EMPSi provides a variety of services to government and industry clients across diverse market sectors

We are client focused, project focused, and quality focused—whether negotiating challenging planning issues, complex NEPA permitting, or fast-tracked timelines. Because of this, we are consistently recognized as industry leaders who help drive scientifically sound, reasonable, and legally defensible efforts. Our diverse services and the skills of our employees ensure successful project outcomes. 

Environmental Compliance

  • Environmental impact analysis under NEPA and state laws

  • Agency coordination and facilitation

  • Alternatives development and screening

  • Cumulative impact analysis

  • Environmental permitting and licensing

  • Resource management and land use plans

  • Regulatory coordination and consultation

  • Visual resource management and simulations

  • Reasonably foreseeable development scenarios

Environmental Justice and Socioeconomic Analysis

  • Socioeconomic baseline assessments

  • Environmental justice analysis

  • EPA environmental justice screening

  • Health impact assessments/risk assessments

  • Demographic geographic mapping/modeling

  • Exposure modeling

  • Stakeholder interviews/workshops

  • Ecosystem services analysis

  • Economic modeling and

  • Economic contribution and impact analysis

  • Social cost of carbon

  • Regulatory analysis of social equity

GIS support and integration

  • Webmaps

  • Geodatabase development, including user-friendly alternatives

  • Siting and constraints analysis

  • Public data and reader-friendly maps

  • Viewshed analysis

  • Expert documentation including FGDC-compliant metadata

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

  • Administrative records

  • NEPA streamlining

  • File and database management

  • Interdisciplinary team facilitation and organization

  • Scheduling and forecasting

Natural & cultural ResourceS

  • Biological assessments and evaluations

  • Endangered species studies and surveys

  • Fire and vegetation management planning

  • Recreation planning

  • River and wetland restoration

  • Wetland delineations and 404 permitting

  • Cultural resource impacts analysis and modeling

  • Memoranda of agreements/understanding

  • Programmatic agreements

  • Tribal concerns and consultation

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

  • Design and implement public outreach programs

  • Public meetings and open houses

  • Comment tracking, response, and analysis

  • Community workshops and focus groups

  • Facilitation and conflict resolution

  • Media relations and press releases

  • Interactive educational programs

  • Project website development

  • Strategic messaging development

VIRTUAL PUBLIC MEETINGS

  • Facilitated webinars or virtual open houses and meetings

  • Websites supporting virtual public meetings

  • Custom solutions for engagement