Specifications include, but are not limited to: Provide the City of Tuscaloosa’s Office of Federal Programs with a comprehensive environmental assessment of properties to be assisted with Community Development Block Grant funds. Such evaluations will provide the OFP, property owners and rehabilitation contractors with information to help them manage and control environmental hazards efficiently and effectively during rehabilitation activities, with particular attention to the requirements of the rule on federally-owned and assisted housing (24 CFR 35). This RFP is a request for environmental assessment services which includes the creation of Environmental Assessments per HUD regulations including 24 CFR 58, and comprehensive pre-rehabilitation lead-based paint, asbestos, mold, radon risk assessment (or paint testing of surfaces to be disturbed, if applicable; collectively “evaluations”) and if applicable, recommendation of mitigation and/or remediation/ abatement activities and the post abatement testing of those activities, as needed.