As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 15, 1998
                                           REGISTRATION NO. 333- 129904A01121296

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
                                ----------------

                                    FORM S-8

             REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                  EA ENGINEERING, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY, INC.
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

      Delaware                                         52-0991911
---------------------------------                     -----------------------
(State or  other jurisdiction of                      (I.R.S. Employer 
 incorporation or  organization)                       Identification No.)


                              11019 McCormick Road
                           Hunt Valley, Maryland 21031
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    (Address, including zip code of registrant's principal executive offices)

                  EA ENGINEERING, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY, INC.
                  1993 NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTOR STOCK OPTION PLAN
                  ---------------------------------------------
                            (Full title of the Plan)

         Donald A. Deieso, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer
                  EA Engineering, Science, and Technology, Inc.
                              11019 McCormick Road
                           Hunt Valley, Maryland 21031
                                 (410) 584-7000
             ----------------------------------------------------------
            (Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,
                   including area code, of agent for service)
                                     -------
                                 With a Copy to:
                               Joseph Lunin, Esq.
                          Pitney, Hardin, Kipp & Szuch
                                  P.O. Box 1945
                          Morristown, New Jersey 07962
                                 (973) 966-6300

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>

                                          CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
------------------------ ---------------------- ---------------------- ----------------------- ----------------------
  Title of securities        Amount to be         Proposed maximum        Proposed maximum           Amount of
   to be registered           registered (1)        offering price        aggregate offering      registration fee2
                                                      per share (2)            price (2)
------------------------ ---------------------- ---------------------- ----------------------- ----------------------
<S>                          <C>                        <C>                    <C>                   <C>         
Common Stock, $.01                (1)                    (1)                    (1)                  $49.04
par value                    47,500 shares              $3.50                  $166,250              

------------------------ ---------------------- ---------------------- ----------------------- ----------------------
</TABLE>

         1. This registration  statement also covers an indeterminate  amount of
interests to be offered or sold pursuant to the employee  benefit plan described
herein,  as well as an indeterminate  number of shares of Common Stock which may
be issuable under the antidilution and other adjustment  provisions of such plan
pursuant to Rule 416(a) of the Securities Act of 1933.
                                                                                
         2.  Estimated  in  accordance  with Rule 457(h)  solely for purposes of
calculating the  registration fee and based upon the average of the high and low
sale prices of the Common Stock on the Nasdaq National Market on April 9, 1998,
as reported in the Wall Street Journal.

<PAGE>

                                     PART I

              INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS


ITEM 1   Plan Information
         ----------------

                  Not filed with this Registration Statement.


ITEM 2   Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information
         -----------------------------------------------------------

                  Not filed with this Registration Statement.



                                     PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT


ITEM 3   Documents Incorporated By Reference
         -----------------------------------

         The  following  documents  filed  by  EA  Engineering,   Science,   and
Technology,  Inc. (the  "Company")  with the Securities and Exchange  Commission
(the "Commission") are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement:

         1.  Annual  Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal  year  ended  August 31,
             1997;

         2.  Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended November
             30, 1997;

         3.  Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended February
             28, 1998; and

         4.  Registration  Statement  on Form  S-1,  Registration  No.  33-8958,
             including  the  description  of the  Common  Stock  of the  Company
             contained therein.

         In addition,  all documents  filed by the Company and the Plan pursuant
to Section 13(a),  13(c),  14 and 15(d) of the Securities  Exchange Act of 1934,
prior to the  filing of a  post-effective  amendment  which  indicates  that all
securities  offered  have been sold or which  deregisters  all  securities  then
remaining  unsold,  hereby are  incorporated  herein by  reference  and shall be
deemed a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.


ITEM 4   Description of Securities
         -------------------------

         Not applicable.


ITEM 5   Interests of Named Experts and Counsel
         --------------------------------------

         Certain  legal  matters  relating to the  issuance of the shares of the
Company's  Common Stock offered hereby have been passed upon by Pitney,  Hardin,
Kipp & Szuch,  counsel  to the  Company.  Attorneys  in the law  firm of  Pitney
Hardin, Kipp & Szuch do not own, beneficially,  or otherwise,  any shares of the
Company's Common Stock as of April 15, 1998.

         The  report  of  Arthur  Andersen  LLP,  independent  certified  public
accountants, dated November 14, 1997, relating to the consolidated statements of
financial  condition of the Company and its  subsidiaries  as of August 31, 1997
and  1996  and  the  related  consolidated  statements  of  income,  changes  in
shareholders'  equity,  and cash  flows for each of the years in the  three-year
period ended August 31, 1997, which report appears in the August 31, 1997 Annual
Report on Form 10-K of the Company,  is  incorporated  herein by reference  upon
authority of said firm as experts in accounting and auditing.


ITEM 6   Indemnification of Directors and Officers
         -----------------------------------------

         (a)  Limitation of Liability of Directors and Officers.  Section 102 of
         the Delaware  General  Corporation Law permits a corporation to provide
         in its  Certificate of  Incorporation  that a director or officer shall
         not be personally  liable to the  corporation or its  shareholders  for
         breach of any duty owed to the corporation or its shareholders,  except
         that such  provisions  shall not  relieve a director  or  officer  from
         liability  for any breach of duty based upon an action or omission  (a)
         in breach of such  person's duty of loyalty to the  corporation  or its
         shareholders, (b) not in good faith or involving intentional misconduct
         or a knowing  violation of law, (c)  involving  the payment of unlawful
         dividends  or  expenditure  of funds for  unlawful  stock  purchases or
         redemptions, or (d) resulting in receipt by such person of any improper
         personal  benefit.  Article  EIGHTH  of the  Company's  Certificate  of
         Incorporation  includes  limitation  on the  liability  of officers and
         directors to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law.

         (b) Indemnification of Directors, Officers, Employees and Agents. Under
         Article TENTH of its  Certificate of  Incorporation,  the Company shall
         indemnify  and advance  expenses to its  directors  and officers to the
         fullest  extent  permitted  by the  Company's  Bylaws and the  Delaware
         General  Corporation Law. Article VIII of the Company's Bylaws provides
         that a director or officer shall be  indemnified  to the fullest extent
         permitted under the Delaware  General  Corporation  Law. Section 145 of
         the Delaware  General  Corporation  Law provides that a corporation may
         indemnify  its  directors,   officers,  employees  and  agents  against
         judgments,  fines, penalties,  amounts paid in settlement and expenses,
         including  attorneys'  fees,  resulting  from  various  types  of legal
         actions or  proceedings  if the actions of the party being  indemnified
         meet  the  standards  of  conduct  specified  therein.   Determinations
         concerning  whether or not the applicable  standard of conduct has been
         met  can be  made  by (a) a  disinterested  majority  of the  Board  of
         Directors, (b) independent legal counsel, or (c) an affirmative vote of
         a majority of shares held by the shareholders.  No  indemnification  is
         permitted to be made to or on behalf of a corporate director,  officer,
         employee or agent if a judgment or other final adjudication  adverse to
         such person  establishes  that his acts or omissions (a) were in breach
         of his duty of loyalty to the corporation or its shareholders, (b) were
         not in  good  faith  or  involved  a  knowing  violation  of law or (c)
         resulted in receipt by such person of an improper personal benefit.

                  Pursuant  to  Section   102(b)(7)  of  the  Delaware   General
         Corporation  Law,   Article  EIGHTH,   Paragraph  9  of  the  Company's
         Certificate of  Incorporation  provides that no director of the Company
         shall be liable to the Company or its stockholders for monetary damages
         for breach of fiduciary  duty as a director,  except for  liability (i)
         for any breach of the director's  duty of loyalty to the Company or its
         stockholders,  (ii) for acts or  omissions  not in good  faith or which
         involve  intentional  misconduct or a knowing  violation of law,  (iii)
         under Section 174 of the Delaware General  Corporation Law, or (iv) for
         any transaction  from which the director  derived an improper  personal
         benefit.


ITEM 7  Exemption from Registration Claimed
        -----------------------------------

        Not applicable.


ITEM 8  Exhibits
        --------

         5      Opinion of Pitney,  Hardin,  Kipp & Szuch, as to the legality of
                the securities being registered

         23(a)  Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP

         23(b)  Consent of Pitney,  Hardin,  Kipp & Szuch (included in Exhibit 5
                hereto)

         99     EA Engineering,  Science, and Technology, Inc. 1993 Non-Employee
                Director Stock Option Plan


ITEM 9  Undertakings
        ------------

        1. The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

                  (a) To file,  during any  period in which  offers or sales are
being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement to include
any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously
disclosed  in  the  Registration  Statement  or  any  material  change  to  such
information in the Registration Statement.

                  (b) That, for purposes of determining  any liability under the
Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be
a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such  securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

                  (c) To remove from  registration by means of a  post-effective
amendment  any of the  securities  being  registered  which remain unsold at the
termination of the offering.

         2. The undersigned  registrant  hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining  any liability  under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the
registrant's  annual  report  pursuant to section  13(a) or section 15(d) of the
Securities  Exchange  Act of 1934  that is  incorporated  by  reference  in this
Registration  Statement  shall  be  deemed  to be a new  registration  statement
relating to the securities offered therein,  and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

         3.  Insofar  as  indemnification  for  liabilities  arising  under  the
Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors,  officers and  controlling
persons of the registrant  pursuant to the foregoing  provisions,  or otherwise,
the  registrant  has been  advised  that in the  opinion of the  Securities  and
Exchange  Commission such  indemnification is against public policy as expressed
in the Act and is,  therefore,  unenforceable.  In the  event  that a claim  for
indemnification  against  such  liabilities  (other  than  the  payment  by  the
registrant of expenses  incurred or paid by a director,  officer or  controlling
person of the  registrant  in the  successful  defense  of any  action,  suit or
proceeding)  is  asserted by such  director,  officer or  controlling  person in
connection with the securities being registered,  the registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit  to a  court  of  appropriate  jurisdiction  the  question  whether  such
indemnification  by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will
be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.


<PAGE>


                                   SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the  requirement  of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant
certifies  that it has  reasonable  grounds  to  believe  that it meets  all the
requirements  for  filing  on Form S-8 and has  duly  caused  this  Registration
Statement  to be  signed  on its  behalf  by  the  undersigned,  thereunto  duly
authorized, in Hunt Valley, Maryland on April 15, 1998.

                                EA ENGINEERING, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY, INC.

                                 DONALD A. DEIESO
                             By:_______________________________________________
                                 Donald A. Deieso, Ph.D., President and 
                                 Chief Executive Officer

     Pursuant  to  the   requirements  of  the  Securities  Act  of  1933,  this
Registration  Statement  has  been  signed  by  the  following  persons  in  the
capacities and on the dates indicated.

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>

                  Signature                                     Title                              Date
                  ---------                                     -----                              ----
<S>                                            <C>                                            <C>


LOREN D. JENSEN
-------------------------------------------      Chairman of the Board of Directors            April 15, 1998
Loren D. Jensen, Ph.D.


DONALD A. DEIESO
-------------------------------------------      President, Chief Executive Officer            April 15, 1998
Donald A. Deieso, Ph.D.                                     and Director


BARBARA L. POSNER                                Senior Vice President, Finance and
-------------------------------------------     Administration (principal financial            April 15, 1998
Barbara L. Posner                                             officer)


EDMUND J. CASHMAN, JR.
-------------------------------------------                   Director                         April 15, 1998
Edmund J. Cashman, Jr.


RUDOLPH P. LAMONE
-------------------------------------------                   Director                         April 15, 1998
Rudolph P. Lamone, Ph.D.


CLEAVELAND D. MILLER
-------------------------------------------                   Director                         April 15, 1998
Cleaveland D. Miller, Esq.


GEORGE G. RADCLIFFE
-------------------------------------------                   Director                         April 15, 1998
George G. Radcliffe

</TABLE>


<PAGE>


                                   SIGNATURES

         Pursuant to the  requirements  of the  Securities Act of 1933, the Plan
administrators  have duly caused  this  Registration  Statement  to be signed on
behalf  of the  Plan by the  undersigned,  thereunto  duly  authorized,  in Hunt
Valley, Maryland on April 15, 1998.



                 EA ENGINEERING, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY, INC. 1995 NON-EMPLOYEE
                 DIRECTOR STOCK OPTION PLAN


                 By: MEREDITH M. CONKLIN
                     -----------------------------------------------------------
                     Meredith M. Conklin, V.P. Human Resources, 
                      as Plan Administrator


<PAGE>


                                INDEX TO EXHIBITS


        Exhibit 5

              Opinion of Pitney, Hardin, Kipp & Szuch, as to the legality of the
              securities being registered

        Exhibit 23(a)

              Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP

        Exhibit 23(b)

              Consent of Pitney,  Hardin,  Kipp & Szuch  (included  in Exhibit 5
              hereto)

        Exhibit 99

              EA Engineering,  Science,  and Technology,  Inc. 1993 Non-Employee
              Director Stock Option Plan
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 15, 1998
                                           REGISTRATION NO. 333- 129904A01121296

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
                                ----------------

                                    FORM S-8

             REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                  EA ENGINEERING, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY, INC.
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

      Delaware                                         52-0991911
---------------------------------                     -----------------------
(State or  other jurisdiction of                      (I.R.S. Employer 
 incorporation or  organization)                       Identification No.)

                              11019 McCormick Road
                           Hunt Valley, Maryland 21031
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    (Address, including zip code of registrant's principal executive offices)

                  EA ENGINEERING, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY, INC.
                  1993 NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTOR STOCK OPTION PLAN
                  ---------------------------------------------
                            (Full title of the Plan)

         Donald A. Deieso, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer
                  EA Engineering, Science, and Technology, Inc.
                              11019 McCormick Road
                           Hunt Valley, Maryland 21031
                                 (410) 584-7000
             ----------------------------------------------------------
            (Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,
                   including area code, of agent for service)
                                     -------
                                 With a Copy to:
                               Joseph Lunin, Esq.
                          Pitney, Hardin, Kipp & Szuch
                                  P.O. Box 1945
                          Morristown, New Jersey 07962
                                 (973) 966-6300
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
------------------------ ---------------------- ---------------------- ----------------------- ----------------------
  Title of securities        Amount to be         Proposed maximum        Proposed maximum           Amount of
   to be registered           registered (1)        offering price        aggregate offering      registration fee2
                                                      per share (2)            price (2)
------------------------ ---------------------- ---------------------- ----------------------- ----------------------
Common Stock, $.01                (1)                    (1)                    (1)                  $49.04
par value                    47,500 shares              $3.50                  $166,250              

------------------------ ---------------------- ---------------------- ----------------------- ----------------------
1. This registration  statement also covers an indeterminate  amount of
interests to be offered or sold pursuant to the employee  benefit plan described
herein,  as well as an indeterminate  number of shares of Common Stock which may
be issuable under the antidilution and other adjustment  provisions of such plan
pursuant to Rule 416(a) of the Securities Act of 1933.
                                                                                
         2.  Estimated  in  accordance  with Rule 457(h)  solely for purposes of
calculating the  registration fee and based upon the average of the high and low
sale prices of the Common Stock on the Nasdaq National Market on April 9, 1998,
as reported in the Wall Street Journal.
PART I

              INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

ITEM 1   Plan Information
         ----------------

                  Not filed with this Registration Statement.

ITEM 2   Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information
         -----------------------------------------------------------

                  Not filed with this Registration Statement.

                                     PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

ITEM 3   Documents Incorporated By Reference
         -----------------------------------

         The  following  documents  filed  by  EA  Engineering,   Science,   and
Technology,  Inc. (the  "Company")  with the Securities and Exchange  Commission
(the "Commission") are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement:

         1.  Annual  Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal  year  ended  August 31,
             1997;

         2.  Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended November
             30, 1997;

         3.  Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended February
             28, 1998; and

         4.  Registration  Statement  on Form  S-1,  Registration  No.  33-8958,
             including  the  description  of the  Common  Stock  of the  Company
             contained therein.

         In addition,  all documents  filed by the Company and the Plan pursuant
to Section 13(a),  13(c),  14 and 15(d) of the Securities  Exchange Act of 1934,
prior to the  filing of a  post-effective  amendment  which  indicates  that all
securities  offered  have been sold or which  deregisters  all  securities  then
remaining  unsold,  hereby are  incorporated  herein by  reference  and shall be
deemed a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.

ITEM 4   Description of Securities
         -------------------------

         Not applicable.

ITEM 5   Interests of Named Experts and Counsel
         --------------------------------------

         Certain  legal  matters  relating to the  issuance of the shares of the
Company's  Common Stock offered hereby have been passed upon by Pitney,  Hardin,
Kipp & Szuch,  counsel  to the  Company.  Attorneys  in the law  firm of  Pitney
Hardin, Kipp & Szuch do not own, beneficially,  or otherwise,  any shares of the
Company's Common Stock as of April 15, 1998.

         The  report  of  Arthur  Andersen  LLP,  independent  certified  public
accountants, dated November 14, 1997, relating to the consolidated statements of
financial  condition of the Company and its  subsidiaries  as of August 31, 1997
and  1996  and  the  related  consolidated  statements  of  income,  changes  in
shareholders'  equity,  and cash  flows for each of the years in the  three-year
period ended August 31, 1997, which report appears in the August 31, 1997 Annual
Report on Form 10-K of the Company,  is  incorporated  herein by reference  upon
authority of said firm as experts in accounting and auditing.

ITEM 6   Indemnification of Directors and Officers
         -----------------------------------------

         (a)  Limitation of Liability of Directors and Officers.  Section 102 of
         the Delaware  General  Corporation Law permits a corporation to provide
         in its  Certificate of  Incorporation  that a director or officer shall
         not be personally  liable to the  corporation or its  shareholders  for
         breach of any duty owed to the corporation or its shareholders,  except
         that such  provisions  shall not  relieve a director  or  officer  from
         liability  for any breach of duty based upon an action or omission  (a)
         in breach of such  person's duty of loyalty to the  corporation  or its
         shareholders, (b) not in good faith or involving intentional misconduct
         or a knowing  violation of law, (c)  involving  the payment of unlawful
         dividends  or  expenditure  of funds for  unlawful  stock  purchases or
         redemptions, or (d) resulting in receipt by such person of any improper
         personal  benefit.  Article  EIGHTH  of the  Company's  Certificate  of
         Incorporation  includes  limitation  on the  liability  of officers and
         directors to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law.

         (b) Indemnification of Directors, Officers, Employees and Agents. Under
         Article TENTH of its  Certificate of  Incorporation,  the Company shall
         indemnify  and advance  expenses to its  directors  and officers to the
         fullest  extent  permitted  by the  Company's  Bylaws and the  Delaware
         General  Corporation Law. Article VIII of the Company's Bylaws provides
         that a director or officer shall be  indemnified  to the fullest extent
         permitted under the Delaware  General  Corporation  Law. Section 145 of
         the Delaware  General  Corporation  Law provides that a corporation may
         indemnify  its  directors,   officers,  employees  and  agents  against
         judgments,  fines, penalties,  amounts paid in settlement and expenses,
         including  attorneys'  fees,  resulting  from  various  types  of legal
         actions or  proceedings  if the actions of the party being  indemnified
         meet  the  standards  of  conduct  specified  therein.   Determinations
         concerning  whether or not the applicable  standard of conduct has been
         met  can be  made  by (a) a  disinterested  majority  of the  Board  of
         Directors, (b) independent legal counsel, or (c) an affirmative vote of
         a majority of shares held by the shareholders.  No  indemnification  is
         permitted to be made to or on behalf of a corporate director,  officer,
         employee or agent if a judgment or other final adjudication  adverse to
         such person  establishes  that his acts or omissions (a) were in breach
         of his duty of loyalty to the corporation or its shareholders, (b) were
         not in  good  faith  or  involved  a  knowing  violation  of law or (c)
         resulted in receipt by such person of an improper personal benefit.

                  Pursuant  to  Section   102(b)(7)  of  the  Delaware   General
         Corporation  Law,   Article  EIGHTH,   Paragraph  9  of  the  Company's
         Certificate of  Incorporation  provides that no director of the Company
         shall be liable to the Company or its stockholders for monetary damages
         for breach of fiduciary  duty as a director,  except for  liability (i)
         for any breach of the director's  duty of loyalty to the Company or its
         stockholders,  (ii) for acts or  omissions  not in good  faith or which
         involve  intentional  misconduct or a knowing  violation of law,  (iii)
         under Section 174 of the Delaware General  Corporation Law, or (iv) for
         any transaction  from which the director  derived an improper  personal
         benefit.

ITEM 7  Exemption from Registration Claimed
        -----------------------------------

        Not applicable.

ITEM 8  Exhibits
        --------

         5      Opinion of Pitney,  Hardin,  Kipp & Szuch, as to the legality of
                the securities being registered

         23(a)  Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP

         23(b)  Consent of Pitney,  Hardin,  Kipp & Szuch (included in Exhibit 5
                hereto)

         99     EA Engineering,  Science, and Technology, Inc. 1993 Non-Employee
                Director Stock Option Plan

ITEM 9  Undertakings
        ------------

        1. The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

                  (a) To file,  during any  period in which  offers or sales are
being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement to include
any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously
disclosed  in  the  Registration  Statement  or  any  material  change  to  such
information in the Registration Statement.

                  (b) That, for purposes of determining  any liability under the
Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be
a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such  securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

                  (c) To remove from  registration by means of a  post-effective
amendment  any of the  securities  being  registered  which remain unsold at the
termination of the offering.

         2. The undersigned  registrant  hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining  any liability  under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the
registrant's  annual  report  pursuant to section  13(a) or section 15(d) of the
Securities  Exchange  Act of 1934  that is  incorporated  by  reference  in this
Registration  Statement  shall  be  deemed  to be a new  registration  statement
relating to the securities offered therein,  and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

         3.  Insofar  as  indemnification  for  liabilities  arising  under  the
Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors,  officers and  controlling
persons of the registrant  pursuant to the foregoing  provisions,  or otherwise,
the  registrant  has been  advised  that in the  opinion of the  Securities  and
Exchange  Commission such  indemnification is against public policy as expressed
in the Act and is,  therefore,  unenforceable.  In the  event  that a claim  for
indemnification  against  such  liabilities  (other  than  the  payment  by  the
registrant of expenses  incurred or paid by a director,  officer or  controlling
person of the  registrant  in the  successful  defense  of any  action,  suit or
proceeding)  is  asserted by such  director,  officer or  controlling  person in
connection with the securities being registered,  the registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit  to a  court  of  appropriate  jurisdiction  the  question  whether  such
indemnification  by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will
be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the  requirement  of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant
certifies  that it has  reasonable  grounds  to  believe  that it meets  all the
requirements  for  filing  on Form S-8 and has  duly  caused  this  Registration
Statement  to be  signed  on its  behalf  by  the  undersigned,  thereunto  duly
authorized, in Hunt Valley, Maryland on April 15, 1998.

                                EA ENGINEERING, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY, INC.

                                 DONALD A. DEIESO
                             By:_______________________________________________
                                 Donald A. Deieso, Ph.D., President and 
                                 Chief Executive Officer

     Pursuant  to  the   requirements  of  the  Securities  Act  of  1933,  this
Registration  Statement  has  been  signed  by  the  following  persons  in  the
capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature                                     Title                              Date
                  ---------                                     -----                              ----
LOREN D. JENSEN
-------------------------------------------      Chairman of the Board of Directors            April 15, 1998
Loren D. Jensen, Ph.D.

DONALD A. DEIESO
-------------------------------------------      President, Chief Executive Officer            April 15, 1998
Donald A. Deieso, Ph.D.                                     and Director

BARBARA L. POSNER                                Senior Vice President, Finance and
-------------------------------------------     Administration (principal financial            April 15, 1998
Barbara L. Posner                                             officer)

EDMUND J. CASHMAN, JR.
-------------------------------------------                   Director                         April 15, 1998
Edmund J. Cashman, Jr.

RUDOLPH P. LAMONE
-------------------------------------------                   Director                         April 15, 1998
Rudolph P. Lamone, Ph.D.

CLEAVELAND D. MILLER
-------------------------------------------                   Director                         April 15, 1998
Cleaveland D. Miller, Esq.

GEORGE G. RADCLIFFE
-------------------------------------------                   Director                         April 15, 1998
George G. Radcliffe
SIGNATURES

         Pursuant to the  requirements  of the  Securities Act of 1933, the Plan
administrators  have duly caused  this  Registration  Statement  to be signed on
behalf  of the  Plan by the  undersigned,  thereunto  duly  authorized,  in Hunt
Valley, Maryland on April 15, 1998.

                 EA ENGINEERING, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY, INC. 1995 NON-EMPLOYEE
                 DIRECTOR STOCK OPTION PLAN

                 By: MEREDITH M. CONKLIN
                     -----------------------------------------------------------
                     Meredith M. Conklin, V.P. Human Resources, 
                      as Plan Administrator
INDEX TO EXHIBITS

        Exhibit 5

              Opinion of Pitney, Hardin, Kipp & Szuch, as to the legality of the
              securities being registered

        Exhibit 23(a)

              Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP

        Exhibit 23(b)

              Consent of Pitney,  Hardin,  Kipp & Szuch  (included  in Exhibit 5
              hereto)

        Exhibit 99

              EA Engineering,  Science,  and Technology,  Inc. 1993 Non-Employee
              Director Stock Option Plan