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City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida Marine and Coastal Professional Engineering Consulting Services (CCNA) | RFQ No. 18‐02‐01 Aptim Environmental & Infrastructure, Inc. 25 01C032018D Permitting Our team begins each project with early coordination between clients and agencies to provide baseline data and environmental documents (including NEPA documents) to facilitate and often expedite the permitting process. Our biologists, engineers and geologists work together to guide our clients through the permitting process based on a thorough understanding of current regulations and environmental resource concerns. APTIM routinely prepares joint‐coastal permit (JCP), environmental resource permit (ERP) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredge and fill permit applications, coordinating with state and federal agencies to obtain authorizations for a range of marine and coastal projects throughout Florida. We have also acquired permits with the Florida Water Management Districts. Our in‐house staff of professionals have the technical expertise to provide comprehensive and accurate information to the regulatory agencies in a timely fashion and are highly experienced with the issues of primary concern to regulators evaluating marine and coastal projects. Funding Assistance As a routine component of our business, APTIM works with various funding sources as applicable to a particular project. This allows local governments to leverage other grants and cost sharing. APTIM staff have the ability, knowledge and professional relationships to provide additional assistance to the City in coordinating with governmental or other agencies, and with the public. An important step to gaining consensus and support for a project is education of the long‐term trends, processes and benefits. Our engineers and biologists often participate in local stakeholder meetings to discuss proposed projects for clients. Coastal Geology Our geology department leads the industry in identifying beach compatible sand sources. We have located sand sources in Florida, Alabama, New York, Louisiana, Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, and Massachusetts, as well as in sand starved areas of the upper Texas coast. Our geophysicists and geologists are experts in the use of remote sensing techniques, marine geophysical data collection, processing and interpretation, combining geomorphological mapping with geotechnical measurements to locate and define sand deposits accurately and effectively. Our techniques are proven and efficient as we are able to modify field operations on the fly as data is collected and immediately analyzed. Our success in identifying beach compatible material is rooted in the systematic approach to marine sand searches developed over the years by our team of professionals. In a comprehensive marine sediment search, we organize the investigation into three sequential phases that the FDEP has adopted as a standard. This phased approach can be modified to meet the scope of the investigation and account for the level of work previously performed. Regardless of the phases executed during a sediment search, our investigation sequencing is preserved in order to maintain efficiency to provide confident results. Our regional sand search approach is so successful that it has also been incorporated into Louisiana's Office of Coastal Protection and Restoration (OCPR) "General Guidelines: Exploration for Offshore Sand Sources." Vibracore logging in the field.