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)