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F -- MERCURY REMEDIATION, ON-SITE MERCURY/SOIL SEPARATION PROCESS SOUGHT SOL 9962-003 DUE 050800 POC Bryan Chernick, Response Manager, (425)776-5088 ext. 257, Brad Coury, Zone Program Manager, (425)776-5088 ext.225 CET Environmental Services, Inc. ("CET") is presently the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") prime contractor under the Emergency and Rapid Response Services Contract (ERRS) throughout EPA Regions 6, 8, and 9. A delivery order has been issued to CET to excavate and/or remove mercury-contaminated soil/sediment from an abandoned mine in the Dutch Flat mining district located in the Sierra Nevada region of California. CET is requesting information on equipment that can be utilized on-site to separate the mercury and mercury/gold amalgam from the soil/sediment after it is removed from the mine tunnel. The mercury and mercury/gold amalgam will become the property of the U.S. EPA. The sediment ranges from fine sands and silt to gravel, cobbles and boulders. Access to the mine is limited therefore the equipment to separate the mercury from the sediment must be mobile. The equipment shall be accompanied with operators and personnel required to process the soil/sediment. Please provide a detailed process description of the equipment being proposed to include but not limited to: materials handling, particle size requirements, mercury removal points, power and fuel requirements, plant dimensions, etc. In addition, submit descriptions of other projects that the equipment was utilized on. Also provide information on expected removal efficiency of mercury from the soil/sediment after being processed through the equipment. Please respond no later than May 8, 2000. Posted 04/26/00 (W-SN448831). (0117)

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