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TRC Companies, Inc. operates as an engineering, consulting and construction management company. The company provides integrated services to the environmental, energy, and infrastructure markets, primarily in the United States. The company’s project teams helps its clients: to implement complex projects from initial concept to delivery and commissioning, maintain and operate their facilities in compliance with regulatory standards, and manage their assets through decommissioning, demolition, restoration and disposition. Services The company’s services are focused on three segments: Energy, Environmental, and Infrastructure. ENERGY The company supports the significant investment associated with the development of new sources of energy and the infrastructure required to deliver new and existing energy sources to consumers. Main markets for its Energy segment are as follows: Energy Efficiency: The company develops and manages state supported energy efficiency programs in New York, New Hampshire, Maine, California and New Jersey that reduce energy use and cost-effectively manage demand. The company provides comprehensive services including program design, program management, quality control, engineering, and financial tracking and reporting. In addition to its statewide programs, the company also designs and manages portfolio energy efficiency programs including a range of services from program management to engineering, quality control and construction inspection for a spectrum of end users, including commercial office buildings, hospitality chains, educational facilities, residential complexes and military installations. The company also focuses on the relationship of energy conservation measures to the reduction in carbon footprints. Electric Transmission: The company provides full scope engineering design, material procurement and construction management services. It also provides essential operations and management support to utilities. ENVIRONMENTAL The company operates in the areas of air quality modeling, air emissions testing and monitoring, cultural and natural resource management, permitting of energy facilities and remediation of contaminated sites. The company has served those markets on many fronts including support of property owners and operators on a range of issues, including support to buyers and sellers in the pre-acquisition due diligence and asset valuation process. The markets for its environmental services include the following: Investigation, Remediation, and Compliance of Contaminated Sites: The contaminated properties could be economically-driven ‘brownfield’ sites or sites with regulatory-driven activity under laws such as Superfund. Natural Gas Related Energy Strategies: The company serves this market based upon its staff experience which includes Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) licensing; federal and state media specific environmental permitting; electrical supply interconnection engineering; and construction management and oversight for natural gas transmission. The company also provides a range of services to midstream companies in the development of shale resource-based oil, liquids, and natural gas projects. Power and Generation Source Licensing and Permitting: In load congested areas, such as the mid-Atlantic, northeast, and California, utilities pursue development of new sources of electrical supply. The company provides due diligence and management practices consulting support with respect to energy assets to financial institutions, equity firms and diversified energy companies. Air Quality Legislation: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule-making has led to a series of new maximum achievable control technology (MACT) standards and new source performance standards (NSPS) for a range of industries and emission sources, including utility power generation, commercial and industrial boilers, solid waste incinerators, diesel engines, petroleum refineries, cement kilns, iron and steel foundries, gold mining operations, and polyvinyl chloride production. Solid Waste Management: The company offers a full spectrum of solid waste and landfi