• North Shore Road EIS, Eastern Federal Lands Highway Division, FHWA and National Park Service Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee and North Carolina:  Serving as Project Director providing technical oversight and QA/QC for ARCADIS in undertaking the North Shore Environmental Impact Statement for Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP) through the FHWA, the contracting agency.  The purpose of the proposed action is to discharge and satisfy any obligations on the part of the United States that presently exist as the result of the Memorandum of Agreement of October 8, 1943, between the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI); Tennessee Valley Authority; Swain County, North Carolina; and the state of North Carolina.  The Agreement dealt with the creation of Fontana Dam and Reservoir that caused the flooding of lands and roads within Swain County.  As part of the Agreement, 44,170 acres of land were ultimately transferred to the DOI and made part of GSMNP.  The Agreement contained a provision by which the DOI was to construct a road through GSMNP, along the north shore of the newly formed Fontana Lake, to replace the flooded NC 288. Approximately seven miles of the planned 30-mile roadway have been constructed.  Currently, the client is determining whether or not it is feasible to complete the road and evaluating other alternatives that would satisfy the obligation.  Alternatives for completing the road construction through an undeveloped area of the park are being examined.  These alternatives are for designs with the least impact on this natural resource.  In order to insure that the best alternative is chosen the project is including: extensive public involvement programs, GIS based natural resource studies, ground truthing, and examination of social and economic considerations.
• Kansas Lane Connector EIS, Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, Monroe, Louisiana:  Provided technical assistance and QA/QC in the preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement for a new location roadway.  The project involved impacts to communities, wetlands, and historic resources.  Assisted in the management the project’s public involvement activities, including public meetings and workshops, and public hearing.
• Western Wake Freeway EIS, Planning and Environmental Branch, North Carolina Department of Transportation:  Assisted in the preparation of the Environmental Impact Statement for Western Wake Freeway, a 13-mile, controlled access highway with six lanes on new location.  This project featured analysis of three alternatives for this segment of Raleigh’s outer loop.  It included extensive public involvement, traffic analysis, functional designs, air quality and noise impact analysis, and natural resource investigations.  Provided technical advice, review, and QA/QC.
• Southeast High Speed Rail Study, North Carolina Department of Transportation - Rail Division:  Completed a first tier Environmental Impact Statement that evaluated two basic corridors, each approximately 400 miles in length, between Charlotte, North Carolina and Washington, DC.  The purpose of the Tier I study was to establish the general corridor location.  The study was macro scale with the majority of the analysis was undertaken utilizing GIS technology.  Mr. O’Quinn served as environmental manager for the project.
• Going-to-the Sun Road Advisory Committee, Glacier National Park, Montana:  Served as representative having engineering expertise on the 17-member committee appointed by the Secretary of the Interior.  The committee provided advice to the National Park Service concerning alternatives for the reconstruction of the 52-mile road across the park via the Continental Divide at Logan pass.  The highway, which was completed in 1932, is a National Historic Landmark and a National Civil Engineering Landmark.  The committee undertook its work in conformance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act.
• Diamond Causeway, Environmental Assessment, Chatham County Engineering Department, Chatham County, Georgia:   Directed the preparation of the Environmental Assessment for widening 3.2 miles of the Diamond Causeway near Savannah, Georgia.  The proposed improvement involves the replacement of bridges across the Moon River and the Intercostals Waterway and will serve as a hurricane evacuation route.  The Environmental Assessment involved Section 106 coordination of potential impacts to two properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places: the Wormsloe Plantation and the Bethesda Home for Boys, the first orphanage in the colonies.  Other impacts addressed include impacts to freshwater wetlands and saltwater marsh, public park facilities, and threatened and endangered aquatic species.  The project required the development of a Biological Assessment and Section 7 Consultation for impacts to several species of endangered Sea Turtles and impacts to the West Indian Manatee.
   

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