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MATRIC has broad expertise in the environmental arena and offers services and technologies in a number specific fields, some of which are identified below.

Environmental Management System Development

MATRIC associates have education and experience in the entire scope of environmental regulations and the management systems necessary to maintain compliance. These individuals have been key participants in the development of scores of environmental management plans for a wide range of industries. Additionally, MATRIC associates have extensive documentation and training skills. MATRIC staff have worked in situations in which ISO-9001, ISO 14001, and ISO-9011 are part of the workplace systems and understand the value of having a structured quality system that is an integral part of daily business. Both internal and external auditing for quality systems compliance is an integral part of the MATRIC workplace. Our experience in quality systems, environmental projects and environmental compliance is extensive. Also, we have worked with all levels of the regulatory agencies including local, state, federal and communities.

Essentially all MATRIC staff have worked in situations where environmental regulatory compliance is an integral part of daily operations and have had the responsibility to assure all these requirements were being met and maintained.

Natural Gas Treatment Technologies

MATRIC and its partner, NG-Innovations, Inc., are providing a transportable well-head treatment technology to our natural gas producer clients in the Appalachian Basin in West Virginia. The treatment systems NGI provides can be tailored to the production fluids produced at the well to remove water and other associated contaminates. The clean natural gas can then be sold and released to the gas distribution system. NGI also provides skid mounted desalination equipment than can remove salts from produced water at 95%+ efficiency, significantly reducing operator costs for salt water disposal. The NGI industry-based business model provides our clients a means to substantially reduce treatment and handling costs of associated liquids with little or no out of pocket up-front cost which provides a means to get shut–in or low quality natural gas production conditioned and saleable to markets in the eastern US.

Surface Water Treatment Technologies

MATRIC is working with several major coal producers to develop and deploy passive water treatment systems that are designed to remove dissolved-phase metal contaminants from surface waters at mine sites in West Virginia. The MATRIC systems are tailored to remove certain contaminates using tested chemical separations processes specific to the water chemistry conditions at each site. MATRIC chemists are working with our clients to meet stringent water quality standards that will be protective of human health and the environment while reducing the cost of the required treatment process. MATRIC staff have developed a cooperative approach that is accepted by the regulatory community while providing cost and efficiency improvements to our clients.

Innovative Dynamic Characterization Strategy

MATRIC personnel have developed and implemented an innovative approach to environmental characterization of complex NPL sites that has been refined through application at the Oak Ridge Reservation in East Tennessee. The Dynamic Characterization Strategy is designed to facilitate complete definition of the nature and extent of both chemical and radiological contamination at complex sites like the former Manhattan K-25 Site on the Oak Ridge Reservation. The DCS approach has gained strong support from the DOE and the regulatory community for its application at the Oak Ridge Sites. The DCS process follows EPA guidance while providing flexibility to make changes as the program progresses, thereby facilitating complete characterization without multiple sampling programs and iterations of field activities. The DCS has been successful in clearing substantial acreage at the DOE site in East Tennessee under an expedited remediation program process.

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