AECOM announced today that the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE\u2019s) Savannah River Operations Office in Aiken, S.C., has extended the current liquid-waste-management contract with AECOM-led Savannah River Remediation LLC for an additional two years.<\/p>\n
This $797-million extension will run from July 1, 2015, to June 30, 2017.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are pleased to have been awarded this extension,\u201d said Randy Wotring, president of AECOM\u2019s Management Services Group. \u201cAECOM and our heritage companies have a long history of supporting the DOE\u2019s environmental management program and have extensive experience in liquid waste deposition, which includes the vitrification of high-level radioactive waste and the closure of waste tanks.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are committed to safely processing the Savannah River Site\u2019s high-level radioactive liquid waste and reducing this environmental risk in South Carolina.\u201d<\/p>\n
About<\/b>\u00a0AECOM<\/b> Forward-Looking Statements: All statements in this press release other than statements of historical fact are “forward-looking statements” for purposes of federal and state securities laws, including statements relating to the future term, value and performance of the liquid-waste-management contract as well as future economic and industry conditions.\u00a0 Actual results could differ materially from those projected or assumed in any of our forward-looking statements.\u00a0 Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from our forward-looking statements are set forth in our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended Dec. 31, 2014, and our other reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.\u00a0 AECOM does not intend, and undertakes no obligation, to update any forward-looking statements.<\/i><\/p>\n NR 15-0501<\/p>\n Source: AECOM<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-11309","press-release","type-press-release","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release\/11309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-release"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release\/11309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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