January 2009: George Rasmussen to Head LATA’s Energy Management Business
George Rasmussen, PE, has joined LATA as Vice President-Energy Management. He will expand LATA's energy management
and sustainability business through strategic industry partnerships and full integration of LATA core strengths in
electrical engineering and process control and automation with energy management planning, implementation, and operations.
George is a recognized leader in the power industry and has led the development and commercialization of innovative energy
and environmental technologies. Under Mr. Rasmussen’s leadership, LATA’s energy management services will include energy
audits, energy efficiency design, and renewable and sustainability energy system design and operating services.
Mr. Rasmussen was most recently the Chief Operating Officer of Pacific Western Technologies, Ltd., responsible for
environmental management, facility management, energy management and sustainability, and IT services. He was formerly
President & Chief Executive Officer of Energy & Environmental Solutions, Inc., where he provided strategic business
planning and marketing leadership to entrepreneurs with innovative high technology products in the power, energy,
environmental, and transportation sectors. Mr. Rasmussen is a graduate of St. Olaf College and the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, a licensed Professional Engineer, a member of the Society of American Military Engineers Academy
of Fellows and the holder of multiple US patents in the energy field.December 2008: LATA’s Hull Receives Department of Justice Certificate of Commendation
| LATA’s Corporate Safety Officer, Bob Hull, was awarded a Certificate of Commendation from the US Attorney – District of New Mexico, for service over the past four years supporting the US Attorney’s Office Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council (ATAC) and the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force – Terrorist Working Group (JTTF-TWG). Mr. Hull was specifically recognized for his support to the Chem/Bio-Security Working Group and the Scientific Advisory Committee of the ATAC. Mr. Hull also received a US Attorney’s Office “challenge coin” in recognition of his outstanding service to law enforcement. |
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September 2008: LATA Awarded First Task Order under the Baltimore MARS Contract
LATA was awarded its first task order under its U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District Multiple Award Radiological Services (MARS) contract. The MARS contract scope includes environmental services focused on sites contaminated with low-level radioactive waste or materials that may have been also impacted by other hazardous waste/substances or possibly spent munitions. The task order is for gamma walkover characterization activities to support the All Hazards Assessment of the SM-1A deactivated nuclear power plant at Fort Greely, Alaska. The task objective is to use a phased approach to identify the chemical, radiological, and other hazards that exist at the SM-1A and to reduce those hazards, or exposure to those hazards, to the extent that will allow the SM-1A Army Reactor Permit to be terminated. The task is scheduled to be completed in September 2009.
August 2008: LATA-Parallax Portsmouth Participates in Public Meeting
A Public Meeting was held Thursday, August 14, 2008, at The Ohio State University Endeavor Center in Piketon, Ohio to update the public on progress of the cleanup program at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant and to introduce members of the newly-formed Environmental Management Site Specific Advisory Board for the Portsmouth site. Officials from the U.S. Department of Energy and contractors at the site presented information and fielded questions from a large crowd in attendance. To view the slide presentation from the meeting, visit http://www.lpports.com.
June 2008: LATA/Parallax Portsmouth Achieves Safety Milestone
Employees of LATA/Parallax Portsmouth LLC reached another significant safety milestone in June 2008, marking 500 consecutive days without a lost work day incident. The company has amassed more than half a million safe work hours on the environmental cleanup project at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon. LATA/Parallax, their teaming partner CDM, along with subcontractor employees, were recognized for working more than 602,000 hours safely on the project. Other major accomplishments by LATA/Parallax at the Piketon site include:
- Demolishing and disposing of waste debris from 16 surplus, inactive facilities
- Shipping for off-site disposal more than 10,000 containers of legacy waste since
- October 2005 to allow reuse by USEC’s advanced commercial centrifuge program
- Implementing a more effective groundwater treatment to destroy trichloroethylene (TCE) contamination with chemical oxidants at the X-701B groundwater plume
- Completing shipments of 1,383 old centrifuge casings to the Nevada Test Site for disposal
- Completing a project, three years early, to dispose of 438 low-level waste converter shells