ENVIRONMENT PLANNING DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS, INC. (EPD SOLUTIONS, INC.)

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Exhibit A ENVIRONMENT I PLANNINs 1 DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS, INC. 1. SCOPE OF SERVICES The scope of services provided by EPD include all three services requested by the City's RFQ: A. Environmental Services, B. Technical Studies, and C. Staffing Services. As described in 2. Firm and Personnel Experience, EPD staff members are extremely knowledgeable, experienced, and familiar with federal, state, and local regulations, including the Santa Ana Municipal Code and General Plan, CEQA, and NEPA. EPD has significant experience attending City Council, City Commission, and neighborhood meetings. EPD's Project Manager for the City of Santa Ana (Konnie Dobreva) and EPD staff will be extremely responsive, and maintain excellent working relationships with project applicants, property owners, developers, and City staff. EPD is committed to providing adequate staffing levels at all time to adhere to established schedules. Furthermore, EPD will provide services under the direction of City staff. A. ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES PREPARATION AND REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENTS AND TECHNICAL STUDIES/MEMORANDUMS In the outline of tasks below, we demonstrate our team's approach and organization necessary to prepare various types of environmental documents and technical studies/memorandums, including the issues involved and plans to address them. The scope of services details the process EPD proposes to use in efficiently producing reliable, quality, and defensible environmental documents for the City as part of CEQA and NEPA compliance, and assisting with cultural and biological monitoring requirements during construction efforts. EPD's approach to environmental analysis and regulation compliance is to assess early and often the projects against environmental requirements and be an active participant in concert with the City as projects are proposed, considered by City decision makers, and implemented. Our desire to be involved is with the intention of streamlining the environmental review process by guiding and informing the design, approval and construction processes to avoid significant environmental effects to extent feasible, limit project delays, reduce costs, and prevent unforeseen issues from arising related to environmental compliance. Task 1. Project Initiation Environmental Compliance Strategy When assigned a project pursuant to this RFQ, EPD will develop a project environmental compliance strategy in close coordination with the City Santa Ana. This will come from an early and thorough assessment of the environmental and regulatory conditions in which the project will be considered and executed. EPD will identify project stakeholders and critical issues of concern, and will work with the City to the understand the project objectives. This task includes preliminary plan and document reviews, conference calls or meetings with City Staff, and site visits to help identify environmental impact areas and technical studies that would be required. EPD will also review project plans and other project documentation, the City of Santa Ana's General Plan and Municipal Code, and any relevant regulatory documents and studies to assist in understanding the framework within which the project is going to be implemented. EPD will review all options when recommending the appropriate environmental document required for CEQA or NEPA compliance. This includes the use of Statutory or Categorical Exemptions, Findings of No Significant Impacts (FONSis), Addendums, preparation of Negative or Mitigated Negative Declarations, or preparation of an EIR/EIS. EPD will present its findings to the City in a memorandum for consideration as a guide for the later steps.