From: Betsy Bicknell

To: Vlad.Yanovsky@geagroup.com

Date: 2/2/2011 5:48 PM

Subject: additional information for package fish meal and oil plant

Attachments: RE: Quote for package seafood byproducts plant

Vlad:

After some back and forth with EPA, they decided to have ERG provide some additional analysis of fish meal plant costing. I'd be

very grateful if you could you provide a few more details for the package plant costs you provided in January (email attached ).

1. What will it take to operate these plants?

steam consumption

power consumption

labor

maintenance requirements over the life of the equipment

2. A few more details about the equipment

what is the footprint for the package plant?

is the package pl ant enclosed in a container or would the seafood processor need to build a building? (I assume that at a minimum

it needs to go on a concrete pad)

what are the installation requirements? (what type of labor, how much)

how are odors controlled?

what are the instrumentation requirements?

3. do you have estimates of salmon oil and meal yield?

I have an improved estimate of the amount of waste that will go to by

- products recovery:

amount of raw material (waste) to process: average tons/day for the peak month range from

15 to 90 U.S. tons/day (e.g., 16, 19, 26, 27, 44, 60, 69, 87 U.S. tpd)

peak day can be 1.7 to 2 times the amount of the average day.

The lower ranges assume that each plant has its own by

- products plant. The higher range assumes that one plant will be built in

each processing center, and waste will be trucked to the combined plant (similar to the arrangement in Kodiak).

Thanks again for your help with this effort,

Betsy

Betsy Bicknell

Senior Environmental Engineer

Eastern Research Group, Inc.

(703) 633

- 1612

betsy.bicknell@erg.comFrom: "Yanovsky, Vlad S." <Vlad.Yanovsky@geagroup.com>

To: Betsy Bicknell <Betsy.Bicknell@erg.com>

CC: "Yanovsky, Vlad S." <Vlad.Yanovsky@geagroup.com>

Date: 2/3/2011 9:45 AM

Subject: RE: additional information for package fish meal and oil plant

Hello Betsy:

See answers below in blue. I don't have all answers for you because some

of the questions you are asking apply more to end users/plants not so

much equipment vendors.

This is the best I can do

Best regards,

Vlad S. Yanovsky

GEA Mech anical Equipment

GEA Westfalia Separator, Inc.

555 Baldwin Road

Patterson, CA 95363

Office: (209)

- 895

- 6314

Cell: (201)

- 600

- 1180

Fax: 1

- 209

- 895

- 6301

e

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From: Betsy Bicknell [mailto:Betsy.Bicknell@erg.com]

Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 2:48 PM

To: Yanovsky, Vlad S.

Subject: additional information for package fish meal and oil plant

Vlad:

After some bac k and forth with EPA, they decided to have ERG provide

some additional analysis of fish meal plant costing. I'd be very

grateful if you could you provide a few more details for the package

plant costs you provided in January (email attached).

1. What will it take to operate these plants? This completely various

and is dependent on scope of supply to particular customer, size of the

plant, otions/automation level choosen by client

steam consumption

- I don't have access to this at this time

pow er consumption

- 460/480 v, 3 phase 60 HZ

- probably around 150

- 200 Amps

labor

- depends on automation level chosen

- say as little as 1 person

- 2

peoplemaintenance requirements over the life of the equipment

- impossible to

answer

- 1 overhaul per year I would say on decanter and polisher.

2. A few more details about the equipment

what is the footprint for the package plant? Depending on scope of

customers' needs. Say small plants could fit into a 30 ft container or

all equipment can be placed inside thei r plant/existing building. Say 60

ft X 60 ft surface area would be plenty for our equipment for small to

midsize/large plant

is the package plant enclosed in a container or would the seafood

processor need to build a building? (I assume that at a minimum it needs

to go on a concrete pad)

what are the installation requirements? (what type of labor, how much)

can be in container or inside existing building

how are odors controlled? Up to custo mer

what are the instrumentation requirements? Customer chooses controls,

PLC, automation level. Standard is Allen Bradley PLC and interface

3. do you have estimates of salmon oil and meal yield?

- depends on

region, geography, type of salmon, etc

- no easy way to answer this to

generalize it

I have an improved estimate of the amount of waste that will go to

by

- products recovery:

amount of raw material (waste) to process: average tons/day for the peak

month range from

15 to 90 U.S. tons/day (e.g., 16, 19, 26, 27, 44, 60, 69, 87 U.S. tpd)

peak day can be 1.7 to 2 times the amount of the average day.

The lower ranges assume that each plant has its own by

- products plant.

The higher range assumes that one plant will b e built in each processing

center, and waste will be trucked to the combined plant (similar to the

arrangement in Kodiak).

Thanks again for your help with this effort,

Betsy

Betsy Bicknell

Senior Environmental Engineer

Eastern Research Gro up, Inc.

(703) 633

- 1612

betsy.bicknell@erg.comFrom: "Yanovsky, Vlad S." <Vlad.Yanovsky@geagroup.com>

To: Betsy Bicknell <Betsy.Bicknell@erg.com>

Date: 1/7/2011 10:11 AM

Subject: RE: Quote for package seafood byproducts plant

Betsy:

For fish oil plants equipment included would be: grinder, pumps, buffer

tank, heat exchanger, decanter, separator, clean oil buffer tank, PLC,

special decanter/separator tools, engineering

For the small fish meal oil/meal plant take the above equipment an d add

a dryer to the scope of supply:

There is many different ways of doing shipping

- I would say delivery

could be anywhere and freight cost would be say $10,000

- 20,000(just a

guess)

Best regards,

Vlad S. Yanovsky

GEA Mechanical Equipment

GEA Westfalia Separator, Inc.

555 Baldwin Road

Patterson, CA 95363

Office: (209)

- 895

- 6314

Cell: (201)

- 600

- 1180

Fax: 1

- 209

- 895

- 6301

e

- mail: Vlad.Yanovsky@GEAGroup.com

www.wsus.com <http://www.wsus.com/>

From: Betsy Bicknell [mailto:Betsy.Bicknel l@erg.com]

Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 6:12 AM

To: Yanovsky, Vlad S.

Subject: RE: Quote for package seafood byproducts plant

thanks, Vlad

could you provide a list of the equipment that would be included?

Also, I'm guessing these estimates don't include shipping. Could you

tell me rough weights and locations from which the units would need to

be shipped?

Betsy

>>> "Yanovsky, Vlad S." <Vlad.Yanovsky@geagroup.com> 1/7/2011 7:38 AM

>>>Betsy:

As promis ed

- below are rough budget numbers for capital equipment only

for Westfalia for production lines sizes requested.

Remember

- this is just for the equipment/engineering. The end user will

need to install it, etc

Up to 3 U.S. ton/hour combined fish oil/fish m eal plant

------ $900K

- $1.3

M

1 U.S. ton/hour fish oil plant

- $400K

- 600K

5 U.S. ton/hour fish oil plant

- $550K

- 700K

10 U.S. ton/hour fish oil plant

- $700K

- 1.2M

Best regards,

Vlad S. Yanovsky

GEA Mechanical Equipment

GE A Westfalia Separator, Inc.

555 Baldwin Road

Patterson, CA 95363

Office: (209)

- 895

- 6314

Cell: (201)

- 600

- 1180

Fax: 1

- 209

- 895

- 6301

e

- mail: Vlad.Yanovsky@GEAGroup.com

www.wsus.com <http://www.wsus.com/>

From: Betsy Bicknell [mailto:Betsy.Bicknell@erg.com]

Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 12:19 PM

To: Yanovsky, Vlad S.

Subject: Quote for package seafood byproducts plant

Vlad I'm glad we talked this afternoon. I look forward to receiving

information fro m you by January 7. As we discussed, I'm looking for

"generic" quotes for package seafood byproducts plants. We discussed

3 U.S. ton/hour combined fish oil/fish meal plant

1 U.S. ton/hour fish oil plant

5 U.S. ton/hour fish oil plant

10 U.S. ton/hour fish oil plantYou will provide estimates for the equipment and specifications,

including power requirements and other installation requirements.

I look forward to hearing from you next month.

Happy Holidays,

Betsy

Betsy Bicknell

Senior Environmental Engineer

Eastern Research Group, Inc.

(703) 633

- 1612

betsy.bicknell@erg.com