WSP Ecology, Landscape, EIA, Planning and Permitting, and Social Acceptability SOQ

ARCHEOLOGY, HERITAGE, AND ANTHROPOLOGY SERVICES

Archeology Since 1981, WSP has completed thousands of cultural resource projects for a variety of federal, state, and private clients in all 50 states, the Dis trict of Columbia, and internationally, including electric utilities, renewables developers, 33 state Departments of Transportation and many others. WSP currently employs full-time and part-time heritage resource staff, which provides the firm with sufficient personnel to conduct multiple investigations simultaneously and complete task orders in a timely manner nationwide. The firm provides a full range of cultural resource manage ment services, including archaeological studies and analyses, historical and architectural studies, specialized lab services, cultural resource man agement and planning studies, public outreach, historic buildings recordation, and historic pres ervation planning and historic structure reports.

WSP’s heritage resource team has developed and strengthened its capability to provide indefinite quantity, indefinite delivery services over the past 40 years. WSP has written consultation letters, attended and supported consultation meetings at the federal and state levels, assisted in the prepara tion of Tribal consultation letters and prepared Programmatic Agreements and Memoranda of Agreement. We have summarized project-related Section 106 activities for submission to FHWA, USACE, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the ACHP and SHPOs. WSP was responsible for negotiating survey requirements, preparing correspondence, and arranging consultation and coordination for Tribal consultation for the Northeast Energy Direct Pipeline project and is currently involved in the same tasks for the Clean Path New York, Transmission project that extends from the St. Lawrence River to New York City.

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