Environmental/Regulatory Permitting, Monitoring and Compliance

KTI provides a full range of permitting and ecological data collection services ranging from completion of resource specific surveys and reports to various comprehensive permit applications. Environmental and Regulatory services are supported by a state-of-the-art CAD/GIS department for compilation and review of existing information, field preparation, field data analysis and summaries and final map preparation.

Our services include:

Permitting
• Mine and Reclamation Plans
• Mine permit amendments, revisions, renewals and transfers
• Reclamation bond release
• Mine waste, ash handling and disposal plans
• NPDES permitsWPP) permits and plans
• Underground injection control (UIC) permits
• Air quality construction and operating permits
• Water rights permits
• ACOE Section 404 wetlands permits
• Spill prevention control and countermeasure (SPCC) plans
• Wetland delineations
• BLM ROW permits
• USFS Special Use Permits
• Land/mineral ownership research and mapping (adjudication/lease take-offs)
• Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and BLM sundrees
• BLM APD and POD preparation
• National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
  • Environmental Assessments
  • Environmental Impact Statements
  • Agency Supplemental Data Reports
  • Botany Biological Assessments/Biological Evaluations (BA/BE)
• Baseline surveys
  • Geology (subcontract Professional Geologist)
  • Surface Water Hydrology
  • Groundwater Hydrology
  • Vegetation
  • Wildlife
  • Threatened and Endangered Species
  • Soils
  • Alluvial Valley Floors
  • Wetlands
  • Archeology/Paleontology (subcontracted)
  • Weed surveys

Monitoring and Compliance
All field sampling is designed to support statistical analysis and employ standard operating procedures (SOPs) based on established sampling and analysis protocols and regulatory criteria. Field services include: oundwater measurement, sampling, monitoring and reporting.
• Underground injection control (UIC) monitoring and reporting
• Piezometer and inclinometer installation, monitoring and reporting
• Air emissions inventories, monitoring and reporting
• Method 9 opacity observations
• Air monitor maintenance, QA/QC
• Vegetation monitoring
• Soils topsoil and backfill compliance
• Wildlife monitoring
• Waste management plans and handling
• Solid and hazardous waste profiling and sampling