Small Business Environmental Assistance Program

About the Program

Services We Provide

At no cost to the you, our staff may:

• develop forms and other documents needed to comply with permit requirements,
• identify what permits a small business needs and assist in filling out permit applications,
• review draft permit applications, and
• present at conferences, workshops, and meetings to educate small business on regulatory information.

About Our Services

We provide assistance that is:

1. Free.
2. Confidential. Staff serve as liaisons between TDEC’s regulatory divisions and small businesses. Any details provided to a regulatory division is only done with consent from the small business.
3. Department-wide. Staff assist with any environmental questions regardless of regulatory division.
4. Non-regulatory. SBEAP does not enforce regulations or report clients that ask for assistance.

Small Business Criteria

We help small business that:

1. have 100 or fewer employees,
2. are not major emitters of air pollution, and
3. are not large quantity hazardous waste generators.

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