Remedial contract.Remedial Contract: Tetra Tech Inc., a consulting engineering company, was awarded a $63 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 . The terms of the contract specify that Tetra Tech will lend support to the EPA's Superfund project to locate, investigate and clean up chemical dumping sites nationwide. Tetra Tech will support the EPA EPA eicosapentaenoic acid. EPA abbr. eicosapentaenoic acid EPA, n.pr See acid, eicosapentaenoic. EPA, n. in implementing investigation and feasibility studies, remedial designs, remedial actions, removal actions and enforcement activities for contaminated contaminated, v 1. made radioactive by the addition of small quantities of radioactive material. 2. made contaminated by adding infective or radiographic materials. 3. an infective surface or object. Superfund sites. The contract has a 10-year period of performance. Tetra Tech will be providing services in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). . |
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