Thomas Gray & Associates, Inc.

Founded in 1970, Thomas Gray & Associates, Inc. is a family of companies that provide radioactive, hazardous, and mixed waste packaging, brokerage, processing, transportation and disposal services nationwide. Over the years, regulatory compliance and customer service have been our foremost considerations.

Thomas Gray & Associates, Inc. (TGA) in Orange, California serves as the corporate headquarters and is licensed/permitted for hazardous, mixed, and radioactive waste storage. TGA serves mainly as a consolidation point for these waste streams. No processing is conducted at the Orange facility. For waste disposal, TGA has established long term relationships with Chem-Nuclear Systems, Inc. (Barnwell), US Ecology, Inc. (Richland), Perma-Fix,Inc. (Gainesville), NSSI (Houston), Duratek, Inc. (Oak Ridge) and Envirocare of Utah. In addition, consumable packaging supplies and containers provided to waste generators are stored at/shipped from this facility. TGA also offers transportation services with an emphasis on hazardous & radioactive transportation.

Fully permitted and licensed to operate in the contiguous States, TGA offers complete logistics management with strict compliance of numerous local, state and federal laws and regulations. TGA’s regulatory compliance record is exemplary and is staffed with professionals that total over 100 years of experience with safe transportation of all types of commodities. Our drivers are specially trained in the packaging, manifesting and shipping of hazardous and radioactive materials. In order to maintain the most current and rigid safety standards, TGA drivers are continually trained and tested.

Thomas Gray & Associates corporation also wholly owns two additional waste processing/storage facilities. In addition to specialized operations, each facility offers brokerage services to local/regional customers.

Environmental Management & Controls, Inc. (EMC) is located in Turlock, California. EMC is the only commercial facility in California that is licensed for waste processing. EMC offers waste processing capabilities including segregation, consolidation, and supercompaction of dry solid waste material, solidification and absorption (where applicable) of aqueous liquid waste streams, and waste stabilization of devices and sealed sources using high integrity containers and concrete encapsulation. EMC has become a leader in the disposal of NORM/NARM/Exempt waste streams. Generators' radium sources, instruments, and devices can be processed and disposed economically at the USE-Richland facility regardless of the generator's location.

Radioactive Waste Management, Inc. (RWM) is located in Salt Lake City, Utah and mainly provides storage for decay services for radioactive wastes with half-lives of 90 days or less. This facility was constructed specifically for this purpose and has a 6,000 drum capacity. After storage, wastes are inspected for radioactivity. Solid materials are mechanically dumped onto a conveyor system into tub containers provided to RWM by a medical waste incineration company located in Salt Lake City. RWM can also store longer half-life waste and is also a consolidation point for waste destined for Turlock or Orange facilities.