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disaster construction and environmental work for the USDA, USACE, and other customers in CA, TX, AR, MN, and PR. Ceres' management has demonstrated its commitment to superior performance and customer satisfaction. During the Hurricane season of 2005, Ceres had pre-placed contracts with Terrebonne Parish, LA, and Palm Beach Gardens, FL that became activated due to Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma, respectively. In both cases, Ceres had management staff on the ground before the Hurricanes made landfall. It is noteworthy, that with Ceres already fully mobilized and in the midst of moving millions of cubic yards of debris and installing thousands of temporary roofs from previous Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the City of Palm Beach Gardens still received such a high level of service they saw fit to evaluate Ceres' performance as "Exceptional." Ceres' management has demonstrated a high level of capability and adaptability during its performance on Hurricane Georges recovery work for the Corps of Engineers in Puerto Rico. Here, Ceres successfully mobilized from the United States, operated 17 temporary reduction sites over an area of 3,000 square miles across the island of Puerto Rico, and reduced, processed, and sorted more than 2.3 million cubic yards of debris while simultaneously hauling and disposing of 1 million cubic yards of debris (and processed material), and installing approximately 3,000 temporary roof repairs. This project was made more difficult by the fact that this was Ceres' first project in an unfamiliar region where English was not the native language; and more significantly, the island had a lack of qualified Subcontractors. Ceres management successfully performed this project by hiring and directly managing more than 1,400 local employees in lieu of significant subcontracting. This project earned a high customer evaluation. FINANCES AND ACCOUNTING Ceres has the ability to provide performance and payments bonds from a treasury-listed carrier in amounts in excess of $300M per single project. During the 2005 storm season, Ceres provided bonds for three concurrent Corps of Engineers hurricane response projects with contract award amounts of $500M, $60M, and $50M. With more than $60M in liquid working capital and additional credit lines available, a lack of financial resources is never an obstacle for Ceres. In addition, owner and President David Mcintyre has personally committed an additional $30M of working capital, totaling $90M available to support the financial strength of the company. EQUIPMENT Ceres owns more than 450 pieces of its own disaster response equipment with substantially more additional equipment available through our subcontractors. In our 2005 response for the USACE on Hurricane Katrina, Ceres provided more than 7,800 trucks and supporting loading equipment for an 11- parish region in Louisiana. Ceres-owned equipment augments our subcontractors' equipment and provides additional flexibility, direct management control, and higher levels of customer responsiveness and satisfaction. Because of our extensive company-owned fleet, Ceres can send equipment and personnel to respond to a disaster regardless of the availability of subcontractors. On a 2002 storm debris project for Kansas City, MO, Ceres provided more than 500 pieces of equipment for a project requiring completion of the first pass within 16 days of contract award (the first pass required hauling over 500,000 cubic yards). Ceres successfully met the 16 day first pass deadline and the Kansas City Project Manager in charge won an award for his outstanding disaster response performance. Ceres owns all the life support equipment needed for supporting its own personnel including: mobile living quarters, food supply, large potable water supply tanks, and large septic storage systems. These systems save valuable management time in responding to higher category storms. Ceres also has available life support systems for project-wide support and Government personnel. Ceres owns four self-contained office trailers including satellite internet connections and satellite phones as well as additional loaner satellite cell phones for our customers' management teams. Through our established vendor supply chain we can supply rental satellite phone service to our clients. In addition to our ample fleet of disaster equipment and heavy equipment, our history in large construction provides us with a national network of vendors from whom we can source all additional types of heavy equipment that 0 may be useful for any specialty work. CJ;.BJ;;S Tab B. General Information Section B.1. Capabilities and Experience Page 2 of 6 o o