Sub-Surface Waste Management chosen to manage site remediation

Carlsbad, CA— Sub-Surface Waste Management of Delaware, Inc. (SSWM) announced that its Mexico subsidiary company Environmental Tec International, S.A. de C.V. (ETI), through the offices of ETI director Dr. Richard Lorden, was received January 31, 2006 by Governor Fidel Herrera of the State of Veracruz, Mexico and Eduardo Cordoba, M.D. the Environmental General Coordinator for the State, and invited to open an office in Veracruz to support the State’s funded environmental compliance plan.

Bruce Beattie, CEO of SSWM stated, “Governor Herrera and Dr. Cordoba outlined immediate projects for direct assignment in environmental site assessment, remediation and emergency response services to address future and historic toxic spills and releases in the State through ETI teaming arrangement with the Zaragoza Graduate School of Studies of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). The State of Veracruz has recently reported more than 200 toxic leaks and spills from the Pemex pipeline system which has impacted over 2,000 hectares of surface soil with petroleum hydrocarbon products.”