Jacobs has been selected by the Sacramento County Department of Waste Management and Recycling (DWMR) to provide consulting and design services for a new commercial waste building at the county’s North Area Recovery Station (NARS) the company stated on Friday.

“This is a multifaceted solid waste project that requires optimization of current as well as future facilities,” said Jacobs People & Places Solutions Senior Vice President and Global Environmental Market Director Jan Walstrom. “Our design will incorporate construction phasing to meet the accelerated schedule while minimizing impacts to existing operations.”

Jacobs will develop critical infrastructure for DWMR to address the waste increase in the greater Sacramento region, and help the department meet requirements of California Senate Bill (SB) 1383, which requires organizations to reduce greenhouse gases and increase organic waste recycling.

The company will also assist DWMR design new commercial waste building while supporting infrastructure. Specifically, Jacobs will develop the geotechnical design of ramps and a trench adjacent to the new facility, a trench drain storm sewer design, and the design of an air filtration system to treat odors from the building.

The company, with subcontractor JR Miller & Associates (JRMA), will deliver more than 150 transfer station designs and more than 100 working solid waste transfer, processing and organics facilities in California.

To achieve these objectives and proactively address the resulting compliance dates, DWMR requires the new commercial waste building to be operational by fall 2021.

Jacobs recently announced another environmental initiative on Jan. 22, 2019 to increase global sustainability. The company donated $467,230 to the Water For People nonprofit organization to help end the global water crisis with sustainable solutions.

Jacobs’ inaugural contribution will help drive Water For People’s journey to Destination 2030. The 10-year initiative to support low and middle-income countries obtain United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6. The goal will ensure available and sustainable management of water and sanitation.

“With Jacobs support, we will help Water For People find new ways to scale their work to meet Destination 2030 and elevate their Everyone Forever model to positively impact millions more people in the next 10 years,” said Jacobs chair and CEO, Steve Demetriou.
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Thirty-four lawmakers are calling on Defense Secretary and 2020 Wash100 Award winner Mark Esper to identify projects that will be impacted by the reallocation of $7.2 billion in fiscal 2020 funding for border wall construction.

The group, which includes House Armed Services Committee Vice Chair Anthony Brown (D-Md.), wrote a letter to Esper asking him to establish a date for obligating funds following the diversion of military construction and drug interdiction funding. They also seek details on contract award dates, performance periods and the potential impact of the funding reallocation on anti-narcotics operations.

“Despite the significant resources appropriated by Congress for border security, the Administration still decided to circumvent Congress and allocate $6.1 billion of Department of Defense funding for border wall construction,” the lawmakers wrote. “These actions come as we continue to face diverse, complex, and pressing security threats around the globe while trying to modernize our military and restore readiness.”

Last year, $3.6 billion was diverted to support the wall’s construction, Federal News Network reported Wednesday. Brown said he hopes that Congress restricts or prohibits the reprogramming of funds for the wall in next year’s defense policy bill.

Maj. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, deputy commander of Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve, said the U.S. military and its allies maintain their objective on defeating the Islamic Group.

"In the short term, as we've adjusted some of our activities downrange and in Iraq and Syria, I don't think there's an immediate threat of an immediate resurgence," Grynkewich said in a statement published Wednesday.

He added that mitigating pressure to the Islamic Group may yield a potential threat. Grynkewich also provided updates on the various activities the task force has taken in the assistance of Iraqi and Syrian allied forces.

"I would say [we've made] very good progress, to the point we're able to shift the focus of CJTF-OIR more along the lines of training, advising and assisting the Iraqi security forces and the Syrian Democratic Forces on the Syrian side of the border, and they've shown themselves to be willing partners throughout the last nine months I've been deployed there."

Grynkewich noted the U.S. government has partnered with the Syrian Democratic Forces in securing critical infrastructure that may fall into the hands of their adversaries.

Neil Jacobs, who leads the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on an acting basis, noted the importance of industry in the agency's mission, Space News reported Wednesday.

He said at a Maryland Space Business Roundtable event that the private sector is now supporting NOAA's core efforts, expanding the sector's original role as a value-added service provider. Jacobs added that NOAA is working to identify more ways to further grow its partnership with industry and academia.

A possible target area for NOAA's public-private engagements is the purchase of commercial weather data including that of GPS radio occultation, the report noted. The agency has also been forming partnerships with Microsoft, Google and Amazon for weather data hosting on the cloud, Jacobs said.