Navy Pollution Prevention Contract Awarded

Battelle’s Environmental Restoration Product Line was part of a team that was recently awarded a $15M, five-year Pollution Prevention (P2) task-order contract with the Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center (NFESC). Battelle is a subcontractor to Santa Barbara Applied Research, Inc. (SBAR), a privately held small disadvantaged business in California. SBAR was the incumbent on the Navy’s P2 program, now known as the Shore Facilities Pollution Prevention Technology Development Program.

The scope of the P2 contract is very broad, encompassing support in the form of personnel, equipment, materials, and facilities to respond to the Navy’s environmental needs under multiple tasks. Work is expected to include a wide range of engineering services and construction efforts related to pollution prevention and remedial measures. This is a significant contract for Battelle as it expands the scope of services that we offer to one of our key clients. Battelle currently has three other large contracts with Navy environmental organizations, including NAVFAC, Southwest Division, and EFA-Northeast.

For more information regarding this program, please contact Dr. Bruce Sass at (614) 424-6315, or sassb@battelle.org.

Battelle was awarded a contract by the National Children’s Study (NCS) Program Office within the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to provide technical and scientific support for a longitudinal study intended to investigate the basic mechanisms of developmental health problems in growing children. Researchers involved in this study will attempt to uncover any environmental exposures that may cause or exacerbate these health impacts.

NICHD is the lead agency of a federal consortium that has been charged with implementing this study. Members of the consortium also include Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Environmental Protection Agency and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. During the two-year period of performance, Battelle will provide critical support to the NCS program office, with projects in FY2003 already initiated in the following areas:

• protocol development for a feasibility study of recruitment and data collection at on-site physicians’ offices
• study design for recruiting and retaining the longitudinal cohort for the NCS
• literature reviews on developmental measures – what to measure and when

For additional information, please contact Mr. Warren Strauss at (614) 424-4275, strauss@battelle.org.

Mr. Steven Downes has joined Battelle’s Environmental Restoration Systems Product Line as Project Manager to help expand Battelle’s business in the sustainable range management marketplace. This is a potentially significant growth area in both the environmental and national security arenas. Mr. Downes, a Master Explosive Ordnance Disposal EOD) Technician, has significant experience in program/project management of operational and environmental requirements involving range and munitions use. He has 35 years of general life-cycle experience in all forms of explosives and ordnance design (both U.S. and foreign) and 16 years’ experience in actively participating in EOD support operations within the U.S. and abroad. He is currently managing a task in Kuwait to provide support to the United Nations on evaluating the impacts of UXO and ammunition stockpiles in a debris field, and served as a co-chair of the Battelle-sponsored Sustainable Range Management Conference held in New Orleans, January 2004.

Mr. Steven Downes may be reached at (301) 283-4028,downess@battelle.org.

Dr. Kim Mortensen recently joined the Battelle Columbus staff as Senior Environmental Scientist with Statistics and Data Analysis Systems. Dr. Mortensen brings 20 years of experience in Epidemiology, Outcomes Research and Public Health policy in government, academic institutions, managed care companies, and not-for-profit groups.

Dr. Mortensen has a very diverse range of work experiences. He began his career working on a statistical analysis of tropical bat morphology. He was part of a multinational team that conducted a technology assessment of building an industry in Mexico to grow rubber from a native shrub. In a dramatic career shift, Dr. Mortensen conducted human exposure and health assessments at Superfund sites with other scientists at the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. He moved to the Ohio Department of Health as Bureau Chief of Epidemiology and Toxicology. While there, he guided a wide variety of studies of health risks and human disease. These included investigating cancer clusters, assessing exposure to environment toxins, and studying in utero chemical exposure and birth outcomes. Building on his management and teaching skills, he spent two years as Manager for Regional Planning with Ohio American Cancer Society (ACS) helping ACS staff develop quantitative outcomes measures.

Dr. Mortensen holds a Ph.D. in biology from the University of New Mexico, an M.S. in ecology from the University of California, Davis, and a B.A. in zoology from the University of California, Riverside.

For more information, please contact Dr. Kim Mortensen at (614) 424-4760, mortensenb@battelle.org.

The Petroleum Industry Guidelines for Reporting Greenhouse Gas Emissions that Battelle helped develop for International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association (IPIECA), International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (OGP), and American Petroleum Institute (API), have been completed and are available for public download and distribution from the IPIECA and OGP web sites (http://www.ipieca.org/reporting/ghg.html and http://www.ogp.org.uk/publications/index.asp) respectively. If you want to know more about this project and/or the implementation of the guidelines in the industry, contact Mr. Chris Loreti at (781) 895-4883, loretic@battelle.org.