Disagreeing with the change in direction, Satterfield retired in 1998, after 20 years with Simplot, and went into consulting. It was a natural fit for Satterfield, a UI graduate who had spent the bulk of his career in Idaho industry. So when I was sitting on the other side of the table and it came time to license it, I made the decision to license it in these multiple fashions. It's a no-brainer. We calculate it's four times more expensive than bioremediation, and it renders the ground sterile.
Bioremediation just attacks the nitroaromatics.
It actually improves the quality of the soil by enhancing the natural bacteria, and you do it on site. You may have an environmental contractor on the East Coast that is familiar with doing business there and has its resources there. If you grant them a worldwide license, there may be sites in the western United States they'd never get around to because of limitations on resources. The dinoseb market is a relatively small niche market, one that a single company is more likely able to handle worldwide. All active and inactive military firing ranges throughout the United States are required by Congress to recycle this scrap metal.