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Proposal to the City of Santa Ana for On -Call Environmental Services (RFP 21-105) D - Understanding of Need ECORP's approach to on -call consulting services with our agency clients is to work hand -in - hand with City project managers to ensure the projects receive legally sufficient environmental documentation while meeting schedule and budget constraints. Beginning at the initial project planning level, ECORP staff will work closely with City staff to determine the environmental constraints for the project so that they may be identified and avoided early in the process, if possible. ECORP can respond to the range of different City project needs, including preparing constraints analyses to understand potential environmental issues, conducting field surveys, preparing technical reports, preparing and processing all levels of CEQA or NEPA documents, and assisting the City with permitting and mitigation implementation. Through our on -call and other agency experience, we have prepared documentation for Categorical Exemptions (CEs), Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declarations (IS/MNDs), Environmental Impact Reports (EIRs), public noticing, Mitigation Monitoring Programs, Findings, and Statements of Overriding Considerations for projects throughout California, including in and for the City. Our experience includes the preparation of both stand-alone NEPA documents and joint NEPA/CEQA documents meeting a variety of federal agency guidelines, including the State Water Resources Control Board's CEQA Plus process, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (CDBG Grant Program), and Bureau of Reclamation. Typically, most City projects are likely to require CEs or IS/MNDs with supporting technical studies. ECORP has extensive experience with environmental services contracts issued by public agencies. Our staff enjoys working on these types of contracts because it affords us the opportunity to establish an efficient working relationship with our client that allows us to act as a virtually seamless extension of the client's staff. This type of arrangement ensures that the contract and the various projects issued under the contract run smoothly. Our staff is particularly experienced with quick response times, short lead times for mobilizing field teams and for completing the fieldwork, and strict schedules for completing the reports. In addition, our staff members adapt quite easily to the various report formats required by our government agency clients. We understand the importance of quality control for documents that must be submitted to the resource agencies and the various entities responsible for approving the implementation of City projects. Project Management Philosophy ECORP is highly experienced with assisting local government agencies through the environmental process. ECORP's current work and recent experience with public agencies throughout California, and specifically in southern California and Orange County, provide us with the skills to successfully provide these services to the City. This experience enables us to efficiently and thoroughly evaluate each project to determine the level of effort and expertise required, the appropriate environmental documents or technical reports that will be necessary, ECORP Consulting, Inc. ENV] RON IIEVTAL CO%S ULTAN rS October 21, 2021 ■ 12 P21-590