EnviroSystems offers a comprehensive step-by-step approach to all required regulatory compliance and environmental planning for projects
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Project Understanding
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Agency and Client Coordination
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Regulatory Implementation
NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT (NEPA)
Our Natural Resources Division offers all levels of NEPA documentation:
Environmental Impact Statements (EISs)
– Large and complex
– Significant impacts/adverse effects
– High public interest
Environmental Assessments (EAs)
– Small or large projects
– Mitigation planning for significant impacts
Categorical Exclusions (CatExs)
– Small projects, little to no impacts
NEPA PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT
Our full service public relations department, ESMpr, has extensive experience providing support for NEPA projects.
We offer:
– Agency liaison services
– Public scoping materials
– Public notifications
– Public comment collection, data entry, and analysis
– Public involvement reporting
– Meeting facilitation
– Incorporation of public comments into NEPA documents
ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT (ESA)
Our Natuaral Resources Division Offers:
– Biological Assessments (BAs) for consultation with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)
– Negotiating mitigation opportunities with the USFWS for significant biological concerns
– Informal and formal consultation with USFWS when appropriate
– Biological compliance for rare “take” of species
– ESA Section 10(a) Permits
NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT (NHPA) AND NATIVE AMERICAN GRAVES PROTECTION AND REPATRIATION ACT (NAGPRA)
Our Cultural Resources Division Offers:
– Section 106 of NHPA Compliance
– Historic preservation planning
– Prehistoric cultural resources management and treatment plans
– Agreement documents (Memoranda of Understanding, Memoranda of Agreement, Programmatic Agreements)
– National Register of Historic Place nominations, burial agreements, Tribal consultation, & agency liaison services
CLEAN WATER ACT (CWA)
CWA compliance services such as:
– Section 208 Water Quality Planning
– Sections 402 compliance and 401 certification
– Section 404 Individual and Nationwide permitting
– Perform wetland and jurisdictional Waters of U.S. inventories and delineations for Section 404 compliance
– Write/inspect Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plans
– ESA compliance for FEMA floodplain map revisions
PHASE I ENVIRONMENTAL SITE ASSESSMENT (ESA)
A Phase I ESA may be required to ensure a property is free and clear of any environmental liability. A Phase I ESA will satisfy all appropriate inquiries under the Federal Superfund Law or Comprehensive Environmental Cleanup and Liability Act (CERCLA).
Our Certified Environmental Inspectors conduct:
– Federal and State Agency Records Reviews
– Historical Records Reviews
– Interviews with Owners and Neighbors
– Site Reconnaissance Surveys
– Results and Recommendations Preparation
– Report Preparation and Certification
Environmental Regulatory Compliance Portfolio
Browse three examples of recent successfully completed regulatory compliance projects.
Show Low South Land Exchange Multi-Forest Environmental Impact Statement, Central Arizona
EnviroSystems prepared the Environmental Impact Statement and Record of Decision (finalized in 2013) in compliance with NEPA for the proposed Show Low South Land Exchange involving 12 parcels on the Apache-Sitgreaves, Coconino, and Prescott National Forests and private lands located throughout northern Arizona.
BLM Utah Skutumpah Terrace and Paria Watershed Habitat Restoration Environmental Assessments
EnviroSystems is working on two Enviromental Assessments for habitat restoration for the BLM Kanab Field Office and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. Based on watershed boundaries, the BLM is proposing habitat restoration to improve watershed conditions including water availability, soil stability, vegetation cover, etc.
Jackson Hole Airport Sage-Grouse Habitat Restoration Plan Environmental Assessment, Grand Teton National Park
EnviroSystems completed an Environmental Assessment and associated Biological Assessment (BA) to analyze alternatives for a sage-grouse management plan that focuses on creating new habitat and managing current sage-grouse habitat and populations in and around the boundary of the Jackson Hole Airport in Grand Teton National Park.