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Salt Lake City, Utah - The U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration has appointed Richard B. White of EarthFax Engineering, Inc. to a two-year term on the Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee (“ETTAC”).

EarthFax Engineering, Inc. has completed the design of the 4th phase of a multi-phase project to upgrade the firewater system at a major oil refinery in northern Utah. 

Salt Lake City, Utah –EarthFax Engineering, Inc. ("EarthFax") has recently completed engineering design work for the $4.3 million Escalante City culinary water system upgrades. 

Salt Lake City, Utah – EarthFax Engineering, Inc. ("EarthFax") has completed the design of a treatment system to remove perchlorates and other propellants from storm water runoff from the Bacchus Works of ATK Launch Systems. 

Salt Lake City, Utah –EarthFax Engineering, Inc. ("EarthFax") has been awarded a contract for engineering design and construction supervision of the USD $4.3 million Escalante City culinary water system upgrades. 

EarthFax Engineering, Inc. ("EarthFax") has begun design work on an emergency water supply system for the Uintah Basin Medical Center located in northeastern Utah. 

Salt Lake City, Utah –EarthFax Engineering, Inc. ("EarthFax") has recently begun work to inventory and model the process and stormwater sewer systems at a major oil refinery in northern Utah. 

Salt Lake City, Utah –EarthFax Engineering, Inc. ("EarthFax") completed design work, provided construction inspection services, and served as Owner’s Representative for several vehicular- and foot-traffic bridges recently installed at a petroleum refinery in northern Utah. 

EarthFax Engineering, Inc. ("EarthFax") recently completed characterization of sludges and soils in a major drainage canal that had been used for decades as a wastewater conveyance system and is under consideration by U.S. EPA and the State of Utah as a potential Superfund site. 

Salt Lake City, Utah –EarthFax Engineering, Inc. ("EarthFax") has completed design and construction inspection work associated with bioremediation of hydrocarbon contamination in two former refinery wastewater treatment ponds and putting the ponds to beneficial use both as emergency firewater reservoirs and as a means to enhance adjacent jurisdictional wetlands.

Salt Lake City, Utah –EarthFax Engineering, Inc. ("EarthFax") has recently completed a compendium of methods for enhancing stream channel stability for a petroleum pipeline company that operates approximately 2,800 miles of pipelines throughout the western United States and Canada. 

Salt Lake City, Utah – A project designed by EarthFax Engineering, Inc. ("EarthFax") was recently honored with the 2003 Excellence in Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation National Award. 

Salt Lake City, Utah - EarthFax Development Corporation (“EarthFax”) has received a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (“SBIR”) grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Salt Lake City, Utah – In association with Chevron Texaco Pipe Line, Spiltec, and Research Planning, Inc., EarthFax Engineering, Inc. was selected to make two presentations to the 2003 International Oil Spill Conference to be held April 6-10 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.  The presentations focused on the topic of in-situ burning as a response technology at inland oil spill sites following a successful response to an inland oil spill located adjacent to the north shore of the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

Salt Lake City, Utah - EarthFax Engineering, Inc. and its affiliate EarthFax Development Corporation have recently signed a Letter of Intent with the Institute of Chemistry (“IOCH”) of the National Center for Science and Technology of Vietnam. 

Salt Lake City, Utah - EarthFax Development Corporation (“EarthFax”) was recently awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (“SBIR”) grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of producing pelleted inocula for fungal-based bioremediation of contaminated soil.

Salt Lake City, Utah - A project recently completed by EarthFax Engineering, Inc. (“EarthFax”) has been designated as a Best Practice by the Eurasian-American Partnership for Environmentally Sustainable Economies (“EcoLinks”). 

Salt Lake City, Utah - July 26, 2001.  EarthFax Development Corporation recently completed laboratory work under a Small Business Innovative Research grant awarded through EPA to evaluate the feasibility of using biobed technology to contain and destroy pesticides and herbicides at agricultural mixing and loading facilities.

Salt Lake City, Utah - On May 2, 2001 EarthFax Engineering, Inc., in association with Chevron Pipe Line Company and EPA Region VIII, presented a case study of an inland oil spill response to the Rocky Mountain Hazardous Materials Association (“RMHMA”).

Salt Lake City, Utah - EarthFax Engineering, Inc. has completed work on a three-phase project awarded through the EcoLinks Challenge Grant program.  The purpose of the grant was to evaluate alternatives to reduce pollution and recover coal from waste rock at an underground coal mine located in the Sakhalin Region of the Russian Far East.

Salt Lake City, Utah - EarthFax Engineering, Inc. ("EarthFax") recently received a notice of intent to award an EcoLinks Challenge Grant.

Salt Lake City, Utah - EarthFax Development Corporation announced today the expansion of its chemical and microbiological laboratory services to include solidification/stabilization bench-scale testing.

Salt Lake City, Utah - EarthFax Development Corporation announced today the expansion of its microbiological and chemical laboratory services to include the extraction and purification of humic and fulvic acids in soil, water, and other substances.

Bath, Michigan - EarthFax Engineering, Inc. ("EarthFax") recently received a Spirit Award from Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Corporation ("UDS") for groundwater quality assessment work completed at the Alma, Michigan refinery.

Salt Lake City, Utah - EarthFax Engineering, Inc. and its affiliate EarthFax Development Corporation ("EarthFax") recently entered into a joint technology and business development agreement with the Georgia firm, Advanced Biological Services ("ABS"), to develop opportunities for commercializing the patented white rot fungus ("WRF") technology in liquid and solid media.

Salt Lake City, Utah - EarthFax Engineering, Inc. and its affiliate EarthFax Development Corporation recently entered into an agreement with the California firm, Government & Export Sales Specialists ("GESS"), to develop opportunities for commercializing the patented white rot fungus ("WRF") technology in Pacific Rim countries and elsewhere.

Salt Lake City, Utah - EarthFax Development Corporation and its affiliate, EarthFax Engineering, Inc. ("EarthFax") recently signed a cooperative agreement with the German firm, Dr. Bilger Umweltconsulting GmbH ("Bilger").