−Removed: Strategic Environmental &
−Removed: Energy Resources, Inc.
+Added: Environmental & Energy Resources, Inc.
(“the Company”
−Removed: or “SEER”) was originally organized under the laws of the State of
−Removed: Nevada on February 13, 2002 for the purpose of acquiring one or more businesses, under the name of Satellite Organizing Solutions,
−Removed: Inc (“SOZG”).
−Removed: In January 2008, SOZG changed its name to Strategic Environmental & Energy Resources, Inc., reduced
−Removed: its number of outstanding shares through a reverse stock split and consummated the acquisition of both, REGS, LLC and Tactical
−Removed: Cleaning Company, LLC.
−Removed: SEER is dedicated to assembling complementary service and environmental, clean-technology businesses that
−Removed: provide safe, innovative, cost effective, and profitable solutions in the oil & gas, environmental, waste management and renewable
−Removed: energy industries.
−Removed: SEER currently operates five companies with four offices in the western and mid-western U.S.
−Removed: Through these operating
−Removed: companies, SEER provides products and services throughout the U.S.
−Removed: and has licensed technologies with many customer installations
−Removed: throughout the U.S.
+Added: or “SEER”) was originally organized under the
+Added: laws of the State of Nevada on February 13, 2002 for the purpose of acquiring one or more businesses, under the name of Satellite
+Added: Organizing Solutions, Inc (“SOZG”).
+Added: In January 2008, SOZG changed its name to Strategic Environmental & Energy
+Added: Resources, Inc., reduced its number of outstanding shares through a reverse stock split and consummated the acquisition of both,
+Added: REGS, LLC and Tactical Cleaning Company, LLC.
+Added: SEER is dedicated to assembling complementary service and environmental, clean-technology
+Added: businesses that provide safe, innovative, cost effective, and profitable solutions in the oil & gas, environmental, waste
+Added: management and renewable energy industries.
+Added: SEER currently operates five companies with four offices in the western and mid-western
+Added: Through these operating companies, SEER provides products and services throughout the U.S.
+Added: and has licensed technologies
+Added: with many customer installations throughout the U.S.
Each of the five operating companies is discussed in more detail below.
−Removed: The Company also has non-controlling
−Removed: interests in joint ventures, some of which have no or minimal operations.
−Removed: The Company’s domestic
−Removed: strategy is to grow internally through SEER’s subsidiaries that have well established revenue streams and, simultaneously,
−Removed: establish long-term alliances with and/or acquire complementary domestic businesses in rapidly growing markets for renewable energy,
−Removed: waste and water treatment and oil & gas services.
−Removed: The focus of the SEER family of companies, however is to increase margins
−Removed: by securing or developing proprietary patented and patent-pending technologies and then leveraging its 20 plus-year service experience
−Removed: to place these innovations and solutions into the growing markets of emission capture and control, renewable “green gas”
−Removed: capture and sale, compressed natural gas (“CNG”) fuel generation, as well as general solid waste and medical/pharmaceutical
−Removed: waste destruction.
−Removed: Many of SEER’s current operating companies share customer bases and each provides truly synergistic services,
−Removed: technologies and products as well as annuity type revenue streams.
−Removed: The company now owns and manages
−Removed: four operating entities and two entities that has no significant operations to date.
−Removed: REGS, LLC d/b/a Resource Environmental
−Removed: Group Services (“REGS”):
−Removed: (operating since 1994) provides general industrial cleaning services and waste management
−Removed: to many industry sectors focusing primarily on oil & gas production (upstream) and refineries (downstream).
−Removed: MV, LLC (d/b/a MV Technologies),
−Removed: (“MV”) :
−Removed: (operating since 2003) MV designs and sells patented and/or proprietary, dry scrubber solutions
−Removed: for management of Hydrogen Sulfide (H 2 S) in biogas, landfill gas, and petroleum processing operations.
−Removed: solutions are marketed under the product names H2SPlus™
+Added: Company also has non-controlling interests in joint ventures, some of which have no or minimal operations.
+Added: Company’s domestic strategy is to grow internally through SEER’s subsidiaries that have well established revenue streams
+Added: and, simultaneously, establish long-term alliances with and/or acquire complementary domestic businesses in rapidly growing markets
+Added: for renewable energy, waste and water treatment and oil & gas services.
+Added: The focus of the SEER family of companies, however
+Added: is to increase margins by securing or developing proprietary patented and patent-pending technologies and then leveraging its
+Added: 20 plus-year service experience to place these innovations and solutions into the growing markets of emission capture and control,
+Added: renewable “green gas”
+Added: capture and sale, compressed natural gas (“CNG”) fuel generation, as well as general
+Added: solid waste and medical/pharmaceutical waste destruction.
+Added: Many of SEER’s current operating companies share customer bases
+Added: and each provides truly synergistic services, technologies and products as well as annuity type revenue streams.
+Added: Company now owns and manages five operating entities and one entity that has no significant operations to date.
+Added: LLC d/b/a Resource Environmental Group Services (“REGS”):
+Added: (operating since 1994) designs and manufactures
+Added: environmental systems and provides general industrial cleaning services and waste management consulting to many industry sectors.
+Added: During the fourth quarter of 2019, the Company ceased bidding on, and accepting contracts for the services division of its REGS
+Added: The results from the subsidiary are included in discontinued operations for the years ended 2019 and 2018.
+Added: have been uncompleted;
+Added: therefore, the division does not have any performance obligations at December 31, 2019.
+Added: Fifteen employees
+Added: in the division were terminated at December 31, 2019.
+Added: The Company is investigating the sale of REGS assets as of December 31,
+Added: LLC (d/b/a MV Technologies), (“MV”) :
+Added: (operating since 2003) MV designs and sells patented and/or proprietary,
+Added: dry scrubber solutions for management of Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) in biogas, landfill gas, and petroleum processing operations.
+Added: These system solutions are marketed under the product names H2SPlus™
and OdorFilter™.
−Removed: The markets for these products include land
−Removed: fill operations, agricultural and food product processors, wastewater treatment facilities, and petroleum product refiners.
−Removed: also develops and designs proprietary technologies and systems used to condition biogas for use as renewable natural gas (“RNG”),
−Removed: for a number of applications, such as transportation fuel and natural gas pipeline injection.
−Removed: Paragon Waste Solutions, LLC (“PWS”):
−Removed: (formed late 2010) PWS is an operating company that has developed a patented waste destruction technology using a pyrolytic
−Removed: heating process combined with “non-thermal plasma”
+Added: The markets for these products
+Added: include land fill operations, agricultural and food product processors, wastewater treatment facilities, and petroleum product
+Added: MV also develops and designs proprietary technologies and systems used to condition biogas for use as renewable natural
+Added: gas (“RNG”), for a number of applications, such as transportation fuel and natural gas pipeline injection.
+Added: Waste Solutions, LLC (“PWS”):
+Added: (formed late 2010) PWS is an operating company that has developed a patented waste
+Added: destruction technology using a pyrolytic heating process combined with “non-thermal plasma”
assisted oxidation.
−Removed: This technique involves gasification of solid
−Removed: waste by heating the waste in a low-oxygen environment, followed by complete oxidation at higher temperatures in the presence of
+Added: technique involves gasification of solid waste by heating the waste in a low-oxygen environment, followed by complete oxidation
+Added: at higher temperatures in the presence of plasma.
The term “non-thermal plasma”
−Removed: refers to a low energy ionized gas that is generated by electrical discharges
−Removed: between two electrodes.
−Removed: This technology, commercially referred to as CoronaLux™, is designed and intended for the “clean”
−Removed: destruction of hazardous chemical and biological waste (i.e ., hospital “red bag”
−Removed: waste) thereby eliminating
−Removed: the need for costly segregation, transportation, incineration or landfill (with their associated legacy liabilities).
−Removed: 54% owned subsidiary.
−Removed: ReaCH4BioGas (“Reach”)
−Removed: (trade name for Benefuels, LLC):
+Added: refers to a low energy ionized gas
+Added: that is generated by electrical discharges between two electrodes.
+Added: This technology, commercially referred to as CoronaLux™,
+Added: is designed and intended for the “clean”
+Added: destruction of hazardous chemical and biological waste (i.e ., hospital
+Added: “red bag”
+Added: waste) thereby eliminating the need for costly segregation, transportation, incineration or landfill (with
+Added: their associated legacy liabilities).
+Added: PWS is a 54% owned subsidiary.
+Added: (“Reach”) (trade name for Benefuels, LLC):
(formed February 2013) owned 85% by SEER.
−Removed: Reach develops renewable natural gas projects that
−Removed: convert raw biogas into pipeline quality gas and/or Renewable, “RNG”, for fleet vehicles.
−Removed: Reach has had minimal operations
−Removed: as of December 31, 2017.
−Removed: SEER Environmental Materials, LLC
−Removed: (“SEM”):
−Removed: (formed September 2015) is a wholly owned subsidiary established as a materials technology business with
−Removed: the purpose of developing advanced chemical absorbents and catalysts that enhance the capability of biogas produced from, landfill,
−Removed: wastewater treatment operations and agricultural digester operations.
−Removed: PelleChar, LLC (“PelleChar”):
+Added: Reach develops renewable
+Added: natural gas projects that convert raw biogas into pipeline quality gas and/or Renewable, “RNG”, for fleet vehicles.
+Added: Reach has had minimal operations as of December 31, 2019.
+Added: Environmental Materials, LLC (“SEM”):
+Added: (formed September 2015) is a wholly owned subsidiary established as a materials
+Added: technology business with the purpose of developing advanced chemical absorbents and catalysts that enhance the capability of biogas
+Added: produced from, landfill, wastewater treatment operations and agricultural digester operations.
+Added: LLC (“PelleChar”):
(formed September 2018) owned 51% by SEER.
−Removed: PelleChar has secured third-party pellet manufacturing capabilities from one of
−Removed: the nation’s premier pellet manufacturer.
−Removed: Working closely with Biochar Now, LLC, PelleChar intends to commence sales in early
−Removed: 2019 of its proprietary pellets containing the proven and superior Biochar Now product starting with the landscaping and big agriculture
−Removed: At this time, PelleChar is the only company able to offer a soil amendment pellet containing the Biochar Now product that
−Removed: is produced using the patented pyrolytic process.
−Removed: Joint Ventures
−Removed: MV RCM Joint Venture :
−Removed: 2013, MV Technologies, Inc (“MV”) and RCM International, LLC (“RCM”) entered into an Agreement to develop
−Removed: hybrid scrubber systems that employ elements of RCM Technology and MV Technology (the “Joint Venture”).
−Removed: Technologies will independently market the hybrid scrubber systems.
−Removed: The contractual Joint Venture has an initial term of five years
−Removed: and will automatically renew for successive one-year periods unless either Party gives the other Party one hundred and eighty (180)
+Added: PelleChar has secured third-party pellet manufacturing
+Added: capabilities from one of the nation’s premier pellet manufacturer.
+Added: PelleChar commenced sales in early 2019 of its proprietary
+Added: pellets containing the proven and superior Biochar Now product starting with the landscaping and big agriculture markets.
+Added: time, PelleChar is the only company able to offer a soil amendment pellet containing the Biochar Now product that is produced
+Added: using the patented pyrolytic process.
+Added: RCM Joint Venture :
+Added: In April 2013, MV Technologies, Inc (“MV”) and RCM International, LLC (“RCM”) entered
+Added: into an Agreement to develop hybrid scrubber systems that employ elements of RCM Technology and MV Technology (the “Joint
+Added: Venture”).
+Added: RCM and MV Technologies will independently market the hybrid scrubber systems.
+Added: The contractual Joint Venture
+Added: has an initial term of five years and will automatically renew for successive one-year periods unless either Party gives the other
+Added: Party one hundred and eighty (180) days’
notice prior to the applicable renewal date.
−Removed: Operations to date of the Joint Venture have been limited to formation
−Removed: Paragon Waste (UK) Ltd :
−Removed: 2014, PWS and PCI Consulting Ltd (“PCI”) formed Paragon Waste (UK) Ltd (“Paragon UK Joint Venture”) to
−Removed: develop, permit and exploit the PWS waste destruction technology within the territory of Ireland and the United Kingdom.
−Removed: PCI each own 50% of the voting shares of Paragon UK Joint Venture.
−Removed: Operations to date of the Paragon UK Joint Venture have been
−Removed: limited to formation, the delivery of a CoronaLux™
−Removed: unit with a third party in the United Kingdom and application and permitting
−Removed: efforts with regulatory entities.
−Removed: P&P Company :
−Removed: 2015, PWS and Particle Science Tech of Environmental Protection, Inc.
−Removed: (“Particle Science”) formed a joint venture,
−Removed: Particle & Paragon Environmental Solutions, Inc (“P&P”) to exploit the PWS technology in China, including Hong
−Removed: Kong, Macao and Taiwan.
+Added: Operations to date of the Joint Venture
+Added: have been limited to formation activities.
+Added: Waste (UK) Ltd :
+Added: In June 2014, PWS and PCI Consulting Ltd (“PCI”) formed Paragon Waste (UK) Ltd (“Paragon
+Added: UK Joint Venture”) to develop, permit and exploit the PWS waste destruction technology within the territory of Ireland and
+Added: the United Kingdom.
+Added: PWS and PCI each own 50% of the voting shares of Paragon UK Joint Venture.
+Added: Operations to date of the Paragon
+Added: UK Joint Venture have been limited to formation, the delivery of a CoronaLux™
+Added: unit with a third party in the United Kingdom
+Added: and application and permitting efforts with regulatory entities.
+Added: In February 2015, PWS and Particle Science Tech of Environmental Protection, Inc.
+Added: (“Particle Science”)
+Added: formed a joint venture, Particle & Paragon Environmental Solutions, Inc (“P&P”) to exploit the PWS technology
+Added: in China, including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.
PWS and Particle Science each own 50% of P&P.
−Removed: Operations to date have been limited to formation of
−Removed: P&P and the sale and delivery of a CoronaLux™
+Added: Operations to date have been
+Added: limited to formation of P&P and the sale and delivery of a CoronaLux™
unit to Particle Science in China.
−Removed: PWS MWS Joint Venture :
−Removed: 2014, PWS and Medical Waste Services, LLC (“MWS”) formed a contractual joint venture to exploit the PWS medical waste
−Removed: destruction technology.
+Added: MWS Joint Venture :
+Added: In October 2014, PWS and Medical Waste Services, LLC (“MWS”) formed a contractual joint venture
+Added: to exploit the PWS medical waste destruction technology.
In 2015, MWS licensed and installed a CoronaLux™
−Removed: unit at an MWS facility, and subsequently received
−Removed: a limited permit to operate from the South Coast Air Quality Management District (“SCAQMD”) and the California Department
−Removed: of Public Health.
−Removed: In November 2017, PWS received final air quality permit approval from SCAQMD allowing for full operations of
−Removed: the CoronaLux™
+Added: unit at an MWS
+Added: facility, and subsequently received a limited permit to operate from the South Coast Air Quality Management District (“SCAQMD”)
+Added: and the California Department of Public Health.
+Added: In November 2017, PWS received final air quality permit approval from SCAQMD allowing
+Added: for full operations of the CoronaLux™
unit at the MWS facility.
−Removed: Paragon Southwest Joint Venture :
−Removed: In December 2017, PWS and GulfWest Waste Solutions, LLC (“GWWS”) formed Paragon Southwest Medical Waste, LLC (“PSMW”)
−Removed: to exploit the PWS medical waste destruction technology.
−Removed: PSMW will have an exclusive license to the CoronaLux™
−Removed: in a six-state area of the Southern United States.
−Removed: In addition to the equity position, PWS will be the operating partner for the
−Removed: business and sell a number of additional systems to the joint venture over the next five years.
−Removed: In 2017, PSMW purchased and installed
−Removed: three CoronaLux™
+Added: Southwest Joint Venture :
+Added: In December 2017, PWS and GulfWest Waste Solutions, LLC (“GWWS”) formed Paragon Southwest
+Added: Medical Waste, LLC (“PSMW”) to exploit the PWS medical waste destruction technology.
+Added: PSMW has an exclusive license
+Added: to the CoronaLux™
+Added: technology in a six-state area of the Southern United States.
+Added: In addition to the equity position, PWS
+Added: is the operating partner for the business and sell a number of additional systems to the joint venture over the next five years.
+Added: In 2017, PSMW purchased and installed three CoronaLux™
units at an PSMW facility.
−Removed: Operations in the form of medical waste destruction began in the first quarter
−Removed: Segment Information
−Removed: The Company currently has identified
−Removed: three segments as follows:
+Added: Operations in the form of medical waste
+Added: destruction began in the first quarter of 2018.
+Added: Company currently has identified three segments as follows:
% of Annual Revenues
Industrial Cleaning *
+Added: MV, SEM, PelleChar
Environmental Solutions
−Removed: Reach is not currently operating
−Removed: but should operations commence it will be part of the Environmental Solutions segment.
−Removed: The MV RCM Joint Venture is not currently
−Removed: operating but should operations commence it will be part of the Environmental Solutions segment.
−Removed: PelleChar was not operating as
−Removed: of December 31, 2018 but when operations commence it will be part of a new segment, Soil Amendment/Organic Fertilizer.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2018, we
−Removed: had two customers with sales in excess of 10% of our revenues.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2017, we had no one customer with sales in excess
−Removed: of 10% of our revenue.
−Removed: See Notes 2 and 18 to the consolidated financial statements and Item 1A Risk Factors.
−Removed: Financial Condition
−Removed: As shown in the accompanying
−Removed: consolidated financial statements, the Company has experienced recurring losses, and has an accumulated deficit of approximately
−Removed: $24.4 million as of December 31, 2018 and for the years ended December 31, 2018, and 2017, we incurred net losses, from continuing
−Removed: operations, of approximately $3.1 million and $6.1 million, respectively.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2018, and 2017 our current liabilities
−Removed: exceed our current assets by approximately $5.3 million and $5.2 million, respectively.
−Removed: Our total liabilities exceed total assets
−Removed: at December 31, 2018 by approximately $4.2 million and at December 31, 2017 our total liabilities exceeded our total assets by
−Removed: approximately $3.3 million.
−Removed: The primary reason for the reduction in total assets over total liabilities from 2017 to 2018 is due
−Removed: to the increase in debt during the year, the interest expense incurred during 2018, and the net loss incurred in 2018 as noted
−Removed: Also see Notes 2, 11 and 18 to the consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: Realization of a major portion
−Removed: of our assets as of December 31, 2018, is dependent upon our continued operations.
−Removed: The Company is dependent on generating additional
−Removed: revenue or obtaining adequate capital to fund operating losses until it becomes profitable.
−Removed: In addition, we have undertaken a
−Removed: number of specific steps to continue to operate as a going concern.
−Removed: We continue to focus on developing organic growth in our operating
−Removed: companies, diversifying our service customer base and market concentrations and improving gross and net margins through increased
−Removed: attention to pricing, aggressive cost management and overhead reductions.
−Removed: Critical to achieving profitability will be our ability
−Removed: to license and or sell, permit and operate through our joint ventures and licensees our CoronaLux™
+Added: Reported in discontinued operations.
+Added: is not currently operating but should operations commence it will be part of the Environmental Solutions segment.
+Added: The MV RCM Joint
+Added: Venture is not currently operating but should operations commence it will be part of the Environmental Solutions segment.
+Added: of December 31, 2019, we had two customers with sales in excess of 10% of our revenues.
+Added: As of December 31, 2018, we had three
+Added: customers with sales in excess of 10% of our revenue.
+Added: See Item 1A Risk Factors.
+Added: shown in the accompanying consolidated financial statements, the Company has experienced recurring losses, and has an accumulated
+Added: deficit of approximately $26.9 million as of December 31, 2019 and for the years ended December 31, 2019, and 2018, we incurred
+Added: net losses, from continuing operations, of approximately $2.7 million and $3.1 million, respectively.
+Added: As of December 31, 2019,
+Added: and 2018 our current liabilities exceed our current assets by approximately $7.0 million and $5.4 million, respectively.
+Added: liabilities exceed total assets at December 31, 2019 by approximately $6.3 million and at December 31, 2018 our total liabilities
+Added: exceeded our total assets by approximately $4.2 million.
+Added: The primary reason for the reduction in total assets over total liabilities
+Added: from 2018 to 2019 is due to the increase in debt during the year, the interest expense incurred during 2019, and the net loss
+Added: incurred in 2019 as noted above.
+Added: of a major portion of our assets as of December 31, 2019, is dependent upon our continued operations.
+Added: The Company is dependent
+Added: on generating additional revenue or obtaining adequate capital to fund operating losses until it becomes profitable.
+Added: we have undertaken a number of specific steps to continue to operate as a going concern.
+Added: We continue to focus on developing organic
+Added: growth in our operating companies, diversifying our service customer base and market concentrations and improving gross and net
+Added: margins through increased attention to pricing, aggressive cost management and overhead reductions, including discontinuing a
+Added: line of business with insufficient margins.
+Added: Critical to achieving profitability will be our ability to license and or sell, permit
+Added: and operate through our joint ventures and licensees our CoronaLux™
waste destruction units.
−Removed: We have increased our business development efforts to address opportunities identified in expanding domestic markets attributable
−Removed: to increased federal and state emission control regulations (particularly in the nation’s oil and gas fields) and a growing
−Removed: demand for energy conservation and renewable energies.
−Removed: In addition, the Company is evaluating various forms of financing that
−Removed: may be available to it.
−Removed: There can be no assurance that the Company will secure additional financing for working capital, increase
−Removed: revenues and achieve the desired result of net income and positive cash flow from operations in future years.
−Removed: These financial
−Removed: statements do not give any effect to any adjustments that would be necessary should the Company be unable to report on a going
−Removed: concern basis.
−Removed: SEER, with its diverse services,
−Removed: technologies, and environmental solution offerings, participates in the worldwide markets of industrial cleaning, environmental
−Removed: compliance, renewable energy and waste minimization/management.
−Removed: There are ever-increasing emissions and solid waste regulations
−Removed: and statutory programs at the local, state, federal and international levels that create and mandate the need for renewable energies
−Removed: and waste minimization, proper handling, storage, treatment and disposal of virtually all types of waste.
−Removed: The industrial waste management
−Removed: industry in North America was shaped first by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (“RCRA”), which requires
−Removed: waste generators to, among other things, store and dispose of hazardous waste in accordance with specific regulations.
−Removed: to RCRA, growing national awareness of environmental issues, coupled with corporate and institutional awareness of environmental
−Removed: liabilities, have contributed to the growth of the industry and associated governing legislation on the state and federal levels.
−Removed: Today, collection and disposal
−Removed: of solid and hazardous wastes are subject to local, state, and federal requirements and controls that regulate health, safety,
−Removed: the environment, zoning and land-use.
−Removed: Included in these regulations is the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and
−Removed: Liability Act of 1980 (“CERCLA”), of the United States.
−Removed: CERCLA holds generators and transporters of hazardous substances,
−Removed: as well as past and present owners and operators of sites where there has been a hazardous release, strictly, jointly and severally
−Removed: liable for environmental cleanup costs resulting from the release or threatened release of hazardous materials.
−Removed: The enactment of the federal
−Removed: Clean Air Act of 1970 (CAA) resulted in a major shift in the federal government’s role in air pollution control.
−Removed: legislation authorized the development of comprehensive federal and state regulations to limit emissions from both stationary (industrial)
−Removed: sources and mobile sources.
−Removed: The Act has been amended and expanded in scope many times since its enactment and remains a major consideration
−Removed: for safely and responsibly conducting business in the U.S.
−Removed: These and countless other
−Removed: similar regulatory programs mandate the need for environmental and industrial cleaning services and technologies such as those
−Removed: offered by SEER and its companies.
−Removed: There are substantial barriers
−Removed: to entry in the waste management industry, including the high degree of expertise and training required, regulatory compliance,
−Removed: insurance, and licensing costs and procedures, strict federal, state, provincial and local permitting and oversight processes,
−Removed: and significant capital costs of equipment and qualified personnel.
−Removed: Business Strategy
−Removed: SEER’s growth to date
−Removed: has been fueled by a combination of synergistic and vertical integration, acquisitions, strategic alliances and organic growth.
+Added: We have increased our business
+Added: development efforts to address opportunities identified in expanding domestic markets attributable to increased federal and state
+Added: emission control regulations (particularly in the nation’s oil and gas fields) and a growing demand for energy conservation
+Added: and renewable energies.
+Added: In addition, the Company is evaluating various forms of financing that may be available to it.
+Added: be no assurance that the Company will secure additional financing for working capital, increase revenues and achieve the desired
+Added: result of net income and positive cash flow from operations in future years.
+Added: These financial statements do not give any effect
+Added: to any adjustments that would be necessary should the Company be unable to report on a going concern basis.
+Added: with its diverse services, technologies, and environmental solution offerings, participates in the worldwide markets of environmental
+Added: compliance, renewable energy and gaseous and solid waste minimization/management.
+Added: There are ever-increasing emissions and solid
+Added: waste regulations, as well as statutory programs at the local, state, federal and international levels that create and mandate
+Added: the need for renewable energies and waste minimization, proper handling, storage, treatment and disposal of virtually all types
+Added: industrial waste management industry in North America was shaped first by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (“RCRA”),
+Added: which requires waste generators to, among other things, transport, treat, store and dispose of hazardous waste in accordance with
+Added: specific regulations.
+Added: Subsequent to RCRA, growing national awareness of environmental issues, coupled with corporate and institutional
+Added: awareness of environmental liabilities, have contributed to the growth of the industry and associated governing legislation on
+Added: the state and federal levels.
+Added: collection and disposal of solid and hazardous wastes are subject to local, state, and federal requirements and controls that
+Added: regulate health, safety, the environment, zoning and land-use.
+Added: Included in these regulations is the Comprehensive Environmental
+Added: Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (“CERCLA”), of the United States.
+Added: CERCLA holds generators and transporters
+Added: of hazardous substances, as well as past and present owners and operators of sites where there has been a hazardous release, strictly,
+Added: jointly and severally liable for environmental cleanup costs resulting from the release or threatened release of hazardous materials.
+Added: enactment of the federal Clean Air Act of 1970 (CAA) resulted in a major shift in the federal government’s role in
+Added: air pollution control.
+Added: This legislation authorized the development of comprehensive federal and state regulations to limit emissions
+Added: from both stationary (industrial) sources and mobile sources.
+Added: The Act has been amended and expanded in scope many times since
+Added: its enactment and remains a major consideration for safely and responsibly conducting business in the U.S.
+Added: and countless other similar regulatory programs mandate the need for environmental services and technologies such as those offered
+Added: by SEER and its companies.
+Added: are substantial barriers to entry in the waste management industry, including the high degree of expertise and training required,
+Added: regulatory compliance, insurance, and licensing costs and procedures, strict federal, state, provincial and local permitting and
+Added: oversight processes, and significant capital costs of equipment and qualified personnel.
+Added: operations to date has been fueled by a combination of synergistic and vertical integration, acquisitions, strategic alliances
+Added: and organic growth.
SEER acquired REGS, and MV as wholly owned subsidiaries.
−Removed: In 2015 SEM was created to provide recurring and high-margin revenue to
−Removed: the Company by offering an internal source of diverse media solutions that are required for the treatment of various waste and
−Removed: off gas streams.
−Removed: This also enables greater pricing flexibility by the technology solutions affiliates that, in turn, should result
−Removed: in increased sales of systems that leads to greater demand of media.
−Removed: The increased installation and demand for media change outs
−Removed: also creates service opportunities for the Company’s service sector.
−Removed: We intend to continue pursuing an aggressive strategy
−Removed: of both acquisitions and organic growth while expanding our geographic footprint into other regions of the United States and foreign
−Removed: Potential acquisitions may include businesses that secure supply chain and vendor logistics or are complementary to our
−Removed: core businesses or companies that provide a similar set of services in regions where the Company does not currently have operations.
−Removed: Upon full development of certain
−Removed: of our patented and patent-pending technologies, we intend to explore licensing relationships with larger, established companies
−Removed: to generate sustainable revenue streams from both domestic and international applications.
−Removed: Intellectual Property
−Removed: MV was issued a patent in
−Removed: 2012 related to “Oil-Gas Vapor Collection, Storage, and Recovery System, etc.”
−Removed: US 8,206,124 B1.
−Removed: MV was issued
−Removed: a second patent in 2014 titled “Fugitive Gas Capture”, US Patent No.
−Removed: 8,708,663 B1, that expanded claims in the earlier
+Added: In 2015 SEM was created to provide recurring and
+Added: high-margin revenue to the Company by offering an internal source of diverse media solutions that are required for the treatment
+Added: of various waste and off gas streams, particularly digesters and landfills.
+Added: This enables pricing flexibility by the technology
+Added: solutions affiliates that, in turn, should result in increased sales of systems that leads to greater demand of media.
+Added: The increased
+Added: installation and demand for media change outs creates service opportunities for the Company’s service sector.
+Added: to continue pursuing an aggressive strategy of both acquisitions, strategic partnerships, and organic growth while expanding our
+Added: geographic footprint into other regions of the United States and foreign markets.
+Added: Potential acquisitions may include businesses
+Added: that secure supply chain and vendor logistics or are complementary to our core businesses or companies that provide a similar
+Added: set of services in regions where the Company does not currently have operations.
+Added: full development of certain of our patented and patent-pending technologies, we intend to explore licensing relationships with
+Added: larger, established companies to generate sustainable revenue streams from both domestic and international applications.
+Added: was issued a patent in 2012 related to “Oil-Gas Vapor Collection, Storage, and Recovery System, etc.”
+Added: 8,206,124 B1.
+Added: MV was issued a second patent in 2014 titled “Fugitive Gas Capture”, US Patent No.
+Added: 8,708,663 B1, that
+Added: expanded claims in the earlier patent.
In 2017, MV was issued a third patent titled “Dry Chemical Scrubber with Ph Adjustment”
+Added: US 9,630,144 B2.
The patents will expire in 2029 and 2031, unless otherwise extended.
−Removed: MV is in the process of expanding the scope and number
−Removed: of claims of this issued patent.
+Added: MV is in the process of expanding
+Added: the scope and number of claims of this issued patent.
2013, PWS filed provisional and non-provisional patent applications in the name and for the benefit of SEER arising out of and
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of the CoronaLux™
−Removed: The patents will expire in 2033.
−Removed: The industrial services industry
−Removed: is highly competitive.
−Removed: Our competitors vary in size, geographical coverage and by the mix of services they offer.
−Removed: Our larger competitors
−Removed: include Philip Services, Clean Harbors, and Veolia Environmental Services.
−Removed: Additionally, we compete with a number of small and
−Removed: medium size companies.
−Removed: In the face of this competition we have been effective in growing our revenue due to the wide range of services
−Removed: we offer, a competitive pricing structure, our innovative and proprietary/patent pending technologies, and a reputation for reliability,
−Removed: built over the nearly 20 years of business operations as well as the care we take in performing and completing each customer project.
−Removed: In all its businesses, the
−Removed: Company currently holds very small parts of very large and growing markets.
−Removed: MV competes by providing superior hydrogen sulfide
−Removed: (“H 2 S”) “scrubbing”
+Added: The patents will expire in or around 2033.
+Added: industrial services industry is highly competitive.
+Added: We compete with a number of small and medium size companies in the gas treatment
+Added: In the face of this competition we have been effective in maintaining, and in some sectors, growing our revenue opportunities
+Added: due to the wide range of services we offer, a competitive pricing structure, our innovative and proprietary/patent pending technologies,
+Added: and a reputation for reliability, built over the nearly 20 years of business operations as well as the care we take in performing
+Added: and completing each customer project.
+Added: medical waste industry is also highly competitive with fewer, but larger businesses in the space and one entity having a dominant
+Added: position in the industry.
+Added: all its businesses, the Company currently holds very small parts of very large and growing markets.
+Added: MV competes by providing superior
+Added: hydrogen sulfide (“H2S”) “scrubbing”
solutions that result in more cost-effective removal of H2S from
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H2S is highly corrosive, and is a precursor to sulfur dioxide, a highly regulated air pollutant.
−Removed: Therefore, removing H 2 S from industrial process waste streams is important in order to enhance the safety of personnel,
−Removed: extend the life of industrial equipment, and to minimize resulting air pollution.
−Removed: In the markets served by MV there are a number
−Removed: of competing technologies employed such as:
+Added: removing H2S from industrial process waste streams is important in order to enhance the safety of personnel, extend the life of
+Added: industrial equipment, and to minimize resulting air pollution.
+Added: In the markets served by MV there are a number of competing technologies
+Added: employed such as:
biological scrubbing, chemical scrubbing, and dry scrubbing with activated carbon.
−Removed: REGS competes by offering superior customer response and lower total cost of service.
−Removed: PWS competes by offering a unique on-site,
−Removed: on-demand waste destruction solution, eliminating the need for waste segregation, transportation, incineration, autoclaving and/or
−Removed: in turn, eliminating all of the associated costs and legacy liabilities associated with current options for medical
−Removed: waste handling.
+Added: PWS competes by offering
+Added: a unique on-site, on-demand waste destruction solution, eliminating the need for waste segregation, transportation, incineration,
+Added: autoclaving and/or landfilling;
+Added: in turn, eliminating all of the associated costs and legacy liabilities associated with current
+Added: options for medical waste handling.
We believe that the patented CoronaLux™
−Removed: technology results in a radically superior option in the medical
−Removed: waste management sector and in ultimate emissions cleaner than other solutions available in the market.
−Removed: Environmental Matters and Regulation
−Removed: Significant federal environmental
−Removed: laws affecting us are the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”), the Comprehensive Environmental Response,
−Removed: Compensation and Liability Act (“CERCLA”), also known as the “Superfund Act”, the Clean Air Act, the Clean
−Removed: Water Act, and the Toxic Substances Control Act (“TSCA”).
−Removed: RCRA is the principal
−Removed: federal statute governing hazardous waste generation, treatment, transportation, storage and disposal.
+Added: technology results in a superior option in the
+Added: medical waste management sector and in ultimate emissions cleaner than other solutions available in the market.
+Added: Environmental
+Added: Matters and Regulation
+Added: federal environmental laws affecting us are the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”), the Comprehensive
+Added: Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (“CERCLA”), also known as the “Superfund Act”,
+Added: the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Toxic Substances Control Act (“TSCA”).
+Added: RCRA is the principal federal statute governing hazardous waste generation, treatment, transportation, storage and disposal.
Pursuant to RCRA, the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (the “EPA”) has established a comprehensive “cradle-to-grave”
−Removed: the management of a wide range of materials identified as hazardous or solid waste.
−Removed: States that have adopted hazardous waste management
−Removed: programs with standards at least as stringent as those promulgated by the EPA have been delegated authority by the EPA to administer
−Removed: their facility permitting programs in lieu of the EPA’s program.
−Removed: Every facility that treats, stores or disposes of hazardous
−Removed: waste must obtain a RCRA permit from the EPA or an authorized state agency, unless a specific exemption exists, and must comply
−Removed: with certain operating requirements .
+Added: system for the management of a wide range of materials identified as hazardous or solid waste.
+Added: States that have adopted hazardous
+Added: waste management programs with standards at least as stringent as those promulgated by the EPA have been delegated authority by
+Added: the EPA to administer their facility permitting programs in lieu of the EPA’s program.
+Added: Every facility that treats, stores
+Added: or disposes of hazardous waste must obtain a RCRA permit from the EPA or an authorized state agency, unless a specific exemption
+Added: exists, and must comply with certain operating requirements.
Superfund Act.
−Removed: The Superfund Act is the primary federal statute regulating the cleanup of inactive hazardous substance
−Removed: sites and imposing liability for cleanup on the responsible parties.
−Removed: It also provides for immediate response and removal actions
−Removed: coordinated by the EPA, of the release of hazardous substances into the environment, and authorizes the government to respond to
−Removed: the release or threatened release of hazardous substances or to order responsible persons to perform any necessary cleanup.
−Removed: statute provides for strict, and in certain cases, joint and several liability for these responses and other related costs, and
−Removed: for liability for the cost of damages to natural resources, to the parties involved in the generation, transportation and disposal
−Removed: of such hazardous substances.
−Removed: Under the statute, we may be deemed liable as a generator or transporter of a hazardous substance
−Removed: which is released into the environment, or as the owner or operator of a facility from which there is a release of a hazardous
−Removed: substance into the environment.
+Added: The Superfund Act is the primary federal statute regulating the cleanup of inactive hazardous substance sites
+Added: and imposing liability for cleanup on the responsible parties.
+Added: It also provides for immediate response and removal actions coordinated
+Added: by the EPA, of the release of hazardous substances into the environment, and authorizes the government to respond to the release
+Added: or threatened release of hazardous substances or to order responsible persons to perform any necessary cleanup.
+Added: The statute provides
+Added: for strict, and in certain cases, joint and several liability for these responses and other related costs, and for liability for
+Added: the cost of damages to natural resources, to the parties involved in the generation, transportation and disposal of such hazardous
+Added: Under the statute, we may be deemed liable as a generator or transporter of a hazardous substance which is released
+Added: into the environment, or as the owner or operator of a facility from which there is a release of a hazardous substance into the
Clean Air Act.
−Removed: The Clean Air Act was passed by Congress to control the emissions of pollutants into the air and requires
−Removed: permits to be obtained for certain sources of toxic air pollutants such as vinyl chloride, or criteria pollutants, such as carbon
−Removed: In 1990, Congress amended the Clean Air Act to require further reductions of air pollutants with specific targets for
−Removed: non-attainment areas in order to meet certain ambient air quality standards.
−Removed: These amendments also require the EPA to promulgate
−Removed: regulations, which (i) control emissions of 189 hazardous air pollutants;
−Removed: (ii) create uniform operating permits for major industrial
−Removed: facilities similar to RCRA operating permits;
+Added: The Clean Air Act was passed by Congress to control the emissions of pollutants into the air and requires permits
+Added: to be obtained for certain sources of toxic air pollutants such as vinyl chloride, or criteria pollutants, such as carbon monoxide.
+Added: In 1990, Congress amended the Clean Air Act to require further reductions of air pollutants with specific targets for non-attainment
+Added: areas in order to meet certain ambient air quality standards.
+Added: These amendments also require the EPA to promulgate regulations,
+Added: which (i) control emissions of 189 hazardous air pollutants;
+Added: (ii) create uniform operating permits for major industrial facilities
+Added: similar to RCRA operating permits;
(iii) mandate the phase-out of ozone depleting chemicals;
−Removed: and (iv) provide for enhanced
−Removed: This legislation prohibits discharges into the waters of the United States without governmental authorization
−Removed: and regulates the discharge of pollutants into surface waters and sewers from a variety of sources, including disposal sites and
−Removed: treatment facilities .
+Added: and (iv) provide for enhanced enforcement.
+Added: This legislation prohibits discharges into the waters of the United States without governmental authorization and
+Added: regulates the discharge of pollutants into surface waters and sewers from a variety of sources, including disposal sites and treatment
Substances Control Act.
−Removed: TSCA established a national program for the management of substances classified as PCBs, which
−Removed: include waste PCBs as well as RCRA wastes contaminated with PCBs.
+Added: TSCA established a national program for the management of substances classified as PCBs, which include
+Added: waste PCBs as well as RCRA wastes contaminated with PCBs.
We conduct field services (remediation) activities that are regulated
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Federal Laws.
−Removed: In addition to regulations specifically directed at the transportation, storage, and disposal facilities,
−Removed: there are a number of regulations that may “pass-through”
−Removed: to the facilities based on the acceptance of regulated waste
−Removed: from affected client facilities.
+Added: In addition to regulations specifically directed at the transportation, storage, and disposal facilities, there
+Added: are a number of regulations that may “pass-through”
+Added: to the facilities based on the acceptance of regulated waste from
+Added: affected client facilities.
Each facility that accepts affected waste must comply with the regulations for that waste, facility
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or “OSHA”, are applicable to all of our operations.
−Removed: Pursuant to the EPA’s
−Removed: authorization of their RCRA equivalent programs, a number of states have regulatory programs governing the permitting and operation
−Removed: of hazardous waste facilities.
−Removed: Our facilities are regulated pursuant to state statutes, including those addressing clean water
−Removed: and clean air.
+Added: to the EPA’s authorization of their RCRA equivalent programs, a number of states have regulatory programs governing the
+Added: permitting and operation of hazardous waste facilities.
+Added: Our facilities are regulated pursuant to state statutes, including those
+Added: addressing clean water and clean air.
Our facilities are also subject to local siting, zoning and land use restrictions.
−Removed: Although our facilities occasionally
−Removed: have been cited for regulatory violations, we believe we are in substantial compliance with all federal, state and local laws regulating
−Removed: our business .
−Removed: Income/Payroll Taxes
−Removed: In 2009 and 2010, REGS, a
−Removed: subsidiary of the Company, became delinquent for unpaid federal employer and employee payroll taxes and accrued interest and penalties
−Removed: related to the unpaid payroll taxes.
−Removed: In or around 2010, REGS retained
−Removed: Washington D.C.-based legal counsel specializing in resolving federal tax matters.
−Removed: REGS has been represented by this firm throughout
−Removed: all phases of this tax matter and related proceedings.
−Removed: In September 2011, REGS received approval from the Internal Revenue Service
−Removed: (“IRS”) to begin paying the outstanding federal payroll tax liability plus related interest and penalties totaling
−Removed: approximately $971,000, in installments (the “Installment Plan”).
−Removed: Under the Installment Plan, we were required to pay
−Removed: minimum monthly installments of $12,500 commencing September 2011, which increased to $25,000 per month in September 2012, until
−Removed: the liability was paid in full.
−Removed: Through the duration of the Installment Plan, the IRS continued to charge penalties and interest
−Removed: at statutory rates.
−Removed: If the conditions of the Installment Plan were not met, the IRS could cancel it and could demand the outstanding
−Removed: liability to be repaid through traditional enforcement proceedings available to the IRS.
−Removed: Additionally, the IRS has filed a notice
−Removed: of federal tax lien against certain of REGS assets in order to secure the obligation.
−Removed: The IRS is to release this lien if and when
−Removed: we pay the full amount due.
−Removed: Two of the officers of REGS also have liability exposure for a portion of the taxes if REGS does not
−Removed: In May 2013, REGS filed an
−Removed: Offer in Compromise (“OIC”) with the IRS.
−Removed: While the OIC was under review by the IRS, the requirement to pay $25,000
−Removed: a month under the Installment Plan was suspended.
−Removed: REGS was informed by its legal counsel that the IRS had accepted REGS’
+Added: our facilities occasionally have been cited for regulatory violations, we believe we are in substantial compliance with all federal,
+Added: state and local laws regulating our business.
+Added: Income/Payroll
+Added: 2009 and 2010, REGS, a subsidiary of the Company, became delinquent for unpaid federal employer and employee payroll taxes and
+Added: accrued interest and penalties related to the unpaid payroll taxes.
+Added: In or around 2010, REGS
+Added: retained Washington D.C.-based legal counsel specializing in resolving federal tax matters.
+Added: REGS has been represented by this
+Added: firm throughout all phases of this tax matter and related proceedings.
+Added: In September 2011, REGS received approval from the Internal
+Added: Revenue Service (“IRS”) to begin paying the outstanding federal payroll tax liability plus related interest and penalties
+Added: totaling approximately $971,000, in installments (the “Installment Plan”).
+Added: Under the Installment Plan, we were required
+Added: to pay minimum monthly installments of $12,500 commencing September 2011, which increased to $25,000 per month in September 2012,
+Added: until the liability was paid in full.
+Added: Through the duration of the Installment Plan, the IRS continued to charge penalties and
+Added: interest at statutory rates.
+Added: If the conditions of the Installment Plan were not met, the IRS could cancel it and could demand
+Added: the outstanding liability to be repaid through traditional enforcement proceedings available to the IRS.
+Added: Additionally, the IRS
+Added: has filed a notice of federal tax lien against certain of REGS assets in order to secure the obligation.
+Added: The IRS is to release
+Added: this lien if and when we pay the full amount due.
+Added: Two of the officers of REGS also have liability exposure for a portion of the
+Added: taxes if REGS does not pay the liability.
+Added: May 2013, REGS filed an Offer in Compromise (“OIC”) with the IRS.
+Added: While the OIC was under review by the IRS, the requirement
+Added: to pay $25,000 a month under the Installment Plan was suspended.
+Added: REGS was informed by its legal counsel that the IRS had accepted
However, by a letter dated March 27, 2014 REGS was notified that the OIC had been rejected.
−Removed: REGS appealed that rejection decision,
−Removed: however that appeal has been denied.
+Added: REGS appealed that
+Added: rejection decision, however that appeal has been denied.
As a result, the Installment Plan is terminated.
−Removed: In June 2014 and September 2018, REGS received
−Removed: notices of intent to levy property or rights to property from the IRS for the amounts owed for the past due payroll taxes, penalty
−Removed: and interest.
−Removed: The IRS has not taken any current action against REGS and REGS continues to be represented by its legal counsel.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2018, and
−Removed: December 31, 2017, the outstanding balance due to the IRS was $1,022,500, and $997,700, respectively.
−Removed: Other than this outstanding
−Removed: payroll tax matter arising in 2009 and 2010, all state and federal taxes have been paid by REGS in a timely manner.
−Removed: To cover potential risks associated
−Removed: with the variety of services that the operating companies provide, we maintain adequate insurance coverages, including:
−Removed: Insurance providing coverage for Commercial General Liability, Automotive Liability, Professional Liability Insurance and Employee
−Removed: Benefits Liability in the amounts of $1 million each, respectively, per year;
−Removed: 2) Contractor’s Pollution Liability Insurance,
−Removed: which has limits of $1 million per occurrence and $1 million in the aggregate;
−Removed: 3) Transportation Liability Insurance with a $1
−Removed: million per occurrence;
−Removed: and 4) An Excess Umbrella Liability Policy of $5 million per occurrence and $5 million aggregate limit
−Removed: Health, Safety and Compliance
−Removed: Preserving the health and
−Removed: safety of our employees and the communities in which we operate, as well as remaining in compliance with local, state and federal
−Removed: rules and regulations are the highest priorities for us and our companies.
−Removed: We strive to maintain the highest professional standards
−Removed: in our compliance and health and safety activities.
−Removed: To achieve this objective, we engage with a professional safety firm and emphasize
−Removed: comprehensive training programs for new employees as well as ongoing mandatory refresher programs, and safety bonus programs for
−Removed: existing employees.
−Removed: These programs are administered at both the corporate and field levels on a daily basis.
−Removed: Our efforts to ensure
−Removed: the health and safety of employees have been formally recognized by our customers as well as by the Colorado Department of Labor
−Removed: and Employment.
−Removed: Research and Development
−Removed: Research and Development (“R&D”)
−Removed: costs are charged to operations when incurred and are included in operating expenses.
−Removed: R&D expenses consist primarily of salaries,
−Removed: project materials, contract labor and other costs associated with ongoing product development and enhancement efforts.
−Removed: approximately $600 and $5,600 on R&D for the years ended December 31, 2018 and 2017, respectively.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2018, we
−Removed: employed approximately 32 full time non-union hourly and salaried employees.
−Removed: There is some seasonality to our business which requires
−Removed: us to use day laborers.
−Removed: Public Information
−Removed: Persons interested in obtaining
−Removed: information on the Company may read and copy any materials that we file with the Commission at the SEC’s Public Reference
−Removed: Room at 100 F Street, NE., Washington, DC 20549, on official business days during the hours of 10 a.m.
−Removed: The public may
−Removed: obtain information on the operation of the Public Reference Room by calling the Commission at 1-800-SEC-0330.
−Removed: The Commission maintains
−Removed: an Internet site that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding issuers that file electronically
−Removed: with the Commission at http://www.sec.gov.
−Removed: Not required as the Company
−Removed: is a Smaller Reporting Company.
−Removed: UNRESOLVED STAFF
+Added: In June 2014 and September
+Added: 2018, REGS received notices of intent to levy property or rights to property from the IRS for the amounts owed for the past due
+Added: payroll taxes, penalty and interest.
+Added: The IRS has not taken any current action against REGS and REGS continues to be represented
+Added: by its legal counsel.
+Added: of December 31, 2019, and December 31, 2018, the outstanding balance due to the IRS was $1,052,200, and $1,022,500, respectively.
+Added: than this outstanding payroll tax matter arising in 2009 and 2010, all state and federal taxes due and payable have been paid
+Added: by REGS in a timely manner.
+Added: operations have been reported in discontinued operations for the years ended 2019 and 2018.
+Added: This does not alleviate the IRS obligations
+Added: REGS currently has.
+Added: cover potential risks associated with the variety of services that the operating companies provide, we maintain adequate insurance
+Added: coverages, including:
+Added: 1) Casualty Insurance providing coverage for Commercial General Liability, Automotive Liability, Professional
+Added: Liability Insurance and Employee Benefits Liability in the amounts of $1 million each, respectively, per year;
+Added: 2) Contractor’s
+Added: Pollution Liability Insurance, which has limits of $1 million per occurrence and $1 million in the aggregate;
+Added: and 3) An Excess
+Added: Umbrella Liability Policy of $5 million per occurrence and $5 million aggregate limit overall.
+Added: Safety and Compliance
+Added: the health and safety of our employees and the communities in which we operate, as well as remaining in compliance with local,
+Added: state and federal rules and regulations are the highest priorities for us and our companies.
+Added: We strive to maintain the highest
+Added: professional standards in our compliance and health and safety activities.
+Added: To achieve this objective, we engage with a professional
+Added: safety firm and emphasize comprehensive training programs for new employees as well as ongoing mandatory refresher programs, and
+Added: safety bonus programs for existing employees.
+Added: These programs are administered at both the corporate and field levels on a daily
+Added: Our efforts to ensure the health and safety of employees have been formally recognized by our customers as well as by the
+Added: Colorado Department of Labor and Employment.
+Added: and Development
+Added: and Development (“R&D”) costs are charged to operations when incurred and are included in operating expenses.
+Added: R&D expenses consist primarily of salaries, project materials, contract labor and other costs associated with ongoing product
+Added: development and enhancement efforts.
+Added: We spent approximately $0 and $600 on R&D for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018,
+Added: respectively.
+Added: of December 31, 2019, we employed approximately 22 full time non-union hourly and salaried employees.
+Added: There is some seasonality
+Added: to our business which requires us to use day laborers.
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