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Environmental Consulting Services (200 East First American Way) City of Santa Ana INTRODUCTION iCF International (ICF) is happy to submit this Proposal to the City of Santa Ana (City) to provide environmental consulting services for the upcoming 200 East First American Way residential development. We have been providing environmental expertise services to the City since the late 1990s, and look forward to continuing this relationship with the City. For this project, we have organized a team that will be led by Chad Beckstrom, AICP as Project Director and Renee Escarlo as Project Manager. Chad has a long history working with City staff, dating back more than 15 years, and brings a strong knowledge of the City's environmental review process and local environmental concerns. Renee is a senior project manager and environmental planner with extensive experience managing the preparation of environmental documents to meet the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). FIRM AND PERSONNEL EXPERIENCE ICF ICF is a full-service environmental consulting firm with a long history of serving Orange County cities and working on development projects. We currently have an as-needed environmental services contract with the City of Santa Ana, which is discussed in more detail In the "Project Experience" section. Additionally, we have experience working with 11 other Orange County cities, including: Orange, Irvine, Anaheim, Lake Forest, San Juan Capistrano, Brea, Westminster, Fountain Valley, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, and San Clemente. Further, we have experience working with regional agencies such as the Orange County Public Works (OCPW) and the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA). To support our local clients, ICF utilizes staff from our Irvine office and expertise from our staff resources throughout southern California. Our Irvine office is located less than 15 minutes from the City's Civic Center office, and is home to most of our proposed team, including our Project Manager, Renee Escarlo and Project Director, Chad Beckstrom. CEQA Documentation and Technical Studies ICF specializes In providing environmental analysis to support local government planning and development projects, Including residential, commercial and industrial projects, mixed use and infill developments. Our primary service is the preparation of CEQA environmental compliance documentation, including Initial Studies (ISs), Negative Declarations (NDs), Mitigated Negative Declarations (MNDs), and Environmental Impact Reports (E[Rs). ICF's expertise with CEQA dates back more than 40 years, where our founders (under the legacy of Jones & Stokes) helped drafted the original CEQA legislation in 1970. Also, our in-house environmental counsel co- authored several industry-wide desktop reference guides, including the CEQA Deskbook. A Step-by-Step Guide on How to Comply with the California Environmental QualityAct. A large majority of our senior staff, including Chad Beckstrom serve as regular instructors in our Environmental Education Program, where he and others teach basic to advanced CEQA classes throughout the University of California Extension Program. As was detailed further in our previously submitted Statement of Qualifications, one of the advantages of selecting ICF is our capability to provide supporting technical studies, including the following: ¦ AesthetlcsNisual Resources ¦ Geology & Soils. ¦ Air Quality/Cllmate Change/Greenhouse Gas a Hydrology/Water Quality (GHG) Emissions ¦ Hazards ¦ Cultural Resources ¦ Noise/Acoustics ¦ Biological Resources a GIS Use or disclosure of data contAied on this sheet is subject to the resukfion on the title page of this proposal Page 1 25G-13