Tetra Tech Wins Overseas Contracts

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Tetra Tech Inc. has received a contract from the U.S. Agency for International Development to help local officials in Afghanistan’s capital city provide better municipal services, and a separate smaller contract from the agency to help reduce deforestation in Indonesia.

The Los Angeles engineering services company on Tuesday said the $119 million Afghanistan Kabul City Initiative is designed to help city officials improve services such as sanitation, solid waste, streets, and parks, and to assist Kabul citizens in becoming more involved in the process. Tetra Tech will manage rapid response efforts, provide technical support, training and other assistance. The one-year contract, whose financial terms were not detailed, has two option years.

Tetra Tech Inc. also received a separate AID contract to manage the agency’s Indonesia Forestry and Climate Support project, an effort to reduce deforestation and its impact on climate change. The four-year program aims to cut in half the rate of Indonesian forest degradation due to illegal logging, over-harvesting, fires and other forest loss across more than 10 million acres of forested land in targeted areas.

The program is valued at $40 million, with an initial obligation of $13.8 million. Tetra Tech will provide technical support for efforts that include helping Indonesians improve land and forest resource governance; and build local awareness, capacity and support for better forest management.

Shares were down 41 cents, or 1.8 percent, to $22.87 in midday trading on the Nasdaq.

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