Environmental Assessment

Across specialties, GGI provides professional consulting services in project management, implementation oversight, logistical planning, functionality analysis, and risk/benefit analysis. Analysis and leadership are critical to successful return on investment and are often most effectively performed by objective third party entities outside the organization. The GGI approach structures communication, governance, performance standards, objectives alignment, integration across the value chain, financial assessment, resource planning, stakeholder accountability, timelines, monitoring, and testing. Analysis focuses on understanding the needs of the business as a whole, its strategic direction, and identifying initiatives that will allow a business to meet those strategic goals.

ENVIRONMENTAL
  • NEPA
  • Environmental Assessments (EA)
  • Environmental Impact Statements (EIS)
  • Environmental Audits
  • Environmental Compliance
  • Environmental Risk Analysis
  • Phase I Assessments/Site Investigations
  • Phase II Analysis
  • Phase III Remediation

GGI provides professional consulting services to analyze, recommend, and implement plans for meeting a client’s environmental needs. Environmental analysis is becoming increasingly important and encompasses a wide range of growing needs for all areas of business. Specific services include comprehensive environmental
audits, environmental compliance determinations, action and maintenance plans, environmental risk analysis, environmental site assessments, investigations and implementation strategies, and integration of environmental management plans to effectively manage corporate environmental strategies and maintain compliance.

AIR QUALITY/MODELING
  • Title V/PSD/NSR Permitting
  • Local/Regional/Long Range Dispersion
  • Modeling Analysis
  • MACT/BACT/RACT/LAER
  • HRA/RMP/RMPP
  • Emissions Inventories/Audits
  • Mobile Source Evaluation

GGI provides professional consulting services in air quality services for commercial and industrial applications, local authorities and government agencies. GGI is adept in a wide range of air quality consulting services meeting dynamic client needs.

These services include ambient air quality monitoring, assessment, compliance audits, emissions inventory/mitigation and control strategies, emission testing, odor and dust control impacts assessments, baseline air quality assessments, local and regional air quality management, legal support and industrial source permitting. GGI provides robust modeling services for local, regional, and long range dispersion, deposition, visibility and urban air shed modeling for air quality management and permitting applications.

GROUND/SURFACE WATER/GEOLOGY
  • Regulatory Permitting
  • CWA 401, 402, 404
  • SWPPP
  • Investigations/Assessments
  • Geologic Investigations & Mapping

GGI provides professional consulting services to assess design and implement strategies for managing surface and groundwater for a wide range of industrial and commercial applications. GGI is adept in developing surface water management strategies used to control and mitigate impacts from potential sources, as well as providing regulatory permitting support. GGI also provides services for assessing groundwater quality through
design and implementation of strategic drilling programs, data review and groundwater modeling. Other related services include geologic investigations, analysis, and mapping.

LAND USE/IMPACT ANALYSIS

  • Land Transfer Audits
  • Level I Surveys
  • Reclamation Plans
  • Due Diligence/Feasibility Studies
  • Remedial Investigations
  • Financial & Economical Impact Evaluation

GGI provides professional consulting services in environmental due diligence, feasibility studies, and analysis of financial and economic impacts for a wide range of projects.

Land use impacts, analysis and auditing services are designed to provide a systematic examination of the environmental impacts and quantification of those impacts between an operation and its surroundings. Services also include comprehensive NEPA analysis, land transfer audits, and reclamation planning and
development.

BIOLOGICAL
  • Wetlands Delineation & Management Plans
  • Threatened and Endangered Species Act Flora & Fauna
  • Management of Indicator Species
  • Biological Assessments/Biological Evaluations

GGI provides professional consultings ervices in biology for managing and assessing impacts to wildlife and vegetative habitats. Services include environmental surveys, studies, biological assessments and evaluations focusing on threatened, endangered and sensitive species, and as part of NEPA compliance.

HAZARDOUS WASTE/MATERIALS
  • CERCLA/RCRA
  • SPCC
  • Landfill, UST, AST, SWMU
  • Hazardous Materials Management
  • Solid Waste
  • Waste Characterization
  • Emergency Response Plans
  • Integrated Contingency Plans

GGI provides professional consulting services to characterize and manage the collection, treatment and disposal of hazardous and solid waste, as well as developing and implementing strategies for site cleanup activities covered under RCRA and CERCLA. The environmental aspects of hazardous waste management focus on a cradle to grave approach for managing hazardous waste streams. GGI’s approach is to characterize site conditions, determine the nature of the project, assess environmental risk, and develop feasible alternatives based on effectiveness and cost. GGI is also experienced in developing emergency response as well as integrated contingency plans which allow a facility to comply with multiple federal planning requirements through consolidation in to one functional emergency response plan.

COMMUNITY RELATIONS
  • Community Audits
  • Grass Roots Support Development
  • Media Strategy

GGI provides professional consulting services tod evelop and implement a comprehensive, ongoing community relations program that can achieve positive visibility among the community through development and implementation of community audits , grassroots support and effective media strategies. Community involvement and understanding public interest is a key principle in companies successfully establishing and maintaining a mutually beneficial relationship with the communities in which they operate.

POSITION DESCRIPTIONS

Air Quality Engineer
Provides project support in development and implementation of air quality permitting and assessment. Conducts emission inventory assessments in support of local, state and federal emissions reporting and permitting efforts. Performs air quality audits, NSR, MACT, BACT, RACT and LAER analysis in support of permitting efforts for Class II, Title V and PSD sources.

Air Quality Modeler
Performs local, regional and long range dispersion modeling. Versed in screening and refined modeling applications for assessing concentration, deposition and visibility impacts. Provide modeling support and deliverables for Class II, Title V, and PSD permitting efforts.

Analytical Chemist
Determines chemical constituent, composition, and physical characteristics of aqueous and non-aqueous materials. Five years experience in instrumentation and EPA SW-846 methodologies with environmental laboratories and associated with inorganic instrumentation and associated waste streams.

Aquatic Chemist
Provides scientific consulting for the evaluation of aquatic chemical settings such as natural or marine waters in order to understand the fate and transport of contaminant releases, ameliorating effects of waters to contaminant toxicity, and mitigation potential of natural settings when disturbed.

Aquatic Toxicologist
Provides scientific consulting for the evaluation of contaminant effects to aquatic life (plants, invertebrates, fish and mammals). The information is often used to ‘back-calculate’ acceptable contaminant cleanup goals.

CAD Engineer
Creates and or manipulates drawings and maps. Ensures drawings are created in real world coordinate systems and projections for future planning and design. Applications of program cover wide ranges of uses including but not limited to, take-offs (measuring), project design and management, area and volume calculations, and engineering design.

Cartography Specialist
Digitizes real world features (industrial and natural) and integrates GPS (global positioning systems) for map creation (paper) in real world coordinate systems that can be integrated with GIS, and Auto CAD. Aids in map development for a wide range of uses including planning, engineering and report development.

Computer Software Instructor
Design and implement training for specific software programs. Develop appropriate training materials to enhance long-term retention.

Ecological Risk Assessor
Provides risk analysis consulting for the evaluation of contaminant or physical impact effects to ecological receptor populations including both aquatic and terrestrial species.

Environmental Manager
Supervises projects associated with environmental clean-up or decommissioning restricted areas for return to public access.

Environmental Project Manager
Provides oversight of large, complex environmental projects that may involve site investigation activities as defined by regulatory guidance (i.e. RCRA, CERCLA), risk analysis and reporting, as well as risk characterization and management.

Environmental QA/QC Manager
Develops, reviews, and maintains in-place work-plans, health and safety plans, audits, job-hazard analysis, and closure reports.

Environmental Regulatory Compliance Specialist (Clean Water Act)
Provides consulting services to various industries that need to comply with facets of the Clean Water Act (NPDES, nonpoint source controls, storm water permitting, construction permitting, WET toxicity testing).

Environmental Regulatory Compliance Specialist (RCRA and CERCLA)
Provides consulting services including the design of site investigations, risk analysis and remedy development at sites classified under CERCLA and/or RCRA.

Environmental Service Project Manager
Manages implementation of Federal Facilities Compliance Orders in relation to mixed waste. Provide technical assistance on analysis of radiological risk (human health and ecological). Evaluate potential population and environmental impacts due to radiological exposure.

Environmental Site Assessment Specialist
Is certified under ASTM standards for the completion (as well as instruction) of Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments.

Field Geologist (drilling exploration and groundwater investigation)
Teams with drillers for exploration and or ground water investigation projects. Responsible for managing drilling activities, logging lithologies of boreholes, record keeping, reporting, chain of custodies, and shipping samples at the drill site for laboratory analysis.

Field Geologist (Mapping)
Provides field services to explore rock types, rock outcroppings and develop geologic maps using USGS topographic maps. Measures the strike and dips of outcrops in order to develop geological maps and cross sections.

Field Scientist
Provides in-field services for the study of contaminant fate and transport by being able to design, implement (mobilize), and complete all necessary field efforts for the study of groundwater, soil, surface water and sediment that may have been impacted by contaminant releases.

Fisheries Scientist (culture, research, ecology)
Provides scientific consulting for the understanding of natural or culture-raised aquatic species in various freshwater environments. The information is often used for the management of populations and communities in order to achieve a natural equilibrium, or to provide a fisheries resource.

Geographic Information System(GIS) Analyst
Responsible for the development and maintenance of geographical information systems for scientific investigations, resource management, asset management, environmental impact assessment, urban planning, cartography, criminology, geographic history, marketing, and logistics.