Interdivisional Work

The Natural Resources and Cultural Resources divisions frequently work together on projects that contain multi-disciplinary compliance components.

One of our more demanding contracts has been with Brown and Caldwell, a global corporation charged with remediation of a Superfund site in northern Arizona. Our role has been to provide all of the natural and cultural resource studies required to facilitate the proposed action. The project area contains hazardous materials and is located on a military installation, thus introducing myriad complexities to the process and unexpected variables to the fieldwork. Our team has been working with unexploded ordinance technicians and a large group of stakeholders to complete the requisite environmental studies in accordance with the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) federal legislation. Our work has included:

• Habitat evaluations,

• Archaeological surveys,

• Stakeholder meetings,

• Coordination and consultation with the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), and

• Managing the number of details that revolve around planning a remedial project that spans multiple years and includes numerous specialists and subconsultants.

Currently, we are providing cultural and natural resources services in support of the preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement for runway expansion at the Tucson International Airport. This work includes cultural resources surveys, native plant surveys, jurisdictional water delineations, and hazardous material assessments.

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