Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc. announced its joint venture, Enviro-Fix Solutions, LLC, in which it owns a 45% ownership stake, has been awarded a $40 million, 5-year contract by the Buffalo District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) for environmental remediation at the Niagara Falls Storage Site (NFSS). Enviro-Fix is a joint venture between ECC of Burlingame, CA and Perma-Fix to provide remediation and waste management services for the USACE clean-up mission. NFSS occupies approximately 1,500 acres of the original 7,500 acre Lake Ontario Ordnance Works (LOOW), a former trinitrotoluene manufacturing facility built during the 1940s.

In 1934, the LOOW was reassigned to the Manhattan Engineer District and began to be used as a storage location for radioactive residues and other radioactive material that resulted from the development of the atomic bomb. NFSS is a designated Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) site. FUSRAP was established to identify, investigate, and cleanup or control sites that were contaminated above DOE guidelines.

Cleanup activities are managed by USACE under the oversight of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management.