In March 2009, Envirocon’s Moab Atlas Tailings project located in Moab, Utah was named one of the “shovel-ready” projects that would receive American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) government funding. In April, the Act was implemented and $108 million was added to the existing funding for the project. Envirocon and its client, EnergySolutions, presented the Department of Energy (DOE) with a plan that would create approximately 50 new jobs at the Moab Site and thereby resulting in accelerated completion of the project.

In addition, the proposal included a plan for operating an additional excavation face, doubling conditioning operations, and setting up a second loadout facility. This has resulted in the addition of more owned equipment to the project, nearly all of which was purchased specifically for the Moab work and delivered to the site in July.

New and near-new equipment purchases include:

• A PC600 excavator which will soon be outfitted with a long stick to facilitate excavation of material at depth;
• A WA500 loader which will support operations at both excavation faces and loadout facilities;
• Two additional HM350 articulated trucks to support the second excavation face;
• An MT965 Agricultural Tractor with 12-foot disc to support the additional conditioning pads;
• A D7-LGP dozer to support the second excavation face;
• A 10,000 gallon jack-up water tower;
• A larger replacement fuel/lube truck to support the additional equipment;
• An additional mechanic truck;
• Two additional pickup trucks.

The new equipment resources, along with our original fleet and an increase in personnel will allow Envirocon to excavate an additional 2 million tons of material over the duration of the project, which is currently scheduled to end September 30, 2011.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is an economic stimulus package signed into law by President Barack Obama on February 17, 2009 which is intended to provide a stimulus to the U.S. economy in the wake of the economic downturn. The Act includes federal tax cuts, expansion of unemployment benefits and other social welfare provisions, and domestic spending in education, health care, and infrastructure, including the energy sector.