Joint Venture Wins Environmental Cleanup Work A small-business joint venture has been awarded a $191.6 million contract to perform environmental remediation and waste management activities at the Energy Department’s Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Paducah, KY. The contractor, Paducah Remediation Services LLC is a joint venture of Portage Environmental Inc. and Shaw Environmental Inc. Portage, a Native American-owned 8(a) firm headquartered in Idaho Falls, ID, is the managing partner. Shaw Environmental is a subsidiary of Shaw Group Inc. of Baton Rouge, LA, a large engineering company. The contract, awarded as a result of a competition, will run through 2009 and provides incentives to the contractor for managing costs effectively while completing the cleanup work on schedule. The Energy Department said Paducah Remediation Services will be responsible for groundwater and soil remedial actions, removing legacy waste, decontamination and decommissioning facilities, operating the site waste storage facilities, surveillance and maintenance activities, as well as other activities. The company will take over from Bechtel Jacobs Co., whose contract expires April 23.