Spirit Environmental, LLC

Spirit was founded in 2005 in Houston, Texas with four individuals, all of whom are still here today. We initially focused on providing cost-effective, industry-leading air quality consulting services to our customers and were founded on the principles of providing excellent quality deliverables and building integrity-based relationships. Over the past five years, Spirit has organically expanded to include a much broader range of services, additional industries served, and new office locations, but, most importantly, a fast growing team of talented individuals. Today, our team exceeds 35 professionals, and we are still proudly driven by our original values of excellence and integrity. In addition, we share the common ideals of a Servant Leadership-based, positive, and inspiring culture, the desire to form meaningful relationships and partnerships with our co-workers and customers, and the desire to continuously improve in all aspects of our business.

We hire dynamic well-rounded individuals who are technically savvy and value strong relationships. You must work well independently, but always manage to strengthen any team situation; a strong desire to improve one’s self and peers and to work towards the greater good is vital. It's essential that you share our core values and have an attitude that embraces waking up each day looking forward to new experiences and the next problem to solve. An entrepreneurial spirit and communication skills are key to your success here. Servant Leadership is the style of leadership we embrace and it guides our daily interactions; we are continuously searching for natural servant leaders to join us.

In turn, we invest in our team – we give our employees every opportunity to learn and grow at all stages of their careers. We have developed employee-led Humanitarian & Wellness Committees to promote a healthy, happy working environment and support our local community.

INDUSTRIES

Spirit strives to develop long-term relationships with our partners primarily in the energy, petroleum, petrochemical, and chemical industries. Our engineers and scientists have worked in every US EPA region and almost every state and territory in the United States. The areas highlighted in orange represent locations where we have worked.

Our experienced staff has established excellent working relationships with the reviewing and regulatory agencies. Our established relationships, coupled with expertise and experience, allow us to identify effective solutions for our clients and result in the rapid issuance of thorough and accurate permits.

Air quality permitting is the foundation of Spirit Environmental’s expertise. Our staff has successfully prepared numerous federal, state, and local air permit and permit modification applications since our company’s inception. The requirements of the Clean Air Act, as well as the subsequent regulations stemming from this act, were put in place to protect and improve the nation’s air quality. Spirit understands the complexities associated with maintaining compliance with these regulations. We are uniquely qualified and fervently committed to helping you achieve your air permitting needs in a complex regulatory environment by implementing efficient permitting processes and developing advanced permitting strategies to expedite your permits while maintaining a superior level of quality and minimizing delays.

Spirit Environmental’s air permitting experience ranges from simple applications to the highly complex, including construction projects valued at over $1 billion.

The types of air permits Spirit has successfully prepared and negotiated include:

• Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD)
• Non-attainment New Source Review (NNSR)
• State and Local New Source Review (NSR) Air Construction and Operating Permits
• Title V Federal Operating Permits
• Permits-by-Rule, Permit Exemptions

NATURAL RESOURCE PLANNING (NEPA)

The Natural Resource Planning Group is skilled in providing clients with innovative solutions to project needs. We are experts in the Clean Water Act (CWA), United States Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) permitting, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) permitting, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) support, U.S. Fish & Wildlife (USFWS) consultation, Texas Railroad Commission (TRRC) permitting, and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ).

We provide expert insight into federal and state oil and gas regulations and deliver cost-effective solutions that conserve resources, promote sustainability, and comply with applicable regulations. Spirit will evaluate each project to determine which agencies will require environmental permitting and establish a lead agency. We can provide insight to the USACE Permitting Process, utilizing either Nationwide Permits or Individual Permits, to make sure that the project can proceed in the quickest manner. Should a project become federalized and trigger the NEPA process, Spirit Environmental routinely supports our clients' needs for NEPA documentation through the conduct of specialty studies and analyses as necessary to comply with each regulatory agency's unique permit application requirements.

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires all federal agencies to integrate environmental values into their decision-making processes by considering the environmental impacts of their proposed actions and reasonable alternatives to those actions. This is accomplished by preparing an Environmental Assessment and, if necessary, an Environmental Impact Statement of the impact of any federal decision or action that can affect the human environment. In their implementation of NEPA, most federal agencies have shifted the burden of developing the information necessary for such assessments to the applicant seeking permits, approvals, or other actions on the part of the federal government.

Spirit can help with the following natural resource studies and analyses:

Studies and Field Verifications
Wetland Delineations of Pipelines and Facilities
Threatened and Endangered Species Surveys
Site/Route/Corridor Alternative Analyses
Acoustic Analyses
Cost/Benefit Analyses
Field Surveys and Data Collection in support of any of the above activities
Permit Preparation

Wetland Delineation Reports
Threatened and Endangered Species Reports
Cultural Resources Management
Socioeconomic and Environmental Justice Studies
Environmental Impact Statements/Environmental Assessments
Permit Preparations and Submittals
Providing an interface with agencies
Coordination and expediting of permit applications
Project Management

Establishing permit time-frames and managing these time frames for approval
Managing environmental coordination from project design/conception to completion of construction
Full environmental documentation and permit support on projects requiring federal actions