BRIEFCASE.Byline: -- Staff and Wire Services Tetra Tech signs EPA EPA eicosapentaenoic acid. EPA abbr. eicosapentaenoic acid EPA, n.pr See acid, eicosapentaenoic. EPA, n. water deal PASADENA -- Tetra Tech Inc. said Wednesday that it signed a $15 million contract with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), independent agency of the U.S. government, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1970 to reduce and control air and water pollution, noise pollution, and radiation and to ensure the safe handling and to provide technical support to the EPA's Pacific Southwest Region Water Division. Tetra Tech will assist EPA Region 9 as it implements core water programs, including those associated with the Clean Water Act, Marine Protection and Sanctuaries Research Act and Safe Drinking Water Act The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) is a United States federal law passed by the U.S. Congress on December 16, 1974. It is the main federal law that ensures safe drinking water for Americans. . The contract has a four-year period of performance and will include time and materials labor and materials (time and materials) n. what some builders or repair people contract to provide and be paid for, rather than a fixed price or a percentage of the costs. and fixed-price tasks. EPA Region 9 serves the Pacific Southwest, including Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, the Pacific Islands and tribal nations. The Water Division is responsible for providing clean and safe surface water, groundwater and drinking water and protecting and restoring aquatic ecosystems. Refco ex-execs plead not guilty NEW YORK -- The former chief executive and chief financial officers of commodities brokerage giant Refco Inc. pleaded not guilty to charges that they defrauded investors, causing more than $1 billion in losses. Former CFO See Chief Financial Officer. Robert C. Trosten, 37, of Sarasota, Fla., was freed on $10 million bail -- secured with his Florida home -- after entering the plea before U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald Naomi Reice Buchwald (born 1944 in Kingston, New York) is a Federal District Judge in the Southern District of New York. She received her BA from Brandeis University in 1965 and her LLB from Columbia Law School in 1968. . Also entering a not-guilty plea Wednesday to new charges contained in a rewritten indictment announced a day earlier was former CEO Phillip R. Bennett Phillip Bennett (*1948) is the embattled former CEO of Refco, Inc.. He is a British citizen who was educated at Cambridge University. In the 1970s, he worked for Chase Manhattan Bank. He joined Refco in 1981 and became the firm's Chief Financial Officer in 1993. , 58, of Gladstone, N.J. He was free on $50 million bail. Prosecutors say Trosten and Bennett conspired to commit securities fraud, false filings and wire fraud as they tried to hide hundreds of millions of dollars of debt owed to Refco by a company controlled by Bennett. $2.25 million fine set for fund CEO WASHINGTON -- Securities regulators have imposed a record $2.25 million fine on the chairman and CEO of hedge fund James River Capital Corp. for allegedly using deceptive practices in trading in the long-term investments known as variable annuities. The National Association of Securities Dealers National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) Nonprofit organization formed under the joint sponsorship of the investment bankers' conference and the SEC to comply with the Maloney Act, which provides for the regulation of the OTC market. , the brokerage industry's self-policing organization, on Wednesday announced the civil penalty against Paul Saunders, a broker who is the chairman, CEO and majority owner of James River, which is based in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Saunders neither admitted nor denied the NASD's allegations in agreeing to the settlement, under which he also will be suspended for 60 days from working as a broker. |
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