Heritage Consultants routinely services utility-sector clients across the New England Region and in New York. Our personnel understand that superior service to utility companies is a critical aspect of community development and stability. We know that our client's ability to expand and maintain their water lines, sewer lines, electrical transmission and distribution lines, natural gas lines, wind farms, solar centers, and fiber optic lines is crucial to the health and well-being of the states and communities they serve. Heritage Consultants helps our utility-sector clients meet or exceed all of the cultural resources management requirements of the licensing processes required by Federal, state, and regional agencies, including the Federal Communications Commission, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and State Siting Councils.

We have successfully provided cultural resource consulting services in support of the following types of utility-energy projects:

• Electric Transmission Lines
• Electrical Distribution Lines
• Substations
• Switching Stations
• Natural Gas Pipelines
• Compressor and Metering Stations
• Extra Workspaces, Laydown Yards, Pipe Stringing Yards
• New and/or Upgraded Water and Sewer Lines
• Fiber Optic Lines

In October of 2004, the Federal Communications Commission released Report and Order FCC 04-222, which led to the adoption of a Nationwide Programmatic Agreement requiring Section 106 compliance of the National Historic Preservation Act for all planned cellular communications facilities. Since 2004, various firms have contracted with Heritage Consultants to provide cultural resources management services relating to the proposed construction of thousands of cellular communications facilities across the greater northeastern United States, including, but not limited to, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire.

We have successfully provided the following services related to permitting cellular communications facilities:

• Documentation Studies
• Collection and GIS Presentation of Digital Topographic Maps, Historic Maps, Orthophoto, and Locations of Previously Recorded Cultural Resources
• Viewshed Analysis
• Desktop Reviews of Proposed Communications Facilities
• Pedestrian Surveys of Proposed Communications Facilities
• Phase I Archaeological Surveys of Proposed Communications Facilities
• Phase II National Register Testing of Archaeological Sites
• Architectural Assessments and Reviews
• Native American Consultation
• State Historic Preservation Office Consultation
• Completion of FCC 601 Forms

Heritage Consultants offers a wide range of cultural resources management services to various municipal clients throughout the region. These include the many local and regional governmental entities who propose infrastructural development that are required to consider the effects of their project on the cultural environment and who seek to successfully complete the review and compliance process. By treating our municipal clients as preservation partners, Heritage Consultants helps to guide their projects through the review and compliance process, which can sometimes be confusing and challenging.

We have successfully provided cultural resource consulting services in support of the following types of municipal projects:

• Park Additions/Upgrades

• Historic Building Assessments

• Storm Water Discharge Permitting

• Streetscape Improvements

• Cemetery Evaluations and Excavations

• Intersection Upgrades/Alterations

• Locally Administered Transportation Projects

• State and National Register of Historic Places Nominations

Heritage Consultants routinely offers its experience and expertise to assist our transportation-related clients to advance their important mission through the complex cultural resource permitting and approval processes. We completed dozens of infrastructure improvements throughout the eastern United States. Our knowledge of the cultural heritage of this region, and strong relationships with State Historic Preservation Offices and Native American Tribes in many states, allows us to partner with our clients to move their projects forward.

We have successfully provided cultural resource consulting services in support of the following types of transportation projects:

• Road Widenings
• Interchange Improvements
• Bridge and Culvert Replacements
• New Roads and Bypasses
• Drainage Improvements
• Bridge Replacements
• Storm Water Discharge Permitting

Heritage Consultants offers a suite of cultural resources management and historic preservation services to private developers. Our staff has assisted dozens of developers to meet their review and compliance needs through a range of services, including, but not limited to architectural history surveys, Phase IA cultural resources assessment surveys, Phase IB cultural resources reconnaissance surveys, Phase II National Register of Historic Places Testing and Evaluation Efforts, Phase III Data Recoveries, and Historic Building and Area Documentation Studies. Heritage Consultants understands the permitting process for these types of projects, including everything from local planning restrictions/ordinances to federal permitting requirements. We have completed hundreds of these types of projects while staying on budget and on time.

We have successfully provided cultural resource consulting services in support of the following types of private projects:

• Housing Subdivisions
• Golf Courses
• Community Development Projects
• Historic Building Assessments and Studies
• Historic Resources Mapping and Analysis
• United States Army Corps of Engineering Permitting
• Local Preservation Restrictions/Ordinances