Friday, September 2, 2011

The Journal Record Business Briefs: August 10, 2011


Commission halts wastewater dumping in Bokoshe coal ash pit


Registration information is at www.ruralenterprises.com.The Women's Business Center of Rural Enterprises of Oklahoma Inc. has scheduled a workshop, entitled "Business Essentials for 2011," from 9 a.m. to noon Aug. 18 at the Sapulpa Chamber of Commerce in Sapulpa.The award is for construction of a center at Fort Polk, La., to provide child-care services for children 6 to 10 years old.Transcontinental offers senior notesCo-sponsors are Meridian Technology Center, Sherry's Business Success Services and the Women's Business Center of Rural Enterprises of Oklahoma Inc.Program registration is $425 per person or $375 per person for a table of eight. A 10-percent discount is available for TU alumni. Registration information is at bus.collins.utulsa.edu/CEPD/ disney2011.asp.The proposed district populations are District 1, 201,250; District 2, 201,897; and District 3, 200,256.Disney Institute coming to TUCurrent and proposed district maps are at www.tulsacounty.org/ redistricting.Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co. is offering $375 million of senior notes due 2041 to certain institutional investors.The workshop is co-sponsored by the Sapulpa Chamber of Commerce, Sapulpa Main Street, Oklahoma State University Cooperative Extension, Central Technology Center, Oklahoma Small Business Development Center and REI's Women's Business Center.Small business workshop set in SapulpaRegistration is $33. For registration information, call (405) 377- 3333.Asset Group Inc., Oklahoma City, has been awarded a $7.8 million contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Little Rock, Ark.Until a year ago, the wastewater had been used to settle fly ash dust at a site near Bokoshe. The site is operated by Making Money Having Fun LLC, which had been accepting oil and gas wastewater from northwest Arkansas and Oklahoma.The Oklahoma Corporation Commission on Wednesday ordered Thumbs Up Ranch to reapply for a permit to accept produced water from oil and natural gas wells.Versar Inc. of Springfield, Va., has been selected as prime contractor for up to a $45.4 million task order with the Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environment for remediation at Tinker Air Force Base."Facebook Fundamentals for Beginners" workshops are scheduled from 9 a.m. to noon Aug. 24 and 31 at Meridian Technology Center in Stillwater.Asset Group awarded contractTulsa County Commissioners will consider a plan for redistricting at the Board of County Commissioners meeting on Monday.Sherry Roden, Sherry's Business Success Services, will present the workshop.A year ago the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued an administrative order against Making Money Having Fun for violating the Clean Water Act and had suspended the dumping of the wastewater.The subsidiary of Tulsa-based Williams Partners LP plans to use $300 million of the proceeds to repay 7-percent notes due 2011. The remainder of the proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes.The commission then suspended the shipments.The initial award totals $18.7 million, with options totaling another $26.7 million over the next nine years.Versar will work with CH2MHill and Battelle Memorial Institute for environmental cleanup at 34 sites across the base.Tulsa County to consider redistricting planSouthwestern Christian University is a private Christian liberal- arts university.The 2010 Census revealed that Tulsa County's population shifted in a way requiring different boundaries for the county commission districts. Tulsa County's population through the 2010 Census is 603,403. With the current boundaries, district populations are District 1, 206,001; District 2, 193,901; and District 3, 203,501.The Disney Institute's "Disney's Approach to Inspiring Creativity" will be presented Sept. 14 at the University of Tulsa's Allen Chapman Activity Center.Chasteen leaves SCU for Victory Church campusDewey Brandon, Oklahoma Tax Commission, and Linda Barnet, Oklahoma Main Street Center, will present the workshop.Facebook business workshops set in StillwaterThe fly ash is trucked 12 miles to the property from the AES Shady Point coal-fired power plant. The Oklahoma Corporation Commission has oversight of oil and gas wastewater transportation and disposal sites in Oklahoma.Jon Chasteen, vice president for University Advancement at Southwestern Christian University in Bethany, has resigned to join Victory Church.Versar receives Tinker contractThe order on Wednesday said Making Money Having Fun operators will need to resolve all of the issues regarding contamination before they can reapply to resume operations, said Matt Skinner, OCC spokesman.Chasteen will serve as the campus pastor and administrator of a new Edmond campus that will open this fall. Victory Church also has campuses in Warr Acres, Norman, Corpus Christi, Texas, and South Africa.

Program registration is $425 per person or $375 per person for a table of eight. A 10-percent discount is available for TU alumni. Registration information is at bus.collins.utulsa.edu/CEPD/ disney2011.asp.




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