USEPA ERRS Contract
EMERGENCY AND RAPID RESPONSE SERVICES (ERRS)
EQ has completed over 700 ERRS Task Orders under 8 ERRS/ERCS contracts as the prime contractor over the past 18 years, and has served as a subcontractor on 4 additional ERRS contracts. This work has been performed in 7 EPA regions.
In 1992 EQ was awarded an EPA Region 5 Emergency Response Cleanup Services (ERCS) contract. Based on our performance on this contract, effective cost control and cost realism, and outstanding technical merit, EQ was awarded 3 subsequent Region 5 Emergency Response (ERRS) contracts. Our performance as an EPA prime contractor in Region 5, and as a subcontractor in Region 4, led to the issuance of ERRS contracts to EQ in Regions 6, 8, 9, and 10.
Region 5
In this Region, EQ continues to respond to emergency, time-critical and non-time-critical task orders covering six Great Lake states (IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI). We provide management, field personnel, and equipment resources to execute decontamination and demolition, containment measures, asbestos removal, drum and underground storage tank removal and excavation, water/waste treatment, site restoration, and waste treatment and disposal. This ongoing contract has so far involved over 400 task orders totaling more than $275M.
Region 6
We have successfully performed over 70 projects for Region 6 that cover a broad range of sites, wastes/contaminants, impacted media, and remedial technologies.
We provided emergency and rapid response services to the Columbia Space Shuttle Recovery and Hurricane Katrina and Rita incidents. Each of these unique and challenging projects required delivery of extensive personnel and equipment resources across very broad geographical areas. The responses were performed under the Stafford Act and related Federal requirements. Work was performed in conformance with the Incident Command System (ICS) process and the National Incident Management System (NIMS). EQ and our Team partners offer 100 staff trained at ICS Levels 100, 200, and 300. EQ received EPA’s Small Business Contractor of the Year Award in 2003 for our superior performance on the Columbia Space Shuttle project.
The EQ Team has performed 10,000 emergency response and remediation projects. These projects include emergency responses, and immediate and planned remedial actions in all media (air, water, soil) for removal of oil and petroleum products, toxic and hazardous chemicals, asbestos-containing materials, and low-level radioactive wastes. Sites have included refineries, abandoned manufacturing facilities, residential yard removals, plating facilities, landfills, wood treating facilities, and illegal drug laboratories.
Region 8
In Region 8, EQ managed the delivery of time-critical and non-time-critical emergency, removal, and remedial ERRS services. Task orders included cleanup of an illegal laboratory, mining sites, and contaminated residents; preplanning; and terrorist incidence response. EQ managed this contract through November 2008.
Region 9
In Region 9, EQ manages the delivery of emergency, removal, and remedial ERRS services throughout the region (including Guam and Samoa). This work includes cleanup, containment, countermeasures, and treatment and disposal (T&D) of oil, petroleum, and hazardous chemicals including fuels, waste oils, PCBs, cyanide, lead, mercury, heavy metals, solvents, acids/bases, radionuclides, paints, solvents, pesticides, explosives, and terrorist agents (chemical, nuclear, and biological).
This work has been accomplished at mine sites, landfills, abandoned manufacturing sites, refineries, waste oil recyclers, wood treaters, waterway/roadway spills, drum sites, and illegal explosives storage or manufacturing sites. We provide containment, countermeasures, decontamination, and demoltion services to mitigate hazardous waste/site conditions; we also provide planning and resources for responding to man-made and natural disasters, terrorist incidents, and incidents involving weapons of mass destruction.
Region 10
In Region 10, EQ is involved in cleanup, containment, countermeasures, and T&D of oil, petroleum, and hazardous chemicals including PCBs, pesticides, solvents, cyanide, mercury, heavy metals, solvents, acids/bases, asbestos, and radionuclides at oil refineries, salvage/recyclers, wood treaters, mine sites, abandoned manufacturing facilities, landfills, waterway/roadway spills, and drum sites. We provide excavation, drum removal, in-situ and ex-situ bioremediation, stabilization, chemical treatment, thermal treatment, soil washing, RCRA caps and cells, cut-off walls, and removal of both aboveground and underground storage tanks. EQ decontaminates industrial and residential housing and properties contaminated by lead, mercury, asbestos, radionuclides, and terrorist agents (chemical, nuclear, and biological).
We provide air stripping, filtration/adsorption/absorption, dehalogenation, oxidation, free product recovery, bioventing, and land farming. We also construct temporary drinking water supplies, alternate drinking water distribution/treatment systems, temporary housing, and mobile and fixed treatment systems. We provide planning and resources for response to terrorist incidents and incidents involving weapons of mass destruction.
Region 4
As a Team Subcontractor to CMC, EQ supports the delivery of ERRS services throughout EPA Region 4 (AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC, and TN). EQ has provided technical, project management, site operations, and cost tracking personnel and expertise on time-critical and non-time-critical emergency, removal, and remedial actions. TOs included abandoned drum/storage container sites, waterway and roadway spills, and residential sites. Facilities included dumps, landfills, plating shops, wood treatment facilities, UST/AST tank farms, oil/waste recyclers, oil fields, and various manufacturing facilities.
Additional Information
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