Permitting, Impact Analysis, and Mitigation Design

Nearly all development projects require some sort of environmental permit. Taylor Engineering’s comprehensive site assessment and permitting services facilitate project design, presentation of the project to regulators, presentations at public meetings, and final approval.

We are experts in federal, state, and local environmental regulations and regulatory issues; technical issues of environmental permitting and compliance; and site development permits. Taylor Engineering’s working relationships with all levels of regulatory agencies provide an efficient means to obtain permits and necessary approvals to perform work on projects of all sizes.

Taylor Engineering can help obtain these permits and any mitigation design required. We also negotiate permit conditions and prepare mitigation and management plans. Our permitting services also include modeling, monitoring, record keeping, reporting, analysis, and planning to support the permit process.

Impact Analysis

Taylor Engineering has extensive expertise in the environmental impact analysis process of identifying, predicting, evaluating, and mitigating relevant effects of development proposals. This process ensures that decision makers consider environmental impacts before they move forward with new projects.

Taylor Engineering’s research capabilities span a broad range of environmental disciplines. Our multidisciplinary research teams bring together biologists, ecologists, environmental scientists, environmental engineers, modelers, and meeting facilitators to provide an integrated approach to impact assessments.

The NEPA process constitutes an integrated decision support methodology that combines scoping, facilitation of public meetings, development of options, data collection, modeling, data analysis, documentation, and support and defense of the process and results. We provide complete support for the entire NEPA process.

Taylor Engineering also performs ecological analyses to support such client needs as permitting, risk assessment, regulatory compliance, and resource management. Our scientists are experienced in habitat classification, endangered species surveys, wetland jurisdictional delineation, and wetland functional assessment. Whether planning projects, evaluating regulations, or preparing permits, we provide a thorough analysis of all potential impacts.

Mitigation Design

Most development activities have the potential to cause adverse environmental effects at a given site. We can mitigate most of these effects through engineering and planning. We are knowledgeable in wetlands, natural resource regulations, and their effect on a client’s project.

State and federal permits typically require monitoring of mitigation sites. Monitoring — usually lasting from three to five years — often involves observing, measuring, and evaluating the success of mitigation targets associated with vegetation, habitat, and hydrology. We are skilled at interpreting environmental protection laws and assisting with permit compliance.

Impacts to wetlands typically require wetland mitigation and monitoring. Taylor Engineering can design and implement the required solution, provide Ecological Management Plans, project management, and long-term monitoring and supervision.