American Ecology Unit Wins Repeat Business From Large Customers for Radioactive Material Services.

BOISE, Idaho--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 21, 1999--

Joe Nagel, president and chief operating officer of American Ecology Corporation (Nasdaq:ECOL), today announced that the company's US Ecology unit has been awarded separate orders from four nuclear organizations to perform low-level radioactive material management services.

Nagel said the contracts -- all awarded to US Ecology's Nuclear Material Services Center at Oak Ridge, Tennessee -- include:

-- $200,000 from the New York Power Authority to perform process and

disposal services. -- $100,000 for extensive brokerage services for Pennsylvania Power

and Light. -- $200,000 from Westinghouse Nuclear Fuels for materials processing

and disposal. -- $200,000 from Baltimore Gas and Electric for waste processing and

disposal services.

"What makes these awards so meaningful to us is they are repeat orders from customers we've worked very hard to serve effectively," Nagel said. "Our Oak Ridge team continues to make believers of valuable customers in the nuclear market."

US Ecology's parent company, Boise-based American Ecology Corporation, provides processing, packaging, transportation, remediation and disposal services for generators of hazardous waste and low-level radioactive waste at licensed facilities throughout the United States. The company has been delivering environmental solutions since 1952.