Battelle recently won the re-bid of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District (USACE-NAE) environmental consulting contract, “Environmental Planning and Consulting Services for Various Projects Located Throughout the Northeastern United States and Adjacent Waters.” Battelle’s initial contract with the USACE, awarded in 1996, was a five-year indefinite quantity contract which resulted in the award of over 60 individual projects ranging from dredge material testing and environmental restoration to environmental impact statement support. Under this new $10M contract, Battelle will provide the USACE-NAE with similar expertise including laboratory, field, and technical consulting services in support of the District’s missions which are conducted in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Work under this contract will include sampling and analysis of water and sediments in numerous harbors and rivers throughout the Northeast in support of dredged material management, preparing NEPA documents, conducting restoration projects, and supporting EPA Region 1’s Superfund Program under the USACE’s Work for Others mission.

For more information on this contract, contact Karen Foster at (781) 952-5370, foster@battelle.org.

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy since 1965, has entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the National Corn Growers Association.

The research will involve the development of a new fermentation process to produce organic acids to be used as the foundation for production of a host of chemicals and chemical feedstocks. PNNL and the National Corn Growers Association are partnering to create new applications and markets for corn-derived biomass. This research also leverages the ability of PNNL to utilize biomass for the production of chemicals and other valuable industry products that are typically made from petroleum.

For more information on this project, please contact Dennis Stiles at (509) 372-4358, dennis.stiles@pnl.gov.