WESTON Wins Contract for Sandia National Labortories’ New Mexico Radioactive Waste Management Facility

WEST CHESTER, PA — January 8, 2010 – Weston Solutions, Inc. (WESTON^®) is pleased to announce that its New Mexico Operations Office has been awarded a $16 million cost plus award fee contract to manage and operate the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Sandia National Laboratories’ Radioactive and Mixed Waste Management Facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Following a 12-month competitive procurement process, WESTON was chosen to continue its eleven-year operations of the radiological and Category 3 nuclear facility and complex.

“We are extremely pleased to have been awarded this contract to manage and operate Sandia’s nuclear and mixed waste management facilities,” said Patrick G. McCann, WESTON’s President and CEO. “This award reaffirms the commitment to operations excellence by our team and why Sandia has been one of our strategic clients for five straight years.”

Through this contract, WESTON will continue to provide program management and facility operations for the treatment, storage, packaging, certification, and transportation and disposal of wastes generated by weapons research and development activities including low-level radioactive waste, mixed hazardous and radioactive waste, and transuranic (TRU) waste. These wastes come primarily from the site’s environmental restoration and decontamination and decommissioning activities and from historic and legacy wastes. Additionally, WESTON will treat wastes to meet Land Disposal Restrictions, execute the site’s Resource Conservation and Recovery Act site treatment plan, operate Classified Material Storage Facilities, and oversee the compilation and evaluation of acceptable knowledge information for disposal of TRU waste at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP).

WESTON’s additional operations in New Mexico include ongoing programmatic and management support to Sandia’s Environmental Restoration Program, various projects at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and minority ownership of Washington TruSolutions LLC, the management and operations contractor for DOE’s WIPP facility. WESTON has been supporting the DOE and NNSA for more than 20 years at 10 facilities, specializing in waste management, facility operations, and environmental, nuclear, and high-hazard remediation.

WESTON is a global leader in environmental solutions, sustainable development, design/build construction, green buildings, and clean energy. Dedicated to making a difference in the world, the company’s 1,800 people reach out from 60 offices to build strong stakeholder relationships and provide solutions that work. WESTON has been responding to our clients’ toughest problems for more than 50 years.