Consulting firm Tetra Tech EC Inc. agreed to pay $97 million as part of a deal to settle civil claims brought by federal authorities who accused the firm of wrongdoing in its environmental cleanup work for the U.S. Navy of the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco.
The unit of Pasadena, Calif.-based Tetra Tech Inc. provided radiological remediation services between 2003 and 2014 at the site, which, from 1948 to 1969 hosted the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory that was used for decontaminating ships exposed to atomic weapons testing and researching the effects of radiation, according to the Navy.
