Environmental Planning
SWCA manages the specific plans of our clients in the context of environmental resources and established regulatory requirements. Our planners can define objectives, provide documentation assistance, gather community input, offer alternatives and solutions, and facilitate stakeholder collaboration – in order to keep projects in full compliance with environmental regulations and help you meet your community planning goals.
Services include:
- Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) / Environmental Impact Reports (EIR)
- Environmental Assessments (EA)
- Categorical Exclusions
- Environmental mediation and facilitation
- Mitigated negative declaration assistance
- Public involvement and outreach
- Air quality and noise services
- Visual /viewshed analysis
- Socioeconomic studies
- 401 water quality certification
- Collaborative planning
- 404 CWA permitting
- Watershed plans
- Land use and recreation plans
- Implementation plans
- Fire management plans
- River management plans
- Forest and grazing plans
- General management plans
- Third party technical review
- Mitigated negative declaration assistance
- Siting and feasibility studies
- Statistical analysis and modeling
- Voluntary conservation programs
- NEPA administrative records
- Natural Resource Management and Planning
- Resource Management Plans (RMPs)
- Habitat Conservation Plans (HCPs)
- California Natural Community Conservation Plans (NCCPs)
- Comprehensive Conservation Plans (CCPs)
Regulatory Drivers
- National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
- California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
- Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA)
- National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act
- State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA)
- Clean Air Act (CAA)
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