Unintended Consequences of the Clean Water Act of 1972
The Clean Water Act is a federal law governing water pollution. It recognizes the responsibility of states to address pollution and provides resources to assist improvement in programs such as improved wastewater treatment. Cleaning up our nation’s water is a good thing. Even with significant environmental improvement, do you have any idea why this good […]
OEI Partners with FEMA Disaster Team to Provide Substantial Damage Estimates (SDEs)
OEI’s recent experience providing SDEs has given us the opportunity to help flood ravaged communities and given us firsthand insight into the process, including FEMA’s management of overall objectives. An SDE assessment provides the total cost of repairs if 50 percent or more of the structure’s market value before the disaster occurred. Experience assists us […]
USACE ECSO Win
After serving our federal government for over a decade as a subconsultant and as a primary contractor on several single-issue contracts, OEI was awarded our first long term contract in 2015. This contract gives OEI indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) status for a five-year term where we will provide our high-quality service for the United States […]
Construction Administration News: Strategic regulatory permitting. What is it?
Among other specialties the OEI construction administration team has shown time again their ability to navigate extremely complex permitting processes. “Strategic regulatory permitting” is a phrase OEI adopted to describe our ability to streamline regulatory approval processes. Because OEI has been focused on solving water issues for 30 years, we have developed efficiencies in streamlining the permitting processes and […]