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o o o - ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE Ceres Environmental Services, Inc. is a privately held company owned and operated by its President, David Mcintyre. The company is headquartered in Sarasota, FL, with other Florida offices, and equipment facilities, staging sites, and recycling centers in Minnesota, Texas, Louisiana, California, and Puerto Rico. We also have joint venture agreements in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Ceres is structured so that one or two of the corporate officers can leave headquarters for an extended period of time and manage projects from the field, while one or two remain at the headquarters to ensure continuity of management. This proved very useful when Ceres was awarded a $500 million contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to perform a disaster debris contract following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in which the President and the Vice President both left corporate headquarters to go onsite in Louisiana for over six months. Ceres has found its disaster recovery work to be very project-based over the years. In response to this circumstance, Ceres has organized its disaster response work in a manner that relies heavily on an Operations Manager (OM) (see the organizational charts on the following pages). The OM supervises a Program Manager who is in charge of all field production and also supervises a Project Administrator who is in charge of administrative functions on a project basis. The Program Manager in turn supervises several Area Managers (whose quantity depends on the size of the project), who supervise Sector Managers, who supervise Site Managers. The Site Managers supervise a physical location, which may be a TDSR site, a debris loading site, or a demolition site, and the personnel they supervise are generally foremen or people physically performing the work. In addition to the line managers, the Program Manager also supervises the work of a Logistics Manager and an Area Administrator, who are staff people. At the Sector level, it is customary to have office staff. The aforementioned hierarchy allows for optimal production in that multiple crews (depending on project size) are supervised and maintained while all safety, data management, and tracking protocols are being met in conjunction with quality performance. The Project Administrator supervises the administrative staff on a field project. He and his staff provide support for the line managers and supervisors in the field on the jobsite. The Small Business Plan Administrator locates contracts with and administers relations with subcontractors. On large projects, the Small Business Plan Administrator may have clerical help, and will provide technical support for our subcontractors, such as assistance in preparing certified payrolls if required. The Information Technology (IT) department is responsible for tracking all types of data on the project, record keeping, and database management, and the accounting staff provides on site support for Ceres personnel. The Internal Audit department is a fairly new addition to the Ceres management team. During the work on Hurricane Katrina recovery, especially during the private property debris removal activities, Ceres' management noticed that the quantity of quality control personnel was very high compared with the quantity of traditional production personnel. In order to maintain assurance that a project was proceeding as it should, and that personnel in all aspects of the project are performing as they should, Ceres has instituted the position of Internal Audit Manager, who supervises Audit Managers. These individuals review activities in the field as well as review files in the office to be sure that all Ceres employees are doing their work as specified in the contract. The rigors of a Six Sigma program are not planned, but Ceres senior management believes that this addition to our organization will help Ceres strengthen its performance. Ceres maintains a Corporate Health and Safety Officer to whom an Environmental Manager and a Project Safety Officer report for each project underway. Sector Managers report to the Environmental Manager and Project Safety Officer, and functional specialists work in the field with specialized training to fill specific needs such as asbestos inspections. The cac System Manager reports directly to the Company President, and supervises the area cac Managers, who in turn supervise the Sector cac managers, who in turn supervise the functional specialists. C~RBsS Tab 8 General Information Section 8.2 Organizational Structure and Charts Page 1 of 3