About Horizon

Horizon Environmental Services, Inc. (Horizon) is particularly well qualified to provide both the technical and administrative support required for project planning and permitting efforts related to various federal, state, and local permits and/or approvals. Horizon's capabilities and experience are very broad in the area of work efforts to support compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), particularly as related to multidisciplinary Environmental Assessments/ Environmental lmpact Statements (EAs/EISs), jurisdictional wetlands, endangered species, cultural resources issues, and expert testimony.

Services that Horizon provides for various clients include multidisciplinary EAs/EISs in support of federal and state environmental reviews; jurisdictional wetland determinations; endangered species habitat assessments and surveys; cultural resources surveys and mitigation (prehistoric and historic); wildlife habitat and wetlands restoration/creation; baseline aquatic and terrestrial investigations (inland and coastal); geologic resource assessments; real estate environmental site assessments; asbestos consulting; environmental constraints analyses for alternative project sites, routes, and land development scenarios ("fatal flaw" analyses); post-project land use planning and mitigation; and permit management, including preparation, agency coordination, and expert testimony.

Horizon is based in Austin, Texas, and provides services nationally. Horizon was founded in 1987 and is a small-business enterprise composed of senior professional personnel with many years of applied experience/specific training in environmental assessments, permitting, and management. For example, members of Horizon's staff have worked on the majority of energy development (e.g., lignite surface mines and power plants) and reservoir projects, either proposed or developed, in Texas and Louisiana from 1976 to present. Our staff's experience and background have allowed Horizon to gain an applied knowledge of the environmental requirements of various federal and state regulations and permits affecting natural resource development and an excellent identity with agency personnel. In 2003, the Austin Business Journal ranked Horizon sixth among Austin-area environmental consulting firms, which included large, national corporations with substantial engineering staffs.

Horizon's key personnel assigned to various work efforts are committed to being available from work initiation through expert testimony, if required. Depending on the scope of environmental investigations required for a given project, Horizon may network with other qualified firms, not only to provide both environmental and engineering services in a cost- and time-efficient manner, but to assure that only the most technically qualified and experienced persons are providing personal attention to the work effort.