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<br /> County of Hawaii—Statement of Qualifications for Fiscal Year 2025 l .Y,
<br /> 1. Experience and Professional Qualifications Overview
<br /> Tetra Tech, Inc. (Tetra Tech)is a full-service environmental science, planning, and engineering firm with more than 550 offices
<br /> and approximately 28,000 employees worldwide. Our integrated team of professionals provides technical experience based
<br /> on decades of work supporting a diverse base of government agency and private industry clients across the State of Hawaii,
<br /> continental U.S., and internationally. The company was founded in 1966, and became a publicly traded company (NASDAQ-
<br /> TTEK) in 1991. Tetra Tech is a leading provider of environmental, permitting, engineering, and construction services for the
<br /> development, construction, and operational phases of development projects. Our Hawaii operations are based in our Honolulu
<br /> office, which has operated continuously since 1990, providing natural resources management planning, environmental impact
<br /> assessments, community involvement, regulatory compliance, permitting, emergency management and community resilience
<br /> management, environmental engineering, and other environmental services. With over 58 years of experience nationally, and
<br /> more than 34 years in the Hawaiian Islands, we have compiled an extensive portfolio of project experience assisting key
<br /> decision makers with complex project and programmatic needs related to environmental conservation and engineering.
<br /> Tetra Tech offers the full suite of consulting services, and has performed environmental,
<br /> civil, and planning support work for local, state and federal agencies, as well as the private
<br /> sector in Hawaii. We have provided full environmental and construction support to
<br /> developers such as Lend Lease and DR Horton; and environmental assessments and
<br /> environmental impact statements for clients such as Sempra Renewables/American ;it;
<br /> Electric Power, Hawaiki Submarine Cable LP, and DE Shaw Renewables. Tetra Tech has
<br /> also supported the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Hawaii Department
<br /> of Health (DOH) Hazard Evaluation and Emergency Response (HEER) Office, the Hawaii _—" ,�
<br /> Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR), and Hawaii Department of Business,
<br /> Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT) in enhancing their programs. Tetra Tech '' \`�
<br /> has significant experience in the following: National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and
<br /> Hawaii Environmental Policy Act (HEPA) compliance; terrestrial and aquatic wildlife and
<br /> botanical surveys; state and federally listed species surveys; natural resource assessment
<br /> and management services; Habitat Conservation Plans HCPs ; Endangered Species Act
<br /> (ESA) compliance; Environmental Investigation/Restoration; invasive species surveys,
<br /> control, and prevention planning; environmental construction support and quality control; county permitting; and other
<br /> resources assessments. Tetra Tech staff are dedicated to providing clients with the level of excellence required in today's
<br /> regulatory environment and have earned a reputation in natural resource planning and evaluations that is unequaled by our
<br /> competitors. We pride ourselves in our ability to provide complete services that integrate surveying, planning, environmental
<br /> permitting, engineering, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and construction services due to our global pool of extensive
<br /> resources.
<br /> Biological Surveys, Assessments, and Monitoring
<br /> While Tetra Tech staff have the ability to synthesize existing technical studies to prepare EAs and EISs, our multidisciplinary
<br /> team often conducts the baseline studies and research to support these documents. Our biologists and ecologists specialize
<br /> in providing scientifically based and legally defensible natural resource surveys to support each project from initial planning
<br /> through construction and operation. Tetra Tech's diverse staff have extensive experience developing and conducting a broad
<br /> range of on-the-ground biological surveys and assessments and desktop analyses in a wide variety of habitats types to fully
<br /> characterize natural resources and environmental conditions. These surveys provide the foundation for developing cost-
<br /> effective and environmentally sound approaches for each aspect of a project, including planning, permitting, mitigation
<br /> planning, implementation, and construction/post-construction monitoring. We are adept at conducting species surveys that
<br /> utilize various state and federal protocols, and that enable information to be collected in a systematic manner.
<br /> Staff routinely execute fixed radius bird point counts, breeding bird surveys, vegetation community mapping, invasive plant
<br /> inventories, and threatened and endangered plant surveys. With regards to threatened and endangered species, our staff
<br /> have wide-ranging experience from deploying acoustic detectors and analyzing data for the endangered Hawaiian hoary bat,
<br /> to conducting avian surveys for the endangered Hawaiian hawk and Hawaiian petrel, and monitoring reproduction of various
<br /> listed plant species. Tetra Tech has conducted numerous bat telemetry studies and possesses a federal and state permit to
<br /> capture and handle endangered Hawaiian hoary bats.
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