Environmental Planning & Compliance

BEM Systems, Inc. (BEM) is an expert in the ever-changing state and federal environmental regulations. We offer innovative environmental planning, permitting, auditing, ecological design, build, monitoring, reporting, public outreach, professional testimony support, and other regulatory services to ensure our clients comply with all land use regulations and permit conditions.

BEM has qualified professionals with extensive experience to support our New Jersey clients with their environmental review and compliance needs. BEM offers our clients the practical know-how to deliver progressive and successful solutions. Our success relies not only on our understanding of the technical and regulatory issues but our equal understanding of our client’s timeframe and business concerns. BEM has also developed client-friendly one source project compliance software with modules to streamline and track project compliance, facilitate assessments, manage monitoring, permit acquisition, provide a record-keeping mechanism, and reporting.

We have considerable experience with transportation agencies, and understand the specific requirements spelled out by FHWA, FTA, and FRA for environmental review, permitting and cross-cutting federal, state and local regulations governing issues such as environmental justice, wetlands, endangered species, cultural resources, and hazardous materials. Following is a menu of specific services that BEM offers:

 

Environmental Review
  • NEPA and NJ EO 215 Compliance
  • Categorical Exclusions
  • Environmental Assessments
  • Environmental Impact Statements
  • Section 4(f) Analyses
  • Environmental Justice Surveys
  • Cultural Resource Assessments
  • Section 106 and NJ HPA Compliance
  • Air Quality Assessments
  • Noise Assessments
  • Land Use Evaluation
  • Construction Assessments
Environmental Permitting Services
  • Feasibility Studies (Ecological, Land Improvement)
  • USCG Section 9 Permits
  • ACOE Nationwide Permits, Section 10/404 Permits
  • Tidelands Instruments
  • Meadowlands Zoning Approvals/MIMAC Coordination
  • Pinelands Development Applications/COF
  • Flood Hazard Area Permits
  • CAFRA/ Waterfront Development Permits
  • Soil Erosion Sediment Control
  • Air Permits
Wetlands and Ecological Restoration
  • Wetland Delineation and Functional Assessment
  • Wetland Mitigation Design/Construction/Monitoring
  • Turnkey Wetland Mitigation
  • State and Federal Mitigation Banking-Monetary/Land Donation/Upland Preservation
  • Stream and Riparian Zone Restoration and Design
Water Quality and Stormwater Management
  • Ambient Water Quality Monitoring and Mixing Zone Analysis
  • Hydrologic Monitoring/ Water Budget Preparation
  • Floodplain Assessments
  • State and Federal Wastewater Permitting
  • Non-Point Pollution Assessment and Abatement (BMP Development)
  • Sanitary Wastewater Compliance Monitoring
  • Waste Water Collection System Diagnostic Surveys
  • Clean Water Act Section 316(b) Cooling Water Intake Structures Studies
  • Stormwater Collection and Treatment System Surveys & Cost Analysis
  • NPDES/SPDES Stormwater Permitting
Ecological Services
  • EPA Baseline Ecological Evaluations
  • Public Water System Sanitary Surveys
  • Risk Assessments (Ecological and Human Health)
  • Macro Invertebrate Benthic Surveys
  • Threatened and Endangered Species and Functional Habitat Surveys
  • Section 7 Consultations
  • Natural Resource Damage Assessments Recovery Protocol and Monitoring
  • Environmental Sensitive Area Mapping
  • Clean Technique Surveys (USEPA Methods 1669 & 1638)
  • Vernal Pool Assessments and Certification
  • Tree/Vegetation Surveys
  • Forestry Assessment, Management and Reforestation Plans
Additional Services
  • Environmental Remediation
  • Web-Based, GIS-Enabled Software Solution for Property Acquisition, Utilities Management, Community Relations, and Environmental Compliance and Permitting
  • Sea Level Rise and Resiliency Analysis for Multi-Threat Hazard
  • Materials Management
  • Green Infrastructure Implementation
  • Flood Management Studies
Project Highlight: 
NJ Transit Corporation, Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit System (H-BLRTS), 
Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey

The 20.6-mile long Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit System (H-BLRTS) project was one of New Jersey’s largest public works projects ever, with service beginning on its initial operating segment in 2000.  Read more

 

 

Project Highlight: 
U.S. Air Force, Spectacled Eider Surveys, Alaska

BEM conducted ground-based nest searches for these species at six remote United States Air Force (USAF) radar sites in northern Alaska over two summer seasons.  Read more

 

 

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