Mona Obryant

Background

About Mona Obryant

I primarily practice in the administrative law arena, focusing on environmental matters and the regulation of alcoholic beverages, tobacco products and other highly regulated products at federal, state and local levels. My environmental counseling experience includes environmental compliance, planning and permitting, administrative proceedings, auditing, and business and real estate transactions. I have counseled clients through wetland and stream permitting and mitigation and sediment and erosion control issues for a golf course, a landfill, and numerous commercial/industrial sites and real estate developments. I've also assisted with permitting of solid waste management and construction landfill facilities (including obtaining local approvals), and solid and hazardous waste management facilities and media permitting for textile and other industrial plants. Much of my work centers around remediation of contaminated properties and underground storage tank regulation. I provide counsel and risk analysis in real estate and corporate transactions. I also have negotiated a number of Brownfields Agreements throughout North Carolina, DSCA eligibility and closure agreements, and risk based remediation/closure. For clients in the highly regulated product areas, I advise on compliance, excise tax, licensing and business issues that arise under federal statutes and the regulations of the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), as well as state laws and regulations applicable to the manufacture, distribution and sale of these regulated products. My established relationships with regulators at both the federal and state level in this area allow me to provide focused assistance on these issues.