DISASTER RESPONSE PROJECTS, MANAGEMENT AND RECONSTRUCTION

The DRC Group companies have extensive experience in disaster management, disaster relief services, debris management, technical assistance, project management, temporary workforce housing, life support, construction, construction management, demolition, medical and hazardous waste remediation and disposal, landfill management, civil, heavy and vertical construction amassed over the past many years.

DRC, Inc. was formed in 1989 during the aftermath of the devastation caused by Hurricane Hugo. To accomplish these initial contracts, DRC removed over 58,000 truckloads of debris from 325 miles of streets and roads in Charleston, South Carolina in a period of forty-one (41) days. DRC thereafter managed landfills, closed landfills and performed other debris removal operations in the aftermath of the devastation caused by Hurricane Hugo.

In Kuwait, Somalia, Angola, Yemen, Rwanda, Kosovo, and Iraq, DRC and its key personnel performed a wide range of life support, construction, restoration, explosive ordnance removal and landfill management services. DRC mobilized to Kuwait virtually simultaneously with the invasion of the American troops from Saudi Arabia. DRC mobilized into Somalia within three (3) days of the first U.S. troops landing in December 1993. DRC cleared and restored the U.S. Embassy Compound and nineteen (19) buildings therein, including the primary Embassy building, certain national defense facilities and removed several designated and undesignated graveyards. DRC supplied, built and managed housing for thousands of workers and soldiers, supplied thousands of meals per day, provided and serviced toilets, laundry facilities, ice, water and generators. DRC drilled water wells; hauled garbage; purchased, shipped and supplied shiploads of bottled water and other perishable food items; supplied and built four (4) 300-man offices; designed and built numerous mortar protection screens for various highly sensitive facilities; provided construction and reconstruction services, including detailed electrical services and telecommunications systems; provided heavy equipment; and built and operated the first U.S. approved landfill in Somalia.

Since its return to the U.S. in 1995, DRC has responded to virtually every major natural disaster that has occurred in the U.S., including numerous hurricanes, typhoons, floods, ice storms and tornadoes. In its natural disaster responses, DRC has provided disaster management services, which have included debris removal; hazardous waste characterization, removal and disposal; landfill management and clean-clear closure services; debris reduction services, including grinding, shredding and incineration; extensive recycling services; temporary housing and life support; logistics and supply services; communications and emergency railroad services.

In 1995, DRC responded to Hurricane Marilyn in St. Thomas, USVI and Hurricane Opal in Florida, performing landfill management and debris removal services. In 1997 and 1998, DRC performed substantial landfill management, debris removal, park and trail restoration and other disaster management services in the aftermath of Hurricane Fran in North Carolina. DRC performed in excess of $17 million for the North Carolina Department of Transportation alone.

DRC has managed a number of landfills, including processing and separation of debris, grinding of hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of debris, incineration, separation and characterization, recovery and removal of hazardous waste, and performed recycling, shredding and baling of metallic debris. DRC Environmental also operates a 24 hour per day, 10-year contract for incineration of debris for several Texas Municipalities. In June 1998, after a very thorough review based on technical, management, references and price, having bid against some forty (40) bidders, DRC was selected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as the Number One designee for a multi-million dollar Pre-Position Contract for Emergency Disaster Management for seven (7) states and the territories of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. DRC worked in Puerto Rico under this contract during the next year as a result of the devastation caused by Hurricane Georges and also performed temporary roofing services while in Puerto Rico.

In 1999, DRC, under this contract, was mobilized and responded to assist the communities in the vicinity of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in the aftermath of an F-5 tornado, which destroyed thousand of homes and caused the deaths of over 40 individuals. DRC mobilized hundreds of trucks and pieces of heavy equipment and removed over 400,000 cubic yards of debris in a matter of approximately 30 days.

In February 1998, DRC competed against other contractors and, based upon its technical, management and price proposal, was selected for a $20 million recovery contract from Super Typhoon Paka on the Island of Guam in the Pacific Ocean. This contract required the reduction of approximately 1,500,000 cubic yards of vegetative and construction and demolition (C&D) debris and the removal of hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of loose metallic debris and approximately 12,500 destroyed automobiles. DRC operated and managed three (3) temporary landfills, separated household hazardous waste from the incoming debris, reduced the vegetative and C&D debris to a mulch and compacted it in the existing borrow pit and operated and closed two (2) metallic waste reduction and recovery sites. DRC shred and baled several hundred thousand cubic yards of loose metallic debris, including approximately 80,000 pieces of white goods. DRC also crushed approximately 12,500 destroyed automobiles and shipped all of the crushed or shred automobiles to China or Korea for recycling.

Also in 1998, DRC responded to Category 5 Hurricane Mitch in Honduras and restored several miles of river blocked by a devastating avalanche in downtown Tegucigalpa. DRC also repaired roads and bridges throughout the surrounding areas. DRC was later awarded an approximately $17,000,000 contract to restore and establish water and sewer line to 22 villages throughout the country.

In December 1999, DRC was awarded, after a competitive bid with dozens of other contractors, a renewal pre-event contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for nine (9) states, including North and South Carolina, Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Jersey, Delaware, District of Columbia and Virginia. DRC has also been selected as a pre-event stand-by contractor for dozens of additional cities and counties throughout the U.S. for disaster management purposes. The contracts require logistical services, debris management services, electronic and telephonic communications services, debris removal, and hazardous waste containment and removal and landfill management services, as required.

In 1999, in the aftermath of Hurricane Floyd, DRC performed simultaneously numerous contracts throughout Florida, North and South Carolina and mobilized the majority of these contracts within 6-72 hours. These contracts included a 24-hour per day flood fight utilizing prison laborers and sandbags constructing man-made levies in South Carolina to protect major infrastructures; hazardous waste and field containment in the flooded rivers in Lenoir County, North Carolina, and the clean-up of polluted streams and rivers in the vicinity; debris removal throughout all states; beach and sand renourishment; dune walkovers; road repairs and landfill management. In Florida, DRC performed the removal of fish kills in freshwater lakes near the ocean and removal of sand clogging various storm-water drainage systems. DRC also performed demolition services for various homes in flood zones, and technical services for many of the clients.

In January 2000, in the aftermath of the Winter Ice Storm, DRC performed debris removal and landfill management services in North and South Carolina and Georgia. DRC had approximately 500 men and hundreds of pieces of heavy equipment and trucks operating in three (3) counties in Georgia and the Western half of North Carolina. DRC removed and processed approximately 800,000 cubic yards of debris within 60 days.

DRC responded to Albania at the initiation of the hostilities involved in the invasion of Kosovo by the Republic of Serbia. DRC entered Kosovo immediately after the cessation of bombing and performed work for NATO and various other military organizations, including the U.S., Italian and British Armies throughout the Balkans. DRC built helicopter landing pads, remote observation posts and temporary housing; provided logistical services; hazardous and liquid waste removal services; constructed roads, temporary buildings and office complexes. DRC performed very substantial road-building contracts in Kosovo for the British military and installed the first operating traffic signals at a major intersection in the post-liberation Kosovo.

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