Parsons Awarded Army Environmental Cleanup Contract.PASADENA, Calif. -- Parsons, a global leader in environmental restoration, announced today that it has been awarded a one-year base contract with four one-year options for environmental cleanup services at U.S. Army installations in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Parsons is one of five firms awarded this contract. The initial contract value is $64 million but authorization exists to modify the contract up to the ceiling of $320 million for the total portfolio. The contract is to support a broad spectrum of the Army's cleanup strategy. Work will consist of a wide range of environmental remediation or response activities including investigations, remedial design, and remedial construction for hazardous substance and waste sites, munitions mu·ni·tion n. War materiel, especially weapons and ammunition. Often used in the plural. tr.v. mu·ni·tioned, mu·ni·tion·ing, mu·ni·tions To supply with munitions. and chemical warfare material. Parsons has provided environmental cleanup at military sites for decades. Recent cleanup projects Parsons has managed include Hawaii's Kaho'olawe Island; Fort Ord in Monterey, California; Keesler Air Force Base Keesler Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located in Biloxi, Mississippi. The base is home of the 81st Training Wing, and the base is responsible for training airmen who have just completed basic training as well as additional training they will need for upcoming in Biloxi, Mississippi; Seneca Army Depot The former Seneca Army Depot occupied 10,587 acres (43 km²) between Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake in Seneca County New York, USA. It was used as a munitions disposal and munitions storage facility by the United States Army from 1941 until it was announced that it would be in Romulus, New York Romulus is a town in Seneca County, New York, United States. The population was 2,036 at the 2000 census. The town is named after the mythical founder of Rome, Romulus, a name assigned by a clerk with an interest in the classics. ; and Camp Stanley in San Antonio, Texas “San Antonio” redirects here. For other uses, see San Antonio (disambiguation). San Antonio is the second most populous city in Texas, the third most populous metropolitan area in Texas, and is the seventh most populous city in the United States. As of the 2006 U.S. . "We're excited to continue supporting the Department of Defense in its efforts to clean up the environment," explains Milt Hunter, Parsons Senior Vice President. Parsons, celebrating over 60 years of setting industry standards, is a leader in many diversified markets, such as environmental compliance and remediation; facility planning, design and construction; military range management; homeland security; nuclear and chemical demilitarization de·mil·i·ta·rize tr.v. de·mil·i·ta·rized, de·mil·i·ta·riz·ing, de·mil·i·ta·riz·es 1. To eliminate the military character of. 2. , industrial processes; communications; transportation and water. Parsons provides technical and management solutions to private industrial customers worldwide as well as federal, regional and local government agencies. For more about Parsons, please visit us at www.parsons.com. |
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