Regulatory Compliance and PermittingAll development and construction projects must meet a myriad of state and federal permitting and compliance requirements in many areas in order to move from initial idea to completion. To accomplish this goal, a company must cover everything from the environmental documents - impact assessments for NEPA, SEPA and CEQA, peer reviews and alternative analyses - to the permitting and support documentation- Clean Water Act Section 401, 402 and 404), Endangered Species Act, Clean Air Act, Cultural Resources Section 106 as well as coastal permits and state wildlife authorizations.
Other important regulations: - National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
- State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA)
- Federal and State Endangered Species Acts (ESA)
- Clean Air Act (CAA)
- California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
- Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act
- Clean Water Act (Sections 401,402 and 404)
- National Historic Preservation Act
- California Public Utilities Act
- California Coastal Act
- Washington State Growth Management Act
- Coastal Zone Management Act
- Washington Shoreline Management Act
- Federal Rivers and Harbors Act (Sections 9 and 10)
- Surface Mining and Reclamation Act (SMARA)
- California Fish and Game Code (Section 1600-1607)
- Washington Hydraulic Project Approvals
- Local Agency General Plans and Ordinances
Professions in this field we routinely recruit include:
- Archaeologists
- Botanists
- Biologists
- Economists
- Urban, Regional and Environmental Planners
- Environmental Attorneys
- Geomorphologists
- Landscape Architects
- Land Use and Transportation Planners
- Natural Resources Managers
- Geologists and Soil Scientists
- Water Resource Planners
- Geographic Information System (GIS) and Computer Aided Design and Drafting (CADD) Specialists
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