Environmental Impact Assessment & Permitting
Infrastructure and building projects are designed to accomplish specific purposes or goals, which can include providing additional water supply capacity, relieving traffic congestion, or constructing a multiple-use development. No matter what the project’s objective is, the implementation and operation of that project may have adverse impacts on other components of the natural or man-made environment. The process of Environmental Impact Assessment is to comprehensively identify and assess the impacts of a given project, and evaluate options to reduce those impacts. In this way, the benefits that accrue from the project’s implementation can be weighed against inevitable adverse impacts. This permits owners and regulators to make informed decisions about moving forward with projects.
HMM has developed extensive depth of expertise in environmental compliance and permitting under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), including Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), Environmental Assessment (EA), and Categorical Exclusion (CE). Our personnel are well versed in many resource areas of analysis associated with permitting processes under NEPA, as well as under various state regulated processes (such as "mini NEPA”) and state and federal environmental requirements. We currently serve clients that include federal and state agencies, departments of transportation (DOTs), municipalities, counties, utility authorities, and private companies. Additionally, HMM’s expertise includes environmental conflict resolution associated wth environmental permitting.
HMM offers the following services related to environmental permitting for all types of environmental projects:
- NEPA
- EIS Management and Preparation
- EA Management and Preparation
- CE Management and Preparation
- Public Participation
- Formal NEPA Public Involvement processes (i.e. hearings)
- Technical Presentations
- Other Permitting
- State & Local
- Federal (ESA, CWA, NHPA, etc.)
- Design & Procurement
- Integrating design-build with the permitting process
- Ongoing permits such as NPDES and 404/401 permits
- Construction Oversight and Compliance
