Maryland Transit Administration – Compliance Auditing and Permit Support

The Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) is responsible for bus, light rail, and subway transportation throughout the Baltimore, Maryland area.  Their light rail services also extent to Washington, D.C. and beyond to West Virginia.  The MTA has six maintenance facilities throughout the Baltimore area to support their various services.

The MTA maintenance facilities deal with compliance issues related to air emis-sions, wastewater and stormwater discharges, solid and hazardous waste genera-tion and disposal, underground and above ground storage tanks, and toxic sub-stances.  In addition to the general federal, state and local requirements governing transportation related activities, their location in Baltimore requires compliance with regulation particular to the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

ATR staff was tasked with conducting comprehensive multidisciplinary environ-mental compliance audits at each of the maintenance facilities and identified alternative procedures and pollution reduction designs for problem areas identified during the audits.  Once the compliance audits had been completed, ATR staff assisted the MTA in obtaining a General Stormwater Discharge Permit and a Title V Air Emissions Permit through the Maryland Department of Environment.  As part of the General Stormwater Discharge Permit effort ATR staff developed Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans for all six MTA maintenance facilities.

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