To: Dealer who wrote (22378 ) 12/7/2000 1:46:47 PM From: Mel Spivak Respond to of 65232 A play on GE having to dredge PCB's from the Hudson River: Commodore Applied Technologies, Inc. Announces Significant Progress in Harrisburg NEW YORK, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Commodore Applied Technologies, Inc. (Amex: CXI; CXI.WS), announced today that it has treated approximately 70% of the PCB contaminated soil at the Harrisburg International Airport in Pennsylvania. Commodore's patented solvated electron technology (SET(TM)) S-10 unit has destroyed PCBs in the soil to less than 1 part per million, meeting U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requirements. In fact, the average PCB levels in the treated soil are less than 0.4 parts per million, exceeding EPA requirements. SET(TM) is based on solvated electron chemistry, which combines liquid ammonia and sodium to produce ``free electrons'' in a reducing solution. SET(TM) destroys some of the world's most hazardous compounds, including energetics and munitions, the hazardous components in radioactive mixed waste, dioxins, furans, PCBs, chemical weapons agents and ozone-depleting substances such as halons and CFCs. Commodore mobilized the S-10, its largest commercial SET(TM) system, to the Harrisburg International Airport earlier this year to remediate in excess of 500,000 lbs. of soil removed from the site of a PCB-contaminated oil spill. The work is being performed for the Pennsylvania Air National Guard under a subcontract with Operational Technologies, Inc., of San Antonio, TX. The project will be completed in December, when the soil will be returned to its original excavation site. Commodore expects to demobilize from the Harrisburg site early in January. At the Harrisburg site in November, Commodore successfully completed processing ten consecutive batches of material for a scheduled EPA demonstration required to revise its existing nationwide permit for PCB destruction. The demonstration will result in the inclusion of the new S-10 system in the nationwide permit. In addition to EPA-headquarters review, EPA Region 3 and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection observed the system's operation. With the EPA-issued permit, Commodore is authorized to treat PCB-contaminated materials anywhere in the U.S. Commodore Applied Technologies, Inc. -- headquartered in New York, N.Y. and traded publicly on the American Stock Exchange -- is a diverse technical and financial solutions company focused on high-end environmental markets. The Commodore family of companies includes subsidiaries Commodore Solution Technologies, Commodore Advanced Sciences and Dispute Resolution Management, and a joint venture, Teledyne-Commodore, LLC. The Commodore companies provide negotiated financial solutions, technical engineering services and patented remediation technologies designed to treat hazardous waste from nuclear and chemical sources. More information is available on the Commodore web site atcommodore.com . These materials contain forward-looking statements based on a series of projections and estimates regarding economics within the company's markets, the industries in which the company operates, the effects of legislation and regulations, as well as business and competitive outlook. SOURCE: Commodore Applied Technologies, Inc.