Impact Assessments

Taylor Engineering offers a broad array of scientific, testing, engineering, and consulting services related to environmental impact assessments. We evaluate the potential impacts of a project to identify a solution that best meets the project's functional and environmental needs.

We have a wide range of specialists to provide our clients with the multidisciplinary expertise necessary to complete the comprehensive analyses and documentation required for compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) and the wide array of other federal, state, and local statutes, regulations, and policies. To ensure that clients fully satisfy their requirements, Taylor Engineering provides agency coordination within federal, state, and local levels, architectural and engineering firms, and private companies with interests in development.

Taylor Engineering’s environmental professionals have extensive experience in providing impact assessment services for water resources, land development, and construction projects. We have prepared a variety of environmental assessments (EA), environmental impact statements (EIS), and other studies mandated under NEPA.

Taylor Engineering has conducted the following activities in preparation of environmental impact statements.

• Preparation of public scoping documents
• Participation in public scoping and interagency meetings
• Preparation of scoping summaries and EIS study plans
• Literature reviews and data collection
• Design and implementation of baseline studies
• Impact analysis
• Cumulative impact assessment
• Participation in interdisciplinary team meetings to evaluate alternatives and mitigation measures
• Organization and assistance to the lead agency in holding public hearings on the Draft EIS
• Review and evaluation of, and preparation of responses to, public and agency comments on the Draft EIS
• Preparation, publication, and mailing of the Draft and Final EISs
• Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs)
• Phase II ESA (Preliminary Contamination Assessments)
• Phase III ESAs (Contamination Assessments/Remedial Action Plan-RAP)
• Environmental Impact Statements/NEPA process