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methodologies and assumptions. This facilitates a clear understanding of the City's goals and approach to the project by all key staff working on the contract. Doing so reduces the time necessary to bring the URS team up to speed on the contract, thus freeing the time of the URS Project Manager to focus on the City's needs. Further, the PMP enhances our ability to involve a larger group of staff in the contract, thereby ensuring that all assignments are staffed with the best resources of the team. The graphic illustrates visually our Task Order ("TO") Management process. The URS team's reputation for outstanding achievements in environmental document approval is largely due to our strong belief that every element of TasVAUGEMENT PROCESS TM LM1y b.un TO 1 TM Cp MenAfies a poRb need end appropbb sdedub 17, TM ups Pm�etl wneper i]enufin appaq'ale TO MangeraM sWmnaMlanbh bMam Th Prgq M.nayar arM abo acne Y Me TO Manager MrmNbbW ft.n *on aoarJpa m PICIL NenaTgOnTaOnMadn-ageWr` dMO—x M. w 4 M.Yh db dmgnebd . AAK p raonam nws to aoni TM.URSft,M.1TOM.npr d—op—PbWbdeaaleTplromOroMEPmb and s. .Waalana.roraeIrbe.na.mnaAlebd„toI 91�M�bLwp1rYno . oTO, URS Tm TO Mene aM City soMZ ga.11lyes h O roURS PmaM8kOeuyp* bam mad rosubbbe Cky the project should be carefully planned and designed for maximum flexibility. Scheduling that allows for increased overlap of concurrent activities (e.g., multiple document mangers and permitting specialists) can accelerate typical project development timeframes and allows URS to service multiple City task orders. Because schedule delays are one of the most significant contributing factors to budget overruns as well, it is imperative that the needed resources are available, and that a project schedule is established based on realistic importance expectations; and then adhered to throughout a project's development stages. recognize frsn . 4.3 PROPOSED ACTIVITIES URS provides a full range of services including preparation of CEQA and NEPA documentation and regulatory permitting for various public agency and private sector clients. A representative sample of the types of reports, permits, and technical studies that we've completed to date on our various on -call contracts with jurisdictions includes ' the following: ➢ CEQA Initial Studies leading to Categorical ➢ Cultural Resources/Section 106 Studies Exemptions, ND/MNDs, and EIRs ➢ Section 4(� and 6(f) Studies ' ➢ NEPA Categorical Exclusions, ➢ Community Impact Assessment and Environmental Assessments, and Relocation Impact Studies 1 Environmental Impact Statements ➢ Noise and Vibration Studies ➢ Coastal Development Permitting ➢ Air Quality Studies 1 ➢ CWA Section 401 and 404 Permitting ➢ Traffic Studies 1 [California Regional Water Quality Control ➢ Utility Impact Studies Board and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, ➢ Water Quality/Assessment Studies respectively ➢ Visual/Aesthetic Impact Assessments ➢ CWA and California Department of Fish and ➢ Hazardous Materials and Wastes Game Jurisdictional Determinations/Wetland ➢ Public Outreach/Agency Scoping Delineations ➢ Farmland Conversion Impact Assessments ➢ California Endangered Species Act Permitting ➢ Hydrology/Flood Plain Studies i ➢ Federal Endangered Species Act Section 7 ➢ Climate Change and Green House Gas and Section 10 Consultations with the U.S. Impact Assessments Fish and Wildlife Service ➢ Federal Aviation Administration / Airport ➢ Streambed Alteration Agreements (pursuant Land Use Commission to Section 1600 [et seq] of the CDFG Code) 11