Project Development and Environment (PD&E) 

PD&E studies are FDOT’s comprehensive approach to federal requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). We study the potential effects of a proposed project and evaluate how they might impact the social, physical, natural, and cultural/archeological environments. These studies are completed in tandem with the conceptual design process so that projects are developed in the most efficient way to reduce impacts to the human and natural environments. PGA’s PD&E Group offers a wide variety of services that contribute to PD&E studies, as well as managing them ourselves.

Some of our process-related PD&E services include:

• PD&E Project Management and Development
• Class of Action Determination
• Agency Coordination
• Purpose & Need development
• Planning Consistency Forms
• State Environmental Impact Report (SEIR)
• SWEPT Documentation
• Grant Writing
• LAP NEPA Process & Documentation

Some of our design-related PD&E services include:

• Engineering Analysis and Preliminary Engineering Reports (PER)
• Bridge Hydraulic Reports (BHR)
• Bridge Replacement Reports (BRR)
• Traffic analysis (PTAR)
• Environmental Look-arounds and Pond Siting Reports (ELA/PSR)
• TSM&O ConOps/TSM&O PSEMP

Our Social, Physical, and Natural Environment services include:

• Sociocultural Effects Evaluation (SCE)
• Public involvement
• Wetlands and other surface waters (NRE)
• Protected species studies/Biological assessment (NRE)
• WMD and 404/USACE Permitting
• Contamination Screening Evaluation Reports (CSER)
• Farmland evaluations
• Section 4(f) evaluation/documentation