WHAT BERC IS

The Business Environmental Resource Center (BERC) was established in 1993 as a one-stop, non-regulatory Permit Assistance Center to help Sacramento County Businesses understand and comply with federal, state, and local environmental regulations.

BERC’S SERVICES

BERC’s services to the community include:

• Free and Confidential environmental and non-environmental compliance consultations to businesses including possibilities for minimizing or avoiding adverse impacts of environmental regulation
  
  
• Business Advocate services such as ombudsman/facilitation activities and acting as a liaison with regulatory agencies to advocate within government for effective environmental regulation
  
  
• Educational outreach to businesses through the creation of technical fact sheets, guidance documents, seminars and workshops
  
  
• Promotion of Pollution Prevention (P2) practices at businesses
  
  
• Coordination of an annual Sacramento Sustainable Business Awards Events
  
  
• Administration of programs that benefit the environment while also improving quality of life such as the Brownfields and Sacramento Sustainable Business Programs