We have been providing environmental consulting services to the nuclear industry for over 30 years, including siting studies and permitting, post-operational monitoring, NDPES monitoring and permitting, and strategic permitting. We provide the technical services required to assess the suitability of a site for the development and successful permitting of a facility.

We work closely with you to find ways to improve and optimize facility performance, in order to reduce or eliminate the need for supplemental cooling. We help clients reduce monitoring requirements through the use of defensible science. Our experience includes conducting third-party audits to help you review environmental monitoring programs and meeting permit compliance requirements. We successfully provide technical personnel to supplement in-house staff at times of peak workload at a considerable cost savings. This allows you to maximize your current project needs.

We have been submitting permit and license applications to local, state and Federal Agencies for decades.  Our team members have conducted numerous siting studies for fossil fuel, hydroelectric and nuclear generating facilities, as well as LNG terminals, transmission lines and pipeline rights-of-way.  We are familiar with regulations and permitting procedures, and the regulators are familiar with us through our projects, workshops, conferences, participation in professional societies and corporate sponsorship of regional restoration initiatives.  Our approach to permitting is to identify issues and concerns early in the process and arrange pre-application meetings with appropriate agencies to resolve outstanding issues prior to permit application submittal.

We have extensive expertise in preparing materials needed to support Federal and state Environmental Assessments (EA) and Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) including NRC COLA Environmental Reports. We work closely with your team, as well as with Federal, state and local agency personnel, to identify key project challenges in an effort to expedite the environmental assessment process while minimizing regulatory risk and cost. 

Representative energy services that we can provide you include:

• NRC Environmental Impact Statements
• Site selection and permitting of generation and transmission facilities
• Water supply planning and studies (quantity and availability)
• NPDES permit applications and waiver studies
• Section 10/404 permitting
• Clean Water Act 316(a) and 316(b) studies
• Implementing and conducting Radiological Environmental Monitoring Programs (REMP)
• Impact assessment and licensing
• Compliance monitoring
• Mitigation
• Data management
• Due diligence for acquisitions
• Third-party quality assurance audits

Recently we have been involved in 6 different nuclear relicensing studies and in the new nuclear COLA process at 3 additional sites. Call us today to discuss how we can provide environmental consulting services for you.