Description
Chatham County is soliciting proposals from qualified companies to provide on-call environmental services for the planning and design of various projects. The contract will be for one year with renewal options for four additional one-year terms, with total fees not to exceed $250,000 per year for each successful consulting firm. The selected firm will perform various environmental and wetland-related tasks, including preliminary wetland assessments, isolated wetland determinations, freshwater wetland delineations, and Section 404 Environmental permitting.
Key services to be provided include:
• Preliminary wetland assessments
• Isolated wetland determinations
• Freshwater wetland delineations and verifications
• Section 404 Environmental permitting
• Wetland mitigation planning, implementation, and monitoring
• Clean Water Act violation resolution
• Hydrogeomorphic assessments
• Marsh line delineations and verifications
• Coastal Marshlands Protection Act permitting
• Section 10 permitting
• Coastal Marshlands Act violation resolutions
• Alternative mitigation site assessments
• Development of banking instruments
• Mitigation Bank management
• Mitigation bank monitoring and reporting
• Threatened and Endangered Species surveys and assessments
• Wildlife management planning
• Biological assessments
• Environmental assessments
• Section 7 consultations
• Safe Harbor agreements
• USCG Bridge permitting
• NEPA studies
• Shore Protection Act permitting
• GEPA studies
• State water buffer variances
• Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination (IDDE) sampling services
• Waste Load Applications
• Antidegradation Analysis
• Fire Hydrant ISO compliance certifications
• Groundwater Withdrawal Permit Applications
• Level III Soil Reports
• Other services as requested