ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, April 2, 1996 TAG: 9604020061
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: B7 EDITION: METRO
ETS agrees to purchase Fairfax lab
ETS International Inc. of Roanoke said Monday it has agreed to acquire the assets of an environmental laboratory in Fairfax.
The business, to be purchased from the Dewberry & Davis engineering firm, will stay at its present site but will operate as a division of ETS Analytical Services Inc., the Roanoke-based environmental laboratory of ETS International. Terms of the deal were not reported.
The Fairfax lab provides services to municipalities and industrial clients in Northern Virginia, Southern Maryland and Washington, D.C. It specializes in the analysis of drinking water, waste water, storm water and groundwater from landfill monitoring systems.
ETS Analytical Services, with offices in Roanoke and Richmond, is a contract laboratory for the EPA Office of Water. -Staff report Some idle farm land can go back in use
Farmers who have contracted with the federal government to take land out of production for conservation purposes will be able to sign up for an ``early out'' from some of those contracts through April 26, the government says.
Some land, including that which is highly erodible or close to permanent bodies of water, will not be eligible for early release, said Donald Davis, state executive for the Farm Service Agency. Farmers should contact their local FSA office to determine if their land is eligible.
Davis also said farmers whose conservation contracts expire Sept. 30 will be able to renew them for only one year because Congress has yet to enact a new Farm Bill, extending authority for the contracts. -Staff report GM disposal of EDS to cost 5,000 jobs
DETROIT - General Motors Corp.'s board approved Monday a split-off of Electronic Data Systems, ending an uneasy 12-year marriage and freeing the computer-services business to hunt for acquisitions.
EDS, based in Plano, Texas, and founded in 1962 by Dallas billionaire Ross Perot, said the split-off will eliminate up to 5,000 jobs, including 2,200 firings, in the next few months. The company will take a pretax charge of $500 million to $750 million in the second quarter, when the transaction is expected to be completed. -Bloomberg Business News
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