Environmental

Leading with integrity.

Environmental and regulatory management

  • FERC licensing, relicensing, and compliance including strategic planning, all requisite FERC licensing documents, and stakeholder interaction/negotiation
  • Public involvement, presentations, and meeting facilitation
  • Environmental Impact Statements (EISs)
  • Environmental Assessment (EA)
  • Emergency Watershed Protection
  • Program (EWPP) services
  • Climate resilience alternatives (e.g., wetlands creation and managed aquifer projects)
  • Water supply forecasting groundwater flow
  • FEMA flood mapping, no-rise evaluations, Conditional Letter of Map Revision (CLOMR), and Letter of Map Revision (LOMR)

Wholistic natural resources study program management and development of environmental studies including

  • Various biological research studies of threatened, endangered, and sensitive fish species, as well as non–listed species and stocks
  • Fish biological assessments
  • Fish Hatchery Management Plans (HMPs)
  • Fish Hatchery Genetic Management
  • Plans (HGMPs)
  • Bio–programming (fish production, rearing, and flow requirements)
  • Taxonomic fish analysis
  • Entrainment studies

Expertise in permitting and compliance monitoring for

  • National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
  • Natural Resource Protection Act (NRPA)
  • National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System(NPDES)
  • Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  • Stormwater management permits including Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP)
  • Shoreland zoning
  • Land Use Planning Commission (LUPC)
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) including 404 USACE permits
  • Clean Water Act (CWA) Section 401 water quality permits
  • U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services (USFWS)
  • State public agency approvals including
  • California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), New York’s State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA), and Washington State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA)
  • Stream alteration
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Fisheries)
  • Endangered Species Act (ESA)