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Nationwide Monitoring Program, Soils,Waters and Animal/Plant Tissues, USWFS

Contract #98210-3-D045

TDI-Brooks International, through its affiliated analytical laboratory, B&B Laboratories, has been awarded by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, one of the three large multi-year contracts for determination of pesticide, PCB, and petroleum contaminants on a wide range of soil, plants, animals, and waters. This contract is worth about $4.5 million of laboratory analyses over the next five years. The contract number is 98210-3-D045, effective October 1st, 2002.

The Department of the Interior, as the nation's principal conservation agency, has responsibility for most of the nationally owned public lands and natural resources. This includes protecting fish and wildlife, preserving the environmental and cultural values of the nation's parks and historic places, and providing for the enjoyment of life through outdoor recreation. The US Fish and Wildlife Service, a Bureau of the Department of the Interior, has the primary goal of the conservation and sound management of sport fishery and wildlife resources for the benefit of present and future generations of Americans. Attainment of this goal requires continual collection, analysis and synthesis of new information on which wise and timely management decisions can be based.

As a part of the decision making process, the Service has the responsibility for determining the effects of environmental contaminants on living organisms and their habitats. A significant part of this responsibility requires the determination of trace amounts of organic contaminants in tissues of fish, wildlife, invertebrates and plants, as well as in water, soil and sediments. Studies cover a wide spectrum of contaminant problems and geographic areas. These include studies involving organic compounds derived from agriculture, energy development, and industrial activities.