MACTEC WINS $5 MILLION, FIVE-YEAR NAVY CONTRACT

GAINESVILLE, FL, Feb. 4, 2008 -- MACTEC Engineering & Consulting (MACTEC E&C) has been awarded a $5 million, five-year contract with the U.S. Navy's Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Southeast. Bruce C. Coles, president of MACTEC E&C and chairman & CEO of MACTEC, Inc., the holding company (www.mactec.com) - made the announcement. The company's Gainesville office is supervising the contract.

NAVFAC Southeast plans, designs and manages construction for the Navy, from Charleston, SC to Corpus Christi, TX and south to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. NAVFAC Southeast also manages and maintains facilities on all naval bases and provides housing for military families.

According to MACTEC Program Manager Bill Barnard, the firm will provide various air/radon services for NAVFAC Southeast, including annual air emission inventories, Title V Federal operating permits (as specified in the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments) and State of Florida air permits, database development, NESHAP (National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants) training and compliance activities, stack testing (routine testing to certify emissions of various pollutants from stacks) and radon testing.

"This is the third time MACTEC has been awarded the contract, marking an uninterrupted 15-year period during which our company has successfully served the Navy," said Barnard. "We have also never experienced a cost overrun on any delivery order."

Under the current contract the firm is providing Title V support (preparation and compliance assessment) for NAS Jacksonville and NS Mayport, preparing annual emission inventories/reports for NCBC Gulfport, NAS Whiting Field and NCBC Gulfport, and is providing omnibus Clean Air Act support for Corpus Christi Army Depot. In addition, the firm is preparing an inventory of mobile source emissions for NASJRB Ft. Worth.

MACTEC, based in Alpharetta, GA, is an environmental, engineering, construction management, and infrastructure services firm with more than $450 million in annual revenue and 3,000 employees in over 80 offices nationwide. The firm has operated in Gainesville since the 1970s. Additional Florida offices are located in Jacksonville, Miami, Naples, Orlando, Tallahassee and Tampa.

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