DUDEK - California PUC

Ensuring Environmental Compliance for Complex Energy Projects

Challenge: The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) needed cost-effective environmental management of its transmission line and substation projects.

Project Scope: Dudek was hired to provide a range of environmental services within the SDG&E service area on an as-needed basis.

Resolution: With in-house capabilities to provide the full range of required environmental services, Dudek conducts the following for the CPUC:

Review proponent’s environmental assessment (PEA)

Prepare and process environmental documentation including project scoping, draft and final document preparation, and notice consistency with CEQA and CPUC requirements

Research any related studies necessary to complete appropriate CEQA documents

Participate in necessary meetings and public hearings

Prepare and implement mitigation monitoring plans

In one project involving a 30 mile interconnection between SDGE’s existing 230kV transmission system in San Diego County and SCE’s existing 500kV transmission system in Riverside County, Dudek:

Ensured compliance with CPUC certificate of public convenience and necessity

Prepared documentation in compliance with CEQA/NEPA

Evaluated over 45 alternatives consisting of alternative system voltages, system designs and over 1,000 miles of routing options in San Diego, Imperial, Orange and Riverside Counties

Developed a GIS database consisting of over 300 digital data layers to depict the proposed alternatives and their supporting base information

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