertainty in the results increases. The figure below provides an overview of the structure of ReCiPe.

The purpose of the Generic Ecological Assessment Endpoints (GEAE) for Ecological Risk Assessment (2nd Edition) is to assist EPA risk assessors conducting ecological risk assessments in considering ecosystem services when selecting assessment endpoints. Incorporating ecosystem services endpoints in ecological risk assessments can make the assessments relevant to decision makers and stakeholders whose concerns may be more oriented toward societal outcomes. Ecological risk assessments that include ecosystem service endpoints provide more useful information than conventional endpoints alone to economists who perform cost-benefit analyses. Assessing risks to ecosystem services can highlight potential assessment endpoints that are not considered in conventional risk assessments such as nutrient cycling, carbon sequestration, and soil formation. The accompanying Technical Background Paper on Ecosystem Services as Assessment Endpoints for Ecological Risk Assessment describes the science linking the use of ecosystem services to the structure and function of ecosystems and traditional ecological endpoints.

Setting the environment variable changes the value used until the end of your shell session, or until you set the variable to a different value. You can make the variables persistent across future sessions by setting them in your shell's startup script.

Using setx to set an environment variable changes the value used in both the current command prompt session and all command prompt sessions that you create after running the command. It does not affect other command shells that are already running at the time you run the command. You may need to restart you terminal for settings to load.

If you set an environment variable at the PowerShell prompt as shown in the previous examples, it saves the value for only the duration of the current session. To make the environment variable setting persistent across all PowerShell and Command Prompt sessions, store it by using the System application in Control Panel. Alternatively, you can set the variable for all future PowerShell sessions by adding it to your PowerShell profile. See the PowerShell documentation for more information about storing environment variables or persisting them across sessions.

If the source and destination buckets are the same when using custom the s3 mv command, the source file or object can be moved onto itself, which can result in accidental deletion of your source file or object. The AWS_CLI_S3_MV_VALIDATE_SAME_S3_PATHS environment variable and --validate-same-s3-paths option specifies whether to validate your access point ARNs or access point aliases in your Amazon S3 source or destination URIs.

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