-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, RHonAXvE243EiusfFmBCzjiEBJykw2hG3FPEzRZtbbVlYOOJjyissHVhloGy8ZSG /OsyTSxplz5sqFwctvDKug== 0000950168-00-000839.txt : 20000331 0000950168-00-000839.hdr.sgml : 20000331 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000950168-00-000839 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 10-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 4 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 19991231 FILED AS OF DATE: 20000330 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: GTS DURATEK INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000785186 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-HELP SUPPLY SERVICES [7363] IRS NUMBER: 222476180 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 10-K SEC ACT: SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-14292 FILM NUMBER: 586541 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 10100 OLD COLUMBIA ROAD CITY: COLUMBIA STATE: MD ZIP: 21046 BUSINESS PHONE: 4103125100 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 10100 OLD COLUMBIA ROAD CITY: COLUMBIA STATE: MD ZIP: 21046 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: DURATEK CORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 10-K 1 GTS DURATEK, INC. UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 ------------------------- FORM 10-K [x] Annual Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. For the fiscal year ended December 31, 1999 OR [ ] Transition Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. For the transition period from ___________ to ___________ Commission File Number: 0-14292 GTS DURATEK, INC. (Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter) DELAWARE 22-2476180 (State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer incorporation or organization) Identification No.) 10100 OLD COLUMBIA ROAD, COLUMBIA, MARYLAND 21046 - ------------------------------------------- ----- (Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code) Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (410) 312-5100 -------------- Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: None Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: Common Stock, par value $0.01 Per Share Indicate by check mark X whether the Registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the Registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes X No --- --- Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent files pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of the Registrant's knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K. X --- As of March 16, 2000, the aggregate market value of the outstanding shares of the Registrant's Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, held by non-affiliates was approximately $119,124,000 based on the average closing price of the Common Stock as reported by the NASDAQ National Market on March 16, 2000. Determination of affiliate status for this purpose is not a determination of affiliate status for any other purpose. Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the Registrant's classes of common stock, as of the most recent practicable date. Class Outstanding at March 16, 2000 ----- ----------------------------- Common stock, par value $0.01 per share 13,422,459 shares DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE Portions of the Registrant's definitive Proxy Statement for its 2000 Annual Meeting of Stockholders are incorporated by reference into Part III hereof. FORM 10-K CROSS-REFERENCE SHEET PAGE PART I Item 1. Business....................................................1 Item 2. Properties.................................................19 Item 3. Legal Proceedings..........................................19 Item 4. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders........20 PART II Item 5. Market for Registrant's Common Equity and Related Stockholder Matters.............................21 Item 6. Selected Financial Data....................................22 Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations...........23 Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Information About Market Risk....29 Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data................30 Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure..................60 PART III Item 10. Directors and Executive Officers of the Registrant*...........61 Item 11. Executive Compensation*.......................................62 Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management*.........................................62 Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions*...............62 PART IV Item 14. Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules and Reports on Form 8-K.............................................63 Signatures...................................................................64 * Incorporated by reference from registrant's definitive Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held May 16, 2000 which Proxy Statement will be filed not later than 120 days after the end of the fiscal year covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K. PART I ITEM 1. BUSINESS OVERVIEW GTS Duratek, Inc. (the "Company") provides waste treatment solutions for radioactive, hazardous, mixed (i.e. intermingled radioactive and hazardous) and other wastes. The Company combines proprietary technologies for treating various waste streams with a staff of highly skilled personnel with significant environmental experience to offer its customers a comprehensive approach to their waste treatment needs that includes commercial waste processing services, government waste processing services and technical support services. The Company's strategy is to (i) provide the low cost solution to process contaminated waste streams, (ii) combine its proprietary technologies and technical support services to provide full-service waste treatment, and (iii) team, where appropriate, with other companies with complementary expertise to advance GTS Duratek's treatment solutions within its target markets and into new markets. The Company conducts its commercial waste processing operations principally at its Bear Creek Operations Facility located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This facility is the largest commercial waste processing facility for low-level radioactive waste in the United States and has the capacity to process 30 million pounds of radioactive waste per year. Generators of low-level radioactive waste send their waste to this facility where the Company, utilizing a combination of treatment technologies, processes the waste, achieving significant volume and mass reduction, before sending it to a landfill for disposal. Accordingly, the Company believes its customers benefit from significant cost savings as compared to other commercially available alternatives. The Company's waste treatment technologies utilized at the Bear Creek Operations Facility include incineration, compaction, and metal decontamination and recycling. Other technologies used by the Company in its commercial waste processing operations include vitrification, steam reforming and ion exchange. The Company's technologies can be used independently or in tandem to process its customers' waste for long-term storage and disposal. The Company's ability to integrate its waste treatment technologies enables it to handle a diversity of waste streams in a cost-effective manner. The Company also provides on-site waste processing services on large government projects for the United States Department of Energy ("DOE"). The on-site waste processing services provided by the Company on DOE projects include program development, waste characterization, on-site waste treatment, facility operation, packaging and shipping of residual waste, profiling and manifesting the processed waste and selected technical support services. In November 1995, the Company and BNFL, Inc. ("BNFL"), the U.S. subsidiary of British Nuclear Fuels plc, formed a strategic alliance, agreeing to team on five major DOE environmental remediation projects. To date, the Company and BNFL have been jointly awarded contracts from the DOE on two of such projects. The Company's technical support services encompass over 600 engineers, consultants and technicians, some of whom are full-time employees and the balance of whom are contract employees, who support and complement the Company's commercial and government waste processing operations and also provide highly specialized technical support services for the Company's customers. The technical support services provide a consistent source of revenue and the complementary expertise for the Company to expand and diversify its waste treatment operations. The technical support services provided by the Company for its customers include site decontamination and decommissioning, radiological engineering services, staff augmentation and outage support (principally to assist nuclear power plants during regular maintenance shutdowns), environmental and computer consulting and environmental safety and health training. Having these technical resources available has enabled the Company to move its technologies from bench-scale 1 laboratory testing to field operations and commercial application more rapidly and to handle larger scope waste cleanup projects. The Company also provides transportation services for radioactive wastes. The Company maintains a fleet of tractors, trailers and shipping containers for transporting radioactive wastes from customers' sites for processing and disposal. On June 30, 1999, the Company acquired 100% of the outstanding capital stock of Frank W. Hake Associates, LLC ("Hake") from HakeTenn, Inc., a Delaware corporation and an affiliate of the Hake Group of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and two individuals for $12.9 million in cash, subject to a post closing adjustment, and the assumption of certain liabilities. Hake is a specialist in storage, transportation handling and processing of radioactive waste emanating from nuclear power generation plants throughout the United States. Hake also stores and services power generation equipment at its licensed facility in Memphis, Tennessee. The Company has developed the following joint venture and collaborative arrangements, among others, in order to advance the commercialization of its waste treatment technologies and increase the number of markets that it serves: o The Vitreous State Laboratory of The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. ("VSL"). The Company has an established research and development relationship with the VSL, one of the leading research centers in the world for glass technology, including vitrification of waste. o BNFL, Inc. ("BNFL"). In November 1995, the Company formed a strategic alliance with BNFL to jointly pursue up to five major DOE environmental remediation projects. BNFL is the U.S. subsidiary of British Nuclear Fuels plc, one of the largest processors of radioactive waste in the world. To date, the Company and BNFL have agreed to jointly pursue three major DOE waste treatment projects and have been jointly awarded contracts from the DOE on two such projects, the Hanford Tank Waste Remediation System and the Idaho Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Facility projects. o The Carlyle Group ("Carlyle"). In January 1995, Carlyle, a Washington, D.C.-based private merchant bank, made a significant investment in the Company. Carlyle provided the Company with a significant capital infusion and, on a continuing basis, provides the Company with experience with companies that contract with the federal government. The Company seeks to utilize the complementary technical expertise or commercial experience of the other parties in these collaborative arrangements and, where possible, to develop additional collaborative arrangements, to pursue its primary markets and expand into new markets. RECENT EVENTS In February 2000, the Company completed the sale of its 80% interesest in DuraTherm, Inc. to DuraTherm Group, Inc. for $8.0 million in cash and a subordinated note for $355,000. Proceeds to the Company of $8.0 million were used by the Company to pay down borrowings under its bank credit facility. The note receivable bears interest at 14%, payable semi-annually during the first year following the sale, and 18% during the second year following the sale with the principal due in February 2002. The Company estimates that it will recognize a pre-tax gain of approximately $1.5 million on the sale. On March 29, 2000, the Company announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the nuclear services business of Waste Management, Inc. for up to $65 million in cash, consisting of $55 million in cash at closing and up to $10 million additional cash consideration upon the satisfaction of certain post-closing conditions. Waste Management Nuclear Services ("WMNS") is a leader in providing low-level radioactive waste management services for the commercial industry and the federal government. WMNS consists primarily of three operating segments: (i) the Federal Services Division which provides radioactive waste handling, transportation, treatment packaging, storage, disposal, site cleanup, and project management services primarily for the DOE and other federal agencies; (ii) the Commercial Services Division which provides radioactive waste handling, transportation, licensing, packing, disposal, and decontamination and decommissioning services primarily to nuclear utilities; and (iii) the Commercial Disposal Division which operates a commercial low-level radioactive waste disposal facility at Barnwell, South Carolina. The proposed acquisition is subject to certain regulatory approvals and other customary conditions. Closing of the transaction is targeted for the second quarter of 2000. 2 COMMERCIAL WASTE PROCESSING The Company conducts its commercial waste processing operations principally at its Bear Creek Operations Facility located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This facility is the largest commercial waste processing facility for low-level radioactive waste in the United States and has the capacity to process 30 million pounds of radioactive waste per year. Generators of low-level radioactive waste send their waste to this facility where the Company, utilizing a combination of treatment technologies, processes the waste, achieving significant volume and mass reduction, before sending it to a landfill for disposal. Accordingly, the Company believes its customers benefit from significant cost savings as compared to other commercially available alternatives. The Company's waste treatment technologies utilized at the Bear Creek Operations Facility include incineration, compaction and metal decontamination and recycling. Other technologies used by the Company in its commercial waste processing operations include vitrification, steam reforming and ion exchange. The Company's technologies can be used independently or in tandem to process its customers' waste for long-term storage and disposal. The Company's ability to integrate its waste treatment technologies enables it to handle a diversity of waste streams in a cost-effective manner. The Company has developed or acquired several waste treatment technologies for use on a variety of radioactive, hazardous, mixed and other waste streams. The following is a brief summary of the waste treatment technologies that are being utilized by the Company. Vitrification. The Company's vitrification technology converts waste to environmentally stable, leach-resistant glass through a patented high-temperature melter system known as a DuraMelter(TM). The Company's vitrification technology involves combining radioactive, hazardous, mixed and other waste with glass-forming additives in a DuraMelter(TM) that reaches temperatures of 1150(degree)C to 1450(degree)C (or 2100(degree)F to 2640(degree)F). The high temperatures of the DuraMelter(TM) cause the waste and any additives to form a molten liquid that becomes solId glass as it cools. As the molten liquid cools, the radioactive or hazardous atoms become chemically bonded in the molecular structure of the glass for long-term storage or disposal, thereby virtually eliminating contamination of the environment. For certain waste streams, the Company's vitrification technology can achieve volume reductions of up to 97%. The glass produced by the DuraMelter(TM) passes the United States Environmental ProtectiOn Agency's Toxicity Characteristic Leachate Procedure (TCLP), one of the most commonly used criteria for waste acceptance, particularly hazardous and mixed waste, at land disposal facilities. The DuraMelter(TM) is a proprietary melter system within a refractory-lined cavity incorporating submergEd electrodes which heat up the materials within the cavity. Contaminated waste materials are deposited onto a melt surface in either a liquid (slurry) or a solid form. Glass forming additives are also introduced into the system and the amount of such additives is dependent upon the characteristics of the waste stream. As the electrodes in the DuraMelter(TM) raise the temperature above 600(degree)C, the waste and additive mixture becomes eleCtrically conductive. Resistance to the passage of electricity through the mixture causes further heating and maintains the waste and additive mixture in a molten state. This process is known as "joule heating" and typically requires temperatures of about 1150(degree)C. Within the DuraMelter(TM), water evaporates and organic substances are oxidized forming simple gases which are channeled into the patented off-gas treatment system. The inorganic radioactive or hazardous substances in the waste are dissolved into the molten glass mixture. The molten glass exits through a side opening near the floor of the melting cavity and, depending upon the characteristics of the waste stream, is either discharged in bulk or directed into the proprietary GTS Duratek gem machine where it forms into beads, 1 to 2 centimeters in diameter, for long-term storage. As the beads of molten mixture cool, the inorganic radioactive or hazardous substances become chemically bonded or "locked" into the molecular structure of the glass. 3 DuraMelters(TM) range in size from small bench-scale units used for testing and characterization of wasTe streams to commercial sized melters designed for large waste treatment and remediation projects. Currently, the Company's largest commercial operating DuraMelters(TM) can process up to approximately 400 cubic feet of waste pEr day. The design of the DuraMelter(TM) can be modified depending upon the characteristics of the waste stream to Be processed. To process waste streams that have a higher content of soil or sand, the Company has designed a DuraMelter(TM) with higher temperature capability (up to 1450(degree)C or 2640(degree)F). To process waste streamS that include a high content of corrosive elements such as sulfates, phosphates, lead and nitrates, the Company has designed a DuraMelter(TM) with multiple waste chambers to protect the electrodes from the corrosiveness of the waste stream. INCINERATION. Incineration is the most cost-effective treatment for most dry active waste and is the preferred waste treatment technology of many of the Company's customers for nonhazardous waste oils and other waste liquids. The Company's two incinerators at its Bear Creek Operations Facility are the only two licensed commercial low-level radioactive waste incinerators in the United States. Each of the Company's incinerators is capable of processing solid waste at up to 1,600 pounds per hour and up to 30 gallons of radioactive, nonhazardous waste oils simultaneously. The proprietary ash transport system of the Company's incinerators mixes ash with air, resulting in complete burning of all combustible material without excessive particulate carry-over common to most incinerators. In addition, the secondary chamber utilizes two burners at up to 2200(degree)F to Ensure complete combustion of all volatile materials. Incinerator ash and fly ash are compacted in the Company's UltraCompactor(TM) to form a high-density, nondispersible solid which is packaged and shipped for disposal. THe incinerators are also equipped with a combination of emission control equipment and technology to maximize environmental and employee safety, including a heat recovery boiler for off-gas temperature control, a baghouse filter for particulate control, a dual HEPA bank for contamination control, a wet scrubber for acid gas removal, an evaporator to concentrate and solidify suspended and dissolved solids in the liquid from the scrubbers and a recycling system so that water can be recycled for reuse or processed in the incinerator which eliminates all liquid effluents. COMPACTION. Achieving maximum density is critical to cost-effective radioactive waste disposal at most burial sites. The Company's UltraCompactor(TM) at its Bear Creek Operations Facility is the world's largeSt compactor available for low-level radioactive waste, capable of compacting both drums and boxes (up to 38 cubic feet) with the force of 10 million pounds. The UltraCompactor(TM) has a capacity of 70,000 cubic feet per montH. Average volume reduction using the Company's compaction technology is approximately six times for dry active waste and eight times for asbestos. Typically, the waste processed utilizing this technology is dry active waste and includes paper, plastic, asbestos, metals, woods and filters. Other items that have been successfully volume reduced using the UltraCompactor(TM) include soils, motors, pumps, pipes, valves and conduits. The Company also hAs a mobile compactor which can be operated at the customer's site. The mobile compactor utilizes 2,200 tons of compaction force, achieves volume reduction rates of 60% to 80% and is suited for smaller-scale jobs on concrete, rubble, steel structures, valve bodies and other hard-to-compact material near theoretical density. METAL DECONTAMINATION AND RECYCLING. The Company's metals processing program at its Bear Creek Operations Facility provides a cost-effective solution for radioactively contaminated metals utilizing its full-service capabilities of surveying, decontaminating and melting. Upon arrival at the Company's Bear Creek Operations Facility, the Company examines the metal and sorts it for processing based on the contamination level of the metal to achieve the most cost-effective process for recycling metal. If it is more cost-effective to dispose of it rather than to recycle it, the Company will volume reduce the metal using its UltraCompactor(TM) aNd send it to an appropriate burial site. If the metal can be decontaminated and commercially recycled, the Company will employ its decontamination technologies which incorporate chemical, abrasive grit/shot, sponge and carbon dioxide processing. The Company's specialized decontamination equipment allows 4 multiple shapes and metal types to be successfully treated for commercial recycling. For those metals that cannot be economically decontaminated to levels low enough for free release, the Company will utilize its metal melting technology. The Company's 20 ton, 7,200 kw electric induction furnace, the largest available in the United States, operates exclusively for melting and recycling radioactively contaminated metal. This furnace is capable of processing various types of ferrous metals over a broad alloy spectrum and copper and lead. All of the metal processed through the metal melt furnace is recycled into shield blocks and provided to various high-energy physics projects throughout the United States and Canada. The decontamination and/or recycling of radioactively contaminated metal has two principal benefits, it eliminates the liability for the original waste generator and it eliminates the cost of burial. STEAM REFORMING. The Company's steam reforming technology is designed for processing the toughest wastes including mixed waste, waste requiring segregation and waste exhibiting high activity levels. In particular, the Company has successfully utilized this technology to process radiologically contaminated medical and biological wastes. The system's compact size, containment integrity, in-drum processing option and steam-based chemistry offer significant safety and regulatory advantages over most incinerator or other thermal destruction systems. The Company holds exclusive rights to this proprietary technology, which first vaporizes organics in the waste, either in liquid or solid forms, and then converts those gases to a dry, nonhazardous, mineral-like solid residue with greater than 99.99% efficiency. Using its steam reforming technology, the Company is able to achieve volume reductions of up to 100 times, depending on the type of waste. The steam reforming process is conducted in a steam-laden, oxygen-deficient environment that converts organic and biochemical compounds to carbon monoxide, hydrogen, carbon dioxide and water. The two-step process first employs an evaporation phase (between 700(degree)F and 900(degree)F) which breaks down and vaporizes Most organic compounds and water from the waste. The waste solids are not exposed to higher temperatures which would tend to volatize metals and other radionuclides from the residue. The volatized gases exit the evaporator and are passed through a filter which removes any fine entrained particles from the gases. Particulate-free gases exiting the filter are then co-mixed with additional superheated steam and passed through a high-temperature reformer. The gases, some of which are organic fractions of the original waste material, are fully decomposed in the reformer at high destruction efficiencies. The resulting products are simple gases and inert mineral-like residue. Because the Company's steam reforming technology does not use combustion and because the secondary pollutants are not formed by the steam reforming process, it is not classified as an incinerator by the United State Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") and is therefore easily permitted for on-site operations. Accordingly, the Company can provide a compact mobile unit for on-site processing at the customer's facility. For example, the Company successfully processed high-level radioactive wastes at Portland General Electric's Trojan Nuclear Plant. The project included sorting and packaging spent fuel pool wastes submerged in 20 feet of water, removing wastes from the fuel pool, destructing hydrogen bearing materials in the mobile steam reformer and sealing the processed wastes in dry-storage capsules for long-term storage. ION EXCHANGE. The Company has developed a family of selective ion exchange media, called DURASIL(R), whicH selectively targets and removes specific radioactive, toxic or hazardous ions from wastewater while passing benign ions. DURASIL(R) is formulated to separate specific contaminants from liquid waste streams thereby allowinG radioactive and hazardous ions to be removed and separated into their respective species. Since radioactive and hazardous materials are regulated by two different government agencies, this ability to separate mixed waste greatly simplifies its disposal. DURASIL(R) also has physical characteristics that enable it to endure extremE wastewater processing conditions. It is mechanically stable and nonflammable, does not shrink or swell, is virtually immune to radiation damage and has no effect on the pH 5 of the waste stream. The Company has developed different DURASIL(R) ion exchange media depending on thE characteristics of the liquid waste stream. The Company manufactures and supplies highly specialized waste water purification systems and the patented DURASIL(R) for commercial nuclear power plants, DOE facilities and industriaL clients. GOVERNMENT WASTE PROCESSING The Company provides on-site waste processing services on large government projects for the DOE. The on-site waste processing services provided by the Company on DOE projects include program development, waste characterization, on-site waste treatment, facility operation, packaging and shipping of residual waste, profiling and manifesting the processed waste and selected technical support services. In November 1995, the Company and BNFL formed a strategic alliance, agreeing to team on five major DOE environmental remediation projects. To date, the Company and BNFL have agreed to jointly pursue three major DOE waste projects and have been jointly awarded contracts from the DOE on two of such projects, the Hanford River Protection Project ("RPP") and the Idaho Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project ("AMWTP"). The Company is currently involved in several waste treatment projects for the DOE. The following is a summary of the status of the Company's major waste treatment projects with the DOE. HANFORD RIVER PROTECTION PROJECT ("RPP"). In September 1996, the team led by BNFL, of which the Company is a key member, was awarded a contract for the Hanford Tank Water cleanup at the DOE's site in Hanford, Washington. The Hanford site is the single largest DOE facility and contains the largest amount of high-level radioactive waste in the United States with approximately 54 million gallons of high-level radioactive waste and low-level radioactive waste which is contained in 177 underground storage tanks. The Company will provide the technical and support services for vitrifying both the high-level and low-level waste for the project. Part I of the project is divided into two parts. Part IA, which was concluded in January 1998, consisted of completing the facility conceptual design, initiating the environmental permitting process and submitting a proposal to the DOE for the next phase. The Company completed its portion of Part IA by delivering the conceptual design for high level waste (HLW) and low active waste (LAW) melters, and by generating a cost estimate for the design and construction of these systems. In addition during Part IA, glass formulation and validation testing on a small scale was performed at the VSL. In July 1998, the DOE and BNFL reached an agreement for Part 1B of the Hanford RPP contract. The two part contract, worth approximately $6.9 billion to the team, will result in the safe immobilization of approximately 10% mass, or 20 to 25% of the radioactivity in Hanford's 54 million gallons of tank waste by 2018. Under the negotiated contract, the project will proceed in two parts. The first part consists of a 24-month advance facility design phase that will result in securing private project financing, filing regulatory permit applications, preparing to begin construction, and establishing final fixed-unit prices and a schedule for cleanup of the waste. The second part of the project will provide for the construction of the facilities, followed by treatment and immobilization of the high and low-level waste contained in the tanks as determined in the first part and established according to the fixed-price. In preparation for beginning the detailed design of the demonstration facility, BNFL funded $17 million to design, construct, own and operate a pilot DuraMelter(TM) at the Company's headquarters. The pilot DuraMelteR(TM) commenced startup in December 1998 and completed its initial phase of testing in September 1999. The melter processed non-hazardous, non-radioactive test materials using the Company's proven vitrification technology for fusing contaminants in durable, ecologically safe glass. The melter, a 3.3 ton-per-day vitrification system, is a one-third scale version of one of the 10 ton-per-day LAW melters to 6 be built at the RPP facility. During the testing, the pilot melter demonstrated that the full-scale LAW melter configuration achieved and sustained a glass production rate of one ton of glass per day per square meter of glass surface area. According to DOE estimates, the total Phase I contract is estimated to be worth $6.9 billion over 18 years. Phase II of the cleanup, to convert all the tank waste to glass, is expected to take 20 to 30 years to complete. The total project is estimated by the DOE to cost in excess of $40 billion. The Company's portion of the total contract is undetermined at this point. See "Joint Venture and Collaborative Arrangements - BNFL." IDAHO ADVANCED MIXED WASTE TREATMENT PROJECT ("AMWTP"). In December 1996, the team led by BNFL, of which the Company is a key member, was awarded the sole contract by the DOE for AMWTP in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Under the contract, the team will finance, construct and operate a treatment facility for mixed radioactive and toxic wastes at the DOE's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory ("INEEL"). The facility will treat and package for disposal approximately 65,000 cubic meters of mixed and transuranic waste now stored or buried at INEEL. The contract also provides an option for the team to treat an additional 120,000 cubic meters of mixed waste generated by future cleanup operations at INEEL or other DOE sites. The BNFL-led team originally planned to utilize vitrification and incineration technologies developed by the Company in the INEEL project. In June 1998, the team changed the technical process and has proposed the ash from the incineration process to be micro-encapsulated (in cement) in lieu of vitrified (melted into glass). This change in process is being explored due to changes in the waste acceptance criteria of the Waste Isolation Pilot Project ("WIPP"), which is less restrictive. The acceptability of this change has not yet been agreed to by the State of Idaho and the EPA. Even though the Company's vitrification technology may not be utilized in this project, the Company will retain a major role in the project with responsibility for all the thermal processes. In addition, the Company's scope has been expanded to include other ancillary processes. The Company will be responsible for the design, development, procurement, and construction supervision of the waste processing systems. The AMWTP is split into three phases with the intention of meeting important and aggressive milestones agreed to by the DOE and the State of Idaho. The Company completed its Phase I activities with the submission of its conceptual design for the waste processing systems to BNFL in January 1998. BNFL began the environmental permitting process in January 1998 with the submission of the permit applications to the State of Idaho. Phase II includes the design and construction of the facility and operational testing for a duration of up to three years. Phase III includes the retrieval of the waste and operation of the facility with an approximate duration of 12 years. After the completion of these phases, there will be a decommissioning of the facility anticipated to take six months. The total contract is estimated to be worth approximately $1 billion. The Company's portion of the total contract is undetermined at this point. See "Joint Venture and Collaborative Arrangements - BNFL." TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES The Company's technical support services encompass over 600 engineers, consultants and technicians, some of whom are full-time employees and the balance of whom are contract employees, who support and complement the Company's commercial and government waste processing operations and also provide highly specialized technical support services for the Company's customers. The technical support services provide a consistent source of revenue and the complementary expertise for the Company to expand and diversify its waste treatment operations. The technical support services provided by the Company for its customers include site decontamination and decommissioning, radiological engineering services, staff 7 augmentation and outage support (principally to assist nuclear power plants during regular maintenance shutdowns), environmental and computer consulting and environmental safety and health training. The Company provides these technical support services either as a prime contractor or as a subcontractor to a diverse group of electric utilities, industrial facilities, commercial businesses and government agencies including Duke Power Company, Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corporation and the DOE. Having these technical resources available has enabled the Company to move its technologies from bench-scale laboratory testing to field operations and commercial application more rapidly and to handle larger scope waste cleanup projects. SITE DECONTAMINATION AND DECOMMISSIONING. The Company has performed decontamination and decommissioning services at over 60 facilities worldwide, including major scopes of work at two nuclear power plants which have been completely decommissioned to United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission ("NRC") requirements. The Company has performed decontamination and decommissioning services at the following commercial nuclear power plants: Fort St. Vrain Nuclear Generating Station, Humboldt Bay Power Plant Unit 3, Shoreham Nuclear Power Station, Rancho Seco Nuclear Station, Trojan Nuclear Power Plant and is currently performing decontamination and decommissioning services under contracts for Connecticut Yankee's Haddam Nuclear Power Station, Consumers Energy Big Rock Point Nuclear Power Plant and Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company. Decontamination and decommissioning services provided by the Company include site radiological surveys, waste characterization, decommissioning planning, remediation, health physics support, radwaste services and final surveys. The Company has the technical personnel, who have developed project techniques accepted by the NRC, programs, procedures, equipment and instrumentation to handle projects involving small hot cells to large nuclear power stations. In addition, through its transportation and commercial waste processing operations, the Company offers its customers a comprehensive solution to their site decontamination and decommissioning problems. RADIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING SERVICES. The Company's technical personnel provide commercial and government customers with a variety of radiological engineering services including development of health physics and emergency preparedness programs, MORT analysis, licensing procurement, instrumentation and radiological training. Most of the Company's senior technical personnel providing radiological engineering services are fully certified and have extensive operating plant as well as NRC and DOE experience. STAFF AUGMENTATION AND OUTAGE SUPPORT SERVICES. The Company provides trained personnel to assist nuclear power plants undergoing periodic refueling, maintenance outages, construction or decommissioning. There are 119 nuclear power generating units in the United States, of which 108 are operational. To control costs, utilities maintain their permanent staffs at the level needed for steady-state power operations. They supplement their full-time staffs during refueling and maintenance outages with skilled contract personnel. Every 12 to 24 months, nuclear power plants are shut down for scheduled maintenance that typically takes 30 to 90 days. This shutdown and maintenance operation costs the nuclear power facility on average $1 million for every day it is closed. Accordingly, there is a strong economic incentive for the nuclear power facilities to hire trained and experienced personnel for these maintenance operations in order to complete the servicing as quickly and efficiently as possible. The Company's trained technicians and personnel are experienced in outage support procedures and are effective at helping to minimize the cost of the power facilities' down time. The offering of services for operating nuclear power plants provides a considerable market for the Company, despite the fact that no new plants have been ordered in over 10 years. The demand for the Company's services results from the extensive overhaul required to extend the life of aging plants, replacement of major components of existing plants, startup of plants recovering from long-term shutdown, modifications to the plants resulting from changing legislation and the decommissioning of plants that have reached the end of their useful lives. 8 The Company's largest customer for staff augmentation services is Duke Power Company, which accounted for approximately 7% and 5% of the Company's total revenues in 1998 and 1999, respectively. Duke Power currently has seven nuclear power units at three sites. The Company provides a group of technicians to the Duke Power system year-round and provides additional personnel to Duke Power during planned maintenance outages. Other nuclear power utilities to which the Company provides augmentation and outage support services include Southern Nuclear Operating Company and Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corporation. ENVIRONMENTAL AND COMPUTER CONSULTING SERVICES. The Company provides extensive environmental consulting services to clients in the areas of environmental remediation, facility decommissioning, Occupational Safety and Health Act ("OSHA") and EPA compliance audits, site characterization, licensing and permitting and air quality and emission studies. The Company either supplies professionals and technical personnel to supplement client staffs or assumes responsibility for entire projects. Included among the Company's available personnel for such environmental consulting projects are chemical, civil and environmental engineers, certified health physicists, chemists, toxicologists, safety and health experts, regulatory compliance specialists, remediation experts, radiological control technicians, hazardous material technicians, decontamination experts and others. The Company also supplies professionals and technical specialists in a wide range of scientific, engineering, data processing and communications disciplines. These individuals perform computer consulting services such as program assessment and development, computer software development and testing, networking, web site development, quality assurance audits, non-destructive examination and computer training for a broad base of clients. ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND HEALTH TRAINING. The Company provides radiation protection and hazardous waste training services nationwide. The Company's training specialists prepare candidates, consisting of health physics technicians and professionals from nuclear power plants, universities and laboratories nationwide, for the National Registry of Radiation Protection Technologists and American Board of Health Physics certification examinations. The Company's training programs enable customers to realize cost savings through increased worker competence and productivity, enhanced workplace safety and improved compliance with regulatory requirements. TRANSPORTATION SERVICES. As part of its technical support services, the Company provides certain complementary services to its customers including transportation services. Through a wholly owned subsidiary, Hittman Transport Services, Inc. ("Hittman"), the Company maintains a fleet of tractors, trailers and shipping containers for transporting radioactive waste and radioactively contaminated equipment for processing and disposal. All of Hittman's vehicles are constantly monitored via satellite to optimize waste pickup and delivery scheduling. Hittman maintains terminal locations around the country that are conveniently located to 90% of the commercial nuclear power plants in the United States. JOINT VENTURE AND COLLABORATIVE ARRANGEMENTS In order to commercialize its technologies more rapidly and cost-effectively, the Company has developed several important joint venture and collaborative arrangements. The following is a summary of certain of these relationships. VSL The Company has established a research and development relationship with the VSL of The Catholic University in Washington, D.C. pursuant to which the VSL provides ongoing research and development capabilities and technical services in support of the Company's waste treatment projects, particularly its government waste processing operations. In this complementary relationship, the VSL provides the necessary technology and research and development support while the Company advances the technology to commercial application. 9 The VSL, a research facility with a staff of 90 researchers, is one of the leading research centers in the world for glass technology, including vitrification. The laboratories at the VSL are equipped with highly sophisticated analytical tools which enable the researchers to perform a comprehensive array of analyses. The VSL's research and development capabilities include waste characterization, testing of radioactive waste-loaded glasses to evaluate glass durability, processability and leachability, glass dissolution computer modeling, batch melting and the study of ion exchange media for removing specific contaminants from liquid waste streams. Various DuraMelter(TM) models have been designed and constructed at the VSL for use by the staff of the VSL in its researCh and analytical work. In addition, the facility is fully licensed for radioactive and hazardous materials research. The VSL is led by Pedro B. Macedo, Ph.D. and Theodore A. Litovitz, Ph.D. who are the inventors and owners of the technology licensed exclusively to the Company for ion exchange and the vitrification of radioactive, hazardous, mixed and other wastes. See "Business - Patents and Other Intellectual Property Rights." In addition to being the source of the vitrification technologies used by the Company, the VSL provides ongoing services to the Company in support of its waste treatment projects, particularly its government waste processing operations. The VSL conducts expert waste composition and glass treatability studies before any project is commenced, assists in the initial test melt phase of each project and works with the Company's engineers in the design adaptation of the DuraMelter(TM) technology to fit the waste characteristics of each nEw cleanup project. In addition, the VSL conducts ongoing research and development into improvements in the existing vitrification technologies and into entirely new vitrification techniques, serving in effect as the research and development arm of the Company. The primary advantage to the Company from its relationship with the VSL is the access to leading vitrification technologies and ongoing vitrification research without having to incur the ongoing overhead and administrative expenses if such capabilities were in house. In return, the Company provides ongoing funding for research conducted at the VSL on behalf of the Company. During 1998, the Company paid $530,000 in research and development funding to the VSL. No funding was provided during 1999. For Company waste cleanup projects in which the VSL's technical services are utilized by the Company, the Company pays the VSL on a time and expense basis and includes the estimated cost for such services in its formal bid proposal. The VSL is a not-for-profit institution so it does not include extra fees or percentage profits in its cost estimates. BNFL In November 1995, the Company and BNFL entered into a strategic alliance agreement. BNFL is the U.S. subsidiary of British Nuclear Fuels plc, a United Kingdom-based company with annual revenues of approximately $2 billion worldwide. British Nuclear Fuels plc is one of the largest processors of radioactive waste in the world and is one of only two companies worldwide with commercial experience in processing and stabilizing high-level radioactive wastes. BNFL has been active in the U.S. radioactive waste market for the past five years, including being selected as a member of the team to manage the DOE's nuclear waste facility in Rocky Flats, Colorado. Pursuant to the terms of the strategic alliance, the Company will receive a $1.0 million teaming fee for each time that BNFL and the Company agree to jointly pursue a major DOE environmental remediation project. To date, the Company and BNFL have agreed to jointly pursue three major DOE environmental remediation projects and have been jointly awarded contracts from the DOE on two of such projects. As part of the strategic alliance, BNFL invested $10.0 million in the Company in the form of a convertible debenture. The debenture accrues non-cash interest through November 2000 at the one-year London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and is convertible at the option of BNFL into 1,381,575 shares of the Common Stock prior to November 7, 2000. BNFL also agreed to provide the Company with research and development funding of at least $500,000 per year over five years. The two parties mutually agree on 10 how the research and development funding will be spent, but the Company will retain the rights to the vitrification processes that it develops through this funding. The Company has agreed as part of the strategic alliance to sublicense its radioactive waste vitrification technologies to BNFL for use only in the United Kingdom. BNFL has funded $17 million to design, construct, own and operate a pilot DuraMelter(TM) at the Company's headquarters. The pilot DuraMelter(TM) commenced startup in December 1998 and completed its initial phase of testiNg in September 1999. The melter processed non-hazardous, non-radioactive test materials using the Company's proven vitrification technology for fusing contaminants in durable, ecologically safe glass. The melter, a 3.3 ton-per-day vitrification system, is a one-third scale version of one of the 10 ton-per-day LAW melters to be built at the RPP facility. During the testing, the pilot melter demonstrated that the full-scale LAW melter configuration achieved and sustained a glass production rate of one ton of glass per day per square meter of glass surface area. DURACHEM In September 1994, the Company formed a joint venture with Chem-Nuclear Systems, Inc. ("Chem-Nuclear"), a subsidiary of Waste Management, Inc., to design, construct and operate vitrification facilities to process commercial radioactive waste for disposal, including low-level radioactive wastes from nuclear power plants, hospitals, research laboratories and industrial facilities. The joint venture entity, called DuraChem, is 55% owned by Chem-Nuclear and 45% by the Company. The joint venture represents the combination of the Company's proprietary vitrification technology and Chem-Nuclear's 23 years of experience in providing radioactive waste handling and processing services. DuraChem will pursue the disposal market for ion exchange resins which are generated by nuclear power plants and contaminated wastes from hospitals and laboratories. The vitrification facility of this joint venture is located at Chem-Nuclear's waste processing center at Barnwell, South Carolina. The DuraChem facility is located adjacent to the Barnwell landfill, one of the few facilities in the United States permitted to accept commercially generated low-level radioactive waste. The Company believes that DuraChem's location is advantageous because of its proximity to the nation's primary facility for handling low-level radioactive waste. In 1995, the Company and Chem-Nuclear constructed a vitrification facility at Chem-Nuclear's radioactive waste processing center at Barnwell, South Carolina. The Company designed and constructed a new DuraMelter(TM) At the facility and is responsible for the vitrification operations. Chem-Nuclear manages the overall facility and is responsible for procuring all required operating permits, obtaining the low-level radioactive waste from its customers, transporting the waste to the facility and removing the waste for ultimate disposal once it has been vitrified. The need for the services provided by DuraChem was created by the closure of nationally accessible low-level radioactive waste disposal sites and the delay by state compacts in opening new regional sites. The high cost of disposal of certain low-level radioactive waste materials has caused commercial generators of low-level radioactive waste, in some instances, to store their waste at their facilities until regional sites are opened or other low-cost disposal alternatives become available. The DuraChem facility was expected to begin commercial operations in 1997; however, as a result of the Company focusing its management and capital resources on (i) restarting the M-Area melter, (ii) successfully and rapidly incorporating SEG's business following the acquisition and (iii) meeting commitments to the DOE privatization cleanups in Hanford, Washington and Idaho Falls, Idaho, the Company announced in April 1997, that it would reduce the priority of, and capital commitments to, other projects which have higher levels of marketplace uncertainty or have longer-term financial prospects including the DuraChem joint venture. The Company's management anticipates commencement of the facility within the next two years, however, changes in market conditions or other factors could result in additional delays. 11 VITRITEK Through a joint venture with Vitritek Holdings Company, L.L.C., ("Vitritek Holdings") a privately held entity, the Company has extended its vitrification technology to non-radioactive wastes. The joint venture entity, called Vitritek, is 50% owned by each of the Company and Vitritek Holdings. The joint venture, formed in December 1993, represents the consolidation of co-licensing rights to non-radioactive vitrification technologies previously acquired by the Company and Vitritek Holdings. Under the terms of the joint venture arrangement, all funding requirements and all profits are shared equally. The Company expects the joint venture to have limited operations during 2000. CUSTOMERS In its commercial waste processing operations, the Company derives revenues from the processing and treatment of customer waste streams and from related waste transportation services. Customers of the Company's commercial waste processing services include electric utilities, government agencies, industrial facilities, laboratories, hospitals and others. Revenues derived from commercial waste processing operations represented approximately 45.6% and 49.4% of the Company's total revenues in 1998 and 1999, respectively. In its government waste processing operations, the Company derives revenues related to its proprietary vitrification technologies principally through subcontracts with a combination of DOE contractors and subcontractors including BNFL. Revenues derived from DOE-related subcontracts represented approximately 19.7% and 21.0% of the Company's total revenues during 1998 and 1999, respectively. The Company provides technical support services to a diverse group of government agencies and utilities. Customers include the DOE, the United States Department of Defense ("DOD"), the EPA, state environmental protection agencies, Duke Power Company and Southern Nuclear Operating Company. Revenues derived from technical support services represented approximately 34.7% and 29.6% of the Company's total revenues during 1998 and 1999, respectively. Revenues from Duke Power accounted for 7% and 5% of the Company's revenues for 1998 and 1999, respectively. Revenues from BNFL accounted for approximately 10.6% and 13.6% of the Company's revenues for 1998 and 1999, respectively. No other customer accounted for more than 5% of the Company's total revenues during 1998 or 1999. SALES AND MARKETING STRATEGY The Company's operations to date, including the commercial waste processing operations acquired in April 1997, have provided it with extensive knowledge of commercial and DOE waste stream composition and the factors that influence the remediation of those waste streams. The Company's internal sales force uses and will continue to use that knowledge and operating experience to strengthen the Company's competitive position when pursuing commercial and DOE waste remediation projects. In addition, through its collaborative arrangements, the Company will seek to utilize complementary technical expertise, marketing resources and commercial experience of the other parties to develop additional business in its primary markets, expand its capabilities in handling a greater diversity of waste streams and replicate its operating model to pursue international markets. The Company pursues markets where it can be the most cost-effective processor of the waste due to its technologies, geographical proximity to a waste stream, government regulation or its ability to provide a comprehensive approach to its customers' waste treatment needs. 12 In its technical support services business, GTS Duratek will seek to strengthen its relationships with its large utility customers, such as Duke Power Company, Southern Nuclear Operating Company and Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corporation. The Company is also pursuing opportunities with utilities that are downsizing and outsourcing service work as well as DOE sites that are privatizing departments such as training and radiological controls. To enhance the overall profitability of the technical support services business, the Company is focusing on increasing market share in decontamination and decommissioning services, environmental and computer consulting, radiation instrument services and environmental health and safety training, all of which generate relatively higher profit margins than staff augmentation and outage support. Decontamination and decommissioning services provided to nuclear facilities encompasses services from initial site characterization to project completion. ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS CREATING A DEMAND FOR THE COMPANY'S WASTE TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES Various environmental protection laws have been enacted and amended during recent decades in response to public concern over the environment. The operations of the Company's customers are subject to these evolving laws and the implementing regulations. The Company believes that the obligations to comply with the requirements of the following laws contribute to the demand for its services. The Atomic Energy Act of 1954 ("AEA") and the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 (the "ERA") authorize the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ("NRC") to regulate the receipt, possession, use and transfer of radioactive materials, including "source material," "special nuclear material," and "byproduct material." Pursuant to its authority under the AEA, the NRC has adopted regulations that address the management, treatment and disposal of low-level radioactive waste and that require the licensing of low-level radioactive waste disposal sites by NRC or NRC Agreement States. The processing, storage and disposal of high-level nuclear waste are subject to the requirements of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, as amended by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act Amendments. These statutes regulate the disposal of high-level nuclear waste by establishing procedures and schedules for siting geologic repositories for such waste. The statutes also direct the EPA to promulgate environmental standards for the disposal of high-level nuclear waste, and require the NRC to promulgate standards covering the licensing of waste repositories. The NRC has issued regulations that address the storage and disposal of high-level nuclear waste. The Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act ("UMTRCA") and the Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Amendments Act are intended to protect public health and the environment from hazards associated with uranium ore milling wastes at active and inactive uranium mills. UMTRCA designates specific inactive mill sites for remedial action, and gives the DOE the responsibility for carrying out remedial actions at these sites. The Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act of 1980 ("LLRWPA") and the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1985 ("LLRWPA Amendments") address the siting of new low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities. Each state is responsible for providing capacity for commercial low-level radioactive waste generated within its borders. The LLRWPA also encourages groups of states to enter into compacts providing for the development and operation of low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities. At the present time, no new radioactive waste disposal facilities have been opened by state compacts and none are expected to open in the near future. 13 The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 ("RCRA"), as amended by the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984 ("HSWA"), provides a comprehensive framework for the regulation of the generation, transportation, treatment, storage and disposal of hazardous waste. The intent of RCRA is to control hazardous wastes from the time they are generated until they are properly recycled or treated and disposed. RCRA prohibits improper hazardous waste disposal and imposes criminal and civil liability for failure to comply with its requirements. RCRA requires that hazardous waste generators, transporters and operators of hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal facilities meet strict standards set by government agencies. In certain circumstances, RCRA also requires operators of treatment, storage and disposal facilities to obtain and comply with RCRA permits. The Land Disposal Restrictions developed under the HSWA prohibit land disposal of specified wastes unless these wastes meet or are treated to meet Best Demonstrated Available Technology ("BDAT") treatment standards, unless certain exemptions apply. The Toxic Substances Control Act ("TSCA") provides the EPA with the authority to regulate over 60,000 commercially produced chemical substances. The EPA may impose requirements involving manufacturing, record keeping, reporting, importing and exporting. The TSCA also established a comprehensive regulatory program for PCBs which is analogous to the RCRA program for hazardous waste. The Clean Water Act, as amended, establishes standards, permits and procedures for controlling the discharge of pollutants from wastewater sources. The Clean Air Act of 1970, as amended (the "Clean Air Act"), empowers the EPA and the states to establish and enforce ambient air quality standards and limits of emissions of pollutants from facilities. This has resulted in tight control over emissions from technologies like incineration. The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 ("CERCLA" or "Superfund"), and subsequent amendments under the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act ("SARA"), as implemented by the National Contingency Plan, provide for the investigation and remediation of sites containing hazardous substances. The Superfund program's regulations require that any remediation of hazardous substances meet applicable and relevant and/or appropriate regulatory requirements. Superfund also establishes strict and retroactive liability for parties who generated, stored, handled, managed or transported hazardous substances or owned and operated the sites containing them. This creates a strong incentive for proper management and disposal of hazardous waste. The Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act ("EPCRA") of 1986 requires companies to submit emergency and hazardous inventory forms to state and local agencies for all materials requiring a material safety data sheet under OSHA. EPCRA requires full disclosure of environmental releases to the public and contributes to public awareness and activism regarding corporate environmental management issues. To the extent a generator's waste can be reported as being recycled, public pressure may be eliminated or significantly reduced. The Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 establishes pollution prevention as a national objective, naming it a primary goal wherever feasible. The act states that if pollution cannot be prevented, materials should be recycled in an environmentally safe manner. Under the mandate of the Federal Facility Compliance Act ("FFCA"), the DOE is currently engaged in a program to treat and dispose of the mixed waste currently stored at its facilities. The FFCA required DOE to develop and comply with treatment and disposal plans for each of its facilities and charges DOE with developing treatment and disposal capacity for these wastes where it does not currently exist. The plans must also address the need to treat and dispose of mixed wastes generated from the remediation of contaminated DOE sites. 14 ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS AFFECTING THE USE OF THE COMPANY'S WASTE TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES To the extent that the Company is engaged in the storage, processing or disposal of mixed waste, the radioactive components are subject to the NRC regulations promulgated under the AEA, while the hazardous components of the waste are regulated by the EPA under RCRA. To the extent that these regulations have been delegated to the states, the state may also regulate mixed waste. Pursuant to the mandate of the AEA and the ERA, NRC regulations and guidance address the classification and management of low-level radioactive waste. The NRC regulations also govern the technical, monitoring and safety-related aspects of developing and operating low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities. Pursuant to its authority under the AEA, the NRC also has established licensing requirements and operating procedures for such facilities. The NRC requirements address siting criteria, site stability, the development and implementation of institutional controls for the facility (e.g., access restrictions, environmental monitoring and site maintenance), facility operation, financial assurance, closure, and site stabilization. Under RCRA, wastes are classified as hazardous either because they are specifically listed as such or because they display certain hazardous characteristics. Under current regulations, waste residues derived from listed hazardous wastes are considered hazardous wastes unless they are delisted through a formal rulemaking process that may last a few months to several years. For this reason, waste residue that is generated by the treatment of listed hazardous wastes such as waste treated with the Company's vitrification technologies, may be considered a hazardous waste without regard to the fact that this waste residue may be environmentally benign. Subsequent management of such waste residue would be subject to full RCRA regulation, including the prohibition against land disposal without treatment in compliance with BDAT. In some cases, there is no current technology to treat mixed wastes, although EPA policy places these wastes on a low enforcement priority. The RCRA regulation classifying such waste residue as hazardous has been overturned by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, but has been temporarily reinstated until 2001 when the EPA is under court order to develop a revised regulatory approach which would allow listed wastes to leave the hazardous waste regulatory system if they met specified concentration limits. The Company's ownership and operation of treatment facilities also exposes the Company to potential liability for cleanup of releases of hazardous wastes under RCRA. Operators of hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal facilities are required to obtain RCRA Part-B permits from the EPA or from states authorized to implement the RCRA program. Obtaining such permits is a lengthy and costly process that requires regulatory inspection and approval of, among other things, the facility design, equipment and operating plans and procedures. In addition, applicants for a RCRA permit for a treatment, storage or disposal facility must submit detailed information regarding all past waste management practices at that facility and may be required to undertake corrective action for past contamination of the site. The Company's facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is a RCRA Part-B permitted facility. The Company has developed procedures to ensure compliance with RCRA permit provisions at the Bear Creek Operations facility, including procedures for ensuring appropriate waste acceptance and scheduling, waste tracking, manifesting and reporting, and employee training. If the Company engages in the transportation of hazardous materials, such as radioactive materials, it will be subject to the requirements of the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, as amended by the Hazardous Materials Transportation Uniform Safety Act. Pursuant to these statutes, the United States Department of Transportation regulates the transportation of hazardous materials in commerce. Shippers and carriers of radioactive materials must comply with both the general requirements for hazardous materials transportation and with specific requirements for the transportation of radioactive materials. If the Company 15 engages in the storage and disposal of high-level nuclear waste it may be subject to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, as amended by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act Amendments. CERCLA effectively imposes strict, joint and several retroactive liability upon owners or operators of facilities where a release of hazardous substances has occurred on parties who generated hazardous substances that were released at such facilities and on parties who arranged for the transportation of hazardous substances to such facilities. The Company's ownership and operation of vitrification, storage and incineration facilities on-site expose the Company to potential liability under CERCLA for releases of hazardous substances into the environment at those sites. In the event that off-site storage or disposal facilities utilized by the Company for final disposition of the glass and other residues from the Company's vitrification, incineration and other treatment processes are targeted for investigation and cleanup under CERCLA, the Company could incur liability as a generator of such materials or by virtue of having arranged for their transportation and disposal. The Company designs its DuraMelters(TM) and other processes to minimize the potential for release of hazardous substances inTo the environment. In addition, the Company has developed plans to manage and minimize the risk of CERCLA or RCRA liability, including the training of operators, use of operational controls, and structuring of its relationships with the entities responsible for the handling of waste materials and by-products. Company facilities may have to obtain permits under the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, and corresponding state statutes. The necessity to obtain such permits depends upon the facility's location and the expected emissions from the facility. Additional state licenses or approvals may also be required. The Clean Air Act imposes strict requirements upon owners and operators of facilities which emit pollutants into the air. Although the Company believes that its treatment systems effectively trap particulates and prevents hazardous emissions from being released into the air, which releases would violate the Clean Air Act, the Clean Air Act may require permits prior to the construction and operation of the Company's facilities, and may require additional emission controls and restrictions on materials stored, used and incinerated at existing or proposed facilities. The Clean Water Act establishes standards, permits and procedures for controlling the discharge of pollutants from wastewater sources. The Company believes that DuraMelters(TM) generally will not be subject to tHe water pollution control requirements of the Clean Water Act because DuraMelters(TM) are designed to have no residuAl wastewater discharge. However, the Clean Water Act's standard permits and procedures are potentially applicable to all other water discharged from, or reused at, facilities owned or operated by the Company. OSHA provides for the establishment of standards governing workplace safety and health requirements, including setting permissible exposure levels for hazardous chemicals which may be present in mixed wastes. The Company is required to follow OSHA standards, including the preparation of material safety data sheets, hazardous response training and process safety management. The NRC has set regulatory standards for worker protection and public exposure to radioactive materials or wastes. COMPETITION The market for the Company's waste treatment services is characterized as the treatment and stabilization of certain radioactive, hazardous, mixed and other wastes. The Company is aware of some competition from several large companies and numerous small companies. Any of such companies may possess or develop technologies superior to those of the Company. While the Company is aware of competition from companies with similar waste treatment technologies, the primary competition comes from companies which provide waste treatment and disposal services. The predominant waste treatment and disposal methods include landfilling, deep-well injection, on-site containment and incineration or other 16 thermal treatment methods. Competition is based primarily on cost, regulatory and permit restrictions, technical performance, dependability and environmental integrity. The Company believes that it will be able to compete favorably on the basis of these factors. The Company also believes that it has several competitive advantages over its competitors including its proprietary waste treatment technologies, its comprehensive approach to waste treatment, demonstrated commercial success of its technologies, reputation for providing quality service to its customers and strategic alliances. Many of the Company's competitors have substantially greater financial and technical resources than the Company and there can be no assurance that one or more of the Company's competitors do not possess or will not develop waste treatment technologies that are superior to those of the Company. In its technical support services business, the Company's competitors range from major national and regional environmental service and consulting firms which have large environmental remediation staffs to small local firms. Many of the major national and regional environmental service and consulting firms have greater financial, management and marketing resources than the Company. The availability of skilled technical personnel, quality of performance, safety, diversity of services and price are the key competitive factors. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES The Company's research and development activities are conducted primarily by the VSL for the enhancement of the Company's existing vitrification and ion exchange technologies or the introduction of new vitrification technologies. During 1997 and 1998, research and development activities were conducted at the VSL under contracts totaling $255,000 and $530,000, respectively. No funding was provided in 1999. The Company did not incur any additional research and development costs during those years. In connection with various Company contracts or subcontracts, the VSL conducts research and development under fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed fee contracts. Under these contracts, the research is supervised by Drs. Macedo and Litovitz and all inventions and discoveries are owned by them and licensed to the Company under the exclusive license agreement. The Company expects to spend a significant portion of the research and development funding provided by BNFL with the VSL. See "Business - Joint Venture and Collaborative Arrangements - VSL and -BNFL." PATENTS AND OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS The Company licenses all of the patent and other intellectual property rights to its proprietary vitrification and other waste treatment technologies from the inventors of such technologies. Drs. Macedo and Litovitz, the inventors of the Company's vitrification and ion exchange technologies, license the patents and proprietary rights to such technologies to the Company under an exclusive license agreement. The exclusive license agreement with Drs. Macedo and Litovitz expires upon the expiration of the last patent covered by the license agreement which is currently in the year 2012. The exclusive license agreement, which currently encompasses 22 patents and one patent application, also includes any process patents or technology rights related to the licensed field which is subsequently developed by the VSL or Drs. Macedo and Litovitz. Dr. Macedo and Litovitz own all of the vitrification and ion exchange patents relating to the research and development work conducted by them at the VSL. The Catholic University of America has agreed that all patents and technologies developed at the VSL belong to Drs. Macedo and Litovitz and not to the University. In turn, Drs. Macedo and Litovitz exclusively license the vitrification technology rights and process patents developed by them at the VSL to the Company. 17 The Company has all patents and related trademarks and copyright pertaining to the detection, storage, decontamination, processing and handling of radioactive and hazardous waste materials that are necessary in its business. Specifically, the issued and active patents held by the Company relate to the steam reforming, incineration, ultracompaction and vitrification technologies used in its commercial waste processing operations. As a result of the acquisition of SEG, the Company acquired rights in 48 U.S. patents, 11 pending U.S. patent applications, 118 foreign patents and 35 pending foreign patent applications. Pursuant to the purchase agreement with Westinghouse, the Company has granted Westinghouse a non-exclusive royalty-free license to practice the technologies covered by certain of the patents acquired by the Company. From time to time, the Company acquires or licenses technologies from third parties that complement its existing waste processing technologies. In November 1997, the Company acquired a joint interest in several patents pertaining to the gasification and vitrification of organic materials from Proler Environmental Services, Inc. ("Proler"). The Company now owns Proler's interest in these patents jointly with Hylsa SA, a company located and doing business in Mexico. The Company requires each of its employees to enter into standard agreements pursuant to which the employee agrees to keep confidential all proprietary information of the Company and to assign to the Company all rights in any proprietary information or technology developed by the employee during his or her employment or made thereafter as a result of any inventions conceived or work done during such employment. Despite these precautions, it may be possible for a third party to copy or otherwise obtain and use the company's technology without authorization or to develop similar technology independently. In addition, effective patent and trade secret protection may be unavailable or limited in certain foreign countries. DURASIL(R) is a registered trademark held by the Company and DuraMelter(TM) and DuraGem(TM) are comMon law trademarks. EMPLOYEES As of December 31, 1999, the Company employed 1,020 employees, including 308 temporary field-assigned employees performing services for clients, 471 full-time technical personnel and 241 in administration and support personnel. The Company contracts with most of the field-assigned personnel on an as-needed basis and such personnel are not full-time employees of the Company. Due to the seasonality of the technical support services business of the Company, the number of temporary field-assigned employees generally increases to approximately 600 during the fall peak outage season at the nation's nuclear power plants. To date, the Company has been successful in attracting and retaining qualified technical personnel, although there can be no assurance that this success will continue. None of the Company's employees are subject to a collective bargaining agreement. The Company has never experienced a work stoppage and believes that its relations with its employees are good. ITEM 2. PROPERTIES The Company leases approximately 35,000 square feet of office space in Columbia, Maryland which it uses as its administration and general corporate offices. The initial lease term expires December 31, 2006. The Company owns real property assets, including approximately 50 acres of land in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, upon which the primary waste processing operations are located and an additional 50 acre parcel in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, at which additional waste processing operations are conducted. The Company also owns a 13,500 square foot building in Richland, Washington, which houses certain technical services operations. 18 In June 1999, the Company acquired certain real property assets in connection with its acquisition of Hake, including approximately 13.5 acres of land in Memphis, Tennessee, upon which the operations are located. ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS On February 3, 1998, the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Scientific Ecology Group, Inc. (now named GTS Duratek Bear Creek , Inc. ("SEG"), was sued in federal district court in Boston, Massachusetts. The suit alleges that statements made in press releases by Molten Metals Technology, Inc. ("MMT") were fraudulent and misleading under federal securities laws and state common law fraud theories. These statements concerned a joint venture between SEG and MMT and some of these statements were made in press releases which MMT issued jointly with SEG. The complaint seeks to hold SEG liable for all of these statements. The defendant moved to dismiss the complaint, the plaintiffs chose to amend their pleading, and the defendant moved to dismiss the amended complaint. At the present time the Company is unable to express a view on the probable ultimate outcome of the litigation. In addition, the Company may have rights of indemnity against CBS Corporation ("CBS"), the successor to Westinghouse Electric Corporation ("Westinghouse") which was the parent of SEG at the time the allegedly misleading statements were made, if, among other things, certain representations and warranties made by CBS in the definitive purchase agreement pursuant to which the Company purchased SEG were breached. CBS has agreed to assume all litigation costs associated with the defense of the case, but has reserved the right to challenge the Company's claim for indemnification for any settlement or judgment that may arise from the case. On or about February 25, 1999, Synthetica Technologies, Inc. ("Synthetica") served the Company with a complaint filed in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. In addition to the Company, the complaint named SEG, Westinghouse, and two former SEG executives as defendants. The complaint alleged that SEG was required by a license agreement and a subsequent asset purchase agreement to make certain payments to Synthetica in exchange for the right to develop and commercialize Synthetica's waste disposal technology. Synthetica claimed that SEG did not make allegedly required payments and did not comply with other alleged provisions of the contracts between SEG and Synthetica. Both the alleged license agreement and alleged asset purchase agreement predate the Company's acquisition of SEG. Synthetica advanced claims of fraud in the inducement, constructive fraud, actual fraud, breach of written contract, breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, intentional interference with contractual relations, intentional interference with economic relations, negligent interference, negligent misrepresentation and breach of fiduciary duty and trade secret misappropriation. The complaint sought compensatory and exemplary damages in an unspecified amount and an injunction against further trade secret misappropriation by the former SEG executives. The defendants removed the action to the United States District for the Northern District of California and then moved to dismiss the case. The plaintiff chose to amend its pleading, dropping the individual defendants and eliminating three claims. The remaining defendants sought to dismiss the amended complaint. On October 27, 1999, the court dismissed the amended complaint in its entirety, but permitted the plaintiff to replead certain claims. On November 29, 1999, the plaintiff filed an amended complaint alleging fraud and conspiracy to defraud, breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing and breach of contract. The claims in the amended complaint relate only to the asset purchase agreement and revolved around the claim that SEG failed to develop and commercialize Synthetica's waste disposal technology as required by that agreement. On January 3, 2000, the court dismissed the Company as a party to the case, leaving SEG as one of the remaining defendants along with CBS and dismissed certain claims against the remaining defendants. While the Company and SEG believe that SEG has meritorious defenses to the claims alleged against it by Synthetica, the Company cannot make a determination as to the likelihood or the extent of any liability arising from this matter. 19 On December 2, 1999, the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, SEG, was named as a defendant in an adversary proceeding in the United States Bankruptcy court for the District of Massachusetts. The Chapter 11 Trustee, on behalf of the debtor MMT and its creditors, filed an adversary "Complaint to Avoid Fraudulent Transfer" naming as defendants CBS and SEG. The complaint alleges that the sale of CBS's interest in a joint venture to MMT resulted in a fraudulent conveyance. The primary allegations against SEG are that MMT's release of SEG from obligations to pay $8 million to equalize capital expenditures and additional amounts for MMT's share of profits, and MMT's assumption of at least $1.5 million of SEG's liabilities, are avoidable because MMT did not receive reasonably equivalent value for the transfers. The Company intends to vigorously contest MMT's allegations on the basis that MMT did in fact receive reasonably equivalent value for its transfers. In addition, the Company may have a right of indemnification from CBS pursuant to the relevant purchasing agreements. It is too early in the litigation to provide an accurate assessment of the Company's liability. CBS has agreed to assume all litigation costs associated with the defense of the case, but has reserved the right to challenge the Company's claim for indemnification for any settlement or judgment that may arise from the case. In addition, from time to time the Company is a party to litigation or administrative proceedings relating to claims arising from its operations in the normal course of business. Management of the Company, on the advice of counsel, believes that the ultimate resolution of such litigation or administrative proceedings currently pending against the Company is unlikely, either individually or in the aggregate, to have a material adverse effect on the Company's results of operations or financial condition. ITEM 4. SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS Not Applicable. 20 PART II ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT'S COMMON EQUITY AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS The Company's Common Stock is quoted on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol "DRTK". The following table sets forth, for the periods indicated, the high and low sale prices of the Common Stock. The last reported sale price of the Common Stock on the NASDAQ National Market on March 16, 2000 was $8.875. PRICE RANGE OF COMMON STOCK ---------------- HIGH LOW ---- --- Year ended December 31, 1997: 1st quarter 14-5/8 4-7/8 2nd quarter 10-1/2 7-7/8 3rd quarter 15-3/8 9-1/2 4th quarter 15 9-3/4 Year ended December 31, 1998: 1st quarter 14 13-3/8 2nd quarter 12-3/4 10 3rd quarter 12-3/8 5-3/8 4th quarter 8-1/8 3-7/8 Year ended December 31, 1999: 1st quarter 7-1/2 5-1/8 2nd quarter 6-5/8 4-1/2 3rd quarter 7-3/4 6-1/8 4th quarter 8-7/16 7-7/8 As of March 16, 2000, there were 1,126 holders of record of the Common Stock and the Company estimates that there were approximately 6,000 beneficial holders. The Company has never declared or paid a cash dividend on its Common Stock and is currently prohibited from paying dividends under its revolving line of credit with its principal lender. The Company will pay dividends on the 8% Cumulative Convertible Redeemable Preferred Stock (the "Convertible Preferred Stock") out of funds legally available therefore in accordance with the terms of the Convertible Preferred Stock which require the payment of quarterly dividends of $320,000 or $2.00 per share. The Company may not pay dividends on any of the Common Stock unless the Company has paid all accumulated dividends on all of the outstanding shares of Convertible Preferred Stock. To date, the Company has paid all dividends on all of the outstanding shares of the Convertible Preferred Stock. Except with respect to the dividends on the Convertible Preferred Stock, the Company currently intends to retain earnings primarily for working capital and development of waste treatment technologies and therefore does not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future. See "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations - Liquidity and Capital Resources." 21 ITEM 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA (IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE AMOUNTS)
YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 ----------- ------------- ------------ ------------ ------------- STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS DATA: Revenues $ 40,418 $ 44,285 $ 136,553 $ 160,313 $ 177,196 Cost of revenues 32,220 35,198 120,814 123,839 128,719 ----------- ------------- ------------ ------------ ------------- Gross profit 8,198 9,087 15,739 36,474 48,477 Selling, general and administrative expenses 5,876 7,455 15,725 26,613 27,723 Charge for asset impairment -- -- -- 9,224 -- ----------- ------------- ------------ ------------ ------------- Income (loss) from operations 2,322 1,632 14 637 20,754 Interest income (expense), net 57 1,239 571 (545) (2,297) ----------- ------------- ------------ ------------ ------------- Income (loss) before income taxes and proportionate share of losses by joint ventures 2,379 2,871 585 92 18,457 Income taxes 101 649 716 627 6,855 ----------- ------------- ------------ ------------ ------------- Income (loss) before proportionate share of losses by joint ventures 2,278 2,222 (131) (535) 11,602 Proportionate share of losses by joint ventures (824) (165) (150) (1,474) (122) ----------- ------------- ------------ ------------ ------------- Net income (loss) before cumulative effect of change in accounting principle 1,454 2,057 (281) (2,009) 11,480 Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle -- -- -- (420) -- ----------- ------------- ------------ ------------ ------------- Net income (loss) and comprehensive income (loss) 1,454 2,057 (281) (2,429) 11,480 Preferred stock dividends and charges for accretion (1,394) (1,500) (1,503) (1,507) (1,510) ----------- ------------- ------------ ------------ ------------- Net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders $ 60 $ 557 $ (1,784)$ (3,936)$ 9,970 =========== ============= ============ ============ ============= Net income (loss) per share before cumulative effect of change in accounting principle: Basic $ 0.01 $ 0.05 $ (0.14)$ (0.27)$ 0.75 =========== ============= ============ ============ ============= Diluted $ 0.01 $ 0.04 $ (0.14)$ (0.27)$ 0.58 =========== ============= ============ ============ ============= Net income (loss) per share: Basic $ 0.01 $ 0.05 $ (0.14)$ (0.30)$ 0.75 =========== ============= ============ ============ ============= Diluted $ 0.01 $ 0.04 $ (0.14)$ (0.30)$ 0.58 =========== ============= ============ ============ ============= Basic weighted average common stock outstanding 8,820 11,460 12,619 13,137 13,351 =========== ============= ============ ============ ============= Diluted weighted average common stock and dilutive securities outstanding 11,213 13,404 12,619 13,137 20,316 =========== ============= ============ ============ ============= AS OF DECEMBER 31, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 ----------- ------------- ------------ ------------ ------------- BALANCE SHEET DATA: Working capital $ 24,114 $ 62,161 $ 8,363 $ 15,359 $ 20,983 Total assets 38,660 85,199 132,298 134,245 157,588 Long-term debt, convertible debenture and capital lease obligation 10,123 10,939 11,557 13,102 30,492 Redeemable convertible preferred stock 14,609 14,829 15,052 15,279 15,509 Stockholders' equity 9,257 55,147 56,429 55,022 61,395
22 ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS OVERVIEW GTS Duratek, Inc. (the "Company") derives substantially all of its revenues from commercial and government waste processing operations, and from technical support services to electric utilities, industrial facilities, commercial businesses and government agencies. Commercial waste processing operations are provided primarily at the Company's Bear Creek low-level radioactive waste processing facility located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The Company also provides on-site waste processing services on large government projects for the United States Department of Energy ("DOE"). Technical support services are generally provided pursuant to multi-year time and materials contracts. Revenues are recognized as costs are incurred according to predetermined rates. The contract costs primarily include direct labor, materials and the indirect costs related to contract performance. On June 30, 1999, the Company acquired 100% of the outstanding capital stock of Frank W. Hake Associates, LLC ("Hake") from HakeTenn, Inc., a Delaware corporation and an affiliate of the Hake Group of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and two individuals for $12.9 million in cash, subject to a post-closing adjustment, and the assumption of certain liabilities. Hake is a specialist in storage, transportation handling and processing of radioactive waste emanating from nuclear power generation plants throughout the United States. Hake also stores and services power generation equipment at its licensed facility in Memphis, Tennessee. The acquisition was accounted for under the purchase method of accounting and, accordingly, the Company's results of operations for the year ended December 31, 1999 reflect the operating results of Hake from the date of the acquisition. In addition, the Company's results of operations for the year ended December 31, 1999 reflect the operating results of DuraTherm, Inc. ("DuraTherm"), which was sold by the Company on February 7, 2000. The following sets forth certain consolidated statement of operations information as a percentage of revenues for the years ended December 31: 1997 1998 1999 ---------- --------- --------- Revenues 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% Loss on M-Area contract (5.3) (1.1) -- Other costs of revenues (83.2) (76.1) (72.6) ---------- --------- --------- Gross profit 11.5 22.8 27.4 Selling, general and administrative expenses (11.5) (16.6) (15.6) Charge for asset impairment -- (5.8) -- ---------- --------- --------- Income from operations --% 0.4% 11.8% ========== ========= ========= 23 RESULTS OF OPERATIONS YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1998 COMPARED TO YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1999. Revenues increased by $16.9 million, or 10.5%, from $160.3 million in 1998 to $177.2 million in 1999. The increase was primarily attributable to a $9.5 million increase in commercial waste processing services at the Company's waste processing facilities located in Tennessee (which includes the Bear Creek Operations facility and Hake), a $5.1 million increase in waste processing revenues at the Company's DuraTherm hazardous waste treatment facility located in San Leon, Texas, and a $5.6 million increase in government waste processing services, offset by a $3.3 million decrease in technical support service revenues. The increase in revenues at the Tennessee waste processing facilities was primarily the result of increased waste processing during 1999 as compared to 1998, and to a lesser extent to the acquisition of Hake which generated revenue of $3.4 million during the second half of 1999. Revenues from DuraTherm increased as a result of increased waste processing during 1999 as compared to the prior year. The increase in government waste processing services was primarily the result of more work performed on the Hanford River Protection Project and the Idaho Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project during 1999 as compared to 1998. The decrease in technical support service revenues was primarily attributable to a decrease in consulting services in 1999 as compared to the prior year. Gross profit increased by $12.0 million, or 32.9%, from $36.5 million in 1998 to $48.5 million in 1999. As a percentage of revenues, gross profit increased from 22.8% in 1998 to 27.4% in 1999. The Tennessee waste processing facilities, government waste processing and DuraTherm accounted for increases in gross profit of $5.4 million, $5.0 million and $1.8 million, respectively. The increases were slightly offset by a $200,000 decrease in gross profit from technical support services. The increase in gross profit at both the Tennessee and DuraTherm waste processing facilities was primarily the result of increased waste processing over the prior year as well as the continued efforts to reduce fixed and variable operating costs. The increase in gross profit from government waste processing was the result of the increase in revenues from the Hanford River Protection Project and the Idaho Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project contracts. In addition, the loss recorded on the M-Area project at the DOE's Savannah River site of $1.8 million in 1998 also contributed to this increase. The M-Area project was completed in 1999. The decrease in gross profit from technical support services was the result of the decrease in consulting service revenues described above. Selling, general and administrative expenses increased by $1.1 million, or 4.2%, from $26.6 million in 1998 to $27.7 million in 1999. As a percentage of revenues, selling, general and administrative expenses decreased from 16.6% in 1998 to 15.6% in 1999. The increase in selling, general and administrative expenses was primarily attributable to higher operating costs for the Bear Creek facility and government waste processing services as a result of business growth in these areas. Interest expense, net increased by $1.8 million from 1998 to 1999. The increase was the result of increased borrowings to fund working capital needs and the acquisition of Hake. Income taxes increased by $6.2 million from 1998 to 1999 as a result of the significant increase in income before income taxes. The Company's effective tax rate for 1999 was 37.1%. During 1999, the Company reversed $256,000 of valuation allowances previously established for certain state net operating losses and other deductible temporary differences. 24 Proportionate share of losses by joint ventures decreased from $1,474,000 in 1998 to $122,000 in 1999. The decrease in the loss relates principally to the 1998 charge, net of tax benefits, taken by the Company for the proportionate share of its 45% owned joint venture, DuraChem, which adopted Statement of Position 98-5 "Reporting on Costs of Start-up Activities" (SOP 98-5), which requires start-up costs to be expensed as incurred. The Company's proportionate share in the loss of its 50% owned joint venture, Vitritek, decreased from $200,000 in 1998 to $122,000 in 1999. The Company expects Vitritek to have limited operations in 2000. In the fourth quarter of 1998, the Company also adopted the provisions of SOP 98-5. The cumulative, after tax effect of adoption was $420,000. The adoption of SOP 98-5 by DuraChem and the Company reduced the Company's loss before proportionate share of losses by joint ventures by approximately $78,000, increased the net loss before cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle by approximately $1.2 million, increased the net loss by approximately $1.6 million, increased the per share net loss attributable to common stockholders before cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle by $0.09 per share and increased the per share net loss attributable to common stockholders by $0.12 per share. The Company's net income increased by $13.9 million from a loss of $2.4 million in 1998 to income of $11.5 million in 1999. Results for 1998 were adversely impacted by the after-tax losses on the M-Area contract and related asset impairment charge of approximately $6.6 million and the adoption of SOP 98-5 of approximately $1.6 million. Excluding the impact of the M-Area charges and the adoption of SOP 98-5 on the Company's 1998 results, the Company's 1999 net income increased by approximately $5.7 million, or 98%, over the prior year. YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1997 COMPARED TO YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1998. Revenues increased by $23.7 million, or 17.4%, from $136.6 million in 1997 to $160.3 million in 1998. The increase was primarily attributable to a $15.6 million increase in government waste processing services, a $4.4 million increase in commercial waste processing services at the Company's Bear Creek low-level radioactive waste processing facility located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a $2.8 million increase in technical support service revenues, and a $900,000 increase in waste processing revenues at the Company's DuraTherm hazardous waste treatment facility located in San Leon, Texas. The increase in revenues in government waste processing services was primarily the result of work performed on the Hanford Tank Waste Remediation System contract awarded by BNFL to build and operate a pilot melter at the Company's Columbia, Maryland headquarters and performance on a project at Idaho Falls, Idaho. The increase in revenues at the Bear Creek facility was primarily the result of increased waste processing during 1998 as compared to 1997. The increase in revenues from technical support services was primarily the result of more work performed on site decontamination and decommissioning contracts and an increase in revenues from radiological engineering services. Revenues from DuraTherm increased as a result of increased waste processing during 1998 as compared to 1997. In March 1997, the Company decided to temporarily suspend processing of radioactive waste and initiate an unscheduled controlled cool down of its glass melter at its M-Area processing plant located at the DOE's Savannah River site. After an extensive inspection of the condition of the melter at the Savannah River site, the Company's management made the decision to undertake more extensive repairs and modification of the facility, including melter box replacement, before resumption of radioactive waste processing. The modifications were made so that the Company could more efficiently meet its obligations under the existing contract as well as prepare the facility for additional waste streams. The M-Area facility resumed radioactive waste processing operations during the fourth quarter of 1997. As a result of the necessary repairs and the delay in completing the waste processing required by the contract, the Company recorded losses of $7.2 million on the M-Area contract in 1997 which included the estimated costs of repairs to the melter and estimated losses to complete the fixed price contract. During 1998, the Company recorded a 25 $1.8 million charge for additional costs to be incurred to complete and close out the contract. As of February 1999, the Company successfully completed the contract to vitrify 660,000 gallons of mixed waste sludge at the DOE's Savannah River Site. As part of the M-Area contract, the Company constructed a $9.2 million fixed facility at the DOE's Savannah River Site. This facility is capable of processing additional waste streams present at this site and the melter potentially has years of additional life. As a result of a change in the site's waste treatment priorities at the site, no additional waste processing contracts were awarded to the Company. Therefore, the Company recorded a one-time asset impairment charge of $9.2 million in 1998 to write off the Company's remaining investment in this facility. Gross profit increased by $20.7 million, or 131.7%, from $15.7 million in 1997 to $36.4 million in 1998. Government waste processing services and the Bear Creek facility accounted for increases in gross profit of $8.7 and $6.7 million, respectively. Additionally, technical support services and the DuraTherm facility accounted for increases in gross profit of $4.5 million and $800,000 respectively. The increase in gross profit from government waste processing principally relates to the loss recorded on the M-Area project in 1997 and the increase in gross profit in 1998 from government waste processing attributable to the increase in revenues from the Hanford Tank Waste Remediation System contract and performance on the project at Idaho Falls, Idaho previously mentioned. The increase in gross profit at the Bear Creek facility was the result of increased waste processing over the prior year in addition to measures taken in the third quarter to reduce fixed and variable operating costs. The increase in gross profit from technical support services was the result of a shift in mix toward performance on higher margin site decontamination and decommissioning contracts and radiological engineering services. The increase in gross profit at the DuraTherm facility was the result of increased waste processing over the prior year in addition to the Company's continued efforts to reduce fixed and variable operating costs. As a percentage of revenues, gross profit increased from 11.5% in 1997 to 22.8% in 1998 for the reasons previously mentioned. Selling, general and administrative expenses increased by $10.9 million, or 69.2%, from $15.7 million in 1997 to $26.6 million in 1998. As a percentage of revenues, selling, general and administrative expenses increased from 11.5% in 1997 to 16.6% in 1998. The increase in selling, general and administrative expenses was primarily attributable to the operations of SEG, which was acquired by the Company effective April 1, 1997, higher than expected costs incurred on proposals for two major commercial nuclear power plant decommissioning projects, severance charges associated with the re-engineering of the processing methods at the Bear Creek facility, and higher operating costs for government waste processing services as a result of business growth in this area. Interest income (expense), net changed from income of $571,000 in 1997 to an expense of $545,000 in 1998. The change was the result of the decrease in cash due to the purchase of SEG in April of 1997 and interest on short-term borrowings required to fund working capital needs. Income tax expense was $716,000 in 1997 and $627,000 in 1998. The effective tax rate for 1997 and 1998 was adversely impacted by state income taxes on income in certain states which could not be offset by losses in others and a valuation allowance established with respect to a portion of the Company's decontamination and decommissioning accruals. Proportionate share of losses by joint ventures increased from $150,000 in 1997 to $1,474,000 in 1998. The increase in the loss relates principally to the charge, net of tax benefits, taken by the Company for the proportionate share of its 45% owned joint venture, DuraChem, which adopted SOP 98-5. The Company's proportionate share in the loss of its 50% owned joint venture, Vitritek, increased from $150,000 in 1997 to $200,000 in 1998. 26 The Company's net loss increased by $2.1 million from a loss of $281,000 in 1997 to a loss of $2.4 million in 1998. Results for 1998 were adversely impacted by the after-tax losses on the M-Area contract and related assets impairment charge of approximately $6.6 million and the adoption of SOP 98-5 of approximately $1.6 million. LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES During 1999, the Company generated $10.0 million in cash flows from operating activities. The Company's cash flow from operating activities was generated by income from operations before depreciation and amortization of $26.4 million less cash interest expenses of $1.7 million, cash payments for income taxes of $4.1 million and the increased investment in working capital of $10.6 million. During 1999, the Company used approximately $24.2 million in cash flows for investing activities of including approximately $13.1 million used for the acquisition of Hake and $8.8 million used for purchases of plant and equipment. Cash flows used in investing activities were funded by the $10.0 million provided by operating activities, $8.3 million in cash from financing activities and $5.9 million of cash. Cash flows from financing activities included $17.2 million of long-term borrowings, net of repayments, and $1.8 million from the exercise of common stock options. During 1999, the Company also purchased 1,036,700 shares of its common stock for $6.3 million. The Company has a backlog of orders of approximately $217.1 million at December 31, 1999, of which approximately $121.5 million is expected to be completed in 2000. The Company has a $60 million bank credit facility which includes (i) a $35 million revolving line of credit, based on eligible accounts receivable (as defined in the credit agreement), to fund working capital requirements, (ii) a $20 million line of credit to finance acquisitions or stock repurchases, and (iii) a $5 million line of credit to finance up to 75% of new equipment purchases. Substantially all of the Company's assets, excluding real property and inventory, have been pledged as collateral. Borrowings outstanding under the revolving line of credit bear interest at either the bank's base rate, as defined, plus .5% (9.00% at December 31, 1999), or the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) plus 1.75% (7.94% at December 31, 1999). The credit facility has a five-year term. At December 31, 1999, total borrowings of $26.2 million were outstanding under the facility and the Company had available borrowings of $26.0 million to fund working capital needs. In February 2000, the Company completed the sale of its 80% interest in DuraTherm, Inc. to DuraTherm Group, Inc. for $8.0 million in cash and a subordinated note for $355,000. Proceeds to the Company of $8.0 million were used by the Company to pay down borrowings under its bank credit facility. The note receivables bears interest at 14%, payable semi-annually during the first year following the sale, and 18% during the second year following the sale, with the principal due in February 2002. The Company estimates that it will recognize a pre-tax gain of approximately $1.5 million on the sale. The Company believes cash flows from operations, proceeds from the sale of DuraTherm and, if necessary, borrowings available under the credit facility will be sufficient to meet its operating needs, including the quarterly preferred dividend requirement of $320,000 for at least the next twelve months. 27 NEW ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS During 2001, the Company will adopt the provisions of Statements of Financial Accounting Standards No. 133 Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities. The Company does not expect that the new pronouncement will have a material effect on the Company's financial condition or results of operations. INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND THE IMPACT OF THE YEAR 2000 ISSUE During 1999, the Company executed a program to address the Year 2000 issue with respect to (i) the Company's information systems, (ii) the Company's non-information systems, and (iii) certain systems for the Company's major customers and suppliers. The Company has not experienced any disruptions in operations as a result of the Year 2000 issue. Management will continue to monitor its information systems and those of its significant customers and vendors throughout 2000. FORWARD LOOKING INFORMATION IN RESPONSE TO THE "SAFE HARBOR" PROVISIONS CONTAINED IN THE PRIVATE SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM ACT OF 1995, THE COMPANY IS INCLUDING IN THIS ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K THE FOLLOWING CAUTIONARY STATEMENTS WHICH ARE INTENDED TO IDENTIFY CERTAIN IMPORTANT FACTORS THAT COULD CAUSE THE COMPANY'S ACTUAL RESULTS TO DIFFER MATERIALLY FROM THOSE PROJECTED IN FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS OF THE COMPANY MADE BY OR ON BEHALF OF THE COMPANY. MANY OF THESE FACTORS HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED IN PRIOR FILINGS WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION. The Company significant growth in revenues during 1998 and 1999 and significant growth in earnings during 1999. The Company's future operating results are largely dependent upon the Company's ability to manage its commercial waste processing operations, including obtaining commercial waste processing contracts and processing the waste under such contracts in a timely and cost-effective manner. In addition, the Company's future operating results are dependent upon the timing and awarding of contracts by the DOE for the cleanup of other waste sites administered by it. The timing and award of such contracts by the DOE is directly related to the response of governmental authorities to public concerns over the treatment and disposal of radioactive, hazardous, mixed and other wastes. The lessening of public concern in this area or other changes in the political environment could adversely affect the availability and timing of government funding for the cleanup of DOE and other sites containing radioactive and mixed wastes. Additionally, revenues from technical support services have in the past and continue to account for a substantial portion of the Company's revenues and loss of one or more technical support service contracts could adversely affect the Company's future operating results. The Company's future operating results may fluctuate due to factors such as: the timing of new commercial waste processing contracts and duration of and amount of waste to be processed pursuant to those contracts; the acceptance and implementation of the Company's waste treatment technologies in the government and commercial sectors; the evaluation by the DOE and commercial customers of the Company's technologies versus other competing technologies as well as conventional storage and disposal alternatives; the timing of new government waste processing projects, including those pursued jointly with BNFL, the duration of such projects; and the timing of outage support projects and other large technical support services projects at its customers' facilities. A primary element of the Company's growth strategy is to continue to pursue strategic acquisitions that expand and complement the Company's business, technologies and service offerings. As a result, the Company' future operating results may be affected by the costs and timing of completion and integration of such acquisitions. 28 ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE INFORMATION ABOUT MARKET RISK The Company's major market risk is to changing interest rates. As of December 31, 1999, the Company had floating rate debt of $9.0 million bearing interest at the bank's base rate plus .5% (9.00%) and $17.2 million bearing interest at LIBOR plus 1.75% (7.94%) outstanding under its bank credit facility. Average borrowings under the Company's bank credit facility during 1999 were $7.0 million. The average interest rate on such borrowings was 9.08%. The Company has not purchased any interest rate derivative instruments but may do so in the future. In addition, the Company does not have any foreign currency or commodity market risk. 29 ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA GTS DURATEK, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Table of Contents Page Independent Auditors' Report 31 Consolidated Balance Sheets at December 31, 1998 and 1999 32 Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended December 31, 1997, 1998 and 1999 34 Consolidated Statements of Stockholders' Equity for the years ended December 31, 1997, 1998 and 1999 35 Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 1997, 1998 and 1999 36 Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements 38 30 INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT The Board of Directors and Stockholders GTS Duratek, Inc.: We have audited the consolidated financial statements of GTS Duratek, Inc. and subsidiaries as listed in the accompanying index. In connection with our audits of the consolidated financial statements, we have also audited the consolidated financial statement schedule listed under Item 14(a)(2). These consolidated financial statements and financial statement schedule are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements and financial statement schedule based on our audits. We conducted our audits in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion. In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of GTS Duratek, Inc. and subsidiaries as of December 31, 1998 and 1999, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 1999, in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles. Also in our opinion, the related consolidated financial statement schedule, when considered in relation to the basic consolidated financial statements taken as a whole, presents fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein. KPMG LLP Baltimore, Maryland March 10, 2000, except for the second paragraph of Note 23, which is as of March 29, 2000 31 GTS DURATEK, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Consolidated Balance Sheets December 31, 1998 and 1999
1998 1999 ----------------- ------------------ ASSETS Current assets: Cash and cash equivalents $ 5,944,274 $ 59,525 Receivables, less allowance for doubtful accounts of of $571,441 in 1998 and $571,136 in 1999 35,350,150 33,309,141 Other accounts receivable 2,216,034 6,292,606 Cost and estimated earnings in excess of billings on uncompleted contracts 9,964,741 15,924,413 Prepaid expenses and other current assets 3,676,937 2,800,698 Net assets held for sale -- 6,618,836 Deferred income taxes 1,006,066 359,366 ----------------- ------------------ Total current assets 58,158,202 65,364,585 Property, plant and equipment, net 54,270,744 63,417,307 Investments in and advances to joint ventures, net 4,266,406 4,183,773 Goodwill and other intangible assets, net 13,658,521 23,391,192 Other assets 804,933 1,231,506 Deferred income taxes 3,085,976 -- ----------------- ------------------ $ 134,244,782 $ 157,588,363 ================= ================== LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY Current liabilities: Short-term borrowings $ 10,947,148 $ 9,000,000 Current portion of long-term debt -- 4,000,000 Accounts payable 12,837,623 15,529,048 Accrued expenses and other current liabilities 5,856,300 5,269,875 Unearned revenues 9,090,627 6,672,699 Waste processing and disposal liabilities 4,202,561 3,910,155 ----------------- ------------------ Total current liabilities 42,934,259 44,381,777 Long-term debt -- 13,200,000 Convertible debentures 11,821,582 12,334,813 Facility and equipment decontamination and decommissioning liabilities 7,824,447 8,507,641 Other noncurrent liabilities 1,363,822 1,957,797 Deferred income taxes -- 302,187 ----------------- ------------------ Total liabilities 63,944,110 80,684,215 ----------------- ------------------ 8% Cumulative Convertible Redeemable Preferred Stock, $.01 par value; 160,000 shares authorized, issued and outstanding (liquidation value $16,320,000) 15,279,085 15,509,438 ----------------- ------------------ (Continued)
32 GTS DURATEK, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Consolidated Balance Sheets December 31, 1998 and 1999
1998 1999 ----------------- ------------------ Stockholders' equity: Preferred stock - $.01 par value; authorized 4,840,000 shares; none issued $ -- $ -- Common stock - $.01 par value; authorized 35,000,000 shares; issued 14,225,750 in 1998 and 14,823,850 in 1999 142,257 148,238 Capital in excess of par value 72,513,024 75,207,177 Accumulated deficit (14,742,524) (4,772,979) Treasury stock at cost, 485,258 shares in 1998 and 1,521,958 shares in 1999 (2,891,170) (9,187,726) ----------------- ------------------ Total stockholders' equity 55,021,587 61,394,710 ----------------- ------------------ Commitments and contingencies ----------------- ------------------ $ 134,244,782 $ 157,588,363 ================= ==================
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements. 33 GTS DURATEK, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Consolidated Statements of Operations Years ended December 31, 1997, 1998 and 1999
1997 1998 1999 ----------------- ----------------- ----------------- Revenues $ 136,552,821 $ 160,313,077 $ 177,195,546 Cost of revenues 120,814,140 123,839,031 128,719,021 ----------------- ----------------- ----------------- Gross profit 15,738,681 36,474,046 48,476,525 Selling, general and administrative expenses 15,724,895 26,613,548 27,722,569 Charge for asset impairment -- 9,223,948 -- ----------------- ----------------- ----------------- Income from operations 13,786 636,550 20,753,956 Interest income (expense), net 570,795 (544,902) (2,297,105) ----------------- ----------------- ----------------- Income before income taxes and proportionate share of losses of joint ventures 584,581 91,648 18,456,851 Income taxes 716,000 627,000 6,854,500 ----------------- ----------------- ----------------- Income (loss) before proportionate share of losses of joint ventures (131,419) (535,352) 11,602,351 Proportionate share of losses of joint ventures (149,620) (1,474,000) (122,633) ----------------- ----------------- ----------------- Net income (loss) before cumulative effect of change in accounting principle (281,039) (2,009,352) 11,479,718 Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle -- (420,000) -- ----------------- ----------------- ----------------- Net income (loss) and comprehensive income (loss) (281,039) (2,429,352) 11,479,718 Preferred stock dividends and charges for accretion (1,503,393) (1,506,754) (1,510,173) ----------------- ----------------- ----------------- Net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders $ (1,784,432) $ (3,936,106) $ 9,969,545 ================= ================= ================= Net income (loss) per share before cumulative effect of change in accounting principle: Basic $ (0.14)$ (0.27)$ 0.75 ================= ================= ================= Diluted $ (0.14)$ (0.27)$ 0.58 ================= ================= ================= Net income (loss) per share: Basic $ (0.14)$ (0.30)$ 0.75 ================= ================= ================= Diluted $ (0.14)$ (0.30)$ 0.58 ================= ================= =================
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements. 34 GTS DURATEK, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Consolidated Statements of Stockholders' Equity Years ended December 31, 1997, 1998 and 1999
COMMON STOCK CAPITAL IN TOTAL STOCK- ------------------------- EXCESS OF ACCUMULATED TREASURY HOLDERS' SHARES AMOUNT PAR VALUE DEFICIT STOCK EQUITY ------------- ---------- ------------ -------------- ------------- --------------- Balance, December 31, 1996 12,419,231 $ 124,191 $ 64,216,440 $ (9,021,986) $ (171,777) $ 55,146,868 Net loss -- -- -- (281,039) -- (281,039) Exercise of options and warrants 302,015 3,021 1,037,757 -- -- 1,040,778 Income tax benefit from exercise of non-qualified stock options -- -- 827,000 -- -- 827,000 Other issuances of common stock 825 8 6,489 -- -- 6,497 Issuance of common stock in acquisition of The Scientific Ecology Group, Inc. 156,986 1,570 1,191,053 -- -- 1,192,623 Preferred stock dividend and charges for accretion -- -- -- (1,503,393) -- (1,503,393) ------------- ---------- ------------ -------------- ------------- --------------- Balance, December 31, 1997 12,879,057 128,790 67,278,739 (10,806,418) (171,777) 56,429,334 Net loss -- -- -- (2,429,352) -- (2,429,352) Exercise of options and warrants 1,346,693 13,467 4,994,285 -- -- 5,007,752 Income tax benefit from exercise of non-qualified stock options -- -- 240,000 -- -- 240,000 Treasury stock purchases -- -- -- -- (2,719,393) (2,719,393) Preferred stock dividend and charges for accretion -- -- -- (1,506,754) -- (1,506,754) ------------- ---------- ------------ -------------- ------------- --------------- Balance, December 31, 1998 14,225,750 142,257 72,513,024 (14,742,524) (2,891,170) 55,021,587 Net income -- -- -- 11,479,718 -- 11,479,718 Exercise of options and warrants 598,100 5,981 1,831,859 -- -- 1,837,840 Income tax benefit from exercise of non-qualified stock options -- -- 862,294 -- -- 862,294 Treasury stock purchases -- -- -- -- (6,296,556) (6,296,556) Preferred stock dividend and charges for accretion -- -- -- (1,510,173) -- (1,510,173) ------------- ---------- ------------ -------------- ------------- --------------- Balance, December 31, 1999 14,823,850 $ 148,238 $ 75,207,177 $ (4,772,979) $ (9,187,726) $ 61,394,710 ============= ========== ============ ============== ============= ===============
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements. 35 GTS DURATEK, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows Years ended December 31, 1997, 1998 and 1999
1997 1998 1999 ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- Cash flows from operating activities: Net income (loss) $ (281,039) $ (2,429,352) $ 11,479,718 Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by (used in) operating activities: Depreciation and amortization 3,721,239 4,798,933 5,664,405 Accrued interest on convertible debenture 666,028 472,657 513,231 Proportionate share of losses of joint ventures 149,620 2,289,000 122,633 Charge for asset impairment -- 9,223,948 -- Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle -- 688,879 -- Deferred income tax benefit (357,581) (3,040,604) 4,034,863 Income tax benefit from exercise of non-qualified stock options 827,000 240,000 862,294 Changes in operating items, net of effects from businesses acquired in 1997 and 1999: Receivables (8,933,233) (6,995,960) 136,902 Costs and estimated earnings in excess of billings on uncompleted contracts 1,811,372 4,818,237 (5,959,672) Prepaid expenses and other current assets 1,074,154 (2,008,999) (1,007,061) Accounts payable, accrued expenses and other current liabilities (1,537,425) (6,002,251) (1,442,845) Unearned revenues (6,866,459) (4,876,064) (2,270,998) Waste processing and disposal liabilities 3,026,900 (4,478,541) (2,927,563) Facility and equipment decontamination and decommissioning liabilities 1,550,408 553,766 746,006 Other (293,482) 592,490 8,745 ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities (5,442,498) (6,153,861) 9,960,658 ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- Cash flows from investing activities: Additions to property, plant and equipment (10,995,723) (6,137,279) (8,758,521) Additions to intangible assets -- -- (739,796) Acquisitions of businesses, net of cash acquired (22,330,427) -- (13,143,724) Advances to joint ventures (551,162) (57,880) (40,000) Repayments from (advances to) employees, net 322,701 (419,249) (1,356,413) Other (31,866) 191,179 (89,513) ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- Net cash used in investing activities (33,586,477) (6,423,229) (24,127,967) ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- (Continued)
36 GTS DURATEK, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows Years ended December 31, 1997, 1998 and 1999
1997 1998 1999 ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- Cash flows from financing activities: Net proceeds from (repayments of) short-term borrowings $ -- $ 10,947,148 $ (1,947,148) Proceeds from long-term debt borrowings -- -- 20,000,000 Repayments of long-term debt -- -- (2,800,000) Repayments of capital lease obligations (48,177) (135,392) (228,966) Preferred stock dividends paid (1,280,000) (1,280,000) (1,280,000) Proceeds from issuance of common stock 1,047,275 5,007,752 1,837,740 Treasury stock purchases -- (2,719,393) (6,296,556) Deferred financing costs -- (325,000) (1,002,510) ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities (280,902) 11,495,115 8,282,560 ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents (39,309,877) (1,081,975) (5,884,749) Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of year 46,336,126 7,026,249 5,944,274 ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- Cash and cash equivalents, end of year $ 7,026,249 $ 5,944,274 $ 59,525 ================ ================ ================
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements. 37 GTS DURATEK, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements December 31, 1998 and 1999 (1) ORGANIZATION, DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION GTS Duratek, Inc. (GTS or the Company) is an environmental services company that provides waste treatment solutions for radioactive, hazardous, mixed (i.e. intermingled radioactive and hazardous) and other wastes. The Company combines proprietary technologies for treating various waste streams with a staff of highly skilled personnel with significant environmental experience to offer its customers a comprehensive approach to their waste treatment needs that includes commercial waste processing services, government waste processing services and technical support services. The Company's proprietary technologies include vitrification, incineration, compaction, metal decontamination and recycling and ion exchange used independently or in tandem to process its customers waste for long-term storage and disposal. The Company has a staff of engineers, consultants and technicians who implement the Company's waste treatment technologies and provide highly specialized technical support services for its customers. The technical support services provided by the Company include site decontamination and decommissioning, radiological engineering services, staff augmentation and outage support to assist nuclear power plants during maintenance shutdowns and environmental and computer consulting and environmental safety and health training. (2) SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND PRACTICES (a) PRINCIPLES OF CONSOLIDATION The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its subsidiaries, all of which are wholly owned except for DuraTherm, Inc. which is 80% owned. All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. Investments in subsidiaries and joint ventures in which the Company does not have control or majority ownership are accounted for under the equity method. (b) CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS The Company considers all highly liquid investments with initial maturities of three months or less to be cash equivalents. Cash equivalents, consisting principally of overnight repurchase agreements, were $5,944,274 at December 31, 1998. (c) PROPERTY, PLANT, AND EQUIPMENT Property, plant and equipment are carried at cost. Replacements, maintenance and repairs which do not extend the lives of the assets are expensed as incurred. The Company provides for depreciation of property, plant, and equipment when such assets become operational, primarily on a straight-line basis over useful lives of three to ten years. Leasehold improvements are amortized over the shorter of the asset life or the term of the lease. 38 (Continued) GTS DURATEK, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements December 31, 1998 and 1999 (d) IMPAIRMENT OF LONG-LIVED ASSETS AND LONG-LIVED ASSETS TO BE DISPOSED OF The Company reviews long-lived assets and certain identifiable intangibles for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable. Recoverability of assets to be held and used is measured by a comparison of the carrying amount of an asset to future undiscounted net cash flows expected to be generated by the asset. If such assets are considered to be impaired, the impairment to be recognized is measured by the amount by which the carrying amount of assets exceed the fair value of the assets. Assets to be disposed of are reported at the lower of the carrying amount or fair value less costs to sell. (e) GOODWILL AND OTHER INTANGIBLE ASSETS Goodwill is attributable to the acquisition of The Scientific Ecology Group, Inc. (SEG) during 1997 and Frank W. Hake Associates, L.L.C. (Hake) during 1999 (see note 3). Goodwill is being amortized on a straight-line basis over a 30-year period. Other intangibles consist principally of amounts assigned to covenants not-to-compete and costs incurred to obtain and maintain patents. Covenant and patent amounts are being amortized over 10 and 17 years, respectively, on a straight-line basis. The Company assesses the recoverability of goodwill by determining whether amortization of the goodwill balance over its remaining life can be recovered through undiscounted cash flows of the acquired entities. The amount of impairment, if any, is measured based on projected discounted cash flows using a discount rate reflecting the Company's average cost of funds. The assessment of the recoverability of goodwill will be impacted if estimated future operating cash flows are not achieved. (f) FACILITY AND EQUIPMENT DECONTAMINATION AND DECOMMISSIONING The Company accrues decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) costs for facilities and equipment ratable over the period to the estimated date of site closure (see note 14). (g) REVENUE RECOGNITION Revenue from the Company's commercial waste processing facilities is recognized when waste is processed. Generally, the Company processes customer wastes under fixed-unit-price contracts which allow for additional billings for burial price increases occurring within a set period of time following the Company's receipt of the waste, or if the waste differs from contract specifications. The Company is responsible for placing processed waste in containers and in a form that meets disposal site criteria. The Company delivers reports to customers confirming that their waste has been processed and buried in accordance with the terms of its contracts. Upon completion of processing, the Company accrues for burial and secondary waste processing costs. Unearned revenues relate principally to progress billings for customer waste received and not yet processed. 39 (Continued) GTS DURATEK, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements December 31, 1998 and 1999 Revenue from long-term waste treatment projects and technical support services is generated under fixed-price and time-and-materials contracts. Revenue from contracts is recognized on the percentage-of-completion method as costs are incurred and includes estimated fees at predetermined rates as measured by the cost-to-cost method. Contract costs includes all direct labor, material costs and the indirect costs related to contract performance. Differences between recorded costs, estimated earnings and final billings are recognized in the period in which they become determinable. Costs and estimated earnings in excess of billings on uncompleted contracts are recorded as assets. Billings in excess of costs and estimated earnings on uncompleted contracts are recorded as liabilities. Retainages, amounts subject to future negotiation and amounts related to claims are not material. (h) INCOME TAXES Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the estimated future tax consequences of temporary differences between the financial reporting and tax bases of assets and liabilities based on enacted tax rates in effect when such amounts are expected to be realized based on consideration of available evidence, including tax planning strategies and other factors. The effects of changes in tax laws or rates on deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized in the period that includes the enactment date. (i) START-UP COSTS Prior to 1998, the Company's 45% owned subsidiary DuraChem capitalized certain costs of starting-up its processing facility in Barnwell, South Carolina. In addition, the Company capitalized certain costs in developing employee records and documenting credentials for personnel in its technical services segment. In April 1998, the AICPA issued Statement of Position 98-5 Reporting on Costs of Start-up Activities (SOP 98-5), which requires such costs be expensed as incurred. During 1998, the Company and DuraChem adopted the provisions of SOP 98-5. The Company's proportionate share of the cumulative, after tax effect of DuraChem's adoption of SOP 98-5 of $1.3 million was recognized in the 1998 consolidated statement of operations as a proportionate share of losses by joint ventures. The Company's cumulative, after tax effect of adoption of SOP 98-5 was $420,000. The adoption of SOP 98-5 reduced the Company's loss before proportionate share of losses by joint ventures by approximately $78,000, increased the net loss before cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle by approximately $1.2 million, increased the net loss by approximately $1.6 million, increased the per share net loss attributable to common stockholders before cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle by $0.09 per share and increased the per share net loss attributable to common stockholders by $0.12 per share. (Continued) 40 GTS DURATEK, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements December 31, 1998 and 1999 (j) STOCK OPTION PLAN The Company accounts for stock options using the intrinsic value method prescribed by Accounting Principles Board ("APB") Opinion No. 25, Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees, and related interpretations, with proforma disclosures of net income (loss) and net income (loss) per share as if the fair value based method prescribed by Statement of Financial Accounting Standards ("SFAS") No. 123, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation, had been used. (k) NET INCOME PER SHARE Basic earnings per share (EPS) is computed by dividing income available to common stockholders by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding for the period. Weighted average shares used in computing basic EPS were 12,619,000, 13,137,000 and 13,351,000 for the years ended December 31, 1997, 1998 and 1999, respectively. Diluted EPS reflects the potential dilution that could occur if securities or other contracts to issue common stock were exercised or converted into common stock or resulted in the issuance of common stock that then shared in the earnings of the entity. Weighted average shares used in computing diluted EPS were 12,619,000, 13,137,000 and 20,323,000 for the years ended December 31, 1997, 1998 and 1999, respectively. The difference between basic and diluted weighted average shares relates to the dilutive effect of stock options and warrants where the exercise price is less than the average market value of the Company's common stock for the year of calculation and to the assumed conversion of the Company's convertible debentures and preferred stock. Conversion of the Company's convertible debentures and preferred stock is not included in the calculation of diluted EPS in 1997 and 1998, as such conversion was anti-dilutive. The diluted EPS amount for 1999 is based on net income adjusted for the after tax impact of the interest expense on the Company's convertible debentures of $308,000. (l) FAIR VALUE OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS The estimated fair value of financial instruments, including accounts receivable, accounts payable and long-term debt, approximate carrying values. (m) USE OF ESTIMATES The preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosures of contingencies at the date of the financial statements and revenues and expenses recognized during the reporting period. Actual results could differ significantly from those estimates. Significant estimates and judgments made by management include: (i) the recovery of investments in and advances to joint ventures (see note 6), (ii) the amount of waste processing and disposal liabilities (see note 11) and (iii) the cost to decommission and decontaminate the commercial waste processing facilities and equipment (see note 14). 41 (Continued) GTS DURATEK, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements December 31, 1998 and 1999 (n) RECLASSIFICATIONS Certain amounts for 1997 and 1998 have been reclassified to conform to the presentation for 1999. (3) ACQUISITIONS (a) THE SCIENTIFIC ECOLOGY GROUP, INC. On April 18, 1997, the Company acquired 100% of the outstanding capital stock of SEG, since renamed GTS Duratek-Bear Creek, Inc., from Westinghouse Electric Corporation (Westinghouse) for approximately $22.4 million in cash including transaction costs and 156,986 shares of the Company's common stock. The Company paid the cash portion of the purchase price out of available cash. SEG, which is based in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is the largest commercial radioactive waste processing company in the United States, offering an extensive range of waste processing services and technologies including incineration, compaction and metal decontamination and recycling to commercial generators of radioactive wastes. SEG also provides site decontamination and decommissioning and other technical support services to clients including government facilities, commercial facilities and university/research/test facilities. In addition, SEG provides transportation services of radioactive wastes, maintaining a fleet of tractors, trailers and shipping containers for transporting radioactive wastes. The acquisition was effective as of April 1, 1997 and, accordingly, the Company's results of operations for the year ended December 31, 1997 reflect the operating results of SEG from such date. The Company has accounted for the transaction under the purchase method of accounting. The aggregate purchase price of $72.7 million, which includes liabilities assumed and transaction costs, exceeded the estimated fair value of SEG's tangible assets by approximately $13.9 million. Such amount has been allocated to intangible assets, principally goodwill, and is being amortized over 30 years. (b) FRANK W. HAKE ASSOCIATES, L.L.C. On June 30, 1999, the Company acquired 100% of the outstanding capital stock of Hake from HakeTenn, Inc., a Delaware corporation and an affiliate of the Hake Group of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and two individuals for $12.9 million in cash, subject to a post closing adjustment, and the assumption of certain liabilities. The Company paid the cash portion of the purchase price out of available cash, principally from its credit facility with its bank. In 2000, the Company received $2.2 million with respect to the post closing adjustment. Hake is a specialist in the storage, transportation handling and processing of radioactive waste emanating from nuclear power generation plants throughout the United States. Hake also stores and services power generation equipment at its licensed facility in Memphis, Tennessee. 42 (Continued) GTS DURATEK, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements December 31, 1998 and 1999 The acquisition was effective as of June 30, 1999. The Company has accounted for the transaction under the purchase method of accounting. The aggregate purchase price of approximately $20.4 million, which includes liabilities assumed and transaction costs, exceeded the fair value of Hake's tangible assets by approximately $9.8 million. Such amount has been allocated to intangible assets, principally goodwill, and is being amortized over 30 years. Assuming the Hake acquisition had been consummated on January 1, 1998, revenues, net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders, basic net income (loss) per share and diluted net income (loss) per share would have been as follows for the years ended December 31, 1998 and 1999.
1998 1999 ---------------- ---------------- Revenues $ 175,480,976 $ 185,595,546 ================ ================ Net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders $ (4,994,197)$ 7,711,133 ================ ================ Basic net income (loss) per share $ (0.38)$ 0.58 ================ ================ Diluted net income (loss) per share $ (0.38)$ 0.47 ================ ================
(4) Other Accounts Receivable Other accounts receivable, at December 31, 1998, include loans of $465,000 and $275,000 to two of the Company's executive officers. Other accounts receivable, at December 31, 1999, includes loans of $463,000 and $312,000 to two of the Company's executive officers. The loans bear interest at market rates and are due by December 31, 2000. 43 (Continued) GTS DURATEK, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements December 31, 1998 and 1999 (5) PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT Property, plant and equipment at December 31 consists of the following:
1998 1999 --------------- --------------- Land and land improvements $ 560,000 $ 560,000 Buildings 15,376,383 24,225,162 Machinery and equipment 37,220,299 42,748,068 Leasehold improvements, furniture and fixtures 11,195,977 6,444,329 Construction in progress 1,629,747 4,279,106 --------------- --------------- 65,982,406 78,256,665 Less accumulated depreciation and amortization 11,711,662 14,839,358 --------------- --------------- $ 54,270,744 $ 63,417,307 =============== ===============
(6) INVESTMENTS IN AND ADVANCES TO JOINT VENTURES The Company has investments in and advances to each of its 50% or less owned joint ventures. A description of each is as follows: (a) DURACHEM The Company and Chem-Nuclear Systems, Inc. (Chem-Nuclear), a subsidiary of Waste Management, Inc., have formed DuraChem to design, build and operate vitrification facilities to process commercial radioactive waste for disposal. Under the joint venture agreement, the Company contributes 45% of the facility construction costs and shares proportionately in DuraChem's results of operations. Management of Chem-Nuclear and the Company temporarily suspended construction of the project. The Company's management anticipates commencement of the facility within the next two years, however, changes in market conditions or other factors could result in additional delays (see note 23). The Company's investment in, and advances to, DuraChem at December 31, 1998 and 1999 of $3,253,885, related to construction costs of the facility in Barnwell, South Carolina. For the year ended December 31, 1998, DuraChem's net loss of approximately $4,642,000 related entirely to the adoption of SOP 98-5 (see note 2). After the adoption of SOP 98-5, DuraChem had total assets of $4,281,000 at December 31, 1998 and 1999 consisting exclusively of fixed assets. 44 (Continued) GTS DURATEK, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements December 31, 1998 and 1999 (b) VITRITEK ENVIRONMENTAL, INC. ("VITRITEK") Through Vitritek, the Company has extended its vitrification technology to non-radioactive hazardous waste such as asbestos, fly ash and medical waste. Vitritek is owned equally by the Company and Vitritek Holdings LLC. Formed in December 1993, Vitritek represents the consolidation of co-licensing rights to non-radioactive vitrification technologies previously acquired by the Company and Vitritek Holdings LLC. Under the terms of the joint venture arrangement, all funding requirements and all profits are shared equally. The Company's investment in, and advance to, Vitritek at December 31, 1998 and 1999, were $877,521 and $794,888, respectively. For the years ended December 31, 1997, 1998 and 1999, Vitritek had net losses of $649,240, $750,000, and $595,266, respectively. For the years ended December 31, 1997, 1998 and 1999, the Company recognized its proportionate share of the loss in the consolidated statements of operations after intercompany eliminations. Vitritek had fixed assets and total assets of $718,464 and $1,443,464, respectively, at December 31, 1999. (7) GOODWILL AND OTHER INTANGIBLE ASSETS Goodwill and other intangible assets at December 31 consist of the following: 1998 1999 --------------- --------------- Goodwill $ 13,924,000 $ 23,735,546 Other intangible assets 1,540,735 2,280,366 --------------- --------------- 15,464,735 26,015,912 Less accumulated amortization 1,806,214 2,624,720 --------------- --------------- $ 13,658,521 $ 23,391,192 =============== =============== 45 (Continued) GTS DURATEK, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements December 31, 1998 and 1999 (8) DOE SAVANNAH RIVER M-AREA PROJECT In November 1993, the Company received a contract to process 90,000 cubic feet of low-level mixed waste sludge stored at the DOE's Savannah River site in Aiken, South Carolina. To meet its obligations under the contract, the Company constructed a glass melter and began processing waste in October 1996. In March 1997, the Company decided to temporarily suspend processing of radioactive waste and initiate an unscheduled controlled cool down of its glass melter at its M-Area processing plant located at the DOE's Savannah River site. After an extensive inspection of the condition of the melter at the Savannah River site, the Company's management made the decision to undertake more extensive repairs and modification of the facility, including melter box replacement, before resumption of radioactive waste processing. The modifications were made so that the Company could more efficiently meet is obligations under an existing contact as well as prepare the facility for additional waste streams. The M-Area facility resumed radioactive waste processing operations during the fourth quarter of 1997. As a result of the necessary repairs and the delay in completing the waste processing required by the contract, the Company recorded losses of $7.2 million on the M-Area contract in 1997 which included the estimated costs of repairs to the melter and for the estimated losses to complete the fixed price contract. During the fourth quarter of 1998, the Company recorded a $1.8 million charge for additional costs to be incurred to complete and close out the contract. At the time of modifying the glass melter and throughout 1998, the Company's believed, based on discussions with DOE and Savannah River officials, that contracts for processing additional waste streams would be awarded to the Company. Since completion of the existing contract, the Company requested that additional waste streams be awarded, however, as a result of a change in the site's waste treatment priorities, no additional waste processing contracts were awarded to the Company. Accordingly, in the fourth quarter 1998, the Company recorded an asset impairment charge of $9.2 million related to the carrying value of the glass melter which was abandoned. (9) SHORT-TERM BORROWINGS The Company has a $60 million bank credit facility which includes (i) a $35 million revolving line of credit, based on eligible accounts receivable (as defined in the credit agreement), to fund working capital requirements, (ii) a $20.0 million line of credit to finance acquisitions or stock purchases, and (iii) a $5 million line of credit to finance up to 75% of new equipment purchases. Substantially all of the Company's assets, excluding real property and inventory, have been pledged as collateral. Borrowings outstanding under the revolving line of credit bear interest at either the bank's base rate, as defined, plus applicable margin (9.0% at December 31, 1999) or the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) rate plus applicable margin (7.94% at December 31, 1999). The interest rate is subject to adjustment, depending upon the Company's ratio of debt to operating income. The credit facility has a five-year term. The Company had available additional borrowings of approximately $26.0 million to fund working capital needs at December 31, 1999. 46 (Continued) GTS DURATEK, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements December 31, 1998 and 1999 The Company paid interest expense of $8,701, $443,962 and $1,666,590 during the years ended December 31, 1997, 1998 and 1999, respectively. (10) ACCRUED EXPENSES AND OTHER CURRENT LIABILITIES Accrued expenses and other current liabilities at December 31 consist of the following:
1998 1999 ------------- -------------- Salaries and related expenses $ 2,134,585 $ 2,365,567 Preferred stock dividend payable 320,000 320,000 Income taxes payable 1,965,319 -- Current portion of capital lease obligations 357,329 290,268 Other accrued expenses 1,079,067 2,294,040 ------------- -------------- $ 5,856,300 $ 5,269,875 ============= ==============
(11) WASTE PROCESSING AND DISPOSAL LIABILITIES During customer waste processing at the Company's Oak Ridge, Tennessee facility, the Company creates waste by-products (secondary waste) which become the Company's responsibility to process and send to burial. Management evaluates the content of this waste and accrues the estimated costs of processing and disposal based on anticipated processing methods and current disposal sites and rates. The ultimate cost of processing and disposal, however, will depend on the actual contamination of the waste, the amount of processing, volume reduction and disposal density. At December 31, 1998 and 1999, the Company has accrued $1,801,762 and $2,743,019 related to such waste, respectively. In addition, the Company has accrued $2,400,799 and $1,167,136 for processed customer waste awaiting burial at December 31, 1998 and 1999, respectively. The Company ships a significant portion of waste to a single burial site, at a cost significantly lower than waste shipped to other available alternatives. The accompanying consolidated financial statements reflect various accruals and estimates assuming the single burial site continues to be a viable disposal site at rates presently in effect. If the site's licenses are not renewed or at some future date if the site's rate structure were to change significantly, the Company's costs to dispose of waste would likely increase. Management has not determined the impact, if any, either of these scenarios would have on the Company's liabilities or future operating costs. 47 (Continued) GTS DURATEK, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements December 31, 1998 and 1999 (12) Long-Term Debt As discussed in note 9, the Company has a $60 million bank credit facility which includes, among other things, a $20 million line of credit to finance acquisitions or stock repurchases (Term Loan A) and a $5 million line of credit to finance up to 75% of the Company's acquisition cost of new equipment purchases (Term Loan B). Borrowings under these lines of credit are converted into term facilities to be repaid in equal quarterly installments. Term Loan A is to be repaid in quarterly installments equal to $1 million. The Company may also be required to prepay the term loans in the amount equal to 50% of excess cash flow, as defined. Excess cash flow is measured annually on the Company's fiscal year. The Company did not meet the excess cash flow criteria at December 31, 1999. At December 31, 1999, $17,200,000 was outstanding under the Term Loan A of which $4,000,000 is payable during each of the years ended December 31, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003, with the balance due on 2004. The bank credit facility requires the Company to maintain certain financial ratios and restricts the payment of dividends on the Company's common stock. (13) Convertible Debenture In November 1995, in connection with the formation of the strategic alliance, the Company received proceeds of $9,830,280, net of debt issue costs, from the issuance of a $10 million convertible debenture to BNFL. The debenture accrues interest during the first five years at the one-year London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR). The debenture and the accrued interest are convertible into 1,381,575 shares of the Company's common stock on or before November 7, 2000. The debenture is to be repaid in annual installments over a five-year period commencing on November 7, 2001. The conversion and repayment dates can be extended under certain circumstances. At December 31, 1998 and 1999, the balance due BNFL of $11,821,582 and $12,334,813 included accrued interest of $1,821,582 and $2,334,813, respectively. The estimated fair value of the convertible debentures at December 31, 1999 approximated its carrying value. (14) Facility and Equipment Decontamination and Decommissioning (D&D) The Company has estimated the current costs to decontaminate and decommission (D&D) its commercial waste processing facilities and equipment to be approximately $17.9 million. Based on the current market and projections for the demand for future waste processing, the Company estimates it will operate at its Tennessee facilities for at least the next 27 years. Accordingly, the Company is accruing the expected D&D costs plus an amount for inflation over such period. Management is unable to estimate the effects of changes in technology, future increases in burial rates and the timing of D&D activities on the estimated D&D costs. Uncertainties related to any of these factors could have a significant impact on the Company's estimated D&D costs. Management updates the D&D estimates on an annual basis. During the years ended December 31, 1998 and 1999, the Company accrued D&D costs of $473,000 and $746,000, respectively. 48 (Continued) GTS DURATEK, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements December 31, 1998 and 1999 The Company has purchased insurance to fund the Company's obligation to clean and remediate its Tennessee facilities upon closure. (15) 8% CUMULATIVE CONVERTIBLE REDEEMABLE PREFERRED STOCK In January 1995, the Company issued for $16 million, 160,000 shares of 8% Cumulative Convertible Redeemable Preferred Stock, par value $.01 per share (the "Convertible Preferred Stock") and an option (the "Carlyle Option") to purchase up to an additional 1.25 million shares of the Company's common stock, at any time prior to January 24, 1999 for $3.75 per share to investment partnerships sponsored and controlled by The Carlyle Group ("Carlyle"). During 1998, Carlyle exercised its option to purchase 1,206,809 shares for $4,525,534. The Convertible Preferred Stock is initially convertible into the Company's common stock at a conversion price of $3 per share and, if not previously converted, the Company is required to redeem the outstanding Convertible Preferred Stock on January 24, 2002 for $100 per share plus accrued and unpaid dividends. The Company is required to pay quarterly dividends on the Convertible Preferred Stock of $320,000. The proceeds, net of offering expenses of $1,309,974, from the issuance of the Convertible Preferred Stock and Carlyle Option were $14,690,026, of which $14,410,026 was allocated to the Convertible Preferred Stock and $280,000 was allocated to the fair value of the Carlyle Option. The difference between the carrying value of the Convertible Preferred Stock and the redemption value is being accreted through charges to stockholders' equity over a six-year period to January 24, 2002. The estimated fair value of the Convertible Preferred Stock at December 31, 1999 was approximately $25.5 million. (16) STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY During the years ended December 31, 1997, 1998 and 1999, the Company received compensation deductions, for income tax purposes, upon exercise of non-qualified stock options by employees. The benefits of such deductions, which are included in stockholders' equity, were $827,000, $240,000 and $862,000 for the years ended December 31, 1997, 1998 and 1999, respectively. During 1998 and 1999, the Company repurchased 414,800 and 1,036,700 shares of its common stock, respectively. The repurchased shares are reflected as treasury stock in the consolidated balance sheet. (17) STOCK OPTION PLANS AND WARRANTS The Company has a non-qualified Stock Option Plan (the "Plan") which authorizes a committee of the Board of Directors to grant options to purchase shares of the Company's common stock to directors, officers and employees of the Company. The exercise price of such options may not be less than 85% of the fair market value of the common stock on the date of grant and the exercise period may not be more than ten years after such date. 49 (Continued) GTS DURATEK, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements December 31, 1998 and 1999 At December 31,1999, there were 186,400 additional shares available for grant under the Plan. The per share weighted-average fair value of stock options granted during 1997, 1998 and 1999 were $5.92, $5.22 and $5.64, respectively, on the date of grant using the Black Scholes option-pricing model with the following weighted-average assumptions: expected dividend yield 0%, risk-fee interest rate of 6.6%, expected volatility of 64% (73% in 1998 and 69% in 1997), and an expected life of four years. The Company applies APB Opinion No. 25 in accounting for its Plan and, accordingly, no compensation cost has been recognized for its stock options in the financial statements. Had the Company determined compensation cost based on the fair value at the grant date for its stock options under SFAS No. 123, the Company's net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders and net income (loss) per share on a diluted basis, would have been ($2,524,000) and ($0.20), ($4,208,000) and ($0.32) and $7,371,000 and $0.36 for the years ended December 31, 1997, 1998 and 1999, respectively. Pro forma results reflect only options granted since January 1995. Therefore, the full impact of calculating compensation cost for stock options under SFAS No. 123 is not reflected in the pro forma net income amounts presented above because compensation cost is reflected over the options' vesting period of five years and compensation cost for options granted prior to January 1, 1995 is not considered. Changes in options and warrants outstanding, options and warrants exercisable and shares reserved for issuance are as follows: WEIGHTED AVERAGE EXERCISE NUMBER OF PRICE SHARES ------- --------- December 31, 1996 $ 3.74 2,826,715 Granted 10.46 144,500 Exercised 3.45 (302,015) ------- --------- December 31, 1997 4.15 2,669,200 Granted 8.78 167,000 Exercised 3.72 (1,346,693) ------- --------- December 31, 1998 5.06 1,489,507 Granted 5.78 428,500 Exercised 3.07 (597,950) Terminated and expired 3.41 (503,257) ------- --------- December 31, 1999 $ 7.91 816,800 ======== ========= 50 (Continued) GTS DURATEK, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements December 31, 1998 and 1999 At December 31, 1999, the Company has reserved 7,718,108 shares for issuance of options, warrants and securities convertible into the Company's common stock. The following table summarizes information about outstanding and exercisable options and warrants at December 31, 1999:
OUTSTANDING EXERCISABLE - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- WEIGHTED AVERAGE WEIGHTED WEIGHTED RANGE OF REMAINING AVERAGE AVERAGE EXERCISE NUMBER CONTRACTUAL EXERCISE NUMBER EXERCISE PRICE OUTSTANDING LIFE PRICE EXERCISABLE PRICE - ---------------------- ---------------- -------------- ------------- --------------- ------------- 5.50 - $ 5.88 488,500 4.6 years 5.75 15,000 5.50 10.13 - $ 10.63 251,300 2.9 years 10.53 98,900 10.51 12.75 - $ 13.75 77,000 1.0 years 12.91 57,750 12.91 ---------------- --------------- 816,800 171,650 ================ ===============
(18) INCOME TAXES The provision (benefit) for income taxes for the years ended December 31 consist of the following: 1997 1998 1999 -------------- --------------- --------------- Current: State $ 400,000 $ 741,945 $ 567,354 Federal 673,581 1,841,780 2,252,283 -------------- --------------- --------------- 1,073,581 2,583,725 2,819,637 -------------- --------------- --------------- Deferred: State (53,637) (339,808) 593,585 Federal (303,944) (2,700,796) 3,441,278 -------------- --------------- --------------- (357,581) (3,040,604) 4,034,863 -------------- --------------- --------------- $ 716,000 $ (456,879)$ 6,854,500 ============== =============== =============== 51 (Continued) GTS DURATEK, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements December 31, 1998 and 1999 The provision (benefit) for the years ended December 31 is allocated as follows:
1997 1998 1999 ------------- ------------- --------------- Continuing operations $ 716,000 $ 627,000 $ 6,854,500 Proportionate share of losses of joint ventures -- (815,000) -- Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle -- (268,879) -- ------------- ------------- --------------- $ 716,000 $ (456,879)$ 6,854,500 ============= ============= ===============
The provision for income taxes for the years ended December 31, 1997, 1998, and 1999 is reconciled to the amount computed by applying the statutory Federal income tax rate to income before income taxes and proportionate share of losses of joint ventures as follows:
1997 1998 1999 ------------- ------------- -------------- Federal income tax at statutory rate $ 199,000 $ 31,000 $ 6,460,000 State income taxes, net of Federal tax benefit 228,599 405,000 756,000 Valuation allowance 269,000 356,000 (256,640) Other 19,401 (165,000) (104,860) ------------- ------------- -------------- $ 716,000 $ 627,000 $ 6,854,500 ============= ============= ==============
The tax effects of temporary differences that give rise to significant portions of the deferred tax assets and liabilities at December 31 consist of the following:
1998 1999 --------------- -------------- Allowance for doubtful accounts $ 222,878 $ 247,355 Capitalized inventory costs 56,414 57,751 Reserve for contract loss 344,395 -- Charge for asset impairment 3,597,598 -- Write-off of start-up costs 394,954 260,679 Loss of joint venture 815,000 834,075 Facility and equipment decontamination and decommissioning liabilities 963,405 1,270,808 Net operating loss carryforwards -- 835,724 Alternative minimum tax 1,419,042 1,100,353 Accelerated depreciation (2,813,796) (4,106,921) Other (282,848) (74,285) --------------- -------------- 4,717,042 425,539 Less valuation allowance 625,000 368,360 --------------- -------------- $ 4,092,042 $ 57,179 =============== ==============
52 (Continued) GTS DURATEK, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements December 31, 1998 and 1999 In assessing the realizability of deferred tax assets, management considered whether it was more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will be realized. The ultimate realization of the deferred tax assets is dependent upon the generation of future taxable income during periods in which temporary differences become deductible. Management considered income taxes paid during the previous three years and projected future taxable income in making this assessment. Based upon the level of historical taxable income and projections for future taxable income over the periods in which the temporary differences are deductible, management has deemed a valuation allowance of $368,360 is necessary at December 31, 1999. The Company paid income taxes of $334,067, $427,550 and $4,086,669 in the years ended December 31, 1997, 1998 and 1999. (19) PROFIT INVESTMENT AND DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLANS The Company maintains a Profit Investment Plan for employees who have completed one year of service with the Company. The Plan permits pre-tax contributions to the Plan by participants pursuant to Section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1% to 14% of base compensation. The Company matches 25% of the participants' eligible contributions based on a formula set forth in the Plan and may make additional matching contributions. Employer contributions vest at a rate of 20% per year of service. The Company's matching contributions were $466,485, $466,495 and $757,535 for the years ended December 31, 1997, 1998 and 1999, respectively. (20) RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS As part of a strategic alliance, BNFL has agreed to provide the Company with certain research and development funding. For the year ended December 31, 1998, BNFL provided research and development funding of $530,000. No funding was provided during 1999. In addition, the Company earned approximately $17 million and $24 million during 1998 and 1999, respectively, under subcontracts with BNFL related to their work performed on the Hanford River Protection and the Idaho Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Projects. 53 (Continued) GTS DURATEK, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements December 31, 1998 and 1999 (21) SEGMENT REPORTING The Company has three primary segments (i) commercial waste processing, (ii) government waste processing and (iii) technical services. Below is a brief description of each of the segments: 1. Commercial Waste Processing (CWP) -- The Company conducts its commercial waste processing operations principally at its Bear Creek Operations Facility located in Oak Ridge, TN. The Company's waste treatment technologies include: incineration; compaction; metal decontamination and recycling; vitrification; steam reforming; thermal desorption; and ion exchange. Commercial waste processing customers primarily include commercial nuclear utilities and petrochemical companies. 2. Government Waste Processing (GWP)-- The Company provides on-site waste processing services on large government projects for the DOE. The on-site waste processing services provided by the Company on DOE projects include program development, waste characterization, on-site waste treatment, facility operation, packaging and shipping of residual waste, profiling and manifesting the processed waste and selected technical support services. The Company is currently involved in several waste treatment projects for the DOE including: Hanford Tank Waste Remediation System project, Idaho Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project and Rocky Mountain Remediation Services Project. 3. Technical Services (TS) -- The Company's technical support services encompass approximately 600 employees, consultants and technicians, some of whom are full-time employees and the balance of whom are contract employees, who support and complement the Company's commercial and government waste processing operations and also provides highly specialized technical support services for the Company's customers. The Company provides these technical support services either as a prime contractor or as a subcontractor to a diverse group of government agencies, electric utilities, industrial facilities and commercial businesses including Duke Power Company, Southern Nuclear Operating Company and Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corporation. 54 (Continued) GTS DURATEK, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements December 31, 1998 and 1999 The accounting policies of the operating divisions are the same as those described in the summary of significant accounting policies. The Company's segment information is as follows:
1999 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unallocated CWP GWP TS Items Consolidated --------------- -------------- -------------- ------------- ---------------- Revenues from external customers $ 87,559,271 $ 37,238,438 $ 52,397,837 $ -- $ 177,195,546 Income from operations operations 14,163,048 4,308,814 2,282,094 -- 20,753,956 Interest expense -- -- -- 2,297,106 2,297,106 Depreciation and amortization expense 4,618,681 408,218 637,506 -- 5,664,405 Proportionate share of losses of joint ventures -- -- -- (122,633) (122,633) Income tax expense -- -- -- 6,854,500 6,854,500 Investments in and advances to joint ventures -- -- -- 4,048,773 4,048,773 Capital expenditure for additions to long-lived assets 6,708,406 886,599 66,899 1,096,617 8,758,521 Total assets 105,392,912 15,851,390 24,182,052 12,162,009 157,588,363 1998 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unallocated CWP GWP TS Items Consolidated -------------- -------------- ------------- ------------- ---------------- Revenues from external customers $ 73,019,423 $ 31,644,340 $ 55,649,314 $ -- $ 160,313,077 Income (loss) from operations 8,147,733 (8,140,543) 629,360 -- 636,550 Interest income -- -- -- 371,717 371,717 Interest expense -- -- -- (916,619) (916,619) Depreciation and amortization expense 3,940,692 286,206 572,035 -- 4,798,933 Proportionate share of losses of joint ventures -- -- -- (1,474,000) (1,474,000) Income tax expense -- -- -- 627,000 627,000 Investments in and advances to joint ventures -- -- -- 4,131,406 4,131,406 Capital expenditure for additions to long-lived assets 3,373,311 487,047 1,611,394 665,527 6,137,279 Total assets 71,077,591 21,731,656 16,191,189 19,534,196 128,534,632
55 (Continued) GTS DURATEK, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements December 31, 1998 and 1999
1997 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unallocated CWP GWP TS Items Consolidated -------------- -------------- ------------- ------------- ---------------- Revenues from external customers $ 67,675,574 $ 16,051,707 $ 52,825,540 $ -- $ 136,552,821 Income (loss) from operations 4,154,479 (6,310,587) 2,169,894 -- 13,786 Interest income -- -- -- 1,245,875 1,245,875 Interest expense -- -- -- (675,080) (675,080) Depreciation and amortization expense 2,974,682 402,638 343,919 -- 3,721,239 Proportionate share of losses of joint ventures -- -- -- (149,620) (149,620) Income tax expense -- -- -- 716,000 716,000 Investments in and advances to joint ventures -- -- -- 6,362,526 6,362,526 Capital expenditure for additions to long-lived assets 516,493 4,803,503 633,517 342,210 6,295,723 Total assets 69,494,873 17,456,086 26,778,335 18,568,887 132,298,181
The Company's revenues are derived primarily from utilities and through subcontracts from a combination of DOE contractors and subcontractors. In 1997, one customer comprised 12.0% of the Company's annual revenue. In 1998, one customer comprised 10.6% of the Company's annual revenues. In 1999, one customer comprised 13.6% of the Company's annual revenues. Accounts receivable and costs and estimated earnings in excess of billing on uncompleted contracts relating to DOE contractors and subcontractors amounted to $15,429,393 and $3,055,158 at December 31, 1998 and $9,274,720 and $2,349,624 at December 31, 1999, respectively. The Company estimates an allowance for doubtful accounts based on the credit worthiness of its customers as well as general economic conditions. Consequently, an adverse change in those factors could affect the Company's estimate of its bad debts. (22) COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES (a) ROYALTY AGREEMENTS The Company has entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with the inventors of the vitrification technology, pursuant to which the inventors have granted to the Company the exclusive license and rights to all vitrification technology and process patents which they develop. The exclusive license agreement expires 17 years after the last licensed patent is granted, which at this time will be in 2012. The agreement provides for a guaranteed minimum royalty of $100,000 per year throughout the term of the agreement. Royalty expense was $100,000, $141,000 and $288,000 for the years ended December 31, 1997, 1998 and 1999, respectively. 56 (Continued) GTS DURATEK, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements December 31, 1998 and 1999 (b) LEASES The Company has several noncancellable leases which cover real property, machinery and equipment and certain manufacturing facilities. Such leases expire at various dates with, in some cases, options to extend their terms. Several of the leases contain provisions for rent escalation based primarily on increases in real estate taxes and through operating costs incurred by the lessor. Rent expense approximated $2,317,000, $1,978,000 and $1,830,000 for the years ended December 31, 1997, 1998 and 1999, respectively. The following is a schedule of future minimum annual lease payments for all long-term operating leases for the year ending December 31, 1999:
OPERATIONS CAPITAL --------------- -------------- 2000 $ 906,000 $ 340,000 2001 799,000 290,000 2002 623,000 290,000 2003 475,000 126,000 2004 475,000 -- Thereafter 949,000 -- --------------- -------------- Future minimum lease payments $ 4,227,000 1,046,000 =============== Less portion representing interest 89,435 Less current portion of capital lease obligation 290,268 -------------- Long-term portion of capital lease obligation $ 666,297 ==============
During 1998, the Company entered into several new capital lease obligations valued at $1,207,395. (c) LEGAL PROCEEDINGS On February 3, 1998, the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Scientific Ecology Group, Inc. (now named GTS Duratek Bear Creek , Inc. ("SEG"), was sued in federal district court in Boston, Massachusetts. The suit alleges that statements made in press releases by Molten Metals Technology, Inc. ("MMT") were fraudulent and misleading under federal securities laws and state common law fraud theories. These statements concerned a joint venture between SEG and MMT and some of these statements were made in press releases which MMT issued jointly with SEG. The complaint seeks to hold SEG liable for all of these statements. The defendant moved to dismiss the complaint, the plaintiffs chose to amend their pleading, and the defendant moved to dismiss the amended complaint. At the present time the Company is unable to express a view on the probable ultimate outcome of the litigation. In addition, the Company may have rights of indemnity against CBS Corporation ("CBS"), the successor to Westinghouse Electric Corporation ("Westinghouse") which was the parent of SEG at the time the allegedly misleading statements 57 (Continued) GTS DURATEK, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements December 31, 1998 and 1999 were made, if, among other things, certain representations and warranties made by CBS in the definitive purchase agreement pursuant to which the Company purchased SEG were breached. CBS has agreed to assume all litigation costs associated with the defense of the case, but has reserved the right to challenge the Company's claim for indemnification for any settlement or judgment that may arise from the case. On or about February 25, 1999, Synthetica Technologies, Inc. ("Synthetica") served the Company with a complaint filed in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. In addition to the Company, the complaint named SEG, Westinghouse, and two former SEG executives as defendants. The complaint alleged that SEG was required by a license agreement and a subsequent asset purchase agreement to make certain payments to Synthetica in exchange for the right to develop and commercialize Synthetica's waste disposal technology. Synthetica claimed that SEG did not make allegedly required payments and did not comply with other alleged provisions of the contracts between SEG and Synthetica. Both the alleged license agreement and alleged asset purchase agreement predate the Company's acquisition of SEG. Synthetica advanced claims of fraud in the inducement, constructive fraud, actual fraud, breach of written contract, breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, intentional interference with contractual relations, intentional interference with economic relations, negligent interference, negligent misrepresentation and breach of fiduciary duty and trade secret misappropriation. The complaint sought compensatory and exemplary damages in an unspecified amount and an injunction against further trade secret misappropriation by the former SEG executives. The defendants removed the action to the United States District for the Northern District of California and then moved to dismiss the case. The plaintiff chose to amend its pleading, dropping the individual defendants and eliminating three claims. The remaining defendants sought to dismiss the amended complaint. On October 27, 1999, the court dismissed the amended complaint in its entirety, but permitted the plaintiff to replead certain claims. On November 29, 1999, the plaintiff filed an amended complaint alleging fraud and conspiracy to defraud, breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing and breach of contract. The claims in the amended complaint relate only to the asset purchase agreement and revolved around the claim that SEG failed to develop and commercialize Synthetica's waste disposal technology as required by that agreement. On January 3, 2000, the court dismissed the Company as a party to the case, leaving SEG as one of the remaining defendants along with CBS and dismissed certain claims against the remaining defendants. While the Company and SEG believe that SEG has meritorious defenses to the claims alleged against it by Synthetica, the Company cannot make a determination as to the likelihood or the extent of any liability arising from this matter. On December 2, 1999, the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, SEG, was named as a defendant in an adversary proceeding in the United States Bankruptcy court for the District of Massachusetts. The Chapter 11 Trustee, on behalf of the debtor MMT and its creditors, filed an adversary "Complaint to Avoid Fraudulent Transfer" naming as defendants CBS and SEG. The complaint alleges that the sale of CBS's interest in a joint venture to MMT resulted in a fraudulent conveyance. The primary allegations against SEG are that MMT's release of SEG from obligations to pay $8 million to equalize capital expenditures and additional amounts for MMT's share of profits, and MMT's assumption of at least $1.5 million of SEG's liabilities, are 58 (Continued) GTS DURATEK, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements December 31, 1998 and 1999 avoidable because MMT did not receive reasonably equivalent value for the transfers. The Company intends to vigorously contest MMT's allegations on the basis that MMT did in fact receive reasonably equivalent value for its transfers. In addition, the company may have a right of indemnification from CBS pursuant to the relevant purchasing agreements. It is too early in the litigation to provide an accurate assessment of the Company's liability. CBS has agreed to assume all litigation costs associated with the defense of the case, but has reserved the right to challenge the Company's claim for indemnification for any settlement or judgment that may arise from the case. In addition, from time to time the Company is a party to litigation or administrative proceedings relating to claims arising from its operations in the normal course of business. Management of the Company, on the advice of counsel, believes that the ultimate resolution of such litigation or administrative proceedings currently pending against the Company is unlikely, either individually or in the aggregate, to have a material adverse effect on the Company's results of operations or financial condition. (23) SUBSEQUENT EVENTS In February 2000, the Company completed the sale of its 80% interest in DuraTherm, Inc. to DuraTherm Group, Inc. for $8.0 million in cash and a subordinated note for $355,000. Proceeds to the Company of $8.0 million net were used by the Company to pay down borrowings under its bank credit facility. The note receivable bears interest at 14%, payable semi-annually during the first year following the sale, and 18% during the second year following the sale with the principal due in February 2002. The Company estimates that it will recognize a pre-tax gain of approximately $1.5 million on the sale. On March 29, 2000, the Company announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the nuclear services business of Waste Management, Inc. for up to $65 million in cash, consisting of $55 million at closing and up to an additional $10 million upon satisfaction of certain post-closing conditions. The acquisition is expected to close during the second quarter of 2000. As a result of this acquisition, the Company expects to acquire the 55% interest in DuraChem held by a subsidiary of Waste Management, Inc. (see note 6). 59 ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE. None. 60 Part III ITEM 10. DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE REGISTRANT The following table sets forth the names of the executive officers of the Company, their positions with the Company and their principal business experience for the last five years:
Name Age Position Principal Business Experience - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Daniel A. D'Aniello 53 Chairman of the Board of Directors Managing Director, The Carlyle Group since 1987. Chairman of the Board of the Company since January 1995. Robert E. Prince 52 President, Chief Executive Officer President and Chief Executive Officer of the and Director Company since November 1990 and director since 1991; Founder of General Technical Services, Inc. (GTS) in October 1984; President and Chief Executive Officer of GTS from 1987 to 1992. Robert F. Shawver 43 Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Vice President of the Company since Financial Officer May 1993; Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer of the Company since 1987; Vice President of the Company from 1987 to 1993. Craig T. Bartlett 37 Treasurer Treasurer of the Company since February 1996; Controller of the Company since February 1993; Director, Financial Operations of the Company from 1991 to 1993; Assistant Controller of the Company from 1988 to 1991. C. Paul Delete 51 Senior Vice President, Technology Senior Vice President of Technology Services Services and Operations and Operations and Support of the Company since January 1996; President of Analytical Resources, Inc. (an environmental consulting firm acquired by the Company in 1996) from 1984 to January 1996. Diane L. Leviski 39 Vice President, Human Resources Vice President of Human Resources of the Company since February 1996; Director of Human Resources from 1988 to 1996; Manager of Human Resources of the Company from 1985 to 1988. Leslie M. Hill 44 President, Bear Creek Operations President of Bear Creek Operations since May 1997. Mr. Hill held several senior management positions with New York Power Authority from January 1982 to April 1997. Ian S. Howard 45 Vice President, Radiological Group Vice President of Radiological Engineering and Field Services Engineering and Field Services since December 1998. Deputy Director, Bear Creek Operations from April 1997 to December 1998. Project Director of the Company from 1985 to 1997. Willis W. Bixby, Jr. 53 Vice President, Strategic Business Vice President of the Company since October 1999. Development Vice President of Scientech, Inc. from 1997 to 1999. Mr Bixby held several senior management positions with the Department of Energy from 1978 to 1997.
61 Information regarding the Company's Board of Directors is incorporated by reference from the text and tables under "Election of Board of Directors" in the Company's definitive Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held May 16, 2000 (the "2000 Proxy Statement"), which Proxy Statement will be filed not later than 120 days after the end of the fiscal year covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K. ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION The text and tables under "Executive Compensation" in the Company's 2000 Proxy Statement are incorporated herein by reference. Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management (a) Except as indicated in the 2000 Proxy Statement, the Company knows of no person who on March 16, 2000, owned beneficially more than 5% of its Common Stock. (b) The stock ownership information contained in the text and tables under "Securities Beneficially Owned" in the Company's 2000 Proxy Statement is incorporated herein by reference. (c) The Company knows of no arrangements the operation of which may at a subsequent date result in a change of control of the Company. ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS The text under "Executive Compensation" and "Certain Transactions with Management and Others" in the Company's 2000 Proxy Statement is incorporated herein by reference. 62 PART IV ITEM 14. EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES AND REPORTS ON FORM 8-K. (a) (1) The following consolidated financial statements of GTS Duratek and its subsidiaries are included in Item 8: Independent Auditors' Report Consolidated Balance Sheets at December 31, 1998 and December 31, 1999 Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended December 31, 1997, 1998 and 1999 Consolidated Statements of Stockholders' Equity for the years ended December 31, 1997, 1998 and 1999 Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 1997, 1998 and 1999 Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (a)(2) The following is a list of all financial statement schedules for the years ended December 31, 1997, 1998 and 1999 filed as part of this Report: Schedule II -- Valuation and Qualifying Accounts Schedules other than those listed above have been omitted because they are not required or are not applicable, or the required information has been included in the Consolidated Financial Statements or the Notes thereto. (a) (3) See accompanying Index to Exhibits...........................67 (b) Reports on Form 8-K. No reports on Form 8-K were filed during the last quarter of 1999. (c) The following is a list of exhibits filed herewith: Exhibit No. Document ----------- -------- 21.1 Subsidiaries of the Registrant 23.1 Consent of KPMG LLP 27.1 Financial Data Schedule (d) The following is a list of financial statement schedules filed herewith: Schedule II -- Valuation and Qualifying Accounts 63 SIGNATURES Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized. GTS DURATEK, INC. Dated: March 27, 2000 By: /s/ ROBERT E. PRINCE ---------------------------------------- Robert E. Prince President and Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacity and on the dates indicated. Principal Executive Officer: March 27, 2000 /s/ ROBERT E. PRINCE ---------------------------------------- Robert E. Prince President and Chief Executive Officer Principal Financial Officer: March 27, 2000 /s/ ROBERT F. SHAWVER ---------------------------------------- Robert F. Shawver Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Principal Accounting Officer: March 27, 2000 /s/ CRAIG T. BARTLETT ---------------------------------------- Craig T. Bartlett Treasurer The Board of Directors: March 27, 2000 /s/ DANIEL A. D'ANIELLO ---------------------------------------- Daniel A. D'Aniello March 27, 2000 /s/ J. A. FRED BROTHERS ---------------------------------------- J. A. Fred Brothers March 27, 2000 /s/ EARLE C. WILLIAMS ---------------------------------------- Earle C. Williams 64 March 27, 2000 /s/ DR. FRANCIS J. HARVEY ---------------------------------------- Dr. Francis J. Harvey March 27, 2000 /s/ ADMIRAL JAMES D. WATKINS ---------------------------------------- Admiral James D. Watkins March 27, 2000 /s/ GEORGE V. MCGOWAN ---------------------------------------- George V. McGowan March 27, 2000 /s/ ROBERT E. PRINCE ---------------------------------------- Robert E. Prince 65 GTS DURATEK, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Valuation and Qualifying Accounts Schedule II
CHARGES CHARGES BALANCE BALANCE AT TO COSTS TO OTHER AT END BEGINNING AND ACCOUNTS - DEDUCTIONS - OF OF PERIOD EXPENSES DESCRIBE (A) DESCRIBE (B) PERIOD -------------- ----------------------------- ---------------- ------------ Allowance for doubtful accounts: Year ended December 31, 1999 $ 571,441 149,123 (41,030) (108,398) 571,136 Year ended December 31, 1998 $ 487,905 483,477 -- (399,941) 571,441 Year ended December 31, 1997 $ 107,964 48,000 334,615 (2,674) 487,905 ============== ============ ================ ================ ============
(a) Charges to other accounts in 1997 represent allowance for doubtful accounts related to SEG at the date of acquisition. Charges to other accounts in 1999 represent the beginning of the year allowance for doubtful accounts balance related to DuraTherm, Inc. that is presented in the consolidated balance sheet on the net assets held for sale line item. (b) Deductions represent write-offs of specifically identified accounts. 66 EXHIBITS INDEX Exhibit No. - --- 3.1 Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant. Incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 1996 (File No. 0-14292). 3.2 By-Laws of the Registrant. Incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.3 of the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 33-2062). 4.1 Certificate of Designations of the 8% Cumulative Convertible Redeemable Preferred Stock dated January 23, 1995. Incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on February 1, 1995 (File No. 0-14292). 4.2 Stock Purchase Agreement among Carlyle Partners II, L.P., Carlyle International Partners II, L.P., Carlyle International Partners III, L.P., C/S International Partners, Carlyle-GTSD Partners, L.P., Carlyle-GTSD Partners II, L.P. and GTS Duratek, Inc. and National Patent Development Corporation dated as of January 24, 1995. Incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.2 of the Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on February 1, 1995 (File No. 0-14292). 4.3 Stockholders Agreement by and among GTS Duratek, Inc., Carlyle Partners II, L.P., Carlyle International Partners II, L.P., Carlyle International Partners III, L.P., C/S International Partners, Carlyle-GTSD Partners, L.P., Carlyle-GTSD Partners II, L.P. and GTS Duratek, Inc. and National Patent Development Corporation dated as of January 24, 1995. Incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.3 of the Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on February 1, 1995 (File No. 0-14292). 4.4 Registration Rights Agreement by and among GTS Duratek, Inc., Carlyle Partners II, L.P., Carlyle International Partners II, L.P., Carlyle-International Partners III, L.P., C/S International Partners, Carlyle-GTSD Partners, L.P., Carlyle-GTSD Partners II, L.P. and GTS Duratek, Inc. and National Patent Development Corporation dated as of January 24, 1995. Incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.4 of the Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on February 1, 1995 (File No. 0-14292). 4.5 Convertible Debenture issued by GTS Duratek, Inc., General Technical Services, Inc., GTS Instrument Services Incorporated to BNFL Inc. dated November 7, 1995. Incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.20 of the Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 1995 (File No. 0-14292). 10.1 1984 Duratek Corporation Stock Option Plan, as amended. Incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.9 of the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1990 (File No. 0-14292). 67 10.2 Asset Purchase Agreement dated August 20, 1990 between Chem-Nuclear Systems, Inc. and Duratek Corporation. Incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 1 to the Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on August 20, 1990 (File No. 0-14292). 10.3 License Agreement dated as of August 17, 1992 between GTS Duratek, Inc. and Dr. Theodore Aaron Litovitz and Dr. Pedro Buarque de Macedo. Incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.9 of the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1992. (File No. 0-14292). 10.4 Stockholders' Agreement dated December 28, 1993 between GTS Duratek, Inc. and Vitritek Holdings, L.L.C. Incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3 of the Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 22, 1993. (File No. 0-14292). 10.5 Agreement dated January 14, 1994 between GTS Duratek, Inc. and Westinghouse Savannah River Company. Incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.17 of the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1993. (File No. 0-14292). 10.6 Agreement dated September 15, 1994 between DuraChem Limited Partnership, a Maryland limited partnership, by and among CNSI Sub, Inc. and GTSD Sub, Inc., as the General Partners, and Chemical Waste Management, Inc. and GTS Duratek, Inc., as the Limited Partners. Incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.19 of the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1994. (File No. 0-14292). 10.7 Teaming Agreement by and between GTS Duratek, Inc. and BNFL Inc. dated November 7, 1995. Incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.20 of the Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 1995. (File No. 0-14292). 10.8 Sublicense Agreement by and between GTS Duratek, Inc. and BNFL Inc. dated November 7, 1995. Incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.21 of the Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 1995. (File No. 0-14292). 10.9 GTS Duratek, Inc. Executive Compensation Plan. Incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.19 of the Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 1997. (File No. 0-14292). 10.10 Amended and Restated Credit Agreement as of February 1, 1999 between GTS Duratek, Inc., GTS Duratek Bear Creek, Inc., GTS Duratek Colorado, Inc., Hittman Transport Services, Inc., GTS Instrument Services, Incorporated, General Technical Services, Inc., Analytical Resources, Inc., GTSD Sub III, Inc. and First Union National Bank, First Union Commercial Corporation, Wachovia Bank, N.A. and National Bank of Canada. Incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 2 of the Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K dated February 1, 1999. (File No. 0-14292). 68 10.11 Amended and Restated Security Agreement dated as of February 1, 1999 between GTS Duratek, Inc., GTS Duratek Bear Creek, Inc., GTS Duratek Colorado, Inc., Hittman Transport Services, Inc., GTS Instrument Services, Incorporated, General Technical Services, Inc., Analytical Resources, Inc., GTSD Sub III, Inc. and First Union National Bank, First Union Commercial Corporation, Wachovia Bank, N.A. and National Bank of Canada. Incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3 of the Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K dated February 1, 1999. (File No. 0-14292). 10.12 Stock Purchase Agreement between HakeTenn, Inc., George T. Hamilton and Richard Wilson and GTS Duratek, Inc. dated as of June 30, 1999. Incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit (c)(2) of the Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on July 13, 1999. (File No. 0-14292). 10.13 Stock Purchase Agreement between DuraTherm Group, Inc. and GTSD Sub III, Inc. dated February 7, 2000. Incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 99.2 of the Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on February 22, 2000. (File No. 0-14292). 21.1 Subsidiaries of the Registrant. (Filed herewith). 23.1 Consent of KPMG LLP. (Filed herewith). 27.1 Financial Data Schedule. (Filed herewith). 69
EX-21.1 2 EXHIBIT 21.1 EXHIBIT 21.1 SUBSIDIARIES OF GTS DURATEK, INC. General Technical Services, Inc. (dba GTS Duratek) (Maryland) GTS Instrument Services, Incorporated (Maryland) GTSD Sub, Inc. (Maryland) GTSD Sub III, Inc. (Delaware) Analytical Resources, Inc. (Pennsylvania) DuraTherm, Inc. (Maryland) GTS Duratek Bear Creek, Inc. (Tennessee) Hittman Transport Services, Inc. (Delaware) GTS Duratek Colorado, Inc. (Delaware) SEG Nevada, Inc. (Delaware) SEG Equity Holdings, Inc. (Delaware) 70 EX-23.1 3 EXHIBIT 23.1 EXHIBIT 23.1 CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITORS The Board of Directors GTS Duratek, Inc.: We consent to incorporation by reference in the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No. 33-60075) of GTS Duratek, Inc. our report dated March 10, 2000, relating to the consolidated balance sheets of GTS Duratek, Inc. and subsidiaries as of December 31, 1998 and 1999 and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders' equity, and cash flows and related schedule for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 1999, which report appears in the December 31, 1999 annual report on Form 10-K of GTS Duratek, Inc. Baltimore, Maryland March 27, 2000 71 EX-27 4 EXHIBIT 27
5 THIS SCEDULE CONTAINS SUMMARY FINANCIAL INFORMATION EXTRACTED FROM THE CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS AS OF DECEMBER 31, 1998 AND 1999 AND THE CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1998 AND 1999 OF GTS DURATEK, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES, AND IS QUALIFIED IN ITS ENTIRETY BY REFERENCE TO SUCH FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. 12-MOS 12-MOS DEC-31-1998 DEC-31-1999 JAN-01-1998 JAN-01-1999 DEC-31-1998 DEC-31-1999 5,944,274 59,525 0 0 42,527,216 56,097,296 (571,441) (571,136) 2,405,961 0 52,583,052 65,364,585 65,982,406 78,256,665 (11,711,662) (14,839,358) 128,534,632 157,588,363 37,224,109 44,381,177 11,821,582 12,334,813 15,279,085 15,509,438 0 0 142,257 148,238 54,879,330 61,246,472 128,534,632 157,588,363 0 0 160,313,077 177,195,546 0 0 123,839,031 128,719,021 35,753,960 27,722,569 83,536 0 544,902 2,297,105 91,648 18,456,851 627,000 6,854,500 (2,009,352) 11,479,718 0 0 0 0 (420,000) 0 (2,429,352) 11,479,718 (.30) .75 (.30) .58
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