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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I II. PROJECT TEAM 2.1. Company Qualifications and Experience 2.1.1. Ayres Associates Resource Consultants & Engineers, Inc. merged with Owen Ayres & Associates, Inc. in May 1994. Ayres Associates is a well established civil engineering firm based in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Their expertise covers a wide variety of disciplines, including architecture; environmental and waste management; photogrammetry; surveying; and structural, transportation, and water resources engineering services. Ayres Associates is currently ranked 192nd in the Engineering News-Record's annual listing, RCE's expertise in the environmental and water resources fields complements Ayres Associates' professional consulting services. Ayres Associates personnel have extensive experience in the Rocky Mountain region, and specifically in the Yampa and Upper Colorado River Basins in the fields of water resources development, hydrology, reservoir operational analysis, evaluation of flow and sediment impacts on endangered fish habitat, and environmental assessment in relation to NEPA permitting and compliance activities. In addition, Ayres Associates has supported many local, state and federal agencies on a wide variety of water resource development projects with in-depth technical analysis of river engineering, sediment transport, channel stabilization, water marketing, and reservoir and systems operation studies. Appendix B provides a summary listing of relevant water resources and environmental projects performed by the firm, A team of key project personnel possessing experience in managing and/or conducting environmental permit studies in all disciplines which will be required for the Elkhead ReservoirlYampa River Basin Operations and Management Project has been assembled from the in-house resources of Ayres Associates. This management team will be headed by Dr, David Frick, who brings more than 20 years of multidisciplinary team management experience to the project. Dr. Frick and these key individuals will take an active role in all studies and environmental analyses to include public scoping sessions and, thus, will be well prepared to support the lead agency and applicant in meetings and public hearings throughout the review process, 2.1.2. Miller Ecological Consultants, Inc. Miller Ecological Consultants, Inc. will continue to playa key role in the characterization and assessment of aquatic resource issues associated with the Yampa River Basin Operation & Management Plan, and the Elkhead Reservoir enlargement project, through Dr, Miller's role as subcontractor to the project team. His firm provides ecological consulting services in fishery, aquatic, instream flow, and ecological modeling studies, with special emphasis and experience throughout the Western United States. Project experience includes instream flow assessments, habitat evaluation, habitat inventory, and ecological modeling for new water projects, existing facilities, and land use alternatives. Miller Ecological Consultants, Inc. as the capability to conduct studies in streams of all sizes, from headwater streams to large mainstem systems, and provides 3 Ayres Associates