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Decommissioning of the Pacific Refining Marine Oil Terminal
AMS provided CEQA support and third-party independent environmental mitigation monitoring assessments at the abandoned Pacific Refining marine oil terminal. Pacific Refining decommissioned and abandoned their refinery in Hercules, CA, in 1997, and left the supporting marine oil terminal (MOT) located in San Pablo Bay in caretaker status. Plans to permanently abandon and remove the terminal…
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Compliance Monitoring for Oceanic Fiber Optic Cable Landings in Eureka, California
AMS was contracted by RTI to provide State-mandated monitoring of three Horizontal Directionally Drilled (HDD) landfalls of Trans-Pacific submarine fiber optic cable systems in Eureka, California. In the past two decades, increased demand for trans-Pacific communications has resulted in the installation of dozens of new fiber optic cables terminating in the California coastal zone. Each…
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RTI-Manchester Beach Fiber Optic Cable Project Marine Resources and Route Characterization Reports
AMS prepared a detailed assessment and characterization of marine seafloor habitats and associated biological communities along two fiber optic cable routes through nearshore waters offshore of Manchester, California. In the past two decades, increased demand for trans-Pacific communications have resulted in installation of dozens of new fiber optic cables terminating in the California coastal zone.…
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Mitigation Monitoring of Marine Oil Terminals for California State Lands Commission
Under contract to the State of California, AMS provided third-party independent environmental mitigation monitoring of multiple San Francisco Bay Area Marine Oil Terminals. AMS, as the lead of a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers, assessed each marine terminal operator’s compliance with environmental mitigation measures and lease requirements implemented as part of their respective 30-year lease renewals from the California State Lands Commission. This multi-year…
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NEPA Analysis of the Mobile Ocean Test Berth
AMS provided expertise in marine habitat, biota, and fisheries in assessing the potential impacts from a mobile ocean-testing berth operated by Oregon State University offshore Newport, Oregon for the Department of Energy. This floating facility will be used by wave energy conversion developers to test and improve the efficiency and operational capability of current and…