FERC Licensing, Compliance and Implementation

Strategic Planning

Develop licensing plans, including schedules, budgets, and issue tracking and response systems
Identify licensing/resource issues and information needs
Train clients unfamiliar with FERC processes
Assess and guide selection of FERC and NEPA process options
Conduct compliance audits
Conduct and interpret benchmarking surveys

Assist with planning for consultation with agencies and other stakeholders
Identify key contacts for interested agencies and other organizations
Develop public information and education programs
Facilitate agency/stakeholder/public consultation meetings, FERC scoping meetings, workshops, and technical working groups
Provide strategic guidance on consultation for compliance with pertinent laws/regulations (e.g., Section 7 of ESA and Section 106 of NHPA)

Provide guidance in designing technical study programs
Identify, evaluate, and provide management of technical consultants and modelers
Review and evaluate technical study plans and study reports for accuracy, relevance, and consistency
Conduct recreation resource inventories

Manage, write, and file Pre-Applications Documents (PAD), Preliminary Licensing Proposals (PLP), and draft and final license applications; manage and write environmental assessments, biological assessments, and management plans
Provide guidance for and/or draft other informational or regulatory filings with FERC

Provide strategic and technical guidance for development of cost-effective protection, mitigation, and enhancement (PM&E) measures
Assist with development of adaptive management plans