The Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) and the Trinity Public Utilities District (TPUD) are initiating a right-of-way (ROW) expansion and vegetation management Project to reduce fire risk to the surrounding communities and public lands, as well as to increase electrical reliability to maintain critical services in local communities.

Under contract with the County of Los Angeles Department of Regional Planning, Aspen supported the County with the preparation of a biological assessment, noise technical study, and Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the County’s update to the Santa Monica Mountains North Area Plan (NAP) and Community Standards District (CSD).

San Bernardino County Land Use Services Department has used its RECPG funds to prepare a Renewable Energy and Conservation Element for its General Plan.

Inyo County has used its Renewable Energy and Conservation Planning Grants (RECPG) Program funds to develop a Renew­able Energy General Plan Amendment (REGPA) to include policies for facilitating and locating renewable energy development in the County.

The County of Imperial was the recipient of a California Energy Commission Grant on July 15, 2013, to update the existing “Geothermal/Alternative Energy & Transmission Element” of the General Plan. 

In February 2014, Aspen, as a subcontractor to PMC, prepared the County of San Luis Obispo Renewable Energy Streamlining Program (RESP) Opportunities and Constraints Tech­nical Study (OCTS).

The Thousand Palms Flood Control Project consists of a series of levees and channels to convey flood waters away from developed areas, thereby providing flood hazard protection to the community of Thousand Palms.

Aspen prepared the EIS/EIR to support a Corps of Engineers feasibility study for the removal of Matilija Dam on Matilija Creek, which is a tributary of the Ventura River.

Aspen is supporting the County with the environmental review and permitting of this sediment removal project. The County anticipates removing approximately 2.5 million cubic yards of sediment from Cogswell Reservoir, which is in the south-central portion of the Angeles National Forest along the West Fork of the San Gabriel River (WFSGR)

The VCPWA-WP contracted Aspen to prepare the required CEQA/NEPA documents and permits for the Ventura River (VR-1) Levee Rehabilitation Project.

The Ventura County Watershed Protection District (District) proposes to rehabilitate the Santa Clara River levee system upstream of Highway 101 (SCR-1) to meet the levee criteria of both the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), and provide adequate protection from a one percent annual chance (formerly known as 100-year) flood event along the Santa Clara River for approximately 1,400 structures (residential, public, commercial, industrial, and agricultural) located in North Oxnard (El Rio area), Ventura County.

The Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP) created a Land Use Plan Amendment to the California Desert Conservation Area (CDCA) Plan.

The Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project (TRTP) involves construction of a series of transmission system improvements extending from the Tehachapi Wind Resource Area in eastern Kern County to the Los Angeles Basin.

Western Area Power Administration and Aspen developed an EA (which mirrors an MND in many respects) and seven operation and maintenance (O&M) Plans and procedures in response to proposed changes in O&M procedures within Western’s Central Valley Project and Pacific AC Intertie ROWs and the Transmission Agency of Northern California’s (TANC) California-Oregon Transmission Project ROWs.

The Desert Harvest Solar Project is a solar photovoltaic facility that will generate 150 megawatts of electricity on an approximately 1,200-acre site characterized by undeveloped, non-agricultural land managed by the California Desert District of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM).