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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY/ NOVEMBER 11, 1976
EPA AWARDS $2.4 MILLION CONTRACT TO MINORITY FIRM
The Environmental Protection Agency today announced
the award of a $2.4 million contract to Technassociates, the
largest service contract to be let by the Agency to a minority
owned and managed firm.
The Washington, D.C.-based company will provide coding and
cataloguing services for EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs,
extracting scientific information from data submitted by
pesticide manufacturers in support of claims of safety and
workability of individual pesticide products. The scientific
data are required in applying for registration of pesticides.
Edwin L. Johnson, Deputy Assistant Administrator for
Pesticide Programs', said that Technassociates will perform
a long-needed service, examining some 60,000 volumes of data
covering a million or more tests on pesticide products.
The firm developed a pilot program for the coding and catalog-
guing system before the current work was begun.
The data,Johnson said, have never before been
abstracted or systematically catalogued. He added that
Technassociates, which has done previous work for the pesti-
cides program, will also provide systems Stippprt for the regu-
lar pesticides registration process.
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Technassociates, which has offices at 1430 K Street,
N.W., is headed by Peter Ythier as President. James White
is the company's project officer. Alfred R. Smith negotiated
the contract for EPA.
William E. Mathis, head of the EPA Contracts Management
Division, said that the Agency is making a continuing effort
to employ minority firms, aimed at their business participation
in all aspects of EPA's contracting activities.
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