David Hobbie Joins HDR as Senior Environmental Specialist in Water Resources
David Hobbie recently joined HDR as a senior environmental specialist. He brings over 34 years of civil service experience in water resource management and infrastructure development from a regulatory and federal agency perspective.
Hobbie will assist clients in forming strategies to provide smooth and timely permitting processes and regulatory approval for federal water resource projects. In this role, he will bring considerable value to growing and strengthening our reputation for providing environmental strategies and services throughout the United States.
“Communities continue to face increasing challenges due to flooding, water scarcity and energy demands,” Hobbie said. “At the end of the day, we need to find ways to provide solutions to those issues that work with the environment and fit the needs of those communities, and everyone involved.”
Hobbie most recently served as the bipartisan infrastructure law program manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, where he oversaw a $160 million transformation of the USACE Regulatory Program to better serve the public. The improvements included a new online application submittal and tracking program; providing adherence to national metrics to confirm service quality and delivery; outreach tools to provide process and decision transparency; and coordinating and collaborating with federal and state agencies, internal stakeholders, congressional members and the administration to implement the program.
Hobbie also served as the regulatory program chief in four USACE Districts (Jacksonville, Mobile, Anchorage and Honolulu). His most recent experience was as the regional regulatory chief for both the Anchorage and Honolulu Districts, where he was responsible for the largest USACE geographical program in the nation that includes over 200 federally recognized tribes. He has held several senior regulatory and civilian leadership positions, including deputy advisor on infrastructure to the Council on Environmental Quality, where he was instrumental in developing key strategies for streamlining infrastructure initiatives, including a One Federal Decision policy for all environmental reviews.
