Harding Lawson Awarded $20 Million RMA Contract.

NOVATO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 4, 1997--Harding Lawson Associates Group, Inc. (Nasdaq Stock Market: HRDG) announced today that they were awarded a $20 million contract by the US Army Chemical Biological Defense Command (CBDCOM) to support the Army's environmental programs throughout the US.

This Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract will run five years supporting cleanup and monitoring efforts at Rocky Mountain Arsenal (RMA) and seven other CBDCOM facilities in Alabama, Colorado, Kentucky, Indiana, Maryland, Oregon and Utah. The Army has stated its intention to use this contract for regulatory compliance, environmental investigations, risk assessments, treatability and pilot studies, remedial action decision documents, monitoring, conceptual design, implementation plans, program management and community relations.

Dr. Arthur "Sandy" Riese, president of Harding Lawson Associates, Inc. (HLA), the company's domestic environmental division, stated, "This contract award represents an outstanding opportunity for HLA to continue to serve RMA and CBDCOM in a partnership that began in 1984. This marks our third continuous prime contract with RMA. We look forward to the opportunity that this new contract affords for HLA to extend our expertise to other CBDCOM facilities across the US."

Harding Lawson Associates Group, Inc., through its various subsidiaries provides a broad range of engineering and construction services to industrial and public sector clients. Founded in 1957, the company has offices nationwide and in Australia, Indonesia, Mexico and Singapore.

CONTACT: Harding Lawson Associates Group, Inc.

Patricia A. England, 415/899-8817