Summit Envirosolutions – Government Contract Experience
Summit has provided a depth of scientific, engineering and IT consulting support to Federal, State and Local Agencies, governmental institutions and Native American tribes located throughout the Midwest and across the U.S. Summit’s growth and diversification has resulted from the addition of talented, expert professionals with broad-based training, education, and applied knowledge and experience to complete the many facets of an evaluation or remedial effort. While we are a small business (primary NAICS codes 541330, 541360, 541620, 562910), we employee several staff who have held positions of significant responsibility within other organ-izations and have extensive Federal, State, Local and tribal program management experience. Summit continues to experience growth and expansion through strategic partnering and successful collaboration on projects with other firms, and through contract awards with major clients. Representative governmental experience that Summit has obtained is summarized below. For a complete listing of the technical services offered by Summit, click here.
1. Summary of Summit’s Experience with Federal Agencies
CLIENT |
SUMMARY OF SERVICES PROVIDED |
U. S. General Services Administration |
Petroleum storage tank assessments/compliance reviews |
Phase I and II environmental property assessments |
Asbestos and lead-based paint assessment and mitigation support |
National Register Nomination for the Greater Southwest Finance Center |
Cultural and archeological investigations in support of property assessment and development |
Historical data review and data management services |
Integration and visualization of site data (including GIS platform development and website portal creation |
U.S. National Park Service |
Ethnographic resources study |
Geophysical investigations at Yellowstone National Park |
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
EPA Region 5. Includes technical contractor support for environmental assessments and cleanup projects, including several projects performed for the Region 5 Brownfields Program. |
EPA Headquarters. Includes conducting Targeted Brownfields Assessments Nationwide and providing the EPA with remedial planning, tribal and outreach support. |
U.S. Dept of the Interior |
Archaeological data recovery |
U.S. Department of Defense |
U.S. Navy. Summit is performing a joint project with the Naval Facilities Engineering Support Center (evaluation of Summit’s proprietary LTM solution). |
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Environmental property assessments, cultural resource investigations, cultural resource management studies |
U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Forest Service |
Natural resource evaluations |
Cultural resources management |
Stormwater management planning and control; construction water quality BMPs |
Construction contractor oversight and documentation services |
U.S. Bureau of Land Management |
Cultural resources archeological study for more than 15 projects throughout Nevada |
Class III cultural resources management |
Evaluation of fuel treatment and fire rehabilitation sites |
U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs |
Historical architectural surveys and cultural resource/archaeological investigations for the BIA’s Western Regional Office |
Summit’s most recent win is a 5-year National Brownfields Contract with EPA HQ. Our firm is continuing expand its relationship with federal agencies in three primary service areas: cultural resources/archeology, aquifer resource management and watershed management planning; subsurface investigations and due diligence pro-perty assessments, and data management and visualization (including GIS database development).
2. Summary of Summit’s Experience with Tribal Governments
Summit has performed nearly 40 projects with tribal governments. Representative experience that Summit has obtained with tribes is provided below.
CLIENT |
SUMMARY OF SERVICES PROVIDED |
Shakopee Mdewakanton (MN) |
Cultural resource assessment technical support. |
Genealogy database development |
Phase I environmental property assessments |
Development of a hydrologic model for the Minnesota River Valley |
Technical support to the tribal land department |
Natural resource assessment studies |
Duckwater Shoshone Tribe (NV) |
Water resources management planning including hydrologic studies, aquifer evaluations, groundwater quality assessments |
Groundwater protection planning |
Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California |
Aquifer resource management studies |
Natural resource assessments |
Mapping and GIS database development |
Keweenawan Bay Indian Community (MI) |
Assessment and review of tribal response program |
Certification of site cleanup/ site closure assistance |
In addition, Summit is providing technical support to tribal entities throughout the Great Lakes Region through our contract with EPA Region 5.
3. Summary of Summit’s Experience with State and Public Agencies
The work that Summit has completed for state agencies includes serving as a State of Minnesota Environmental Response contractor responsible for assessing health and safety risks at uncontrolled petroleum and hazardous waste spill release sites. Summit has been providing cultural resource archeology and management support for Minnesota DOT in support of road construction projects Statewide. We have also provided water resources management services to universities and institutions, and environmental remediation services at St. Parks in the Midwest and the southwestern U.S. Representative experience follows.
CLIENT |
SUMMARY OF SERVICES PROVIDED |
Minnesota Department of Transportation |
Cultural resource assessments at several State parks |
Cultural resource management services in conjunction with several roadway projects |
Historical environmental document review for bridge replacement projects performed by the Minnesota DOT |
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources |
Provided hydrogeology and GIS analysts support to complete a watershed modeling study of the Wells Creek sub-watershed. |
Iowa Department of Natural Resources |
Water resources management services and well condition video surveys |
University and Institutions |
University of Minnesota. Includes evaluation of hydrologic structures. |
Iowa State University. Well condition video surveys |
Sierra Pacific Power Company (NV) |
Extensive cultural resource archeological survey performed in southwestern Nevada as part of an EIS for a proposed overhead utility line corridor. Coordinated the GPS collection, post-processing, GIS integration, and report figure generation for a 1,400-acre study area |
4. Summary of Summit’s Experience with Local Governmental Agencies
Summit has extensive experience working for local government agencies. The services that we have provided to communities includes, but is not limited to, watershed planning and management, environmental site assessments and brownfields redevelopment projects and historical preservation and cultural resource planning, data collection, management and documentation services.
CLIENT |
SUMMARY OF SERVICES PROVIDED |
City of Eden Prairie (MN) |
Development of Well Head Protection Plan |
Developed GIS layers and used data obtained via RealFlow® to model groundwater occurrence, a Well Head Protection Area (WHPA) and the corresponding Drinking Water Safe Management Area (DWSMA) |
Historical environmental document review for bridge replacement projects performed by the Minnesota DOT |
Minnesota Metropolitan Council |
Regional assessment of water supply systems, water demand and availability, and water resource management needs for a seven county metro area |
City of Blaine (MN) |
Brownfields redevelopment technical support |
Petroleum underground storage tank (UST) assessment, and evaluation of the integrity of the UST basin |
Phase II Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) employing Summit’s in-house Geoprobe® drilling capability and field screening/contaminant sensing tools |
evaluation of remedial alternatives to develop a comprehensive plan for site redevelopment and re-use |
Regulatory negotiations to support the beneficial re-use of petroleum impacted soil |
