AMEC FOSTER WHEELER ENVIRONMENT & INFRASTRUCTURE-2015

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Technical and Regulatory Assistance Amec Foster Wheeler has assisted several municipalities with technical and regulatory assistance. Our project team has a thorough understanding of Orange County's MS4 permit, the County's DAMP, City's LIP, local water quality ordinances, and other NPDES permit requirements. We regularly develop comments on new regulations, permits, and TMDLs on behalf of clients. Our project team has demonstrated our knowledge to the City during recent audits by US EPA and RWQCB in which we successfully represented the City by providing reports, presentations, and inspections to demonstrate our knowledge of the permits and the assistance we provide. Development of BMPs and Translation of Materials Amec Foster Wheeler has extensive experience providing guidance to industrial and commercial dischargers. Having inspected and worked for thousands of industrial sites in Orange County, we understand the BMP implementation requirements at industrial and commercial sites. We have used this experience in the past to develop BMP guidance and training materials for many projects. We also have extensive experience in the design and installation of numerous structural treatment control BMPs for industrial sites. For this project, we will maintain a library of BMP resource materials to assist in the development of the program and we are always looking for additional resources and guidance documents to provide to dischargers. As an example, Amec Foster Wheeler recently added guidance documents for the no exposure certification (NEC) to our guidance document library and "tool boxes" so we can hand these materials out when applicable. Amec Foster Wheeler is a diversified consulting firm with employees fluent in various languages, including Spanish. We have extensive experience translating environmental documents into other languages and we are prepared to assist the City with any translation requirements necessary for this program. Water Quality Complaints We understand that this project may also involve responding to and investigating water quality complaints and reports related to the City's ID/IC program. Our project team has performed nearly 2,000 water quality investigations for the cities of Anaheim, Costa Mesa, and Santa Ana. We have worked closely with various city departments during many of these investigations. We understand the importance of having personnel readily available to respond to water quality complaints (within one hour or less) and have set up a redundant system with multiple authorized inspectors to provide the City support when needed. Each of our inspection staff members is equipped with cell phones to allow for prompt responses to emails and telephone calls from the City. We anticipate that our authorized inspectors will have open lines of communication with the City during the investigations similar to the communication we have had under the existing inspection contract. Following each ID/IC investigation, we will provide a detailed email summary with photographs and recommendations to the City within one business day of the incident. Schedule Kick-off Meeting/Annual training specific to the City Complete by October each year City representatives & Amec inspection program Foster Wheeler team Update announcement letters October each year Mike Lowther Send announcement letters in batches Inspections/re-inspections are performed (assumes 910 inspections per year) Enforcement discussions/phone calls Senior review of forms Typically, sent out monthly October to June each year October to June each year October to June each year Amec Foster Wheeler administrative staff, Mike Lowther NPDES inspectors NPDES inspector involved, Mike Lowther and/or Brent Smith Brent Smith & Mike Lowther Commercial/Industrial Inspection and Database Management Consultant Services amecfw.com Page 12 of 13