Compliance
Sundance offers broad environmental compliance capabilities to assist facilities in maintaining compliance with state and federal air, water, and waste regulations. Our trained and certified environmental compliance professionals conduct multi-media environmental compliance audits and management system reviews for a variety of private and public clients, including federal civilian and defense agencies, Tribal entities, and industrial and municipal facilities. Our team of regulatory experts includes Certified Professional Environmental Auditors, Certified Hazardous Material Managers, Registered Environmental Managers, and Certified Environmental and Safety Compliance Auditors. Sundance staff are also approved by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as Competent Auditors and have provided compliance services to customers from Alaska to Guam.
Sundance’s environmental compliance audit process tasks include pre-audit activities (audit plan, records review, and scope development), an entrance briefing for facility staff, field inspections, interviews with facility staff, records reviews, compliance determination for environmental requirements and standards, identifying the root causes of suspected areas of non-compliance, report preparation and database entry, stringent quality assurance of reports, recommendations for corrective and preventive action, an exit briefing for facility staff, and technical support and follow-up to ensure that corrective actions have been implemented.
Sundance services span the broad regulatory requirements and provide associated services including Consent Decree management, air monitoring/permitting and analysis, storm water pollution prevention, spill prevention and counter measure planning and other compliance requirements.
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Characterization & Remediation
Our team of project managers, engineers, geologists, scientists, and other professionals are experienced and qualified to assess environmental liabilities and contamination impacts with specialized knowledge in the investigation, assessment, and remediation of contaminated groundwater, surface water, soils, and sediments using a diverse set of technologies and subject matter expertise.
Sundance began as a provider of environmental consulting services to the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and Tribal governments under the Native American Lands Environmental Mitigation Program (NALEMP) conducting site inspection for Alaska Native Villages in remote locations, as well as on reservations in the lower 48 states. We now provide Characterization and Remediation services to the US Army, US Air Force, US Navy, other federal defense and civilian agencies, and various state, local, and commercial entities. Sundance is committed to providing efficient and creative solutions, including the following services.
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Human Health & Ecological Risk Assessment (HHERA)
Sundance toxicologists and environmental scientists work within regulatory programs to provide site-specific, cost-effective HHERA services, including the following.
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Natural Resources
Sundance’s Natural Resources division includes qualified professionals in the fields of botany, biology, ecology, forestry and rangeland, fire management, silviculture, geology, hydrology, marine, and renewable energy. We have worked closely with numerous state and federal agencies, including various commercial customers and Tribal entities, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), National Park Service (NPS), Natural Resource Conservation Service, US Air Force, USACE, US Forest Service (USFS), US Fish and Wildlife Service, and US Navy, among others. Sundance strives to exceed professional standards for field surveys, and subsequent planning, analysis, and reporting. We are skilled in managing and executing NEPA compliance to complete legally defensible documents. Sundance can provide monitoring of complex or controversial projects to ensure adherence to best management practices, as well as thorough and accurate reporting that leads to creative and successful management and/or mitigation strategies. Our services include:
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Planning & Permitting
Sundance provides a diverse and complete range of environmental planning and permitting services. We work with private industry and at all levels of government providing ecosystem planning, permitting, development, and ecosystem consulting. We conduct studies and develop environmental documents that comply with NEPA, CEQA, CWA, ESA, NHPA, OPA, CERCLA, RCRA, and other state and federal directives. Sundance staff include planners and regulatory specialists with the experience to guide project applicants through the environmental planning and permitting process. Our documents comply fully with all legal requirements, present practical mitigation measures, and integrate permitting requirements, such as those for wetlands and endangered species. Our experience in this service line includes:
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Cultural Resources
Sundance provides a diverse and complete range of Historic Preservation and Cultural Resources Management services to federal, state, and commercial clients with cost-effective cultural resource services. We are knowledgeable of federal laws, regulations, executive orders, and other guidelines governing cultural resources. Sundance staff meets the requirements of the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards and Guidelines for Archaeology and Historic Preservation and maintains professional standards and specifications for field investigations and reporting. Our experience in this service line includes:
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Public Involvement & Tribal Liaison Services
Sundance has been providing Tribal and Community Relations support since our inception in 2005. With extensive depth of knowledge and understanding about Tribal Governments, land use, histories, cultures, and sensitivity to our environment, Sundance has engaged with more than 160 Native American Tribes, Reservations, Alaska Villages, and Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) Regional and Village Corporations, as well as hundreds of communities across the nation. As a result, we have earned our clients’ respect and confidence as a trusted partner that provides valuable input on the engagement, consultation, and outreach processes with Tribal entities, communities, the public, and all other interested parties.
Sundance’s open-door style of communication ensures that we are always respectful and mindful to our client’s concerns and needs—we listen. We further recognize that it is imperative to begin communication early in the project process, so our clients have a voice on how they prefer to be engaged and communicated with. The Sundance communications team provides a comprehensive suite of public involvement services to bring together diverse groups and offers excellence in technical writing, editing, and visual communication tools, all of which augment our facilitation and presentation skills. Sundance focuses on developing and producing community involvement programs, building relationships, gathering feedback, and working with clients and citizens to achieve an outcome favorable to all. Services include:
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Information Technology
Sundance provides professional network administrators, system administrators, and architecture designers with experience in a wide variety of systems. Sundance specializes in small to medium Windows™ based networks and has partner agreements with companies, such as Dell, Ingram Micro, and Microsoft to provide full information technology (IT) support to small- and medium-sized businesses. Through our partner network, Sundance can provide hardware from Dell, HP, Cisco, Meraki, and many others. Our services include:
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Staff Augmentation
Sundance specializes in partnering with customers to provide creative staffing solutions to augment our client’s workforce with skilled persons. We conduct comprehensive search and qualification to identify professionals within a specific skillset to meet customer requirements. Sundance provides a variety of professional short- and long-term support personnel to various government agencies, including NPS, USFS, Idaho National Laboratory, National Interagency Fire Center, USACE, Department of Energy, Reclamation, and BLM. Our services include:
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Environmental Data Management
Sundance operates an enterprise database to store and manage environmental analytical data. Data technicians can easily upload and export data in numerous formats, depending on the need. In addition, Sundance can perform data verification and data-usability assessments on the analytical data sets to help clients make informed and data driven decisions.
Data acquisition, management and visualization. We help clients implement, deploy and operate geospatial software to achieve their operational goals for clients with sustainability management programs, geographically diverse footprint and environmental liability portfolios.
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Other Services
Records Management
Sundance provides records management and administrative record services to meet contractual and regulatory requirements. Our diverse service capability includes identifying, classifying, storing, securing, retrieving, tracking and destroying or permanently preserving records to meet an organization’s broader function of governance, risk management, and compliance, managing the evidence of an organization’s activities and the reduction or mitigation of associated risks.
Sundance provides extensive Federal Records Management and Audit services to several districts of the USACE. Expertise includes digitization, indexing, and compliance audits of CERCLA Formerly Used Defense Site projects.
Sundance is also proficient in background research including historic literature review, land ownership, land use, and potentially responsible party review. Services include:
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