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January
7, 2002
Contact: Maggie Holben, 303-984-9801
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Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation Intensifies Focus
On Rocky Mountain Region
Lakewood, CO – Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation is heading into 2002 with
an expanded emphasis on its Rocky Mountain Regional Office. Sam W. Box – chairman, president and CEO of the company
– recently announced that Mary J. Gearhart, P.E., was hired to run the Foster Wheeler Environmental offices in Denver,
Albuquerque and Chicago.
Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation is most familiar in the region for its 1997 program
management contract with the Rocky Mountain Arsenal to design remediation projects and select the subcontractors needed to
perform the $1.6 billion cleanup effort. In addition, Foster Wheeler's Rocky Mountain Region is focused on these projects:
--- Unexploded ordnance surveying and removal. It is estimated that in excess of 10 million acres of land in the continental
U. S. may be affected. Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation was awarded two contracts to provide UXO services worldwide.
--- An environmental remediation and construction contract with the Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence,
Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, to provide environmental cleanup and construction services.
--- A contract to prepare
an Environmental Impact Statement for the US Forest Service, including a Rehabilitation Needs Plan, a Tral1sportation Analysis,
a Watershed Analysis, a Biological Assessment! Biological Evaluation, and a Socioeconomic Evaluation on the "Viveash
Fire" near the town of Pecos, New Mexico.
--- A contract with the Federal Highway Administration to provide
services for a cleanup project at the Denver Federal Center in Lakewood, Colorado.
Mary Gearhart brings more than
22 years experience in environmental and infrastructure engineering to the position at the Rocky Mountain regional office
of Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation. She has held positions at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment,
David E. Fleming Company, and most recently served as vice president and area manager for ARCADIS, Inc. She has been responsible
for both program management and operations management, and has been instrumental in developing innovative site closure strategies,
permitting and compliance programs and long-term operations and maintenance programs.
Gearhart was appointed as
a member of the Colorado Water Quality Control Commission, serving the Commission from 1988 to 1993. She is a native Denverite
and graduate of the University of Colorado at Denver Civil Engineering program. Gearhart is currently chairing the University
of Colorado at Denver Engineering Advisory Council and is a member of the search committee for anew dean for the College of
Engineering. She has served on this Council since 1979. In addition, Gearhart also chairs the Board of Directors of the Sand
Creek Regional Greenway Partnership and is a member of the Board of Directors for the Colorado Opera Troupe, and still finds
time to serve as the co-den leader of her 8-year-old son's Cub Scout troop.
Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation's
mission is to conduct a global business directed toward cleaning up and protecting the environment while facilitating economic
growth, and to do so in a safe, compliant, cost-effective manner. The company assists clients in reducing their environmental
liability through proactive planning, risk-based approaches, analyses and corrective action. Clients benefit from staff experience,
talent and technologically advanced systems that solve their most complex environmental problems.
Notes to Editors:
Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Foster Wheeler USA, is a leading environmental consulting,
engineering, and remediation firm employing 2,200 people expert in the areas of environmental sciences" engineering disciplines
and construction. The firm has 25 domestic offices and 19 international locations.
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