GLEC BPM003500_Experience_and_Capacity_Questionnaire.pdf

Attachment 2-A Experience and Capacity Questionnaire

STATE MAY DETERMINE YOUR PROPOSAL IS NON-RESPONSIVE IF YOU DO NOT ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS FULLY.

EXPERIENCE AND CAPACITY QUESTIONS:

Question 1: Company Profile

1.1-1.5 Great Lakes Environmental Center, Inc. (GLEC) is an established national contracting firm offering applied environmental sciences, research, and compliance assistance focused on water quality and the protection of aquatic ecosystems. GLEC has grown steadily in each year of its existence, delivering services and solutions to government and commercial clients throughout North America. The dedicated employee-owners at GLEC often set the standard in their respective fields by consistently applying our core philosophies of scientific excellence, corporate responsibility, environmental stewardship, and dedication to fulfilling client needs. Our unique experience serving both regulatory agencies and the regulated community translates into viable, insightful, and creative solutions to complex environmental challenges.

GLEC has diverse capabilities focused on technical assistance, environmental problem solving and compliance assistance in the areas of aquatic and sediment toxicology; environmental surveys and assessments; ecological risk assessments; non-point source pollution evaluations; environmental chemistry; water quality and bioaccumulation modeling; and bioconcentration/bioaccumulation.

Great Lakes Environmental Center, Inc. is 100% employee owned and incorporated in the State of Michigan as an “S” corporation. GLEC’s corporate headquarters is at 739 Hastings St., Traverse City, Michigan with offices and laboratories in Columbus, Ohio, and offices in Farmington Hills, Michigan, Eau Claire, Wisconsin and River Falls, Wisconsin. GLEC has been in existence since 1992. Originally formed in 1982 as the Water Quality Division of Battelle Memorial Institute, the company was purchased by its employees in 1992 to form GLEC. GLEC currently employs over 50 associates in our Traverse City, Michigan and Columbus, Ohio laboratories along with staff in Wisconsin and Farmington Hills, Michigan. GLEC associates hold academic degrees in many fields, including biology, botany, chemistry, aquatic toxicology, engineering, entomology, fisheries biology, environmental sciences, geology, statistics, economics, and business. The average individual experience level is 15 years with some senior researchers having over 35 years’ experience. Almost half of our associates hold post-graduate degrees and are widely published in their respective fields. GLEC laboratory and office facilities occupy 13,700 sq.ft. with operations supported by analytical equipment and secure server-based information systems.

Our aquatic toxicology laboratories are fully equipped to perform static and flow-through toxicity evaluations of industry products, whole sediment, sediment elutriate, sediment pore-water and sediment/tissue chemistry. An additional modular space of 2,500 sq. ft. is available to clients for specialized research experiments or project materials. GLEC owns and operates an extensive list of field survey equipment, including Great Lakes capable research vessels, electrofishing boats, sediment core samplers, multiparameter water quality instrumentation, and survey devices.

1.6 GLEC ORGANIZATIONAL CHART

TRAVERSE CITY

(HEADQUARTERS) OPERATIONS

D. McCauley R. Silva-Wilkinson

J. Bachman M. Garton J. Saxton

COLUMBUS

OPERATIONS

D. McIntyre G. Smith C. Tarr

QUALITY ASSURANCE

J. Hansen

SOUTHEAST MI

HYDROGEOLOGY

SEDIMENT PRACTICE LEADER

J. Barkach

LABORATORY

TOXICOLOGY

C. Tarr

C. Davis Y. Karaivanova

E. Hoitsma A. Foster

C. McKnight

FIELD STUDIES

D. McIntyre

C. Davis C. Tarr

C. Voros C. McKnight

SPECIAL

SERVICES

D. McIntyre G. Smith

K. Taulbee C. Voros

LABORATORY

TOXICOLOGY

M. Garton D. McCauley

J. Stricko

E. Schneider A. Rought R. Panks

M. VanDenBrand D. Smith

N. Sutherland V. Werth

MICROBIOLOGY

LABORATORY

P. McCool

M. Garton E. Schneider

ENVIRONMENTAL

CHEMISTRY/UCMR

R. Silva-Wilkinson

J. Bachman P. McCool M. Moore B. Cook

A. Rought C. Young

N. Sutherland G. Smith C. Voros C. Davis C. Tarr

E. Hoitsma T. West

A. Foster M. Dunlop

FIELD STUDIES/

EGLE

D. McCauley

J. Stricko M. Moore C. Turner

M. McCauley D. Rosier R. Panks

E. Schneider M. VanDenBrand

D. Johns D. Smith

N. Sutherland C. Johns

M. Dunlop L. May

D. Briem V. Werth

PRESIDENT

Dennis McCauley

VICE PRESIDENT

Robin Silva-Wilkinson James Saxton

GLEC BOARD OF DIRECTORS

G.M. (Mick) DeGraeve Dennis McCauley Dennis McIntyre

Greg Smith Robin Silva-Wilkinson

HUMAN RESOURCES

K. Bell

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

J. Barkach D. Endicott

A. Hais C. Dujardin

D. White C. Delos

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & GIS

W. Arnold

EAU CLAIRE

FIELD STUDIES & SPECIAL

SERVICES

C. Turner

RIVER FALLS

OPERATIONS

TOXICOLOGY & SPECIAL

SERVICES

T. Linton

STRATEGIC PLANNING

AND PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT

G.M. DeGraeve

TAXONOMY

J. Heinlein J. Stricko

M. VanDenBrand M. McCauley

T. West

OFFICE

ADMINISTRATION

K. Bell

G. Anderson

May 28, 2021

HEALTH & SAFETY

E. Schneider

ACCOUNTING

A. Howard S. Austin

1.7 CONFLICT OF INTEREST CERTIFICATION

Great Lakes Environmental Center, Inc. certify that, to the best of our knowledge and belief, no actual, apparent, or potential organizational or individual conflicts of interest related to this Solicitation exist.

Personnel who perform may work under Task Orders as a result of this solicitation, or relating to this solicitation, have been informed of their obligation to report any actual, apparent, or potential personal or organizational conflicts of interest. All actual, apparent or potential organizational or individual conflicts of interest related to this Solicitation have been reported to the ADEQ Contracting Officer or are attached, if applicable. Great Lakes Environmental Center, Inc. (GLEC) recognizes our continuing obligation to identify and report any actual or potential conflicts of interest that may arise during the performance of this Task Order.

In support of this solicitation, GLEC offers the following statements:

1.8 GLEC has never filed any bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, whether voluntary or involuntary, or undergone the appointment of a receiver, trustee, or assignee for the benefit of creditors;

1.9 GLEC does not have any pending Securities Exchange Commission investigations involving GLEC; nor any legal activity that would impair GLEC’s performance in a Contract under this RFP;

1.10 GLEC does not have any open or pending litigation initiated by GLEC or where GLEC is a defendant or party in any litigation that may have a material impact on GLECs ability to deliver the contracted services;

1.11 GLEC is not a defendant or party in any litigation with a public sector client;

1.12 GLEC has never had any Public Sector contracts terminated for cause or convenience in the past five (5) years; and,

1.13 GLEC is not aware of any criminal or civil offense made against us.

1.14 N.A.

1.15 N.A.

GLEC is active in the following NAICS industry categories and currently meets SBA requirements as a small business under all categories:

541620 Environmental Consulting Services 541611 Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services 541690 Other Scientific Consulting Services 541380 Testing Laboratories 541330 Engineering Services 541370 Surveying and Mapping Services 562910 Environmental Remediation Services 541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences

Question 2: Company Experience

A. For each area of expertise that your company is proposing service for, provide a minimum of two (2) examples that exhibit your experience.

B. Provide the TRIR (Total Recordable Incident Rate) and DART (Days Away from Work, Days of Restricted Work Activity, Days of Jobs Transfer) and/or any other relevant safety metric for your company for the past 5 years.

C. Identify which of the following areas of expertise your company can provide services to support this contract.

Stream Chemistry Sampling

Lake Chemistry Sampling

Biological and Habitat Sampling

Streamflow Duration Assessment Method (SDAM)

Groundwater Sampling

Fish Tissue

Question 3: Proposed Project Members and Organization

Attachment 3-B to identify Key Personnel to be utilized to perform services within a resultant contract.

In addition, also state the Members related experience with large local, state or federal government agencies. PROVIDED

Question 4: Subcontractors

Attachment 3-C to identify Proposed Subcontractors to be utilized to perform services within a resultant contract. PROVIDED

Question 5: Submit copies of all applicable certificates and licenses that support Offeror’s ability to provide the related goods/services being proposed. Certificates for NELAP accreditation cited in 2B attached to this response

EXPERIENCE REFERENCES:

The State intends to conduct reference checks for account referenced provided by Offerors. It may, at its sole discretion contact additional clients not presented as references.

Offerors shall provide at least three (3) client references for assignments that replicate or mirror the requirements of this RFP. Prefer at least one (1) of the projects referenced be Arizona government related.

All assignments shall be for assignments received and completed within the last five (5) years.

1 Client Company/Address Contact Begin Date End Date

USEPA/US EPA-OW-OWOW-AWPD-MB

1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC 20460

Sarah Lehmann 2016 On-going

Phone Number Email Address

202-566-1379 Lehmann.sarah@epa.gov

Event Scope and deliverables, include number of resources engaged in project, timeline of project (major milestones)

Contract No.: EP-C-16-008; Technical Support for the National Aquatic Surveys; 14 Task Order Awards; eight active Task Orders. National Lakes Assessment (Training, Logistics and Sampling), National Rivers and Streams Assessment (Training, Logistics and Sampling), National Coastal Condition Assessment (Training, Logistics and Sampling), Various Laboratory Analysis Task Orders. Task Order value to date: $20.8M

List job positions provided and technologies utilized to supplement services.

Program Manager, Task Order Leader, Field Logistics Coordinator, Logistics Coordinator, Field Crew Leader, Field Technicians, Laboratory Analyst

2 Client Company/Address Contact Begin Date End Date

Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE), Water Resources Division Constitution Hall, 3rd Floor P.O. Box 30458 Lansing, Michigan 48909-7773

Dawn Roush January 2019 December

517-290-8526 roushd@michigan.gov

Event Scope and deliverables, include number of resources engaged in project, timeline of project (major milestones)

Strategic Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment for Michigan Surface Waters, fish Collections, PFAS Sediment Toxicity Assessment

List job positions provided and technologies utilized to supplement services.

Program Manager, Field Technicians, Laboratory Technicians, Data Analysts

3 Client Company/Address Contact Begin Date End Date

Consumers Energy Company, Hydro and Renewable Generation 330 Chestnut Street Cadillac, Michigan 49601

David McIntosh February 2020 On-going

231-779-5506 David.McIntosh@cmsenergy.com

Event Scope and deliverables, include number of resources engaged in project, timeline of project(major milestones)

Fish Collection for Contaminant Analysis, Webber Dam and Calkins Bridge

Project Management, Field Crew Leader, Field Technician, Data Analyst

4 Client Company/Address Contact Begin Date End Date

American Electric Power 1 Riverside Plaza, Columbus, Oh 43215

Jonathan M Magalski Environmental Spec Consult

2018 2020

614-716-2240 jmmagalski@aep.com

Project Scope and deliverables, include number of resources engaged in project, timeline of project(major milestones)

Hydroelectric Relicense Studies, Water Quality, Fisheries, Invasive Plants, Mapping

Project Manager, fisheries biologist, Field Crew Leader, Field Technician, Botanists, Data Analysts

End of Attachment 2-A

Attachment 3-B Key Personnel Proposal

Answer all questions thoroughly in the spaces provided. Complete this form in full for each one of the key personnel proposed to be involved in carrying out the Work. Insert or attach a separate resume if desired, but any attached resumes are supplemental to this form and do not substitute for this form. If there are more than three (3) Key Personnel, please utilize the same form for each additional Personnel.

1 Name: Dennis J McCauley How long with company? 30 years

Current position in company:

President, Senior Environmental Scientist

How long in position? 11 years

Position for the Services: Project/Program Manager How much of time will be dedicated to the Services? 5 %

What primary functions will be assigned? Project Management

Describe person’s experience in performing services like those that are to be assigned:

Dennis McCauley is one of Great Lakes Environmental Center’s (GLEC) most experienced and qualified project managers, having over 35 years of experience working in the field of environmental biology/water quality monitoring and assessment conducting field and laboratory investigations of water quality trends in lakes, rivers and streams, coastal shorelines and wetlands. At GLEC, Dennis has been employed by GLEC for the past 30+ years and currently serves as President and Senior Environmental Scientist for field studies, toxicology, and aquatic biology. Between 2004 and 2016 (12 years), Dennis served as the GLEC Work Assignment or Task Order Leader for every National Aquatic Resource Survey (NARS) assessment, beginning with the National Wadeable Streams Assessment. In addition, Dennis has served as the Deputy Program Manager for two Office of Water (Health and Ecological Criteria Division) mission level contracts, as the Program Manager for the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality contract and as the sub-contractor Task Order Leader for an EPA Region 2 contract monitoring coastal water quality in the US Virgin Islands.

List person’s job-related training and education:

B.S., Biology, University of Wisconsin-Superior, 1979 M.E.-P.D., Fishery Biology, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, 1983

Resume: McCauley_Resume, Attached

2 Name: James Stricko How long with company? 27 years in company: Senior Field Technician/Scientist How long in position? 27 years

Position for the Services: Field Crew Leader/Fisheries Biologist How much of time will be dedicated to the Services? 50 %

What primary functions will be assigned?

Mr. Stricko’s principal area of expertise is in field methodology for aquatic community monitoring. He has extensive experience in field sampling, adult and larval fish identification and laboratory toxicity testing on research projects for industrial, municipal, and government clients including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and U.S. Department of Defense. Mr. Stricko has conducted field investigations to determine wastewater discharge effects on instream fish and macroinvertebrate communities. He has also done stream habitat assessment as part of the field investigations. Mr. Stricko is a fisheries biologist with a specialty in freshwater fish taxonomy. For 27 years he has been collecting, managing, harmonizing, compiling, and analyzing fisheries taxonomic data for a variety of large and small projects. He has significant experience interacting and communicating with private landowners and public lands managers across the country resulting in the ability to obtain permission to access and sample locations across the country including remote sites. His significant experience as both a taxonomist and a field crew leader make him exceptionally qualified to serve as a Field Crew Leader for the anticipated contract.

Describe person’s experience in performing services like those that are to be assigned:

USEPA National Aquatic Resource Surveys Supported every NARS assessment since the 2007 National Lakes Assessment. Coordinates and conducts NARS regional training sessions, trains state and federal government staff, tribal nation biologists, and contractors in the field methods used to collect, process, and ship samples for the USEPA. Coordinates and conducts field sampling for the National Wetland Condition Assessment, National Lakes Assessment, National Rivers and Streams Assessment, and the National Coastal Condition Assessment. Jim Stricko serves as Field Sampling Crew Leader and Field Survey Team Trainer for EPA’s 2008-2009 National Rivers and Streams Assessment. He was directly responsible for managing field crews to sample approximately sixty sites in EPA regions 2, 4, 5, and 6 during 2008 and 2009.

Mr. Stricko also identified landowners and contacted them to obtain permission to access river and stream sites. Mr. Stricko also assisted EPA with training of contractor, Tribal Nation, State Government, and Federal Government participants in the collection of fish community and fish tissue samples at 10 field crew training workshops in 2008-2009. He identified fish voucher specimens from the Northern Plains, Southern Plains, and Xeric ecoregions for GLEC’s portion of the 2008-2009 NRSA Fish Voucher Identification Task. He assisted in the data analysis of the 2008-2009 Fish Voucher Identification database. As part of the 2008-2009 NRSA fisheries data analysis, he compiled the autecology information for several species across the country. During the 2013-2014 NRSA, Mr. Stricko served as a trainer for the fish community indicator and as a physical habitat indicator at five regional trainings. Mr. Stricko also conducted site Assistance Visits for state and tribal crews across the country. Mr. Stricko observed and worked with sampling crews to ensure that all data was collected correctly and completely. Mr. Stricko also observed field crews and made several suggestions and provided individual instruction for completing data collection tasks in a more efficient manner. Jim Stricko has also served as Field Sampling Crew Leader and Field Survey Team Trainer for NLA 2007, 2012 and 2017.

Describe person’s experience in performing services like those that are to be assigned:

Mr. Stricko has played a key role in the planning and design of the survey field operations manual, and has led field crew training workshops for state and subcontractor crews. He led GLEC field crews in sampling lakes and reservoirs in throughout the U.S., including remote sites requiring special equipment such as pack horses to reach sites and return water chemistry and biological samples to analytical laboratories within prescribed sample holding times. Served as Field Sampling Crew Leader for EPA’s NARS predecessor program National Wadeable Streams Assessment, responsible for the coordination, management, and collection of water samples from wadeable streams in remote locations in EPA Regions 3, 5, and 6. Coordinated field teams, equipment, sampling sites and events, sample collection at selected locations, and technical review of data sheets prior to shipping. Supervised and led a team of four technicians during 3 to 5-week sampling events over one field season. Sampling efforts were coordinated with EPA contractors, and state resource agencies. Responded to questions and concerns from contractors, land owners, state resource agencies, and EPA staff. During the 2018/19 NRSA Mr. Stricko will have completed sampling at approximately 90 sites in EPA Regions 5, 6, 7 and 8, and served as a physical habitat trainer at one training session.

List person’s job-related training and education:

B.S., Natural Resources, the Ohio State University, 1990 Graduate Studies, Environmental Science, the Ohio State University

Resume: Stricko_Resume, Attached

3 Name: David Rosier How long with company? 14 years in company: Field Crew Leader How long in position? 6 years

Position for the Services: Field Crew Leader How much of time will be dedicated to the Services? 50 %

What primary functions will be assigned? Field Crew Leader

Describe person’s experience in performing services like those that are to be assigned:

Through his education and experience, Mr. Rosier has developed a diverse background in the environmental sciences including serving in five EPA National Aquatic Resource Surveys (NARS). Throughout his studies at the University of Michigan, he had the opportunity to take numerous field and laboratory related courses covering many different aspects of environmental and fisheries biology. Specifically, he took courses on: Limnology, Biology of Fishes, and Ecology of Fishes. All fish-related courses required collection and identification of fish from various water bodies. For his graduate research he collected and identified fish on the Muskegon River and in an abandoned channel to build a flow model of restoration scenarios for the channel. He also calculated fish habitat metrics for flow and depth.

EPA Work Assignments. While at GLEC, Mr. Rosier has been involved with five EPA National Aquatic Resource Surveys (NARS). As a crew member, crew leader, and trainer he has participated in field sampling for the National Lakes Assessment (NLA) included water chemistry, water profiles, fecal indicator, habitat, sediment, and benthos collections. Mr. Rosier has also conducted river and stream surveys that included electrofishing, physical habitat assessment, macroinvertebrate, periphyton, and water quality sampling for the National River and Stream Assessment (NRSA). Water quality sampling included in situ measurements along with collecting water for pharmaceutical and personal care product contamination assessment. For the National Coastal Conditions Assessment (NCCA), Mr. Rosier led a field sampling crew in surveying coastal waters in all eight Great Lakes states in 2010, 2015, 2020 and 2021. Sampling for NCCA included water quality, depth profiles, sediment, macroinvertebrate, and fish tissue collection. In addition, Mr. Rosier was an analyst for processing of the underwater videos collected during all NCCA sampling. Mr. Rosier also served as a field crew leader for the 2017 National Lakes Assessment, working in Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana and the 2018/19 National Rivers and Streams Assessment in Arizona.

List person’s job-related training and education:

B.S., Program in the Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2006 M.S., School of Natural Resources & Environment, University of Michigan, 2015

Resume: Rosier Resume, attached

End of Attachment 3-B

Key Personnel Résumés

DENNIS J. McCAULEY GLEC President and Senior Environmental Scientist Proposed Task Order Leader

Education

B.S., Biology, University of Wisconsin-Superior, 1979 M.E.-P.D., Fishery Biology, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, 1983

Qualifications

Dennis McCauley is one of Great Lakes Environmental Center’s (GLEC) most experienced and qualified project managers, having over 35 years of experience working in the field of environmental biology/water quality monitoring and assessment conducting field and laboratory investigations of water quality trends in lakes, rivers and streams, coastal shorelines and wetlands. At GLEC, Dennis has been employed by GLEC for the past 28+ years and currently serves as President and Senior Environmental Scientist for field studies, toxicology, and aquatic biology. Between 2004 and 2016 (12 years), Dennis served as the GLEC Work Assignment or Task Order Leader for every National Aquatic Resource Survey (NARS) assessment, beginning with the National Wadeable Streams Assessment. In addition, Dennis has served as the Deputy Program Manager for two Office of Water (Health and Ecological Criteria Division) mission level contracts, as the Program Manager for the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality contract and as the sub-contractor Task Order Leader for an EPA Region 2 contract monitoring coastal water quality in the US Virgin Islands. Dennis is currently serving as the NARS Contract #EP-C-16-008 Program Manager at GLEC and is currently overseeing four Task Orders.

Over the past twelve years, Dennis has been actively involved as a Work Assignment Leader, Task Order Leader and technical advisor in implementing the NARS with the Office of Water Assessment and Watershed Protection Division (AWPD). He was the Work Assignment Leader and principal investigator for each of GLEC’s NARS Work Assignments through 2016, including the National Wadeable Streams Assessment (2004), National Lakes Assessment (2007, 2012 and 2017), National Rivers and Streams Assessment (2008/2009 and 2013/2014), National Coastal Condition Assessment (2010 and 2015), and the National Wetlands Condition Assessment (2011 and 2015). For the NARS assessments alone, Dennis has managed dozens Work Assignments valued at over $15 million. In addition, Dennis served as GLEC’s Task Order Leader on a subcontract that fielded sampling crews and conducted whole sediment toxicity testing that exceeded $4 million in value for NARS. Between 2011 and 2016, Dennis led each of the GLEC NARS Task Order assignments valued at over $3.5 million. Dennis is currently managing the GLEC Task Order for the 2018/19 National Rivers and Streams Assessment field sampling valued at over $4.0 million. Dennis also managed large subcontracts in excess of $2 million with outside consultant laboratories - Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, California Academy of Sciences and Michigan State University - that conducted the analysis of sediment diatom samples for the National Lakes Assessment and periphyton samples for the National Rivers and Streams Assessment. Dennis also managed subcontracts with outside quality control taxonomists that conducted taxonomic QC on macroinvertebrate, zooplankton, phytoplankton and fish samples. In 2016, Dennis co-authored a manuscript entitled: Applying Adaptive Management and Lessons Learned from National Assessments to Address Logistical Challenges in the National Wetlands Condition Assessment. Invited Paper; Springer Publishers for the publication of a topical issue on the NWCA (Manuscript in Press).

At GLEC, Dennis was also the Deputy Program Manager for GLEC’S EPA contract EP-C-09-001 with the Health and Ecological Criteria Division and has been a Work Assignment Leader for many Work Assignments under those contracts and other GLEC Office of Water mission level contracts. He oversees experiments that assess the effects of water and sediment quality on various freshwater organisms, and manages and coordinates studies that assess the effect of power generation projects on aquatic life. His

DENNIS J. McCAULEY GLEC President and Senior Environmental Scientist Proposed Task Order Leader experience as a project manager and principal investigator has ranged from participation in intralaboratory validations of specific test protocols, to large complex field and laboratory studies that assess fisheries, habitat, invertebrates and water and sediment quality. Dennis also manages regulatory whole effluent toxicity testing, toxicity identification/reduction evaluation (TI/RE) studies, and communicates with industrial groups and permittees for state wastewater NPDES permits. He manages and coordinates large complex field evaluations that involve stream flow modeling, fish entrainment, fish escapement, fish diversion, shoreline erosion, habitat evaluation and water quality assessment. Dennis routinely interacts with state and federal agencies on the behalf of clients to design and negotiate realistic study plans and interpret study results. As Task Order Leader for the USEPA Region 2 US Virgin Islands water quality monitoring contract, Dennis oversees and manages three subcontractors that are responsible for the field sampling and analysis of field collected water quality samples, valued at approximately $1.0M.

Dennis has additionally served as the Work Assignment Leader and project lead on numerous other EPA Work Assignments, including: saltwater dissolved oxygen criteria, fish embryo-larval studies with dieldrin, toxicity of selenium salts (Se+6 and Se+4) to fish and invertebrates, toxicity of ammonia to Hyalella azteca at various temperatures, tributyl tin water quality criteria, toxicity testing to evaluate EqP in sediments, production of a peer review report on arsenic in fish, a quality assurance project plan for the use of secondary data in EPA work assignments, and a literature review and biological evaluation of the effect of contaminants on endangered species.

Between 2009 and 2014, Mr. McCauley was the Program Manager for the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) contract: Strategic Monitoring of Michigan’s Surface Waters; the Deputy Program Manager for seven years before that, and a Work Assignment Leader for numerous Work Assignments under that contract with MDEQ. As Program Manager, Dennis was responsible for the overall management of that contract; oversaw all of the MDEQ related work assignments and worked closely with the Deputy Program Manager and Senior Technical Leads to design studies, assign staff, and develop budgets. Dennis currently serves as the Deputy Program Manager for the MDEQ contract.

At GLEC, Dennis also manages and collaborates with professional and technical staff to plan and conduct complex field and laboratory studies which assess the impact of complex effluents, sediments, storm water, and single chemicals on aquatic biota, water and sediment. He manages, coordinates, and oversees laboratory and field activities, as well as participates as a principal investigator and/or technical advisor in multiple field and laboratory studies that address toxicity identification/reduction evaluations (TI/RE), integrated sediment quality assessments, fish biouptake studies, NEPA/ESA environmental assessments and ecological risk assessments (ERA) of impacted areas. He additionally coordinates off-site laboratory studies and bioconcentration studies. Dennis has managed and successfully completed several studies in the Great Lakes, including conducting an inventory of critical shoreline habitats; assessing water quality and forage fish abundance, assessing the impacts of storm water on water quality using bacteriological techniques, and CWA 316(b) studies of fish impingement and entrainment at cooling water intakes.

Professional Recognition and Affiliations

Member, American Fisheries Society (AFS) Member, American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM), Subcommittee on Sediment Toxicity Testing Member, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Member, North American Lake Management Society (NALMS)

JAMES P. STRICKO

Research Scientist Proposed Crew Leader

B.S., Natural Resources, the Ohio State University, 1990 Graduate Studies, Environmental Science, the Ohio State University

Mr. Stricko’s principal area of expertise is in field methodology for aquatic community monitoring. He has extensive experience in field sampling, adult and larval fish identification and laboratory toxicity testing on research projects for industrial, municipal, and government clients including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and U.S. Department of Defense. Mr. Stricko has conducted field investigations to determine wastewater discharge effects on instream fish and macroinvertebrate communities. He has also done stream habitat assessment as part of the field investigations. Mr. Stricko is a fisheries biologist with a specialty in freshwater fish taxonomy. For 27 years he has been collecting, managing, harmonizing, compiling, and analyzing fisheries taxonomic data for a variety of large and small projects. He has significant experience interacting and communicating with private landowners and public lands managers across the country resulting in the ability to obtain permission to access and sample locations across the country including remote sites. His significant experience as both a taxonomist and a field crew leader makes him exceptionally qualified to serve as a Field Crew Leader for the anticipated contract.

Relevant Experience

USEPA National Aquatic Resource Surveys Supported every NARS assessment since the 2007 National Lakes Assessment. Coordinates and conducts NARS regional training sessions, trains state and federal government staff, tribal nation biologists, and contractors in the field methods used to collect, process, and ship samples for the USEPA. Coordinates and conducts field sampling for the National Wetland Condition Assessment, National Lakes Assessment, National Rivers and Streams Assessment, and the National Coastal Condition Assessment. Jim Stricko serves as Field Sampling Crew Leader and Field Survey Team Trainer for EPA’s 2008-2009 National Rivers and Streams Assessment. He was directly responsible for managing field crews to sample approximately sixty sites in EPA regions 2, 4, 5, and 6 during 2008 and 2009. Mr. Stricko also identified landowners and contacted them to obtain permission to access river and stream sites. Mr. Stricko also assisted EPA with training of contractor, Tribal Nation, State Government, and Federal Government participants in the collection of fish community and fish tissue samples at 10 field crew training workshops in 2008-2009. He identified fish voucher specimens from the Northern Plains, Southern Plains, and Xeric ecoregions for GLEC’s portion of the 2008-2009 NRSA Fish Voucher Identification Task. He assisted in the data analysis of the 2008-2009 Fish Voucher Identification database. As part of the 2008-2009 NRSA fisheries data analysis, he compiled the autecology information for several species across the country. During the 2013- 2014 NRSA, Mr. Stricko served as a trainer for the fish community indicator and as a physical habitat indicator at five regional trainings. Mr. Stricko also conducted site Assistance Visits for state and tribal crews across the country. Mr. Stricko observed and worked with sampling crews to insure that all data was collected correctly and completely.

Mr. Stricko also observed field crews and made several suggestions and provided individual instruction for completing data collection tasks in a more efficient manner. Jim Stricko has also served as Field Sampling Crew Leader and Field Survey Team Trainer for NLA 2007, 2012 and 2017. Mr. Stricko has played a key role in the planning and design of the survey field operations manual, and has led field crew training workshops for state and subcontractor crews. He led GLEC field crews in sampling lakes and reservoirs in throughout the U.S., including remote sites requiring special equipment such as pack horses to reach sites and return water chemistry and biological samples to analytical laboratories within prescribed sample holding times. Served as Field Sampling Crew Leader for EPA’s NARS predecessor program National Wadeable Streams Assessment, responsible for the coordination, management, and collection of water samples from wadeable streams in remote locations in EPA Regions 3, 5, and 6. Coordinated field teams, equipment, sampling sites and events, sample collection at selected locations, and technical review of data sheets prior to shipping. Supervised and led a team of four technicians during 3 to 5-week sampling events over one field season. Sampling efforts were coordinated with EPA contractors, and state resource agencies. Responded to questions and concerns from contractors, land owners, state resource agencies, and EPA staff. During the 2018/19 NRSA Mr. Stricko completed sampling at approximately 90 sites in EPA Regions 5, 6, 7 and 8, and served as a physical habitat trainer at one training session.

USEPA Probabilistic Stream Survey in Puerto Rico Coordinates and conducts sampling of 120 wadeable streams in Puerto Rico to assess overall condition by collecting chemical, physical, and biological samples that will determine the biological conditions and the primary stressors responsible for impairments.

CWA Section 316(b): Fish Impingement Mortality and Entrainment Characterization Studies Field supervisor at coal fired power plant impingement and entrainment study.

Oversees field sampling and fish identification tasks.

Aquatic Field Studies Coordinates and conducts fish and macroinvertebrate sampling and identification to determine the impact of industrial wastewaters. Collects fish tissue data to determine wildlife and human risk assessment for metals. Evaluates ecological community data using community metrics analyses such the Index of Biotic Integrity and the Invertebrate Community Index. Assesses lentic and lotic habitat types using rapid bioassessment techniques and quantitative physical habitat protocols. Routinely performs water quality field measurements using single and multi-parameter water quality meters and water sample collection using a variety of sample collection devices in the Great Lakes, inland lakes and rivers.

Biomonitoring Performs individual bioassays on effluent samples provided by the client to assist in NPDES certification. Tests include static acute and chronic renewal procedures using various fish and invertebrate species. Conducts routine water chemistry analysis on effluent samples and monitors for chlorine, ammonia, and nitrate levels. Also assists in report generation.

Site-Specific Water Quality Testing Coordinates and conducts laboratory testing to determine site- specific water quality criteria. Tests include static acute fish and invertebrate procedures for determination of water effect ratio (WER).

Fish and Invertebrates Culturing Currently responsible for Pimephales, Daphnia, and Ceriodaphnia culture maintenance. The specimens are reared and maintained for use in TI/RE and other water quality testing. Also responsible for providing preparation and support activities for the culture operations.

Sediment Bioassays Coordinates and conducts the field collection of sediment samples and the laboratory toxicity testing of whole sediment samples using Hyalella azteca and Chrionomus tentans in short and long-term bioassays. Extracted pore water from sediments to assess chronic toxicity to Ceriodaphnia.

Soil Toxicity Testing Performs individual tests on soil samples from hazardous waste sites.

Tests include acute procedures using earthworm species.

Wetland Construction Constructed a pilot scale waste water treatment wetland to remove organic dyes. Performed maintenance and instructed technicians in operational procedure.

Prior Professional Experience

Technology Application, Inc. Conducted biological field surveys throughout the Appalachian Mountain ecoregions as part of the USEPA's Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP). Collected instream chemistry and flow data. Also assessed stream habitat using rapid bioassessment protocol and physical habitat assessment.

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency Assisted in conducting biological field surveys of Ohio lakes, rivers, and streams. Surveys were done in accordance with NPDES permit renewal. Collected, identified, and processed fisheries data to evaluate industrial and municipal wastewater treatment plants. He also assessed stream habitat in surveyed areas.

The Ohio State University Updated and maintained a computer networking system.

Supervised Lab employees, gave assistance to computer users. Developed instruction guides for lab users.

Professional Recognition and Affiliations

Member, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Member, American Fisheries Society

Member, Ohio Chapter, American Fisheries Society Rivers and Streams Committee

Member, Ohio Academy of Science

Presentations

Sanders, R.E. and J.P. Stricko. 1992. Darters (Percidae) of the Ohio River: Ohio's shoreline assemblages from mile 66.2 to 487.2. 101st. Annual Meeting of the Ohio Academy of Science, May 2, Akron, Ohio.

McIntyre, D.O., J.P. Stricko, and R.J. Reash. 1995. Development of a site-specific water quality criterion for hexavalent chromium. Annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, November 5-9, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Stricko, J.P. and C.E. Boucher. 1997. Determination of Acute Ammonia Toxicity to fishes of the genus Moxostoma. Annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, November 16-20, San Francisco, CA.

Other Courses

American Fisheries Society, 1993, Bioassessments and Biological Criteria Development for Warmwater Streams and Rivers

Ohio Valley SETAC, 1995, Environmental Resources on the Internet

North American Benthological Society, 1998, GIS for Aquatic Biologists

American Fisheries Society, 2000, Fluvial Geomorphology

American Fisheries Society, 2001, Freshwater Fishes of Wisconsin

American Fisheries Society, 2005, Population Estimate Models

The Ohio State University, 2007, Larval Fish Identification Workshop

American Fisheries Society, 2007, Larval Fish Identification Workshop

American Fisheries Society, 2008, Freshwater Fishes of Michigan

American Fisheries Society, 2015, Freshwater Fishes of Michigan

Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, 2015, Larval Fish Imaging and Identification

American Fisheries Society, 2015, Larval Fishes of the Great Lakes Region

American Fisheries Society, 2016, Freshwater Fishes of Michigan

American Fisheries Society, 2016, Freshwater Mussels of Michigan

DAVID ROSIER

NRSA Field Crew Leader

B.S., Program in the Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2006 M.S., School of Natural Resources & Environment, University of Michigan, 2015

Through his education and experience, Mr. Rosier has developed a diverse background in the environmental sciences including serving in five EPA National Aquatic Resource Surveys (NARS). Throughout his studies at the University of Michigan, he had the opportunity to take numerous field and laboratory related courses covering many different aspects of environmental and fisheries biology. Specifically he took courses on: Limnology, Biology of Fishes, and Ecology of Fishes. All fish-related courses required collection and identification of fish from various water bodies. For his graduate research he collected and identified fish on the Muskegon River and in an abandoned channel to build a flow model of restoration scenarios for the channel. He also calculated fish habitat metrics for flow and depth.

While working for Great Lakes Environmental Center, Mr. Rosier has conducted various environmental studies related to the National Aquatic Resource Surveys, relicensing of hydroelectric facilities, rapid bioassessments (e.g., Michigan Procedure 51), habitat assessment, and sediment and water sample collection. Mr. Rosier has also gained extensive experience in a broad range of computer software packages.

He has extensive experience using maps and GPS receivers to navigate and plot waypoints in the Great Lakes and inland rivers. During his field work, he gained experience in operating and calibrating multi-parameter water quality meters and sondes from various manufactures and has used multiple data-gathering sensors, Secchi disks, plankton nets, and Ponar Dredges. He is experienced in collecting (by gill net, trap net, trawl, seine and hook and line, and plankton net), preserving, and identifying larval and adult fish samples and is proficient in operating boats of varying size. David is an experienced Vibracore operator. He is certified in first aid and CPR, as well as 29 CFR 1910.120 HAZWOPER.

Relevant Experience

EPA Work Assignments. While at GLEC, Mr. Rosier has been involved with five EPA National Aquatic Resource Surveys (NARS). As a crew member, crew leader, and trainer he has participated in field sampling for the National Lakes Assessment (NLA) included water chemistry, water profiles, fecal indicator, habitat, sediment, and benthos collections. Mr.

Rosier has also conducted river and stream surveys that included electrofishing, physical habitat assessment, macroinvertebrate, periphyton, and water quality sampling for the National River and Stream Assessment (NRSA). Water quality sampling included in situ measurements along with collecting water for pharmaceutical and personal care product contamination assessment. For the National Coastal Conditions Assessment (NCCA), Mr.

Rosier led a field sampling crew in surveying coastal waters in all eight Great Lakes states in

DAVID ROSIER

NRSA Field Crew Leader

2010, 2015, 2020 and 2021. Sampling for NCCA included water quality, depth profiles, sediment, macroinvertebrate, and fish tissue collection. In addition, Mr. Rosier was an analyst for processing of the underwater videos collected during all NCCA sampling. Mr.

Rosier also served as a field crew leader for the 2017 National Lakes Assessment, working in Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana and the 2018/19 National Rivers and Streams Assessment in Arizona.

MDEQ Work Assignments. Has worked on projects under the contract: Strategic Monitoring of Michigan's Surface Water. These projects included: water quality trend monitoring on Saginaw Bay (Lake Huron) and Grand Traverse Bay (Lake Michigan), and water quality trend monitoring in Michigan's Great Lakes connecting channels. Mr. Rosier also worked on Michigan’s non-wadeable stream assessment, which assessed the ecological health of streams through assessing stream habitat and sampling and identifying macroinvertebrates.

CWA: Section 316(b) Fish Entrainment and Impingement. Mr. Rosier has collected, sorted, and analyzed fish entrainment samples from samples collected at coal fired power plants in support of 316(b) fish impingement and entrainment characterization studies.

General Water Quality Sampling. Has performed water quality sampling at numerous hydroelectric impoundments, lakes, rivers, streams, and marine beaches and estuaries. Data collected has included water quality sensor profiles; both short and long-term, secchi disk readings, stream discharge measurements, sediment sampling, and bacterial sampling and filtering.

Contaminated Sediment Sampling. Has conducted sediment collection under various sampling regimes. Using hand augers, various dredges, gravity corers, hand-held Vibracore units, and boat mounted Vibracore units to take sediment surface and core samples.

Computer Data Management. Has worked extensively with computer databases summarizing and organizing data as well as GIS mapping and database management. He is also proficient in statistical analysis using R statistical programming.

Other Courses

American Fisheries Society, 2008, Non-game Fish Identification: emphasis on minnows, darters, suckers, easily misidentified, rare species, and invasive species, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.

Attachment 3-C Proposed Subcontractors

Check “NO” if you WILL NOT subcontract any portion of the Work and will therefore be carrying out all of the Work with your own personnel.

NO, the Offeror will not subcontract any portion of the Work.

If you WILL subcontract any portion of the Work, check “YES” below and list name of persons or companies you propose to use as subcontractors.

1. Fill in the information for every significant subcontractor – indicate the type of work the subcontractor will perform under the Contract, and their approximate percentage of the total Contract work.

2. Provide copies of relevant certifications each one possesses in the Attachment Supplements section.

3. Provide description of quality assurance methods and quality control measures that you will use to ensure that Subcontractor work meets the Contract requirements.

4. State may demand additional information about proposed subcontractors as a precondition of award.

YES, the Offeror will use the Subcontractors listed below:

Name and contact information

Small Business Work to be performed %

1. RedFish Environmental, LLC;

POC: Ernesto de la Hoz 1109 Lamplighter Dr. Logan, UT.

(435) 757-0073 edelahoz@eredfish.com www.eREDFISH.com

YES Assistance with Field Sample as necessary 25

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#3. GLEC subcontractors are held to the same QA/QC requirements as GLEC staff. In this instance, GLEC Field Crew Leaders and the GLEC Project Manager will directly oversee any work performed by a subcontractor. QAPP requirements completely flow-down to GLEC subcontractors. Subcontractor QA/QC deficiencies, if any, will be address directly by the GLEC Project Manager.

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