SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 
Form 10-Q
 
Quarterly Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
 
for the Quarterly Period Ended
September 30, 2004

 
Commission File Number 0-16379
 
Clean Harbors, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 
Massachusetts	 	04-2997780	
(State of Incorporation)	 	(IRS Employer Identification No.)	
 	 	 	
1501 Washington Street, Braintree, MA	 	02184-7535	
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)	 	(Zip Code)	
 
(781) 849-1800 ext. 4454
(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)
 
Indicate by check mark 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 twelve 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  ý  No  o
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an accelerated filer (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act). Yes ý No o
 
Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the issuer’s classes of common stock, as of the latest practicable date.
 
Common Stock, $.01 par value	 	14,301,424	
(Class)	 	(Outstanding at November 1, 2004)	

 
CLEAN HARBORS, INC.
QUARTERLY REPORT ON FORM 10-Q
TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
PART I: FINANCIAL INFORMATION	Page No.	
 	 	
ITEM 1: Financial Statements	 	
Consolidated Balance Sheets	1	
Consolidated Statements of Operations	3	
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows	4	
Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity	5	
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements	6	
 	 	
ITEM 2: Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations	25	
ITEM 3: Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk	38	
ITEM 4: Controls and Procedures	39	
 	 	
PART II: OTHER INFORMATION	 	
 	 	
Items No.1 through 6	41	
Signatures and Certifications	42	

 
CLEAN HARBORS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
 
ASSETS
 
(dollars in thousands)
 
 	 	September 30,
2004	 	December 31,
2003	 	
 	 	(Unaudited)	 	 	 	
Current assets:	 	 	 	 	 	
Cash and cash equivalents	 	$	24,756	 	$	6,331	 	
Restricted cash	 	381	 	—	 	
Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $3,105 and $3,572, respectively	 	117,817	 	114,429	 	
Unbilled accounts receivable	 	9,509	 	9,476	 	
Deferred costs	 	5,506	 	5,395	 	
Prepaid expenses	 	10,731	 	8,582	 	
Supplies inventories	 	9,449	 	9,018	 	
Deferred tax asset	 	182	 	178	 	
Properties held for sale	 	12,334	 	12,690	 	
Total current assets	 	190,665	 	166,099	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	
Property, plant, and equipment:	 	 	 	 	 	
Land	 	14,337	 	14,492	 	
Landfill assets	 	6,547	 	3,579	 	
Buildings and improvements	 	85,851	 	84,649	 	
Vehicles and equipment	 	199,796	 	164,693	 	
Furniture and fixtures	 	2,283	 	2,604	 	
Construction in progress	 	10,356	 	25,931	 	
Non-landfill asset retirement costs	 	997	 	994	 	
 	 	320,167	 	296,942	 	
Less-accumulated depreciation and amortization	 	145,189	 	130,400	 	
 	 	174,978	 	166,542	 	
Other assets:	 	 	 	 	 	
Restricted cash	 	—	 	88,817	 	
Deferred financing costs	 	9,316	 	6,297	 	
Goodwill	 	19,032	 	19,032	 	
Permits and other intangibles, net of accumulated amortization of $21,276 and $17,630, respectively	 	76,699	 	79,811	 	
Deferred tax asset	 	6,738	 	6,594	 	
Other	 	8,165	 	6,967	 	
 	 	119,950	 	207,518	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	
Total assets	 	$	485,593	 	$	540,159	 	
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
 
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CLEAN HARBORS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
 
LIABILITIES, REDEEMABLE CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCK
AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
(dollars in thousands)
 
 	 	September 30,
2004	 	December 31,
2003	 	
 	 	(Unaudited)	 	 	 	
Current liabilities:	 	 	 	 	 	
Uncashed checks	 	$	5,897	 	$	5,983	 	
Revolving credit facility	 	—	 	35,291	 	
Current portion of capital lease obligations	 	1,502	 	1,207	 	
Accounts payable	 	61,685	 	60,611	 	
Accrued disposal costs	 	2,932	 	2,021	 	
Deferred revenue	 	23,768	 	22,799	 	
Other accrued expenses	 	36,792	 	32,240	 	
Current portion of environmental liabilities	 	18,779	 	21,282	 	
Income taxes payable	 	6,306	 	2,623	 	
Total current liabilities	 	157,661	 	184,057	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	
Other liabilities:	 	 	 	 	 	
Environmental liabilities, less current portion	 	163,418	 	161,849	 	
Long-term obligations, less current maturities	 	148,083	 	147,209	 	
Capital lease obligations, less current portion	 	3,700	 	3,412	 	
Other long-term liabilities	 	8,747	 	18,055	 	
Accrued pension cost	 	649	 	633	 	
Total other liabilities	 	324,597	 	331,158	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	
Commitments and contingent liabilities	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	
Redeemable Series C Convertible Preferred Stock, $.01 par value: Authorized 25,000 shares; issued and outstanding 0 and 25,000 shares, respectively, net of unamortized issuance costs and fair value of embedded derivative	 	—	 	15,631	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	
Stockholders’ equity:	 	 	 	 	 	
Preferred stock, $.01 par value:	 	 	 	 	 	
Series A convertible preferred stock: Authorized 894,585; issued and outstanding – none	 	—	 	—	 	
Series B convertible preferred stock: Authorized 156,416 shares; issued and outstanding 112,000 shares (liquidation preference of $5.6 million)	 	1	 	1	 	
Common stock, $.01 par value:	 	 	 	 	 	
Authorized 20,000,000 shares; issued and outstanding 14,158,097 and 13,911,212 shares, respectively	 	142	 	139	 	
Additional paid-in capital	 	62,027	 	63,642	 	
Accumulated other comprehensive income	 	6,955	 	6,452	 	
Accumulated deficit	 	(65,790	)	(60,921	)	
Total stockholders’ equity	 	3,335	 	9,313	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	
Total liabilities, redeemable convertible preferred stock and stockholders’ equity	 	$	485,593	 	$	540,159	 	
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
 
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CLEAN HARBORS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
Unaudited
(in thousands except per share amounts)
 
 	 	Three Months Ended
September 30,	 	Nine Months Ended
September 30,	 	
 	 	2004	 	2003	 	2004	 	2003	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Revenues	 	$	162,650	 	$	151,085	 	$	467,038	 	$	465,425	 	
Cost of revenues	 	116,835	 	108,687	 	340,137	 	347,098	 	
Selling, general and administrative expenses	 	26,227	 	26,409	 	77,225	 	84,209	 	
Accretion of environmental liabilities	 	2,546	 	2,745	 	7,753	 	8,261	 	
Depreciation and amortization	 	5,803	 	6,788	 	17,464	 	19,875	 	
Restructuring	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	(124	)	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Income from operations	 	11,239	 	6,456	 	24,459	 	6,106	 	
Other income (expense)	 	(85	)	8,755	 	(1,189	)	8,909	 	
Loss on refinancing	 	—	 	—	 	(7,099	)	—	 	
Interest (expense), net	 	(5,576	)	(6,048	)	(16,377	)	(17,537	)	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Income (loss) before provision for income taxes and cumulative effect of change in accounting principle	 	5,578	 	9,163	 	(206	)	(2,522	)	
Provision for income taxes	 	1,137	 	1,746	 	4,663	 	3,996	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Net income (loss) before cumulative effect of change in accounting principle	 	4,441	 	7,417	 	(4,869	)	(6,518	)	
Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle, net of tax	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	66	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Net income (loss)	 	4,441	 	7,417	 	(4,869	)	(6,584	)	
Redemption of Series C preferred stock, dividends on the Series B and C preferred stock and accretion on the Series C preferred stock	 	112	 	828	 	11,728	 	2,446	 	
Net income (loss) attributable to common shareholders	 	$	4,329	 	$	6,589	 	$	(16,597	)	$	(9,030	)	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Basic earnings (loss) per share:	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Earnings (loss) before cumulative effect of change in accounting principle	 	$	0.31	 	$	0.48	 	$	(1.18	)	$	(0.67	)	
Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle, net of tax	 	$	—	 	$	—	 	$	—	 	$	—	 	
Earnings (loss) attributable to common shareholders	 	$	0.31	 	$	0.48	 	$	(1.18	)	$	(0.67	)	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Diluted earnings (loss) per share:	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Earnings (loss) before cumulative effect of change in accounting principle	 	$	0.25	 	$	(0.09	)	$	(1.18	)	$	(1.02	)	
Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle, net of tax	 	$	—	 	$	—	 	$	—	 	$	—	 	
Earnings (loss) attributable to common shareholders	 	$	0.25	 	$	(0.09	)	$	(1.18	)	$	(1.02	)	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Weighted average common shares outstanding	 	14,108	 	13,770	 	14,038	 	13,443	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Weighted average common shares outstanding plus potentially dilutive common shares	 	17,446	 	16,187	 	14,038	 	15,860	 	
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
 
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CLEAN HARBORS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
Unaudited
(in thousands)
 
 	 	Nine Months Ended
September 30,	 	
 	 	2004	 	2003	 	
Cash flows from operating activities:	 	 	 	 	 	
Net loss	 	$	(4,869	)	$	(6,584	)	
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by operating activities:	 	 	 	 	 	
Depreciation and amortization	 	17,464	 	19,875	 	
Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle, net of tax	 	—	 	66	 	
Allowance for doubtful accounts	 	598	 	1,374	 	
Amortization of deferred financing costs	 	1,921	 	1,735	 	
Accretion of environmental liabilities	 	7,753	 	8,261	 	
(Gain) loss on sale of fixed assets	 	(401	)	285	 	
Stock options expensed	 	—	 	21	 	
Loss on refinancing	 	7,099	 	—	 	
(Gain) loss on embedded derivative	 	1,590	 	(9,194	)	
Foreign currency (gain) loss on intercompany transactions	 	(351	)	1,326	 	
Changes in assets and liabilities, net of acquisition:	 	 	 	 	 	
Accounts and other receivables	 	(3,382	)	20,612	 	
Unbilled accounts receivable	 	115	 	3,110	 	
Deferred costs	 	(88	)	822	 	
Prepaid expenses	 	(2,136	)	3,470	 	
Supplies inventories	 	(419	)	181	 	
Other assets	 	(1,142	)	(1,356	)	
Accounts payable	 	438	 	(2,344	)	
Environmental liabilities	 	(9,121	)	(6,026	)	
Deferred revenue	 	846	 	(5,509	)	
Accrued disposal costs	 	873	 	(53	)	
Other accrued expenses	 	4,683	 	375	 	
Income taxes payable	 	3,485	 	(522	)	
Net cash provided by operating activities	 	24,956	 	29,925	 	
Cash flows from investing activities:	 	 	 	 	 	
CSD acquisition refunds	 	—	 	7,973	 	
Additions to property, plant and equipment	 	(19,736	)	(25,758	)	
Proceeds from sale of restricted investments	 	92,826	 	5,798	 	
Cost of restricted investments acquired	 	(4,390	)	(34,153	)	
Proceeds from sale of fixed assets	 	608	 	1,610	 	
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities	 	69,308	 	(44,530	)	
Cash flows from financing activities:	 	 	 	 	 	
Repayments on Senior Loans	 	(107,209	)	(7,498	)	
Repayments of Subordinated Loans	 	(40,000	)	—	 	
Net borrowings (repayments) under revolving credit facility	 	(35,168	)	17,756	 	
Change in uncashed checks	 	(118	)	(1,827	)	
Deferred financing costs incurred	 	(10,284	)	(1,548	)	
Proceeds from exercise of stock options	 	333	 	444	 	
Dividend payments on Series C Preferred Stock	 	(1,963	)	—	 	
Dividend payments on preferred stock	 	(112	)	(974	)	
Proceeds from employee stock purchase plan	 	366	 	401	 	
Payments on capital leases	 	(1,096	)	(489	)	
Issuance of Senior Secured Notes	 	148,045	 	—	 	
Redemption of Series C Convertible Preferred Stock	 	(25,000	)	—	 	
Cash paid in lieu of warrants	 	(363	)	—	 	
Debt extinguishment payments	 	(3,420	)	—	 	
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities	 	(75,989	)	6,265	 	
Increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents	 	18,275	 	(8,340	)	
Effect of exchange rate change on cash	 	150	 	710	 	
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period	 	6,331	 	13,682	 	
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period	 	$	24,756	 	$	6,052	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	
Supplemental information:	 	 	 	 	 	
Non cash investing and financing activities:	 	 	 	 	 	
Stock dividend on preferred stock	 	$	224	 	$	112	 	
New capital lease obligations	 	$	1,660	 	$	2,798	 	
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
 
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CLEAN HARBORS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
(in thousands)
 
 	 	Series B
Preferred Stock	 	Common Stock	 	Additional
Paid-in
Capital	 	Comprehensive
Loss	 	Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive
Income (Loss)	 	Accumulated
Deficit	 	Total
Stockholders’
Equity	 	 	
 	 	Number of
Shares	 	$	0.01 Par
Value	 	Number of
Shares	 	$	0.01 Par
Value	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Balance at December 31, 2003	 	112	 	$	1	 	13,911	 	$	139	 	$	63,642	 	 	 	$	6,452	 	$	(60,921	)	$	9,313	 	 	 	 	
Net loss	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	$	(4,869	)	—	 	(4,869	)	(4,869	)	 	 	 	
Foreign currency translation	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	503	 	503	 	—	 	503	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Comprehensive loss	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	$	(4,366	)	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Preferred stock dividends:	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Series B	 	—	 	—	 	28	 	—	 	(112	)	 	 	—	 	—	 	(112	)	 	 	 	
Series C	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	(821	)	 	 	—	 	—	 	(821	)	 	 	 	
Issuance of warrants	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	9,193	 	 	 	—	 	—	 	9,193	 	 	 	 	
Proceeds from exercise of stock options	 	—	 	—	 	146	 	2	 	331	 	 	 	—	 	—	 	333	 	 	 	 	
Employee stock purchase plan	 	—	 	—	 	73	 	1	 	365	 	 	 	—	 	—	 	366	 	 	 	 	
Redemption of Series C preferred stock	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	(9,864	)	 	 	—	 	—	 	(9,864	)	 	 	 	
Amortization of preferred stock discount and issuance costs	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	(707	)	 	 	—	 	—	 	(707	)	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Balance at September 30, 2004	 	112	 	$	1	 	14,158	 	$	142	 	$	62,027	 	 	 	$	6,955	 	$	(65,790	)	$	3,335	 	 	 	 	
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
 
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CLEAN HARBORS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
 
(1) Basis of Presentation
 
The accompanying consolidated interim financial statements include the accounts of Clean Harbors, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries (collectively, “Clean Harbors” or the “Company”) and have been prepared pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and, in the opinion of management, include all adjustments which, except as described elsewhere herein, are of a normal recurring nature, necessary for a fair presentation of the financial position, results of operations, and cash flows for the periods presented. The results for interim periods are not necessarily indicative of results for the entire year. The financial statements presented herein should be read in connection with the financial statements included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003.
 
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires the Company’s management to make certain estimates and assumptions. These estimates and assumptions affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of the contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements. These estimates and assumptions will also affect the reported amounts of certain revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ materially based on any changes in the estimates and assumptions that the Company uses in the preparation of its financial statements. Additionally, the estimates and assumptions used in determining landfill airspace amortization rates per cubic yard, capping, closure and post-closure liabilities as well as environmental remediation liabilities require significant engineering and accounting input. The Company reviews these estimates and assumptions no less than every three years. In many circumstances, the ultimate outcome of these estimates and assumptions may not be known for decades into the future. Actual results could differ materially from these estimates and assumptions due to changes in environmental-related regulations or future operational plans, and the inherent imprecision associated with estimating matters so far into the future. See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in this report.
 
Certain reclassifications have been made in the prior periods’ Consolidated Financial Statements to conform to the presentation for the three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2004.
 
(2) Acquisition
 
As more fully described in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company purchased from Safety-Kleen Services, Inc. (the “Seller”) and certain of the Seller’s domestic subsidiaries substantially all of the assets of the Chemical Services Division (the “CSD”) of Safety-Kleen Corp. (“Safety-Kleen”), effective September 7, 2002. The sale included the operating assets of certain of the Seller’s subsidiaries in the United States and the stock of five of the Seller’s subsidiaries in Canada.
 
In accordance with the Acquisition Agreement between the Seller and the Company dated February 22, 2002, as amended through September 6, 2002, the Company purchased the assets of the CSD for $26.6 million in net cash, and incurred direct costs related to the transaction of $9.7 million for a total purchase price of $36.3 million. In addition, the Company assumed with the transaction certain environmental liabilities valued at $184.5 million.
 
In connection with the acquisition of the CSD assets, the Company recorded integration liabilities of $12.6 million (after giving effect to subsequent net changes in estimates) which consisted primarily of lease costs, severance, environmental closure and other exit costs to close duplicative facilities and functions. Groups of employees severed and to be severed consist primarily of duplicative selling, general and administrative personnel and personnel at offices which were closed. The following table summarizes the purchase accounting liabilities recorded in connection with the acquisition of the CSD assets (dollars in thousands):
 
 	 	Severance	 	Facilities	 	 	 	
 	 	Number of
Employees	 	Liability	 	Number of
Facilities	 	Liability	 	Total	 	
Balance at December 31, 2003	 	52	 	$	676	 	9	 	$	2,931	 	$	3,607	 	
Net change in estimate	 	(8	)	—	 	—	 	(377	)	(377	)	
Utilized in the quarter ended March 31, 2004	 	(3	)	(184	)	—	 	(499	)	(683	)	
Utilized in the quarter ended June 30, 2004	 	(15	)	(154	)	—	 	(111	)	(265	)	
Utilized in the quarter ended September 30, 2004	 	(5	)	(79	)	—	 	(129	)	(208	)	
Interest accretion	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	185	 	185	 	
Balance at September 30, 2004	 	21	 	$	259	 	9	 	$	2,000	 	$	2,259	 	
 
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(3) Significant Accounting Policies
 
(a) New Accounting Pronouncements
 
In January 2003, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued FASB Interpretation No. 46 (“FIN 46”), “Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities.” FIN 46 requires that unconsolidated variable interest entities must be consolidated by their primary beneficiaries. A primary beneficiary is the party that absorbs a majority of the entity’s expected losses or residual benefits. FIN 46 applies immediately to variable interest entities created after January 31, 2003. In December 2003, the FASB issued FIN 46-R. FIN 46-R deferred to March 15, 2004 the effective date for variable interest entities created before January 31, 2003. FIN 46 and FIN 46-R will have no impact on the Company’s results of operations since it has no variable interest entities.
 
(b) Stock Options
 
The Company applies Accounting Principles Board (“APB”) Opinion No. 25 and related Interpretations in accounting for its stock-based employee compensation plans. Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 123, “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation” defines a fair value method of accounting for stock options and other equity instruments. Under the fair value method, compensation cost is measured at the grant date based on the fair value of the award and is recognized over the service period, which is usually the vesting period. The Company elected to continue to apply the accounting provisions of APB Opinion No. 25 for stock options. Accordingly, no stock-based employee compensation cost is reflected in net income, as all options granted under those plans have an exercise price equal to the market value of the underlying common stock on the date of grant. Had compensation cost for the Company’s stock option grants been determined based on the fair value at the grant dates, as calculated in accordance with SFAS No. 123, the Company’s net income (loss) and net earnings (loss) per common share for the three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2004 and 2003, would approximate the pro forma amounts as compared to the amounts reported (in thousands except for per share amounts):
 
 	 	Three Months Ended
September 30,	 	Nine Months Ended
September 30,	 	
 	 	2004	 	2003	 	2004	 	2003	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Basic income (loss) attributable to common shareholders	 	$	4,329	 	$	6,589	 	$	(16,597	)	$	(9,030	)	
Deduct: Total stock-based employee compensation expense determined under fair value based method for all awards net of related tax effects	 	492	 	607	 	1,500	 	1,511	 	
Basic pro forma income (loss) attributable to common shareholders	 	$	3,837	 	$	5,982	 	$	(18,097	)	$	(10,541	)	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Diluted income (loss) attributable to common shareholders	 	$	4,329	 	$	(1,443	)	$	(16,597	)	$	(16,114	)	
Deduct: Total stock-based employee compensation expense determined under fair value based method for all awards net of related tax effects	 	492	 	607	 	1,500	 	1,511	 	
Diluted pro forma income (loss) attributable to common shareholders	 	$	3,837	 	$	(2,050	)	$	(18,097	)	$	(17,625	)	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Income (loss) per share:	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Basic as reported	 	$	0.31	 	$	0.48	 	$	(1.18	)	$	(0.67	)	
Basic pro forma	 	$	0.27	 	$	0.43	 	$	(1.29	)	$	(0.78	)	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Diluted as reported	 	$	0.25	 	$	(0.09	)	$	(1.18	)	$	(1.02	)	
Diluted pro forma	 	$	0.22	 	$	(0.13	)	$	(1.29	)	$	(1.11	)	
 
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(4) Restricted Cash
 
At September 30, 2004 and December 31, 2003, restricted cash consisted of the following (in thousands):
 
 	 	September 30,
2004	 	December 31,
2003	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	
Cash collateral for letter of credit facility – current	 	$	381	 	$	—	 	
Cash collateral for letter of credit facility – non-current	 	—	 	88,817	 	
 	 	$	381	 	$	88,817	 	
 
Operators of hazardous waste handling facilities are required by federal and state regulations to provide financial assurance for closure and post-closure care of those facilities should those facilities cease operation. Closure would include the cost of removing the waste stored at the facility which ceased operating, sending such material to another site for disposal, and performing certain procedures for decontamination of the facility. The Company has placed most of the required financial assurance through Steadfast Insurance Company, which requires letters of credit as collateral to its financial assurance obligations. At December 31, 2003, the Company had a Letter of Credit Facility (the “L/C Facility”) under an Agreement dated September 6, 2002 between the Company and Fleet National Bank (“Fleet”). The L/C Facility Agreement provided that Fleet would issue up to $100.0 million of letters of credit at the Company’s request provided that the Company posted collateral equal to 103% of the amount of the outstanding letters of credit. As further discussed in Note 6, “Financing Arrangements,” on June 30, 2004, the L/C Facility was replaced with a synthetic letter of credit facility (the “Synthetic LC Facility”). Under the Synthetic LC Facility, the Company is not required to post cash collateral. On June 30, 2004, the $88.9 million of restricted cash then on deposit was released to the Company.
 
As described in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company previously had a $100.0 million revolving credit facility (the “Revolving Credit Facility”) that allowed the Company to borrow up to $100.0 million in cash and letters of credit with Congress Financial Corporation (“Congress”). On June 30, 2004, the Company posted $3.9 million of restricted cash with Congress to support $3.6 million of letters of credit then outstanding that for administrative reasons could not be replaced with letters of credit under the Synthetic LC Facility as discussed in Note 6 “Financing Arrangements.” During the third quarter of 2004, almost all of the $3.6 million of letters of credit outstanding at June 30, 2004 with Congress were replaced with letters of credit under the Synthetic LC Facility which resulted in the release of restricted cash for the Company’s general use of $3.5 million in the quarter ended September 30, 2004. The Company anticipates that by December 31, 2004 the remaining letters of credit outstanding with Congress will be replaced with other letters of credit, allowing the $0.4 million of restricted cash at September 30, 2004 to be released for the Company’s general use.
 
(5) Properties Held for Sale
 
As part of its plan to integrate the activities of the CSD into its operation, the Company determined that certain acquired properties were no longer needed for its operations. The Company decided to sell these acquired properties; accordingly, the acquired surplus properties were transferred to properties held for sale. In the allocation of the purchase price of the CSD acquisition, the Company valued properties held for sale at the current appraised market value less estimated selling costs. In addition, subsequent to the completion of purchase accounting, the Company identified several additional properties that were no longer needed for its operations. These properties were transferred to properties held for sale at the lower of their net book value or current appraised market value less estimated selling costs. Properties held for sale include only those properties that the Company believes can be sold within the next twelve months based on current market conditions and the asking price. The Company cannot provide assurance that the proceeds from properties held for sale will equal their carrying value.
 
During the three month period ended March 31, 2004, the Company sold one of the properties for $0.6 million, net of selling costs. The gain on the sale of approximately $0.2 million is included in other income (expense).
 
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(6) Financing Arrangements
 
The following table is a summary of the Company’s financing arrangements:
 
 	 	September 30,
2004	 	December 31,
2003	 	
 	 	(in thousands)	 	
Revolving Facility with a financial institution, bearing interest at either the U.S. or Canadian prime rate (4.75% and 4.00%, respectively, at September 30, 2004) or the Eurodollar rate (1.84% at September 30, 2004), depending on the currency of the underlying loan, plus 1.50%, collateralized by accounts receivable	 	$	—	 	$	—	 	
Senior Secured Notes, bearing interest at 11.25%, collateralized by a second-priority lien on substantially all of the Company’s assets within the United Sates except for accounts receivable	 	150,000	 	—	 	
Revolving Credit Facility with a financial institution, bearing interest at LIBOR (1.17% at December 31, 2003) plus 3.50% or the U.S. or Canadian prime rate (both 4.00% at December 31, 2003) plus 0.50% at the Company’s election	 	—	 	35,291	 	
Senior Loans, bearing interest at LIBOR (1.17% at December 31, 2003) plus 7.75%	 	—	 	107,209	 	
Subordinated Loans, bearing interest at 22.50%	 	—	 	40,000	 	
 	 	150,000	 	182,500	 	
Less unamortized issue discount	 	1,917	 	—	 	
Less obligations classified as current	 	—	 	35,291	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	
Long-term obligations	 	$	148,083	 	$	147,209	 	
 
As described in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company previously had outstanding a $100.0 million three-year revolving credit facility (the “Revolving Credit Facility”), $115.0 million of three-year non-amortizing term loans (the “Senior Loans”) and $40.0 million of five-year non-amortizing subordinated loans (the “Subordinated Loans”). In addition to such financings, the Company had established a letter of credit facility (the “L/C Facility”) under which the Company could obtain up to $100.0 million of letters of credit by providing cash collateral equal to 103% of the amount of such outstanding letters of credit. On June 30, 2004, the Company’s debt under the Revolving Credit Facility, the Senior Loans and the Subordinated Loans was replaced by $150.0 million of eight-year Senior Secured Notes (the “Senior Secured Notes”) and a $30.0 million revolving credit facility (the “Revolving Facility”) as described below. Additionally, the L/C Facility was replaced with a synthetic letter of credit facility (the “Synthetic LC Facility”) whereby the Company may obtain up to $90.0 million of letters of credit as described below.
 
The principal terms of the Senior Secured Notes, the Revolving Facility, and the Synthetic LC Facility are as follows:
 
Senior Secured Notes. The Senior Secured Notes were issued under an Indenture dated June 30, 2004 (the “Indenture”). The Senior Secured Notes bear interest at 11.25% and mature on July 15, 2012. The Senior Secured Notes were issued at a $2.0 million discount that results in an effective yield of 11.5%. Interest is payable semiannually in cash on each January 15 and July 15, commencing on January 15, 2005.
 
The Senior Secured Notes are secured by a second-priority lien on all of the domestic assets of the Company and its domestic subsidiaries that secure the Company’s reimbursement obligations under the Synthetic LC Facility on a first-priority basis (as described below); provided that such assets do not include any capital stock, notes, instruments, other equity interests of any of the Company’s subsidiaries, accounts receivable, and certain other excluded collateral as provided in the Indenture. The Senior Secured Notes are jointly and severally guaranteed on a senior secured second-lien basis by substantially all of the Company’s existing and future domestic subsidiaries. The Senior Secured Notes are not guaranteed by the Company’s foreign subsidiaries.
 
The Indenture provides for certain covenants, the most restrictive of which requires the Company, within 120 days after the close of each twelve-month period ending on June 30 of each year (beginning June 30, 2005) to apply an amount equal to 50% of the period’s Excess Cash Flow (as defined below) to either prepay, repay, redeem or purchase its first-lien obligations under the
 
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Revolving Facility and Synthetic LC Facility or the offer to the repurchase of all or part of the then outstanding Senior Secured Notes. “Excess Cash Flow” is defined in the Indenture as consolidated EBITDA less interest expense, all taxes paid or accrued in the period, capital expenditures made in cash during the period, and all cash spent on environmental monitoring, remediation or relating to environmental liabilities of the Company.
 
The $6.0 million cost associated with the issuance of the Senior Secured Notes was recorded as a component of deferred financing costs and is being amortized to interest expense over the life of the Senior Secured Notes.
 
Revolving Facility. Both the Revolving Facility and the Synthetic LC Facility were established under a Loan and Security Agreement dated June 30, 2004 (the “Credit Agreement”) among the Company, Fleet Capital Corporation as agent for the Revolving Lenders thereunder, Credit Suisse First Boston as agent for the letter of credit facility lenders (the “LC Facility Lenders”) thereunder, and certain other parties. The Revolving Facility allows the Company to borrow up to $30.0 million in cash, based upon a formula of eligible accounts receivable. This total is separated into two lines of credit, namely a line for the Company and its U.S. subsidiaries equal to $24.7 million and a line for the Company’s Canadian subsidiaries of $5.3 million. The Revolving Facility also allows the Company to have issued up to $10.0 million of letters of credit, with the outstanding amount of such letters of credit reducing the maximum amount of borrowings permitted under the Revolving Facility. At September 30, 2004, the Company had $0.0 million of borrowings and $1.2 million of letters of credit outstanding under the Revolving Facility, and the Company had approximately $28.8 million available to borrow. Amounts outstanding under the Revolving Facility bear interest at an annual rate of either the U.S. or Canadian prime rate or the Eurodollar rate (depending on the currency of the underlying loan) plus 1.50%. The Credit Agreement requires the Company to pay an unused line fee of 0.125% per annum on the unused portion of the Revolving Facility. The Revolving Facility matures on June 30, 2009.
 
The Revolving Facility is secured by a first security interest in accounts receivable and a second security interest in substantially all other assets. The Revolving Facility prohibits the payment of dividends on the Company’s common stock but allows the payment of dividends on the Company’s Series B Preferred Stock.
 
Under the Credit Agreement, the Company is required to maintain a maximum Leverage Ratio (as defined below) of no more than 3.00 to 1.0, 2.80 to 1.0 and 2.55 to 1.0 for the four-quarter periods ending September 30, 2004, December 31, 2004 and March 31, 2005, respectively. The maximum Leverage Ratio is then reduced to no more than 2.50 to 1.0 for the four-quarter period ending June 30, 2005, and then, in approximately equal increments, to no more than 2.30 to 1.0 for the four-quarter period ending December 31, 2008, and to no more than 2.25 to 1.0 for each succeeding quarter. The Leverage Ratio is defined as the ratio of the consolidated indebtedness of the Company to its consolidated EBITDA achieved for the latest four-quarter period. For the four-quarter period ended September 30, 2004, the Leverage Ratio was 2.09 to 1.0, which was within covenant.
 
The Company is also required under the Credit Agreement to maintain a minimum Interest Coverage Ratio (as defined below) of not less than 2.25 to 1.0, 2.40 to 1.0 and 2.65 to 1.0 for the four-quarter periods ending September 30, 2004, December 31, 2004 and March 31, 2005, respectively. The minimum Interest Coverage Ratio is then increased to not less than 2.70 to 1.0 for the four-quarter period ending June 30, 2005, and then, in approximately equal increments, to not less than 2.85 to 1.0 for the four-quarter period ending December 31, 2006 through December 31, 2008, and not less than 3.00 to 1.0 for each succeeding four-quarter period. The Interest Coverage Ratio is defined as the ratio of the Company’s consolidated EBITDA to its consolidated interest expense. For the four-quarter period ended September 30, 2004, the Interest Coverage Ratio was 2.98 to 1.0, which was within covenant.
 
The Company is also required to maintain a fixed charge coverage ratio of not less than 1.0 to 1.0 for each four-quarter period, commencing with the quarter ending December 31, 2004. The Company must also achieve at least $15.0 million in consolidated EBITDA for the quarter ended September 30, 2004. For the quarter ended September 30, 2004, EBITDA was $19.6 million which was within covenant.
 
The $0.3 million cost associated with the issuance of the Revolving Facility was recorded as a component of deferred financing costs and is being amortized to interest expense over the life of the Revolving Facility.
 
Synthetic LC Facility. The Synthetic LC Facility provides that Credit Suisse First Boston (the “LC Facility Issuing Bank”) will issue up to $90.0 million of letters of credit at the Company’s request. The LC Facility requires that the LC Facility Lenders maintain a cash account (the “Credit-Linked Account”) to collateralize the Company’s outstanding letters of credit. Should any such letter of credit be drawn in the future and the Company fail to satisfy its reimbursement obligation, the LC Facility Issuing Bank would be entitled to draw upon the appropriate portion of the $90.0 million in cash which the LC Facility Lenders under the Credit Agreement have deposited into the Credit-Linked Account. Acting through the LC Facility Agent, the LC Facility Lenders would then have the right to exercise their rights as first-priority lien holders (second-priority as to receivables) on substantially
 
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all of the assets of the Company and its domestic subsidiaries. The Company has no right, title or interest in the Credit-Linked Account established under the Credit Agreement for purposes of the Synthetic LC Facility. The Company is required to pay (i) a quarterly participation fee at the annual rate of 5.35% on the average daily balance in the Credit-Linked Account and (ii) a quarterly fronting fee at the annual rate of 0.30% of the average daily aggregate amount of letters of credit outstanding under the Synthetic LC Facility. At September 30, 2004, letters of credit outstanding under the Synthetic LC facility were $89.3 million. The term of the Synthetic LC Facility will expire on June 30, 2009.
 
The $3.3 million cost associated with the issuance of the Synthetic LC Facility was recorded as a component of deferred financing costs and is being amortized to interest expense over the life of the Synthetic LC Facility.
 
EBITDA. In addition to disclosing financial results that are determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”), the Company uses the non-GAAP measure EBITDA. As described above, the principal financial covenants to which the Company is subject under the Credit Agreement are based upon the level of EBITDA (as defined in the Credit Agreement) achieved by the Company in specified periods. Furthermore, the Company believes that EBITDA is useful to investors because it is an indicator of the strength and performance of the ongoing business operations, including the Company’s ability to fund capital expenditures and service debt. The Company also uses EBITDA to award management incentive bonuses based on the level of EBITDA attained.
 
EBITDA should not be considered an alternative to net income or loss or other measures calculated in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States as an indicator of operating performance or to cash flows from operating, investing, or financing activities as a measure of liquidity. EBITDA does not reflect working capital changes, cash expenditures for interest, taxes, capital improvements or principal payments on indebtedness. Furthermore, the Company’s measurement of EBITDA might be inconsistent with similar measures presented by other companies.
 
Because of certain non-recurring adjustments to net income (loss) which occurred during the six months ended March 31, 2004, the Credit Agreement defines EBITDA for the fiscal quarters ended December 31, 2003 and March 31, 2004, as being in the agreed amounts of $16.0 million and $12.1 million, respectively. EBITDA under the Credit Agreement for the six-month period ended September 30, 2004 is calculated as follows (in thousands):
 
 	 	Six Months
Ended
September 30,
2004	 	
 	 	 	 	
Net loss	 	$	(7,686	)	
Gain on sale of fixed assets	 	(157	)	
Change in value of embedded derivative	 	6,877	 	
Loss on refinancing	 	7,099	 	
Accretion of environmental liabilities	 	5,165	 	
Interest expense, net	 	11,019	 	
Provision for income taxes	 	3,451	 	
Depreciation and amortization	 	12,059	 	
Other non-recurring refinancing-related expenses	 	1,186	 	
 	 	 	 	
EBITDA	 	$	39,013	 	
 
The following reconciles EBITDA to cash provided by operations for the six-month period ended September 30, 2004 (in thousands):
 
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 	 	Six Months Ended
September 30, 2004	 	
 	 	 	 	
EBITDA	 	$	39,013	 	
Adjustments to reconcile EBITDA from net cash provided by operations:	 	 	 	
Interest expense, net	 	(11,019	)	
Provision for income taxes	 	(3,451	)	
Allowance for doubtful accounts	 	453	 	
Amortization of deferred financing costs	 	1,168	 	
Foreign currency gain on intercompany transactions	 	(297	)	
Other non-recurring refinancing related expenses	 	(1,186	)	
Changes in assets and liabilities:	 	 	 	
Accounts receivable	 	(7,913	)	
Unbilled accounts receivable	 	(3,261	)	
Prepaid expenses	 	658	 	
Other assets	 	(1,407	)	
Accounts payable	 	5,488	 	
Environmental liabilities	 	(6,084	)	
Other accrued expenses	 	4,581	 	
Income tax payable	 	1,717	 	
Other, net	 	407	 	
Net cash provided by operating activities	 	$	18,867	 	
 
(7) Legal Proceedings and Contingencies
 
As of the filing date of this report, the following discussions update the material changes to the “Legal Proceedings” described in Note 9 to the Company’s financial statements as of December 31, 2003 included in the Annual Report on Form 10-K as filed with the SEC on March 15, 2004 and in Note 7 to the Company’s financial statements as of June 30, 2004 included in the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q as filed with the SEC on August 6, 2004.
 
Legal Proceedings Assumed In Connection with Acquisition of CSD Assets
 
The CSD assets included a former hazardous waste incinerator and landfill in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (“BR Facility”) currently undergoing remediation pursuant to an order issued by the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality. In December 2003, the Company received an information request from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (“Superfund Act”) concerning the Devil’s Swamp Lake Site (“Devil’s Swamp”) in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, and the BR Facility received and responded to a supplemental information request from EPA on October 15, 2004. On March 8, 2004, the EPA proposed to list Devil’s Swamp on the National Priorities List (“NPL”) for further investigations and possible remediation. Devil’s Swamp includes a lake located downstream of an outfall ditch where wastewaters and storm waters have been discharged from the BR Facility, as well as extensive adjacent swamplands. Contaminants of concern cited by the EPA as a basis for listing the site on the NPL include substances of the kind found in wastewaters discharged from the BR Facility in past operations. While the Company’s ongoing corrective actions at the BR Facility may be sufficient to address the EPA’s concerns, there can be no guarantee that, if the site is ultimately listed as a Superfund site on the NPL, additional action will not be required and that the Company will not incur material costs. The Company cannot now estimate its potential liability relating to Devil’s Swamp; accordingly, the Company has accrued no liability relating to Devil’s Swamp except for the amount already accrued for the ongoing corrective actions and certain legal costs associated with responding to the EPA information requests and further investigation of the matter.
 
Canadian Provincial Enforcement Action
 
London, Ontario Facility. Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc., and one of the Company’s Canadian subsidiaries, Clean Harbors Canada, Inc., have received a summons alleging a number of regulatory offenses under the Ontario Occupational Health and Safety Act as a result of a fire in October 2003 at a Clean Harbors Canada, Inc., waste transfer facility in London, Ontario. A worker at the facility received serious injuries as a result of the fire.
 
The initial appearance on this matter is set for November 22, 2004. The Company will determine its position with respect to the charged offenses following receipt and review of disclosure on the case by the Provincial authorities. The Company has not accrued any liability associated with this matter because any potential liability is not now estimable.
 
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Contingencies
 
Federal Securities Class Action Litigation. On November 18, 2003, an individual plaintiff who purchased 1,700 shares of the Company’s common stock filed a purported class action suit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts (the “District Court”) against the Company and a current and former officer of the Company. The plaintiff alleges violation of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and regulations promulgated thereunder by the SEC, and seeks certification of a class that would consist of all purchasers of the Company’s stock between November 19, 2002 and August 14, 2003. Principally, the complaint alleges that in connection with certain public announcements the defendants failed to disclose adverse information with respect to the impact of the acquisition of the CSD assets on the Company and that certain financial projections, particularly the guidance issued with respect to anticipated EBITDA for 2003, were overstated and made without reasonable basis. Subsequently, three additional plaintiffs who purchased 300, 16,500 and 1,500 shares of the Company’s common stock, respectively, filed complaints in the same court containing essentially the same allegations and seeking the same class certification. In January 2004, several plaintiffs within the putative class filed, through their attorneys, competing motions seeking to be named lead plaintiff, seeking the right to select lead counsel and seeking consolidation of the four suits. On October 26, 2004, the District Court issued an order giving the plaintiffs until November 30, 2004 to file an amended consolidated complaint and the Company until December 31, 2004 to file a motion to dismiss the complaint, and setting February 15, 2005 as the date for a hearing on such motion.
 
The Company believes that at all times during the purported class period the Company and the two officers conducted themselves in compliance with relevant securities laws and that the guidance as to anticipated EBITDA and other forward-looking statements contained in the Company’s public announcements are protected by the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Company intends to vigorously defend itself against the plaintiffs’ allegations. However, this litigation is in its very preliminary stages, and the Company is therefore unable to give an assessment of any potential impact on the Company.
 
(8) Closure, Post-Closure and Remedial Liabilities
 
The changes to environmental liabilities for the nine months ended September 30, 2004 are as follows (in thousands):
 
 	 	December 31,
2003	 	New Asset
Retirement
Obligations	 	Accretion	 	Changes in
Estimate
Charged
(Benefit) to
Income
Statement	 	Other Changes
in Estimates	 	Currency
Translations,
Reclassifications
and Other	 	Payments	 	September 30,
2004	 	
Landfill retirement liability	 	$	17,703	 	$	760	 	$	1,831	 	$	(607	)	$	(326	)	$	15	 	$	(35	)	$	19,341	 	
Non-landfill retirement liability	 	7,992	 	—	 	683	 	(444	)	—	 	2	 	(880	)	7,353	 	
Remediation for landfill sites	 	5,525	 	—	 	172	 	(231	)	—	 	38	 	(421	)	5,083	 	
Remediation, closure and post-closure for closed sites	 	97,535	 	—	 	3,266	 	(505	)	—	 	176	 	(5,426	)	95,046	 	
Remediation (including Superfund) for non-landfill open sites	 	54,376	 	—	 	1,801	 	391	 	—	 	154	 	(1,348	)	55,374	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Total	 	$	183,131	 	$	760	 	$	7,753	 	$	(1,396	)	$	(326	)	$	385	 	$	(8,110	)	$	182,197	 	
 
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The following table presents the remaining highly probable airspace from December 31, 2003 through September 30, 2004 (in thousands):
 
 	 	Highly Probable Airspace	 	
 	 	(Cubic Yards)	 	
Remaining capacity at December 31, 2003	 	29,031	 	
Consumed during nine months ended September 30, 2004	 	(615	)	
Addition to highly probable airspace	 	45	 	
 	 	 	 	
Remaining capacity at September 30, 2004	 	28,461	 	
 
Commencing January 1, 2004, asset retirement obligations incurred are being discounted at the credit-adjusted risk-free rate of 12.5% and inflated at a rate of 1.2%.
 
(9) Redeemable Series C Preferred Stock
 
As described in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company previously had outstanding the Series C Convertible Preferred Stock, $0.01 par value (“Series C Preferred Stock”). The Series C Preferred Stock was entitled to receive dividends at an annual rate of 6.0% (such dividends were paid in cash through March 2003 and thereafter accrued and compounded through the redemption date). The Company issued the Series C Preferred Stock for $25.0 million on September 10, 2002, and incurred $2.9 million of issuance costs. The Company determined that the Series C Preferred Stock should be recorded on the Company’s financial statements as though the Series C Preferred Stock consisted of two components, namely (i) non-convertible redeemable preferred stock (the “Host Contract”) with a 6.0% annual dividend, and (ii) an embedded derivative (the “Embedded Derivative”) which reflected the right of the holders of the Series C Preferred Stock to convert into the Company’s common stock on the terms set forth in the Series C Preferred Stock. The Series C Preferred Stock reported on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet consisted only of the value of the Host Contract (less the issuance costs) plus the amount of accretion in the value of the Host Contract which had been recorded through the balance sheet date with regard to the discount which was originally recorded for the Host Contract, plus the amount of accretion for issuance costs and accrued dividends. Such discount and issuance costs were being accreted over the life of the Series C Preferred Stock, with such accretion being recorded as a reduction in Additional Paid-in-Capital. During the period from January 1 through June 30, 2004, the amount of that accretion was $0.7 million. For the quarter ended September 30, 2004, no accretion was recorded because the Company redeemed the Series C Preferred Stock on June 30, 2004. During the period from January 1 through September 30, 2003, the amount of that accretion was $0.7 million. The Company recorded in Other Long-term Liabilities the fair value of the Embedded Derivative and periodically marked that value to market.
 
On June 30, 2004, the Company redeemed the Series C Preferred Stock for $25.0 million in cash and paid accrued dividends of $2.0 million. The difference between the $25.0 million paid and the carrying amount of the Series C Preferred Stock of $17.2 million on June 30, 2004 was charged to additional paid-in capital. In addition, the Company issued warrants to purchase 2.8 million shares of the Company’s common stock, and the Company paid $0.4 million of cash in lieu of warrants for certain other conversion rights of the holders of the Series C Preferred Stock. The warrants issued are exercisable at $8.00 per common share and expire on September 10, 2009. The Company settled the $11.2 million Embedded Derivative liability through the issuance of the 2.8 million warrants (which the Company valued using the Black-Scholes option pricing model at $9.2 million) together with the $0.4 million of cash that was paid in lieu of warrants, which resulted in a gain on the settlement of the Embedded Derivative of $1.6 million. The gain on the settlement of the Embedded Derivative was recorded as a reduction to refinancing-related expenses. The value of the warrants issued of $9.2 million was credited to additional paid-in capital.
 
As of September 30, 2003, the Embedded Derivative was determined to have no value based on the Black-Scholes valuation model and the Company recorded $8.7 million and $9.2 million of other income for the three and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2003, respectively, to reflect such adjustment. Because of the redemption of the Series C Preferred Stock on June 30, 2004 described in the preceding paragraph, the Company will not be required to make mark-to-market adjustments to the Company’s reported income (loss) associated with the Embedded Derivative for any period subsequent to June 30, 2004. As of June 30, 2004, the market value of the Embedded Derivative was determined to $11.2 million and the Company recorded other expense of $1.6 million through June 30, 2004 to reflect such adjustment.
 
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(10) Loss on Refinancing
 
As further discussed in Notes 4, 6, and 9, the Company previously had outstanding a $100.0 million three-year revolving credit facility (the “Revolving Credit Facility”), $115.0 million of three-year non-amortizing term loans (the “Senior Loans”), $40.0 million of five-year non-amortizing subordinated loans (the “Subordinated Loans”), Series C Convertible Preferred Stock, $0.01 par value (the “Series C Preferred Stock”) and the related embedded derivative (the “Embedded Derivative”) which reflected the right of the holders of the Series C Preferred Stock to convert into the Company’s common stock on the terms set forth in the Series C Preferred Stock. On June 30, 2004, the Company repaid the Revolving Credit Facility, the Senior Loans and the Subordinated Loans, redeemed the Series C Convertible Preferred Stock and settled the related Embedded Derivative liability. The Company recorded refinancing expenses, net of $7.1 million during the three-month period ended June 30, 2004. Such expenses consisted of a write-off of deferred financing costs of $5.3 million, prepayment penalties of $3.1 million, and other expenses of $0.3 million. These expenses were partially offset by the gain on the settlement of the Embedded Derivative of $1.6 million.
 
(11) Income Taxes
 
SFAS 109, “Accounting for Income Taxes,” requires that a valuation allowance be established when, based on an evaluation of verifiable evidence, there is a likelihood that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. The Company continually reviews the adequacy of the valuation allowance for deferred taxes. For the three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2004, a full valuation allowance was maintained against the Company’s net U.S. deferred tax asset position and no U.S. tax benefit was recorded. The provision for income taxes for the three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2003 and 2004 relate primarily to the Company’s Canadian subsidiaries.
 
(12) Earnings (Loss) Per Share
 
The following is a reconciliation of basic and diluted loss per share computations (in thousands except for per share amounts) for the three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2004 and 2003:
 
 	 	Three Months Ended September 30, 2004	 	
 	 	Income	 	Shares	 	Per-
Share	 	
 	 	(Numerator)	 	(Denominator)	 	 	 	
Income before cumulative effect of change in accounting principle	 	$	4,441	 	 	 	 	 	
Less preferred stock dividends	 	112	 	 	 	 	 	
Basic earnings attributable to common shareholders before change in accounting principle	 	4,329	 	14,108	 	$	0.31	 	
Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle, net of tax	 	—	 	14,108	 	—	 	
Basic earnings attributable to common shareholders	 	$	4,329	 	14,108	 	$	0.31	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Income before cumulative effect of change in accounting principle	 	$	4,441	 	 	 	 	 	
Less preferred stock dividends	 	112	 	 	 	 	 	
Diluted earnings attributable to common shareholders before change in accounting principle	 	4,329	 	17,446	 	$	0.25	 	
Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle, net of tax	 	—	 	17,446	 	—	 	
Diluted earnings attributable to common shareholders	 	$	4,329	 	17,446	 	$	0.25	 	
 
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 	 	Three Months Ended September 30, 2003	 	
 	 	Income	 	Shares	 	Per-
Share	 	
 	 	(Numerator)	 	(Denominator)	 	 	 	
Income before cumulative effect of change in accounting principle	 	$	7,417	 	 	 	 	 	
Less preferred stock dividends and accretion	 	828	 	 	 	 	 	
Basic income attributable to common shareholders before change in accounting principle	 	6,589	 	13,770	 	$	0.48	 	
Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle, net of tax	 	—	 	13,770	 	—	 	
Basic income attributable to common shareholders	 	$	6,589	 	13,770	 	$	0.48	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Income before cumulative effect of change in accounting principle	 	$	7,417	 	 	 	 	 	
Less Series B Preferred dividends	 	112	 	 	 	 	 	
Less gain on embedded derivative	 	8,748	 	 	 	 	 	
Loss for purposes of calculating dilutive before change in accounting principle	 	(1,443	)	16,187	 	$	(0.09	)	
Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle, net of tax	 	—	 	16,187	 	—	 	
Loss for purposes of calculating dilutive after change in accounting principle	 	$	(1,443	)	16,187	 	$	(0.09	)	
 
 	 	Nine Months Ended September 30, 2004	 	
 	 	Income	 	Shares	 	Per-
Share	 	
 	 	(Numerator)	 	(Denominator)	 	 	 	
Loss before cumulative effect of change in accounting principle	 	$	(4,869	)	 	 	 	 	
Less redemption of Series C preferred stock and stock dividends and accretion of preferred stock	 	11,728	 	 	 	 	 	
Basic and diluted loss attributable to common shareholders before change in accounting principle	 	(16,597	)	14,038	 	$	(1.18	)	
Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle, net of tax	 	—	 	14,038	 	—	 	
Basic and diluted loss attributable to common shareholders	 	$	(16,597	)	14,038	 	$	(1.18	)	
 
 	 	Nine Months Ended September 30, 2003	 	
 	 	Income	 	Shares	 	Per-
Share	 	
 	 	(Numerator)	 	(Denominator)	 	 	 	
Loss before cumulative effect of change in accounting principle	 	$	(6,518	)	 	 	 	 	
Less preferred stock dividends and accretion	 	2,446	 	 	 	 	 	
Basic loss attributable to common shareholders before change in accounting principle	 	(8,964	)	13,443	 	$	(0.67	)	
Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle, net of tax	 	66	 	13,443	 	—	 	
Basic loss attributable to common shareholders	 	$	(9,030	)	13,443	 	$	(0.67	)	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Loss before cumulative effect of change in accounting principle	 	$	(6,518	)	 	 	 	 	
Less Series B Preferred dividends	 	336	 	 	 	 	 	
Less gain on embedded derivative	 	9,194	 	 	 	 	 	
Loss for purposes of calculating dilutive before change in accounting principle	 	(16,048	)	15,860	 	$	(1.02	)	
Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle, net of tax	 	66	 	15,860	 	—	 	
Loss for purposes of calculating dilutive after change in accounting principle	 	$	(16,114	)	15,860	 	$	(1.02	)	
 
Because the effects would be anti-dilutive for the periods presented, the above computations of diluted income (loss) per share excludes the following: (i) for the three- and nine month periods ended September 30, 2004 the effects of 0.8 and 1.7 million options outstanding, respectively, (ii) for both the three- and nine- month periods ended September 30, 2004 the effects of the conversion of the Series B Preferred Stock into 0.3 million shares of common stock, and (iii) for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2004 the effect of 2.8 million warrants outstanding.
 
Because the effects would be anti-dilutive for the periods presented, the above computations of diluted income (loss) per share excludes the following: (i) for the three- and nine month periods ended September 30, 2003 the effects of 1.8 million options outstanding, (ii) for the nine- month periods ended September 30, 2004 the effects of the conversion of the Series B Preferred Stock into 0.3 million shares of common stock, and (iii) for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2003 the effect of 2.4 million warrants outstanding.

 
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(13) Restructuring
 
For the year ended December 31, 2002, the Company recorded a restructuring charge of $0.8 million related to the acquisition of the assets of the CSD. The restructuring charge consisted of $0.3 million for severance for individuals that were employees of the Company prior to the acquisition, and $0.5 million of costs associated with the decision to close parts of facilities and sales offices that were operated by the Company prior to the acquisition and that became duplicative due to facilities and sales offices acquired as part of the CSD assets. The Company is in the process of completing the restructuring. The following table summarizes the activity from December 31, 2003 through September 30, 2004 (in thousands):
 
 	 	Locations	 	 	 	
 	 	Number of
Locations	 	Costs	 	Total	 	
Balance at December 31, 2003	 	2	 	$	234	 	$	234	 	
Utilized during the nine months ended September 30, 2004	 	(1	)	(39	)	(39	)	
Balance at September 30, 2004	 	1	 	$	195	 	$	195	 	
 
(14) Segment Reporting
 
Segment information has been prepared in accordance with SFAS No. 131, “Disclosures about Segments of an Enterprise and Related Information.” Performance of the segments is evaluated on several factors, of which the primary financial measure is operating income before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and restructuring and other acquisition costs (“EBITDA Contribution”). Transactions between the segments are accounted for at the Company’s estimate of fair value based on similar transactions with outside customers. In general, SFAS No. 131 requires that business entities report selected information about operating segments in a manner consistent with that used for internal management reporting.
 
The Company has two reportable segments: Technical Services and Site Services.
 
Technical Services include:
 
•                  treatment and disposal of industrial wastes, which includes physical treatment, resource recovery and fuels blending, incineration, landfills, wastewater treatment, lab chemical disposal and explosives management;
 
•                  collection, transportation and logistics management;
 
•                  categorization, specialized repackaging, treatment and disposal of laboratory chemicals and household hazardous wastes, which are referred to as CleanPack ®  services; and
 
•                  Apollo Onsite Services, which provides customized environmental programs at customer sites.
 
These services are provided through a network of service centers where a fleet of trucks, rail or other transport is dispatched to pick up customers’ waste either on a pre-determined schedule or on demand, and then to deliver waste to a permitted facility. From the service centers, chemists can also be dispatched to a customer location for the collection of chemical waste for disposal.
 
Site Services provide highly skilled experts utilizing specialty equipment and resources to perform services, such as industrial maintenance, surface remediation, groundwater restoration, site and facility decontamination, emergency response, site remediation, PCB disposal, oil disposal, analytical testing services, information management services and personnel training. The Company offers outsourcing services for customer environmental management programs as well, and provides analytical testing services, information management and personnel training services.
 
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The Company markets these services through its sales organizations and, in many instances services in one area of the business support or lead to work in other service lines. Expenses associated with the sales organizations are allocated based on external revenues by segment.
 
The following table presents information used by management by reported segment. Revenues from Technical and Site Services consist principally of external revenue from customers. Transactions between the segments are accounted for at the Company’s estimate of fair value based on similar transactions with outside customers. Corporate Items consist of revenues for miscellaneous services that are not part of a reportable segment. The Company does not consider interest expense, income taxes, depreciation, amortization, accretion of environmental liabilities, restructuring or other acquisition costs when reviewing results of operating segments. Certain reclassifications have been made in the prior period to conform to the presentation for the three and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2004 (in thousands):
 
 	 	For the Three Months Ended
September 30,	 	For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,	 	
 	 	2004	 	2003	 	2004	 	2003	 	
Revenue:	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Technical Services	 	$	111,890	 	$	106,289	 	$	327,863	 	$	318,838	 	
Site Services	 	50,543	 	44,629	 	138,626	 	145,631	 	
Corporate Items	 	217	 	167	 	549	 	956	 	
Total	 	162,650	 	151,085	 	467,038	 	465,425	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Cost of Revenues:	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Technical Services	 	74,882	 	71,691	 	221,350	 	222,597	 	
Site Services	 	40,953	 	34,343	 	113,016	 	113,355	 	
Corporate Items	 	1,000	 	2,653	 	5,771	 	11,146	 	
Total	 	116,835	 	108,687	 	340,137	 	347,098	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Selling, General & Administrative Expenses:	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Technical Services	 	11,919	 	12,312	 	34,986	 	37,438	 	
Site Services	 	4,364	 	4,179	 	12,953	 	12,989	 	
Corporate Items	 	9,884	 	9,291	 	28,084	 	32,721	 	
Total	 	26,167	 	25,782	 	76,023	 	83,208	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
EBITDA:	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Technical Services	 	25,089	 	22,286	 	71,527	 	58,743	 	
Site Services	 	5,226	 	6,107	 	12,657	 	19,287	 	
Corporate Items	 	(10,667	) 	(11,777	)	(33,306	)	(42,911	)	
Total	 	19,648	 	16,616	 	50,878	 	35,119	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Reconciliation to Consolidated Statement of Operations:	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Accretion of environmental liabilities	 	2,546	 	2,745	 	7,753	 	8,261	 	
Depreciation and amortization	 	5,803	 	6,788	 	17,464	 	19,875	 	
Non-recurring severance	 	—	 	627	 	16	 	1,001	 	
Other non-recurring refinancing-related expenses	 	60	 	—	 	1,186	 	—	 	
Restructuring	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	(124	)	
Income from operations	 	11,239	 	6,456	 	24,459	 	6,106	 	
Gain (loss) on sale of fixed assets	 	(85	)	7	 	401	 	(285	)	
Change in value of embedded derivative	 	—	 	8,748	 	(1,590	)	9,194	 	
Loss on refinancing	 	—	 	—	 	(7,099	)	—	 	
Interest (expense), net	 	(5,576	)	(6,048	)	(16,377	)	(17,537	)	
Income (loss) before provision for income taxes and cumulative effect of change in accounting principle	 	$	5,578	 	$	9,163	 	$	(206	)	$	(2,522	)	
 
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(15) Guarantor and Non-Guarantor Subsidiaries
 
As further described in Note 6, the Senior Secured Notes were issued by the parent company, Clean Harbors, Inc., and guaranteed by all of the parent’s material subsidiaries organized in the United States. The Notes are not guaranteed by the Company’s Canadian and Mexican subsidiaries. The following presents condensed consolidating financial statements for the parent company, the guarantor subsidiaries and the non-guarantor subsidiaries, respectively.
 
In addition, as part of the refinancing of the Company’s debt, one of the parent’s Canadian subsidiaries made a $91.7 million (U.S.) investment in the preferred stock of one of the parent’s domestic subsidiaries and issued, in partial payment for such investment, a promissory note for $89.4 million (U.S.) payable to one of the parent’s domestic subsidiaries. The dividend rate on such preferred stock is 11.125% per annum and the interest rate on such promissory note is 11.0% per annum. The effect of this transaction is to increase stockholders’ equity of a U.S. guarantor subsidiary, to increase interest income of a U.S. guarantor subsidiary, to increase debt of a foreign non-guarantor subsidiary, and to increase interest expense of a foreign non-guarantor subsidiary.
 
Following is the condensed consolidating balance sheet at September 30, 2004 (in thousands):
 
 	 	Clean
Harbors, Inc.	 	U.S.
Guarantor
Subsidiaries	 	Domestic
Non-
Guarantor
Subsidiary	 	Foreign
Non-
Guarantor
Subsidiaries	 	Consolidating
Adjustments	 	Total	 	
Assets:	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Cash and cash equivalents	 	$	10,025	 	$	8,252	 	$	—	 	$	6,479	 	$	—	 	$	24,756	 	
Restricted cash	 	381	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	381	 	
Accounts receivable, net	 	6	 	99,707	 	—	 	18,104	 	—	 	117,817	 	
Unbilled accounts receivable	 	—	 	5,838	 	—	 	3,671	 	—	 	9,509	 	
Intercompany receivables	 	17,704	 	—	 	7	 	4,958	 	(22,669	)	—	 	
Deferred costs	 	—	 	4,670	 	—	 	836	 	—	 	5,506	 	
Prepaid expenses	 	3,419	 	6,669	 	—	 	643	 	—	 	10,731	 	
Supplies inventories	 	—	 	8,890	 	—	 	559	 	—	 	9,449	 	
Properties held for sale	 	—	 	12,334	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	12,334	 	
Property, plant and equipment, net	 	—	 	155,757	 	—	 	19,221	 	—	 	174,978	 	
Deferred financing costs	 	9,300	 	—	 	—	 	16	 	—	 	9,316	 	
Goodwill, net	 	—	 	19,032	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	19,032	 	
Permits and other intangibles, net	 	—	 	55,973	 	—	 	20,726	 	—	 	76,699	 	
Investments in subsidiaries	 	119,268	 	38,476	 	—	 	91,654	 	(249,398	)	—	 	
Deferred tax asset	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	6,920	 	—	 	6,920	 	
Intercompany note receivable	 	—	 	89,418	 	—	 	3,701	 	(93,119	)	—	 	
Other assets	 	—	 	6,098	 	—	 	2,067	 	—	 	8,165	 	
Total assets	 	$	160,103	 	$	511,114	 	$	7	 	$	179,555	 	$	(365,186	)	$	485,593	 	
Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity:	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Uncashed checks	 	$	—	 	$	4,444	 	$	—	 	$	1,453	 	$	—	 	$	5,897	 	
Accounts payable	 	—	 	50,032	 	—	 	11,653	 	—	 	61,685	 	
Accrued disposal costs	 	—	 	1,746	 	—	 	1,186	 	—	 	2,932	 	
Deferred revenue	 	—	 	19,460	 	—	 	4,308	 	—	 	23,768	 	
Other accrued expenses	 	4,732	 	29,511	 	—	 	2,549	 	—	 	36,792	 	
Income taxes payable	 	252	 	575	 	—	 	5,479	 	—	 	6,306	 	
Intercompany payable	 	—	 	22,669	 	—	 	—	 	(22,669	)	—	 	
Environmental liabilities	 	—	 	167,795	 	—	 	14,402	 	—	 	182,197	 	
Long-term obligations	 	148,083	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	148,083	 	
Capital lease obligations	 	—	 	4,494	 	—	 	708	 	—	 	5,202	 	
Other long-term liabilities	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	8,747	 	—	 	8,747	 	
Intercompany note payable	 	3,701	 	—	 	—	 	89,418	 	(93,119	)	—	 	
Accrued pension cost	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	649	 	—	 	649	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Total liabilities	 	156,768	 	300,726	 	—	 	140,552	 	(115,788	)	482,258	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Stockholders’ equity:	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Series B convertible preferred stock	 	1	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	1	 	
Common stock	 	142	 	—	 	—	 	2,236	 	(2,236	)	142	 	
Additional paid-in capital	 	62,027	 	209,588	 	—	 	4,049	 	(213,637	)	62,027	 	
Accumulated other comprehensive income	 	6,955	 	1,739	 	—	 	6,955	 	(8,694	)	6,955	 	
Retained earnings (deficit)	 	(65,790	)	(939	)	7	 	25,763	 	(24,831	)	(65,790	)	
Total stockholders’ equity	 	3,335	 	210,388	 	7	 	39,003	 	(249,398	)	3,335	 	
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity	 	$	160,103	 	$	511,114	 	$	7	 	$	179,555	 	$	(365,186	)	$	485,593	 	
 
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Following is the condensed consolidating balance sheet at December 31, 2003 (in thousands):
 
 	 	Clean
Harbors, Inc.	 	U.S.
Guarantor
Subsidiaries	 	Domestic
Non-
Guarantor
Subsidiary	 	Foreign
Non-
Guarantor
Subsidiaries	 	Consolidating
Adjustments	 	Total	 	
Assets:	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Cash and cash equivalents	 	$	—	 	$	5,313	 	$	14	 	$	1,004	 	$	—	 	$	6,331	 	
Accounts receivable, net	 	—	 	97,255	 	—	 	17,174	 	—	 	114,429	 	
Unbilled accounts receivable	 	—	 	7,030	 	—	 	2,446	 	—	 	9,476	 	
Intercompany receivables	 	2,056	 	—	 	305	 	213	 	(2,574	)	—	 	
Deferred costs	 	—	 	4,587	 	—	 	808	 	—	 	5,395	 	
Prepaid expenses	 	1,597	 	6,699	 	—	 	286	 	—	 	8,582	 	
Supplies inventories	 	—	 	8,522	 	—	 	496	 	—	 	9,018	 	
Properties held for sale	 	—	 	12,690	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	12,690	 	
Property, plant and equipment, net	 	—	 	150,755	 	—	 	15,787	 	—	 	166,542	 	
Restricted cash and cash equivalents	 	88,817	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	88,817	 	
Deferred financing costs	 	6,277	 	—	 	—	 	20	 	—	 	6,297	 	
Goodwill, net	 	—	 	19,032	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	19,032	 	
Permits and other intangibles, net	 	—	 	58,840	 	—	 	20,971	 	—	 	79,811	 	
Investments in subsidiaries	 	118,384	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	(118,384	)	—	 	
Intercompany note receivable	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	24,209	 	(24,209	)	—	 	
Deferred tax asset	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	6,772	 	—	 	6,772	 	
Other assets	 	—	 	5,045	 	—	 	1,922	 	—	 	6,967	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Total assets	 	$	217,131	 	$	375,768	 	$	319	 	$	92,108	 	$	(145,167	)	$	540,159	 	
Liabilities, Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock and Stockholders’ Equity:	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Uncashed checks	 	$	—	 	$	5,139	 	$	—	 	$	844	 	$	—	 	$	5,983	 	
Revolving credit facility	 	33,493	 	—	 	—	 	1,798	 	—	 	35,291	 	
Accounts payable	 	—	 	50,813	 	—	 	9,798	 	—	 	60,611	 	
Accrued disposal costs	 	—	 	1,492	 	—	 	529	 	—	 	2,021	 	
Deferred revenue	 	—	 	18,644	 	—	 	4,155	 	—	 	22,799	 	
Other accrued expenses	 	1,710	 	27,633	 	17	 	2,880	 	—	 	32,240	 	
Income taxes payable	 	203	 	221	 	—	 	2,199	 	—	 	2,623	 	
Intercompany payables	 	—	 	2,574	 	—	 	—	 	(2,574	)	—	 	
Environmental liabilities	 	—	 	169,191	 	—	 	13,940	 	—	 	183,131	 	
Long-term obligations	 	147,209	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	147,209	 	
Capital lease obligations	 	—	 	4,167	 	—	 	452	 	—	 	4,619	 	
Other long-term liabilities	 	9,572	 	—	 	—	 	8,483	 	—	 	18,055	 	
Intercompany note payable	 	—	 	24,209	 	—	 	—	 	(24,209	)	—	 	
Accrued pension cost	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	633	 	—	 	633	 	
Total liabilities	 	192,187	 	304,083	 	17	 	45,711	 	(26,783	)	515,215	 	
Redeemable Series C Convertible Preferred Stock	 	15,631	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	15,631	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Stockholders’ equity:	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Series B convertible preferred stock	 	1	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	1	 	
Common stock	 	139	 	—	 	300	 	—	 	(300	)	139	 	
Additional paid-in capital	 	63,642	 	90,413	 	—	 	24,987	 	(115,400	)	63,642	 	
Accumulated other comprehensive income	 	6,452	 	—	 	—	 	6,452	 	(6,452	)	6,452	 	
Retained earnings (deficit)	 	(60,921	)	(18,728	)	2	 	14,958	 	3,768	 	(60,921	)	
Total stockholders’ equity	 	9,313	 	71,685	 	302	 	46,397	 	(118,384	)	9,313	 	
Total liabilities, redeemable convertible preferred stock and stockholders’ equity	 	$	217,131	 	$	375,768	 	$	319	 	$	92,108	 	$	(145,167	)	$	540,159	 	
 
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Following is the consolidating statement of operations for the three months ended September 30, 2004 (in thousands):
 
 	 	Clean
Harbors, Inc.	 	U.S. Guarantor
Subsidiaries	 	Domestic
Non-Guarantor
Subsidiary	 	Foreign
Non-Guarantor
Subsidiaries	 	Consolidating
Adjustments	 	Total	 	
Revenues	 	$	—	 	$	133,040	 	$	—	 	$	34,119	 	$	(4,509	)	$	162,650	 	
Cost of revenues	 	—	 	99,062	 	—	 	22,282	 	(4,509	)	116,835	 	
Selling, general and administrative expenses	 	—	 	20,746	 	—	 	5,481	 	—	 	26,227	 	
Accretion of environmental liabilities	 	—	 	2,378	 	—	 	168	 	—	 	2,546	 	
Depreciation and amortization	 	—	 	5,042	 	—	 	761	 	—	 	5,803	 	
Income from operations	 	—	 	5,812	 	—	 	5,427	 	—	 	11,239	 	
Other (expense)	 	—	 	(85	)	—	 	—	 	—	 	(85	)	
Equity in earnings of subsidiaries	 	10,713	 	4,370	 	—	 	—	 	(15,083	)	—	 	
Intercompany dividend income	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	2,610	 	(2,610	)	—	 	
Interest income (expense), net	 	(6,018	)	3,054	 	—	 	(2,612	)	—	 	(5,576	)	
Income before provision for income taxes	 	4,695	 	13,151	 	—	 	5,425	 	(17,693	)	5,578	 	
Provision for income taxes	 	254	 	73	 	—	 	810	 	—	 	1,137	 	
Net income	 	$	4,441	 	$	13,078	 	$	—	 	$	4,615	 	$	(17,693	)	$	4,441	 	
 
Following is the consolidating statement of operations for the three months ended September 30, 2003 (in thousands):
 
 	 	Clean
Harbors, Inc.	 	U.S. Guarantor
Subsidiaries	 	Domestic
Non-Guarantor
Subsidiary	 	Foreign
Non-Guarantor
Subsidiaries	 	Consolidating
Adjustments	 	Total	 	
Revenues	 	$	—	 	$	125,641	 	$	12	 	$	29,228	 	$	(3,796	)	$	151,085	 	
Cost of revenues	 	—	 	94,351	 	2	 	18,120	 	(3,786	)	108,687	 	
Selling, general and administrative expenses	 	7	 	21,068	 	11	 	5,333	 	(10	)	26,409	 	
Accretion of environmental liabilities	 	—	 	2,577	 	—	 	168	 	—	 	2,745	 	
Depreciation and amortization	 	—	 	5,838	 	—	 	950	 	—	 	6,788	 	
Income (loss) from operations	 	(7	)	1,807	 	(1	)	4,657	 	—	 	6,456	 	
Other income	 	—	 	8,755	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	8,755	 	
Equity in earnings of subsidiaries	 	13,196	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	(13,196	)	—	 	
Interest (expense), net	 	(5,770	)	(159	)	—	 	(119	)	—	 	(6,048	)	
Income (loss) before provision for income taxes	 	7,419	 	10,403	 	(1	)	4,538	 	(13,196	)	9,163	 	
Provision for income taxes	 	2	 	87	 	—	 	1,657	 	—	 	1,746	 	
Net income (loss)	 	$	7,417	 	$	10,316	 	$	(1	)	$	2,881	 	$	(13,196	)	$	7,417	 	
 
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Following is the consolidating statement of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2004 (in thousands):
 
 	 	Clean
Harbors, Inc.	 	U.S. Guarantor
Subsidiaries	 	Domestic
Non-Guarantor
Subsidiary	 	Foreign
Non-Guarantor
Subsidiaries	 	Consolidating
Adjustments	 	Total	 	
Revenues	 	$	—	 	$	384,582	 	$	61	 	$	94,340	 	$	(11,945	)	$	467,038	 	
Cost of revenues	 	—	 	290,503	 	12	 	61,517	 	(11,895	)	340,137	 	
Selling, general and administrative expenses	 	—	 	62,289	 	43	 	14,943	 	(50	)	77,225	 	
Accretion of environmental liabilities	 	—	 	7,248	 	—	 	505	 	—	 	7,753	 	
Depreciation and amortization	 	—	 	15,382	 	—	 	2,082	 	—	 	17,464	 	
Income from operations	 	—	 	9,160	 	6	 	15,293	 	—	 	24,459	 	
Other income (expense)	 	(1,590	)	401	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	(1,189	)	
Equity in earnings of subsidiaries	 	21,619	 	4,370	 	—	 	—	 	(25,989	)	—	 	
Loss on refinancing	 	(7,099	)	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	(7,099	)	
Intercompany dividend income	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	2,610	 	(2,610	)	—	 	
Interest income (expense), net	 	(17,664	)	4,078	 	—	 	(2,791	)	—	 	(16,377	)	
Income (loss) before provision for income taxes	 	(4,734	)	18,009	 	6	 	15,112	 	(28,599	)	(206	)	
Provision for income taxes	 	135	 	220	 	1	 	4,307	 	—	 	4,663	 	
Net income (loss)	 	$	(4,869	)	$	17,789	 	$	5	 	$	10,805	 	$	(28,599	)	$	(4,869	)	
 
Following is the consolidating statement of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2003 (in thousands):
 
 	 	Clean
Harbors, Inc.	 	U.S. Guarantor
Subsidiaries	 	Domestic
Non-Guarantor
Subsidiary	 	Foreign
Non-Guarantor
Subsidiaries	 	Consolidating
Adjustments	 	Total	 	
Revenues	 	$	—	 	$	390,867	 	$	37	 	$	85,136	 	$	(10,615	)	$	465,425	 	
Cost of revenues	 	—	 	302,926	 	6	 	54,750	 	(10,584	)	347,098	 	
Selling, general and administrative expenses	 	14	 	67,440	 	37	 	16,749	 	(31	)	84,209	 	
Accretion of environmental liabilities	 	—	 	7,883	 	—	 	378	 	—	 	8,261	 	
Depreciation and amortization	 	—	 	16,894	 	—	 	2,981	 	—	 	19,875	 	
Restructuring	 	—	 	(124	)	—	 	—	 	—	 	(124	)	
Income (loss) from operations	 	(14	)	(4,152	)	(6	)	10,278	 	—	 	6,106	 	
Other income	 	446	 	8,463	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	8,909	 	
Equity in earnings of subsidiaries	 	9,980	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	(9,980	)	—	 	
Interest (expense), net	 	(16,992	)	(390	)	—	 	(155	)	—	 	(17,537	)	
Income (loss) before provision for income taxes and cumulative effect of change in accounting principle	 	(6,580	)	3,921	 	(6	)	10,123	 	(9,980	)	(2,522	)	
Provision for (benefit from) income taxes	 	4	 	272	 	(2	)	3,722	 	—	 	3,996	 	
Net income (loss) before cumulative effect of change in accounting principle, net of tax	 	(6,584	)	3,649	 	(4	)	6,401	 	(9,980	)	(6,518	)	
Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle, net of tax	 	—	 	169	 	—	 	(103	)	—	 	66	 	
Net income (loss)	 	$	(6,584	)	$	3,480	 	$	(4	)	$	6,504	 	$	(9,980	)	$	(6,584	)	
 
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Following is the condensed consolidating statement of cash flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2004 (in thousands):
 
 	 	Clean
Harbors, Inc.	 	U.S. Guarantor
Subsidiaries	 	Domestic
Non-Guarantor
Subsidiary	 	Foreign
Non-Guarantor
Subsidiaries	 	Consolidating
Adjustments	 	Total	 	
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities	 	$	(26,931	)	$	15,476	 	$	(14	)	$	10,436	 	$	25,989	 	$	24,956	 	
Cash flows from investing activities:	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Additions to property, plant and equipment	 	—	 	(15,858	)	—	 	(3,878	)	—	 	(19,736	)	
Proceeds from sale of restricted investments	 	92,826	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	 	 	92,826	 	
Cost of restricted investments purchased	 	(4,390	)	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	(4,390	)	
Investment in subsidiaries	 	21,619	 	4,370	 	—	 	—	 	(25,989	)	—	 	
Proceeds from sale of fixed assets	 	—	 	608	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	608	 	
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities	 	110,055	 	(10,880	)	—	 	(3,878	)	(25,989	)	69,308	 	
Cash flows from financing activities:	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Repayments on Senior Loans	 	(107,209	)	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	(107,209	)	
Repayments of Subordinated Loans	 	(40,000	)	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	(40,000	)	
Net repayments under revolving credit facility	 	(33,492	)	—	 	 	 	(1,676	) 	 	 	(35,168)	 	
Change in uncashed checks	 	—	 	(695	)	 	 	577	 	 	 	(118	)	
Deferred financing costs incurred	 	(10,284	)	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	(10,284	)	
Proceeds from exercise of stock options	 	333	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	333	 	
Dividend payments on Series C Preferred stock	 	(1,963	)	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	(1,963	)	
Dividend payments on preferred stock	 	(112	)	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	(112	)	
Proceeds from employee stock purchase plan	 	366	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	366	 	
Payments on capital leases	 	—	 	(962	)	 	 	(134)	 	 	 	(1,096	)	
Issuance of Senior Secured Notes	 	148,045	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	148,045	 	
Redemption of Series C Convertible Preferred Stock	 	(25,000	)	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	(25,000	)	
Cash paid in lieu of warrants	 	(363	)	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	(363	)	
Debt extinguishment payments	 	(3,420	)	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	(3,420	)	
Net cash used in financing activities	 	(73,099	)	(1,657	)	—	 	(1,233	)	—	 	(75,989	)	
Increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents	 	10,025	 	2,939	 	(14	)	5,325	 	—	 	18,275	 	
Effect of exchange rate change on cash	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	150	 	—	 	150	 	
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period	 	—	 	5,313	 	14	 	1,004	 	—	 	6,331	 	
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period	 	$	10,025	 	$	8,252	 	$	—	 	$	6,479	 	$	—	 	$	24,756	 	
 
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Following is the condensed consolidating statement of cash flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2003 (in thousands):
 
 	 	Clean
Harbors, Inc.	 	U.S. Guarantor
Subsidiaries	 	Domestic
Non-Guarantor
Subsidiary	 	Foreign
Non-Guarantor
Subsidiaries	 	Consolidating
Adjustments	 	Total	 	
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities	 	$	6,627	 	$	22,893	 	$	(5	)	$	(9,570	)	$	9,980	 	$	29,925	 	
Cash flows from investing activities:	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
CSD acquisition refunds	 	7,973	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	7,973	 	
Additions to property, plant and equipment	 	—	 	(24,104	)	—	 	(1,654	)	—	 	(25,758	)	
Proceeds from sale of restricted investments	 	5,798	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	5,798	 	
Cost of restricted investments purchased	 	(34,153	)	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	(34,153	)	
Investment in subsidiaries	 	9,980	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	(9,980	)	—	 	
Proceeds from sale of fixed assets	 	—	 	1,610	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	1,610	 	
Net cash used in investing activities	 	(10,402	)	(22,494	)	—	 	(1,654	)	(9,980	)	(44,530	)	
Cash flows from financing activities:	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Repayments on Senior Loans	 	(7,498	)	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	(7,498	)	
Net borrowings under revolving credit facility	 	12,950	 	—	 	—	 	4,806	 	 	 	17,756	 	
Change in uncashed checks	 	—	 	(2,127	)	—	 	300	 	—	 	(1,827	)	
Deferred financing costs incurred	 	(1,548	)	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	(1,548	)	
Proceeds from exercise of stock options	 	444	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	444	 	
Dividend payments on preferred stock	 	(974	)	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	(974	)	
Proceeds from employee stock purchase plan	 	401	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	401	 	
Payments on capital leases	 	—	 	(481	)	—	 	(8	)	—	 	(489	)	
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities	 	3,775	 	(2,608	)	—	 	5,098	 	—	 	6,265	 	
Decrease in cash and cash equivalents	 	—	 	(2,209	)	(5	)	(6,126	)	—	 	(8,340	)	
Effect of exchange rate change on cash	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	710	 	—	 	710	 	
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period	 	—	 	7,231	 	22	 	6,429	 	—	 	13,682	 	
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period	 	$	—	 	$	5,022	 	$	17	 	$	1,013	 	$	—	 	$	6,052	 	
 
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Item 2.  Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
 
Forward-Looking Statements
 
In addition to historical information, this Quarterly Report contains forward-looking statements, which are generally identifiable by use of the words “believes,” “expects,” “intends,” “anticipates,” “plans to,” “estimates,” “projects,” or similar expressions.  These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in these forward-looking statements.  Factors that might cause such a difference include, but are not limited to, the following:
 
•              The effects of general economic conditions in the United States, Canada and other territories and countries where the Company does business;
 
•              The effect of economic forces and competition in specific marketplaces where the Company competes;
 
•              The possible impact of new regulations or laws pertaining to all activities of the Company's operations;
 
•              The outcome of litigation or threatened litigation or regulatory actions;
 
•              The effect of commodity pricing on overall revenues and profitability;
 
•              Possible fluctuations in quarterly or annual results or adverse impacts on the Company's results caused by the adoption of new accounting standards or interpretations or regulatory rules and regulations;
 
•              The effect of weather conditions or other aspects of the forces of nature on field or facility operations;
 
•              The effects of industry trends in the environmental services and waste handling marketplace;
 
•              The Company's ability to successfully complete the integration of the CSD acquisition, which became effective in September 2002 and to manage the significant environmental liabilities which it assumed in connection with that acquisition; and
 
•              The availability and costs of liability insurance and financial assurance required by governmental entities relating to the Company's facilities.

 
Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which reflect management’s opinions only as of the date hereof.  The Company undertakes no obligation to revise or publicly release the results of any revision to these forward-looking statements.  Readers should carefully review the risk factors described in the Company’s Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 15, 2004 and in other documents the Company files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
 
Overview
 
The Company provides a wide range of environmental services and solutions to a diversified customer base in the United States, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Canada.  The Company seeks to be recognized by customers as the premier supplier of a broad range of value-added environmental services based upon quality, responsiveness, customer service, information technologies, breadth of product offerings and cost effectiveness.
 
Effective September 7, 2002, the Company purchased from Safety-Kleen Services, Inc. (the “Seller”) and certain of the Seller’s domestic subsidiaries substantially all of the assets of the Chemical Services Division (the “CSD”) of Safety-Kleen Corp. (“Safety-Kleen”).  That acquisition broadened the Company’s disposal capabilities, geographic reach and significantly expanded the Company’s network of hazardous waste disposal facilities.  Following the acquisition, the Company became one of the largest providers of environmental services and the largest operator of hazardous waste treatment and disposal facilities in North America.  The Company believes that the acquisition of hazardous waste facilities in new geographic areas will allow the Company to expand its service area and will continue to result in significant cost savings by allowing the Company to treat and dispose of hazardous waste internally that the Company previously paid third parties for and to eliminate redundant selling, general and administrative expenses and inefficient transportation costs.
 
The Company believes that significant synergies can be achieved by further integrating the former CSD operations into its business.  Since the effective date of the acquisition, the Company has reduced and plans to continue to reduce expenses by use of common information management systems to minimize disposal costs outside the integrated network of facilities by sending waste to the disposal facilities that it now owns.  The Company also has eliminated and plans to continue to eliminate duplicate costs relating to overlapping operations on a geographic basis.  Although much of the integration of operations and reduction of the combined entities’ overlapping costs has been completed, this process is still ongoing.
 
In addition, as part of the acquisition, the Company assumed certain environmental liabilities valued at $184.5 million.  The Company now anticipates such liabilities will be payable over many years and that cash flows generated from operations will be sufficient to fund the payment of such liabilities when required.  However, events not now anticipated (such as future changes in environmental laws and regulations) could require that such payments be made earlier or in greater amounts than now anticipated.
 
As further discussed in Item 4, “Controls and Procedures,” Safety-Kleen had publicly disclosed prior to the Company's acquisition of the CSD assets in 2002 that the CSD had material deficiencies in many of its financial systems, processes and related internal controls.  Due to the deficiencies in these systems and the Company’s belief that it will be able to utilize its own systems in order to improve the operations of the former CSD, the decision was made to integrate the U.S. operations of the former CSD into the Company’s business and financial reporting systems effective as of the acquisition date.  Due to the acquisition of the CSD, the Company continues to experience deficiencies in certain of its internal controls.  The Company has made significant progress in resolving the internal control weaknesses caused by the integration of the CSD into its systems, and the Company has on-going efforts to strengthen its internal controls.
 
Acquisition
 
As more fully described in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company purchased from Safety-Kleen Services, Inc. (the “Seller”) and certain of the Seller’s domestic subsidiaries substantially all of the assets of the Chemical Services Division (the “CSD”) of Safety-Kleen Corp. (“Safety-Kleen”), effective September 7, 2002.  The sale included the operating assets of certain of the Seller’s subsidiaries in the United States and the stock of five of the Seller’s subsidiaries in Canada.
 
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In accordance with the Acquisition Agreement between the Seller and the Company dated February 22, 2002, as amended through September 6, 2002, the Company purchased the assets of the CSD for $26.6 million in net cash, and incurred direct costs related to the transaction of $9.7 million for a total purchase price of $36.3 million.  In addition, the Company assumed with the transaction certain environmental liabilities valued at $184.5 million.
 
In connection with the acquisition of the CSD assets, the Company recorded integration liabilities of $12.6 million (after giving effect to subsequent net changes in estimates) which consisted primarily of lease costs, severance, environmental closure and other exit costs to close duplicative facilities and functions.  Groups of employees severed and to be severed consist primarily of duplicative selling, general and administrative personnel and personnel at offices which were closed.  The following table summarizes the purchase accounting liabilities recorded in connection with the acquisition of the CSD assets (dollars in thousands):
 
 	 	Severance	 	Facilities	 	 	 	
 	 	Number of
Employees	 	Liability	 	Number of
Facilities	 	Liability	 	Total	 	
Balance at December 31, 2003	 	52	 	$	676	 	9	 	$	2,931	 	$	3,607	 	
Net change in estimate	 	(8	)	—	 	—	 	(377	)	(377	)	
Utilized in the quarter ended March 31, 2004	 	(3	)	(184	)	—	 	(499	)	(683	)	
Utilized in the quarter ended June 30, 2004	 	(15	)	(154	)	—	 	(111	)	(265	)	
Utilized in the quarter ended September 30, 2004	 	(5	)	(79	)	—	 	(129	)	(208	)	
Interest accretion	 	—	 	—	 	—	 	185	 	185	 	
Balance at September 30, 2004	 	21	 	$	259	 	9	 	$	2,000	 	$	2,259	 	
 
Environmental Liabilities
 
The changes to environmental liabilities for the nine months ended September 30, 2004 are as follows (in thousands):
 
 	 	December 31,
2003	 	New Asset
Retirement
Obligations	 	Accretion	 	Changes in
Estimate
Charged
(Benefit) to
Income
Statement	 	Other Changes
in Estimates	 	Currency
Translations,
Reclassifications
and Other	 	Payments	 	September 30,
2004	 	
Landfill retirement liability	 	$	17,703	 	$	760	 	$	1,831	 	$	(607	)	$	(326	)	$	15	 	$	(35	)	$	19,341	 	
Non-landfill retirement liability	 	7,992	 	—	 	683	 	(444	)	—	 	2	 	(880	)	7,353	 	
Remediation for landfill sites	 	5,525	 	—	 	172	 	(231	)	—	 	38	 	(421	)	5,083	 	
Remediation, closure and post-closure for closed sites	 	97,535	 	—	 	3,266	 	(505	)	—	 	176	 	(5,426	)	95,046	 	
Remediation (including Superfund) for non-landfill open sites	 	54,376	 	—	 	1,801	 	391	 	—	 	154	 	(1,348	)	55,374	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Total	 	$	183,131	 	$	760	 	$	7,753	 	$	(1,396	)	$	(326	)	$	385	 	$	(8,110	)	$	182,197	 	

The following table presents the remaining highly probable airspace from December 31, 2003 through September 30, 2004 (in thousands):
 
 	 	Highly Probable Airspace	 	
 	 	(Cubic Yards)	 	
Remaining capacity at December 31, 2003	 	29,031	 	
Consumed during nine months ended September 30, 2004	 	(615	)	
Addition to highly probable airspace	 	45	 	
 	 	 	 	
Remaining capacity at September 30, 2004	 	28,461	 	
 
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Commencing January 1, 2004, asset retirement obligations incurred are being discounted at the credit-adjusted risk-free rate of 12.5% and inflated at a rate of 1.2%.
 
Results of Operations
 
The Company’s operations are managed as two segments:  Technical Services and Site Services.  Technical Services include treatment and disposal of industrial wastes via incineration, landfill or wastewater treatment, collection and transporting of containerized and bulk waste, categorization, specialized repackaging, treatment and disposal of laboratory chemicals and household hazardous wastes, which are referred to as CleanPack ®  services, and the Apollo Onsite Service, which customizes environmental programs at customer sites.  This is accomplished through a network of service centers where a fleet of trucks, rail or other transport is dispatched to pick up customers’ waste either on a pre-determined schedule or on demand, and then to deliver waste to a permitted facility.  From the service centers, chemists can also be dispatched to a customer location for the collection of chemical waste for disposal.  Site Services provide highly skilled experts utilizing specialty equipment and resources to perform services, such as site decontamination, remediation projects, selective demolition, emergency response, spill cleanup and vacuum services at the customer’s site or another location.  These services are dispatched on a scheduled or emergency basis.  The Company also offers outsourcing services for customer environmental management programs, and provides analytical testing services, information management and personnel training services.
 
The following table sets forth for the periods indicated certain operating data associated with the Company’s results of operations.  This table and subsequent discussions should be read in conjunction with Item 6, “Selected Financial Data,” and Item 8, “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” of the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003 and Item 1, “Financial Statements” in this report.
 
 	 	Percentage of Total Revenues	 	
 	 	For the Three Months
Ended September 30,	 	For the Nine Months
Ended September 30,	 	
 	 	2004	 	2003	 	2004	 	2003	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Revenues	 	100.0	%	100.0	%	100.0	%	100.0	%	
Cost of revenues:	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Disposal costs to third parties	 	3.8	 	4.6	 	3.8	 	4.8	 	
Other cost of revenues	 	68.0	 	67.3	 	69.0	 	69.8	 	
Total cost of revenues	 	71.8	 	71.9	 	72.8	 	74.6	 	
Selling, general and administrative expenses	 	16.1	 	17.5	 	16.6	 	18.1	 	
Accretion of environmental liabilities	 	1.6	 	1.8	 	1.7	 	1.8	 	
Depreciation and amortization	 	3.6	 	4.5	 	3.7	 	4.2	 	
Restructuring	 	0.0	 	0.0	 	0.0	 	0.0	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Income from operations	 	6.9	 	4.3	 	5.2	 	1.3	 	
Other income (expense)	 	(0.1	)	5.8	 	(0.3	)	1.9	 	
Loss on refinancing	 	0.0	 	0.0	 	(1.5	)	0.0	 	
Interest (expense), net	 	(3.4	)	(4.0	)	(3.4	)	(3.7	)	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Income (loss) before provision for income taxes and cumulative effect of change in accounting principle	 	3.4	 	6.1	 	0.0	 	(0.5	)	
Provision for income taxes	 	0.7	 	1.2	 	1.0	 	0.9	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Net income (loss) before cumulative effect of change in accounting principle	 	2.7	 	4.9	 	(1.0	)	(1.4	)	
Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle, net of tax	 	0.0	 	0.0	 	0.0	 	0.0	 	
Net income (loss)	 	2.7	%	4.9	%	(1.0	)%	(1.4	)%	
 
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Earnings before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization (“EBITDA”)
 
The Company defines EBITDA as net income or loss, excluding interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, accretion of environmental liabilities, restructuring charges, effects of discontinued operations, other non-recurring costs, and certain extraordinary or non-recurring gains or losses.  The Company’s management considers EBITDA to be a measurement of performance which provides useful information to both management and investors.
 
EBITDA should not be considered an alternative to net income or loss or other measurements under accounting principles generally accepted in the United States as an indicator of operating performance or to cash flows from operating, investing, or financing activities as a measure of liquidity.  EBITDA does not reflect working capital changes, cash expenditures for interest, taxes, capital improvements or principal payments on indebtedness.  Furthermore, the Company’s measurement of EBITDA might be inconsistent with similar measures presented by other companies.
 
Because of certain non-recurring adjustments to net income (loss) which occurred during the six months ended March 31, 2004, the Credit Agreement defines EBITDA for the fiscal quarters ended December 31, 2003 and March 31, 2004, as being in the agreed amounts of $16.0 million and $12.1 million, respectively.  EBITDA under the Credit Agreement for the six-month period ended September 30, 2004 is calculated as follows (in thousands):
 
 	 	Six Months
Ended
September 30,
2004	 	
 	 	 	 	
Net loss	 	$	(7,686	)	
Gain on sale of fixed assets	 	(157	)	
Change in value of embedded derivative	 	6,877	 	
Loss on refinancing	 	7,099	 	
Accretion of environmental liabilities	 	5,165	 	
Interest expense, net	 	11,019	 	
Provision for income taxes	 	3,451	 	
Depreciation and amortization	 	12,059	 	
Other non-recurring refinancing-related expenses	 	1,186	 	
 	 	 	 	
EBITDA	 	$	39,013	 	
 
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The following reconciles EBITDA to cash provided by operations for the six-month period ended September 30, 2004 (in thousands):
 
 	 	Six Months Ended
September 30, 2004	 	
 	 	 	 	
EBITDA	 	$	39,013	 	
Adjustments to reconcile EBITDA from net cash provided by operations:	 	 	 	
Interest expense, net	 	(11,019	)	
Provision for income taxes	 	(3,451	)	
Allowance for doubtful accounts	 	453	 	
Amortization of deferred financing costs	 	1,168	 	
Foreign currency gain on intercompany transactions	 	(297	)	
Other non-recurring refinancing related expenses	 	(1,186	)	
Changes in assets and liabilities:	 	 	 	
Accounts receivable	 	(7,913	)	
Unbilled accounts receivable	 	(3,261	)	
Prepaid expenses	 	658	 	
Other assets	 	(1,407	)	
Accounts payable	 	5,488	 	
Environmental liabilities	 	(6,084	)	
Other accrued expenses	 	4,581	 	
Income tax payable	 	1,717	 	
Other, net	 	407	 	
Net cash provided by operating activities	 	$	18,867	 	
 
Segment data
 
Performance of the Company’s segments is evaluated on several factors of which the primary financial measure is EBITDA.  The following table sets forth certain operating data associated with the Company’s results of operations and summarizes EBITDA contribution by operating segment for the three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2004 and 2003.  The Company considers EBITDA contribution from each operating segment to include revenue attributable to each segment less operating expenses, which include cost of revenues and selling, general and administrative expenses.  Revenue attributable to each segment is generally external or direct revenue from third party customers.  Certain income or expenses of a non-recurring or unusual nature are not included in the operating segment EBITDA contribution.  This table and subsequent discussions should be read in conjunction with Item 6, “Selected Financial Data,” and Item 8, “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” and in particular Note 20, “Segment Reporting” of the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003 and Item 1, “Financial Statements” and in particular Note 14, “Segment Reporting” in this report.
 
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 	 	Summary of Operations	 	
 	 	For the Three Months
Ended September 30,  	 	For the Nine Months
Ended September 30,	 	
 	 	2004	 	2003	 	2004	 	2003	 	
Revenue:	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Technical Services	 	$	111,890	 	$	106,289	 	$	327,863	 	$	318,838	 	
Site Services	 	50,543	 	44,629	 	138,626	 	145,631	 	
Corporate Items	 	217	 	167	 	549	 	956	 	
Total	 	162,650	 	151,085	 	467,038	 	465,425	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Cost of Revenues:	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Technical Services	 	74,882	 	71,691	 	221,350	 	222,597	 	
Site Services	 	40,953	 	34,343	 	113,016	 	113,355	 	
Corporate Items	 	1,000	 	2,653	 	5,771	 	11,146	 	
Total	 	116,835	 	108,687	 	340,137	 	347,098	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Selling, General & Administrative Expenses:	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Technical Services	 	11,919	 	12,312	 	34,986	 	37,498	 	
Site Services	 	4,364	 	4,179	 	12,953	 	12,989	 	
Corporate Items	 	9,884	 	9,291	 	28,084	 	32,721	 	
Total	 	26,167	 	25,782	 	76,023	 	83,208	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
EBITDA:	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Technical Services	 	25,089	 	22,286	 	71,527	 	58,743	 	
Site Services	 	5,226	 	6,107	 	12,657	 	19,287	 	
Corporate Items	 	(10,667	)	(11,777	)	(33,306	)	(42,911	)	
Total	 	$	19,648	 	$	16,616	 	$	50,878	 	$	35,119	 	
 
Three months ended September 30, 2004 versus the three months ended September 30, 2003
 
Revenues
 
Total revenues for the three months ended September 30, 2004 increased $11.6 million to $162.7 million from $151.1 million for the comparative period in 2003.  Technical Services revenues for the three months ended September 30, 2004 increased $5.6 million to $111.9 million from $106.3 million for the comparative period in 2003.  Site Services revenues for the three months ended September 30, 2004 increased $5.9 million to $50.5 million from $44.6 million for the comparative period in 2003.  Increases in Technical Services revenues resulted from a stronger economy and improved disposal volumes in the Company’s landfill and incineration assets.  Site Services revenue improvements resulted largely from several large industrial services projects as well as continued improvements in start up markets in the West and in Canada.  Improvements were partially offset by weakness in the Mid-Atlantic area.  There were no major events in the third quarter of 2004 or 2003.
 
There are many factors which have impacted, and continue to impact, the Company’s revenues.  These factors include:  economic conditions; integration of operations of the former CSD; competitive industry pricing; continued efforts by generators of hazardous waste to reduce the amount of hazardous waste they produce; significant consolidation among treatment and disposal companies; industry-wide overcapacity; and direct shipment by generators of waste to the ultimate treatment or disposal location.
 
Cost of Revenues
 
Total cost of revenues for the three months ended September 30, 2004 increased $8.1 million to $116.8 million compared to $108.7 million for the comparable period in 2003.  Technical Services cost of revenue increased $3.2 million to $74.9 million from $71.7 million for the comparable period in 2003.  Site Services cost of revenue increased $6.6 million to $41.0 million from
 
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$34.4 million for the comparable period in 2003.  The increase in cost of revenues for Technical Services was largely a result of higher volumes, increases in energy costs, and greater usage of outside transportation vendors on certain facility projects.  The increase in cost of revenues for Site Services was attributed to higher volumes and included $1.3 million of expenses to third party transporters relating to several lower margin industrial service projects.  The third quarter of 2003 included final negotiation of holdback provisions related to a major emergency response.  Reduced costs of revenue related to this expense resolution were approximately $0.3 million.  As a percentage of revenues, combined cost of revenues in the third quarter of 2004 decreased 0.1% to 71.8% from 71.9% for comparable period in 2003.
 
The Company believes that its ability to manage operating costs is an important factor in its ability to remain price competitive.  The Company continues to upgrade the quality and efficiency of its waste treatment services through the development of new technology, continued modifications and upgrades at its facilities, and implementation of strategic sourcing initiatives.  The Company plans to continue to focus on achieving cost savings relating to purchased goods and services through the strategic sourcing initiative.  No assurance can be given that the Company’s efforts to manage future operating expenses will be successful.
 
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses
 
Total selling, general and administrative expenses for the three months ended September 30, 2004 increased $0.4 million to $26.2 million from $25.8 million for the comparable period in 2003.  Technical Services selling, general and administrative expenses for the three months ended September 30, 2004 decreased $0.4 million to $11.9 million from $12.3 million for the comparable period in 2003 due to reduced headcount expenses.  Site Services expenses increased by $0.2 million due to increased headcount costs related to opening of new offices.  Corporate selling, general and administrative expenses increased by $0.6 million for three months ended September 30, 2004 compared to the same period of the prior year. The increase was due to bonuses relating to improved operating performance and higher professional fees associated with Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404.  These increases in expenses were partially offset by savings from reduced headcount.
 
Accretion of Environmental Liabilities
 
Accretion of environmental liabilities for the three-month periods ended September 30, 2004 and 2003 was similar at $2.5 million and $2.7 million, respectively.
 
Depreciation and Amortization
 
Depreciation and amortization expense of $5.8 million for the three months ended September 30, 2004 decreased from $6.8 million for the comparable period in 2003 due to changes in estimates in landfill lives and changes in estimates in useful lives of certain assets.
 
Other Income (Expense)
 
For the quarter ended September 30, 2004, the Company recorded a loss on the sale of fixed assets to other expense of $0.1 million.
 
As more fully described in Note 9 to the financial statements in this report, the Company issued Series C Preferred Stock for $25.0 million in September 2002.  The Series C Preferred Stock was recorded on the Company’s financial statements as though it consisted of two components, namely (i) non-convertible redeemable preferred stock with a 6.0% annual dividend, and (ii) an embedded derivative (the “Embedded Derivative”) which reflected the right of the holders of the Series C Preferred Stock to convert the Series C Preferred Stock into the Company’s common stock.  On June 30, 2004, the Company redeemed the Series C Preferred Stock and settled the Embedded Derivative liability.  Just prior to the settlement, the Company valued the Embedded Derivative using the Black-Scholes option pricing model.  The Black-Scholes model determines the value of an option primarily by considering the strike price of the option, the market value of the stock and the volatility of the stock price.  The strike price of the Embedded Derivative was $8.00.  The settlement of the Embedded Derivative liability on June 30, 2004 will result in no additional other income (expense) being recorded in future periods related to the Embedded Derivative.  For the quarter ended September 30, 2003, the Company recorded other income related to the Embedded Derivative of $8.7 million.
 
Interest (Expense), Net
 
Interest expense, net of interest income, for the three months ended September 30, 2004 decreased $0.5 million to $5.5 million from $6.0 million for the comparable period in 2003. The decrease in interest expense was due primarily to $0.6 million of capitalized interest relating to a capital project to comply with air emission standards at the Company’s Deer Park incineration
 
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facility, which was partially offset by reduced interest income associated with the Company’s restricted cash balances for the three months ended September 30, 2004 as compared to the same period in 2003.
 
Income Taxes
 
Income tax expense for the three months ended September 30, 2004 decreased $0 .6 million to $ 1.1 million from $1.7 million for the comparable period in 2003. Income tax expense for the three months ended September 30, 2004 consists primarily of Canadian taxes of $1.0 million including withholding taxes of $0.2 million and Federal and state income tax expense of $0.1 million.  Income tax expense for the three month period ended September 30, 2003 consists primarily of Canadian taxes of $1.6 million and Federal and state income tax expense of $0.1 million.
 
EBITDA Contribution
 
The EBITDA contribution for the three months ended September 30, 2004 increased $3.0 million to $19.6 million from $16.6 million for the comparable period in 2003.  The increase from Technical Services was $2.8 million.  For Site Services, EBITDA contribution decreased by $0.9 million.  Corporate Items resulted in an increase of $1.1 million.  The combined EBITDA contribution was comprised of revenues of $162.7 million and $151.1 million, net of cost of revenues of $116.8 million and $108.7 million and selling, general and administrative expenses of $26.2 million and $25.8 million for the three months ended September 30, 2004 and 2003, respectively.
 
Nine months ended September 30, 2004 versus the nine months ended September 30, 2003
 
Revenues
 
Total revenues for the nine months ended September 30, 2004 increased $1.6 million to $467.0 million from $465.4 million for the comparative period in 2003.  Technical Services revenues for the nine months ended September 30, 2004 increased $9.0 million to $327.9 million from $318.9 million for the comparative period in 2003.  The increases in Technical Services revenue resulted from an improving economy, volume increases realized in the Company’s landfill and incineration assets. Site Services revenues for the nine months ended September 30, 2004 decreased $7.0 million to $138.6 million from $145.6 million for the comparative period in 2003.  Site Services performed one large emergency response job during the nine months ended September 30, 2003, which accounted for 12.2% of its revenues for that period.  There was no comparable job in the nine months ended September 30, 2004.  Excluding this one large job, revenue increased $10.8 million, or 8.5%, for the nine months ended September 30, 2004 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2003 as a result of growth initiatives in Gulf and Western United States, increased volumes of large industrial services projects, improvements in our oil and PCB recycling divisions and an improving economy.  These improvements are partially offset by weakness in the Mid-Atlantic markets.  Changes in foreign exchange rates positively impacted consolidated sales by approximately $4.1 million.
 
Cost of Revenues
 
Total cost of revenues for the nine months ended September 30, 2004 decreased $7.0 million to $340.1 million compared to $347.1 million for the comparable period in 2003.  Technical Services cost of revenue decreased $1.2 million to $221.3 million from $222.6 million for the comparable period in 2003.  Site Services cost of revenue decreased $0.3 million to $113.0 million from $113.3 million for the comparable period in 2003.  Corporate cost of revenues decreased $5.4 million to $5.8 million from $11.2 million for the comparable period in 2003.  The decrease in cost of revenues for Technical Services was due to lower labor costs in our processing facilities, partially offset by higher fuel costs.  The decrease in cost of revenues for Site Services was attributable to the lack of costs related to a major emergency response in comparison to the same period in 2003.  The decrease in cost of revenues for Corporate departments was due to reduced costs at our discontinued waste handling facilities.  Corporate cost of revenues for 2003 included a one-time charge of $1.7 million related to health care.  As a percentage of revenues, combined cost of revenues in 2004 decreased 1.8% to 72.8% from 74.6% for the comparable period in 2003.  This improvement resulted primarily because of improvements in outside disposal costs due to the Company’s internalization of waste initiatives, and lower headcount expenses.
 
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses
 
Selling, general and administrative expenses for the nine months ended September 30, 2004 decreased $7.2 million to $76.0 million from $83.2 million for the comparable period in 2003.  Technical Services selling, general and administrative expenses for the nine months ended September 30, 2004 decreased $2.5 million to $35.0 million from $37.5 million for the comparable period in 2003 primarily due to reduced headcount. Site Services selling, general and administrative expenses were flat at $13.0 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2004 compared to the same period of the prior year.  Partially offsetting the decreases in headcount for Site Services were increased costs related to the opening of additional locations.  Corporate Items selling, general and administrative expenses for the nine months ended September 30, 2004 decreased $4.6 million to $28.1
 
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million from $32.7 million for the comparable period in 2003.  The decrease was due to reduced currency exchange expense, decreases in headcount, decreased professional fees, and improved controls over expenses.  These expense reductions were offset by higher bonus accruals and expenses associated with the refinancing of the Company’s capital structure in June 2004 as well as expenses related to Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 compliance.
 
Accretion of Environmental Liabilities
 
Accretion of environmental liabilities for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2004 and 2003 was similar at $7.8 million and $8.3 million, respectively.
 
Depreciation and Amortization
 
Depreciation and amortization expense of $17.5 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2004 decreased from $19.9 million for the comparable period in 2003 due to changes in estimates in landfill lives and changes in estimates in useful lives of certain assets.
 
Other Income (Expense)
 
As more fully described in Note 9 to the financial statements in this report, the Company issued Series C Preferred Stock for $25.0 million in September 2002.  The Series C Preferred Stock was recorded on the Company’s financial statements as though it consisted of two components, namely (i) non-convertible redeemable preferred stock with a 6.0% annual dividend, and (ii) an embedded derivative (the “Embedded Derivative”) which reflected the right of the holders of the Series C Preferred Stock to convert the Series C Preferred Stock into the Company’s common stock.  On June 30, 2004, the Company redeemed the Series C Preferred Stock and settled the Embedded Derivative liability. Just prior to the settlement, the Company valued the Embedded Derivative using the Black-Scholes option pricing model.  The Black-Scholes model determines the value of an option primarily by considering the strike price of the option, the market value of the stock and the volatility of the stock price.  The strike price of the Embedded Derivative was $8.00.  The settlement of the Embedded Derivative liability on June 30, 2004 will result in no additional other income (expense) being recorded in future periods related to the Embedded Derivative.  For the nine month period ended September 30, 2004, the Company recorded other expense related to the Embedded Derivative of $1.6 million primarily because of the market price increase of the Company’s common stock that occurred during that period.  For the nine month period ended September 30, 2003, the Company recorded a gain on the Embedded Derivative of $9.2 million.  Partially offsetting the expense on the Embedded Derivative during the nine months ended September 30, 2004 and 2003 was respectively a net gain and net loss on the disposal of fixed assets of $0.4 million and $(0.3) million.
 
Loss on Refinancing
 
As further discussed in Notes 4, 6, and 9 to the financial statements included in this report, the Company previously had outstanding a $100.0 million three-year revolving credit facility (the “Revolving Credit Facility”), $115.0 million of three-year non-amortizing term loans (the “Senior Loans”), $40.0 million of five-year non-amortizing subordinated loans (the “Subordinated Loans”), Series C Convertible Preferred Stock, $0.01 par value (the “Series C Preferred Stock”) and the related embedded derivative (the “Embedded Derivative”) which reflected the right of the holders of the Series C Preferred Stock to convert into the Company’s common stock on the terms set forth in the Series C Preferred Stock.  On June 30, 2004, the Company repaid the Revolving Credit Facility, the Senior Loans and the Subordinated Loans, redeemed the Series C Convertible Preferred Stock and settled the related Embedded Derivative liability.  The Company recorded refinancing expenses, net of $7.1 million during the three-month period ended June 30, 2004.  Such expenses consisted of write-off of deferred financing costs of $5.3 million, prepayment penalties of $3.1 million and other expenses of $0.3 million.  These expenses were partially offset by the gain on the settlement of the Embedded Derivative of $1.6 million.
 
Interest (Expense), Net
 
Interest expense, net of interest income, for the nine months ended September 30, 2004 decreased $1.2 million to $16.3 million from $17.5 million for the comparable period in 2003. The decrease in interest expense was due to $1.9 million of capitalized interest relating to a capital project to comply with air emission standards at the Company’s Deer Park incineration facility which was partially offset by reduced interest income on the company’s restricted cash balances and a slight increase in interest expense on capital leases, for the nine months ended September 30, 2004 as compared to the same period in 2003.
 
Income Taxes
 
Income tax expense for the nine months ended September 30, 2004 increased $0.7 million to $4.7 million from $4.0 million for the comparable period in 2003. Income tax expense for the nine months ended September 30, 2004 consists primarily of Canadian taxes of $4.5 million including
 
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withholding taxes of $0.2 million and Federal and state income tax expense of $0.2.  Income tax expense for the nine month period ended September 30, 2003 consists primarily of Canadian taxes of $3.8 million and Federal and state income tax expense of $0.2 million.
 
EBITDA Contribution
 
The EBITDA contribution for the nine months ended September 30, 2004 increased $15.8 million to $50.9 million from $35.1 million for the comparable period in 2003.  The increase from Technical Services was $12.8 million.  For Site Services, EBITDA decreased $6.6 million with an increase in Corporate Items of $9.6.  The combined EBITDA contribution was comprised of revenues of $467.0 million and $465.4 million, net of cost of revenues of $340.1 million and $347.1 million and selling, general and administrative expenses of $76.0 million and $83.2 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2004 and 2003, respectively.
 
Liquidity and Capital Resources
 
Cash and Cash Equivalents
 
The Company’s believes that its primary source of liquidity is from cash flows from operations, existing cash, funds available to borrow under the Revolving Facility and anticipated proceeds from assets held for sale.  As of September 30, 2004, cash and cash equivalents was approximately $24.8 million, funds available to borrow under the Revolving Facility were $28.8 million and properties held for sale was $12.3 million.  As further discussed below under “Financing Arrangements”, on June 30, 2004, the Company refinanced its outstanding debt and redeemed its then outstanding Series C Preferred Stock.  The refinancing resulted in the Company having both more cash on hand and funds available to borrow under its Revolving Facility.
 
The Company intends to use its existing cash and cash flow from operations to fund future operating expenses and recurring capital expenditures.  The Company anticipates that cash flow provided by operating activities will provide the necessary funds on a short and long-term basis to meet operating cash requirements.  In addition, the Company projects that it will continue to meet its debt covenant requirements for the foreseeable future.  As part of the CSD acquisition, the Company assumed environmental liabilities of the CSD valued at $184.5 million.  The Company performed extensive due diligence investigations with respect to both the amount and timing of such liabilities.  The Company anticipates such liabilities will be payable over many years and that cash flow from operations will generally be sufficient to fund the payment of such liabilities when required.  However, events not now anticipated (such as future changes in environmental laws and regulations) could require that such payments be made earlier or in greater amounts than now anticipated, which could adversely affect the Company’s cash flow and financial condition.
 
Cash Flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2004
 
For the nine months ended September 30, 2004, the Company generated approximately $25.0 million of cash from operating activities.  Non-cash expenses recorded for the nine months ended September 30, 2004 totaled $35.7 million.  These non-cash expenses consisted primarily of $17.5 million for depreciation and amortization, $7.8 million for the accretion of environmental liabilities, refinancing expenses of $7.1 million, $1.9 million for amortization of deferred financing costs and a loss on the embedded derivative of $1.6 million. Other sources of cash totaled $10.4 million which primarily consisted of an increase in other accrued expenses of $4.7 million, an increase in the income taxes payable of $3.5 million, an increase in deferred revenue of $0.9 million due to higher levels of waste inventory on hand at September 30, 2004 as compared to December 31, 2003, and an increase in accrued disposal costs of $0.9 million due to higher levels internally generated waste to be disposed of at September 30, 2004 as compared to December 31, 2003. These sources of cash were partially offset by other uses of cash that totaled $16.3 million consisting primarily of a decrease in environmental liabilities of $9.1 million relating primarily to expenditures for environmental liabilities, an increase in accounts receivable of $3.4 due to a higher level of revenues in the quarter ended September 2004 compared with the quarter ended December 2003, an increase in prepaid expenses of $2.1 million and an increase of $1.2 million in other assets.
 
For the nine months ended September 30, 2004, the Company generated $69.3 million of cash from investing activities.  This consisted of proceeds from the sale of restricted investments of $92.8 million that resulted primarily from the Company no longer being required to post cash collateral for financial assurance for closure and post closure care of its facilities and proceeds from the sale of fixed assets of $0.6 million. Partially offsetting these sources of cash were uses of cash to acquire property, plant and equipment and permits of $19.7 million and to post cash collateral of $4.4 million.
 
For the nine months ended September 30, 2004, the Company used $76.0 million of cash in its financing activities.  Cash from financing activities consisted primarily of the issuance of Senior Secured Notes (net of unamortized issue discount) of $148.0 million.  This was offset by repayments of Senior Loans and Subordinated Loans of $107.2 million and $40.0 million, respectively, repayment of the former Revolving Credit Facility of $35.2 million, and redemption of the Series C Preferred Stock
 
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of $25.0 million.  Additional offsets consisted primarily of deferred financing costs incurred of $10.3 million, debt extinguishment payments of $3.4 million, dividend payments of $2.1 million, and payments on capital leases of $1.1 million.
 
The Company used the cash generated from investing activities of $69.3 million together with the $25.0 million of cash generated from operations and $0.2 million generated from the favorable foreign exchange impact on cash to fund the financing activities of $76.0 million previously discussed, and increase the amount of cash on hand by $18.5 million.
 
Cash Flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2003
 
For the nine months ended September 30, 2003, the Company generated approximately $29.9 million of cash from operating activities.  Non-cash expenses recorded for the nine months ended September 30, 2003 totaled $23.7 million.  These adjustments consisted primarily of non-cash expenses of $19.9 million for depreciation and amortization, $8.3 million for the accretion of environmental liabilities, $1.4 million of allowance for doubtful accounts and $1.8 million for amortization of deferred financing costs.  Other sources of cash for the nine months ended September 30, 2003 totaled $28.6 million which primarily consisted of a decrease in accounts receivable of $20.6 million, a decrease in prepaid expenses of $3.5 million, a decrease in deferred costs of $0.8 million, a decrease in unbilled accounts receivable of $3.1 million, and an increase in other accrued expenses of $0.4 million.  Other uses of cash totaled $15.8 million and consisted primarily of a decrease in deferred revenue of $5.5 million, which was due primarily to improvements realized by the integration of the CSD into the Company’s operations, a decrease in environmental liabilities of $6.0 million, a decrease in accounts payable of $2.3 million, a decrease in income taxes payable of $0.5 million and a decrease in other assets of $1.4 million.
 
For the nine months ended September 30, 2003, the Company used $44.5 million of cash in investing activities.  This consisted of additions to property, plant and equipment and permits of $25.8 million and restricted investments purchased of $34.2 million to support the letters of credit issued relating to financial assurance for closure and post-closure obligations.  These uses were partially offset by a Global Settlement Payment received from Safety-Kleen Corp. for the purchase price of the Chemical Services Division of $8.0 million, proceeds from the sale of restricted investments of $5.8 million and proceeds from the sale of fixed assets of $1.6 million.
 
For the nine months ended September 30, 2003, the Company raised $6.3 million of cash from financing activities.  Cash from financing activities consisted primarily of net borrowings of $17.8 million on the Revolving Credit Facility, proceeds from the exercise of stock options of $0.4 million and proceeds from the employee stock purchase plan of $0.4 million.  Partially offsetting this were repayments of $7.5 million on Senior Loans and dividend payments of $1.0 million, a decrease in uncashed checks of $1.8 million, deferred financing costs incurred of $1.5 million, and payments on capital leases of $0.5 million..
 
The Company used the cash generated from financing activities of $6.3 million together with the $29.9 million of cash generated from operations primarily to fund the investing activities of $44.5 million previously discussed, and decrease the amount of cash on hand by $8.3 million.
 
Financing Arrangements
 
As described in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003, the Company previously had outstanding a $100.0 million three-year revolving credit facility (the “Revolving Credit Facility”), $115.0 million of three-year non-amortizing term loans (the “Senior Loans”) and $40.0 million of five-year non-amortizing subordinated loans (the “Subordinated Loans”).  In addition to such financings, the Company had established a letter of credit facility (the “L/C Facility”) under which the Company could obtain up to $100.0 million of letters of credit by providing cash collateral equal to 103% of the amount of such outstanding letters of credit.  On June 30, 2004, the Company’s debt under the Revolving Credit Facility, the Senior Loans and the Subordinated Loans was replaced by $150.0 million of eight-year Senior Secured Notes (the “Senior Secured Notes”) and a $30.0 million revolving credit facility (the “Revolving Facility”) as described below.  Additionally, the L/C Facility was replaced with a synthetic letter of credit facility (the “Synthetic LC Facility”) whereby the Company may obtain up to $90.0 million of letters of credit as described below.
 
The principal terms of the Senior Secured Notes, the Revolving Facility, and the Synthetic LC Facility are as follows:
 
Senior Secured Notes.  The Senior Secured Notes were issued under an Indenture dated June 30, 2004 (the “Indenture”).  The Senior Secured Notes bear interest at 11.25% and mature on July 15, 2012.  The Senior Secured Notes were issued at a $2.0 million discount that results in an effective yield of 11.5%.  Interest is payable semiannually in cash on each January 15 and July 15, commencing on January 15, 2005.
 
The Senior Secured Notes are secured by a second-priority lien on all of the domestic assets of the Company and its domestic subsidiaries that secure the Company’s reimbursement obligations under the Synthetic LC Facility on a first-priority
 
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basis (as described below); provided that such assets do not include any capital stock, notes, instruments, other equity interests of any of the Company’s subsidiaries, accounts receivable, and certain other excluded collateral as provided in the Indenture.  The Senior Secured Notes are jointly and severally guaranteed on a senior secured second-lien basis by substantially all of the Company’s existing and future domestic subsidiaries.  The Senior Secured Notes are not guaranteed by the Company’s foreign subsidiaries.
 
The Indenture provides for certain covenants, the most restrictive of which requires the Company, within 120 days after the close of each twelve-month period ending on June 30 of each year (beginning June 30, 2005) to apply an amount equal to 50% of the period’s Excess Cash Flow (as defined below) to either prepay, repay, redeem or purchase its first-lien obligations under the Revolving Facility and Synthetic LC Facility or the offer to the repurchase of all or part of the then outstanding Senior Secured Notes.  “Excess Cash Flow” is defined in the Indenture as consolidated EBITDA less interest expense, all taxes paid or accrued in the period, capital expenditures made in cash during the period, and all cash spent on environmental monitoring, remediation or relating to environmental liabilities of the Company.
 
The $6.0 million cost associated with the issuance of the Senior Secured Notes was recorded as a component of deferred financing costs and is being amortized to interest expense over the life of the Senior Secured Notes.
 
Revolving Facility.  Both the Revolving Facility and the Synthetic LC Facility were established under a Loan and Security Agreement dated June 30, 2004 (the “Credit Agreement”) among the Company, Fleet Capital Corporation as agent for the Revolving Lenders thereunder, Credit Suisse First Boston as agent for the letter of credit facility lenders ( the “LC Facility Lenders”) thereunder, and certain other parties.  The Revolving Facility allows the Company to borrow up to $30.0 million in cash, based upon a formula of eligible accounts receivable.  This total is separated into two lines of credit, namely a line for the Company and its U.S. subsidiaries equal to $24.7 million and a line for the Company’s Canadian subsidiaries of $5.3 million.  The Revolving Facility also allows the Company to have issued up to $10.0 million of letters of credit, with the outstanding amount of such letters of credit reducing the maximum amount of borrowings permitted under the Revolving Facility.  At September 30, 2004, the Company had $0.0 million of borrowings and $1.2 million of letters of credit outstanding under the Revolving Facility, and the Company had approximately $28.8 million available to borrow.  Amounts outstanding under the Revolving Facility bear interest at an annual rate of either the U.S. or Canadian prime rate or the Eurodollar rate (depending on the currency of the underlying loan) plus 1.50%.  The Credit Agreement requires the Company to pay an unused line fee of 0.125% per annum on the unused portion of the Revolving Facility.  The Revolving Facility matures on June 30, 2009.
 
The Revolving Facility is secured by a first security interest in accounts receivable and a second security interest in substantially all other assets.  The Revolving Facility prohibits the payment of dividends on the Company’s common stock but allows the payment of dividends on the Company’s Series B Preferred Stock.
 
Under the Credit Agreement, the Company is required to maintain a maximum Leverage Ratio (as defined below) of no more than 3.00 to 1.0, 2.80 to 1.0 and 2.55 to 1.0 for the four-quarter periods ending September 30, 2004, December 31, 2004 and March 31, 2005, respectively.  The maximum Leverage Ratio is then reduced to no more than 2.50 to 1.0 for the four-quarter period ending June 30, 2005, and then, in approximately equal increments, to no more than 2.30 to 1.0 for the four-quarter period ending December 31, 2008, and to no more than 2.25 to 1.0 for each succeeding quarter.  The Leverage Ratio is defined as the ratio of the consolidated indebtedness of the Company to its consolidated EBITDA achieved for the latest four-quarter period.  For the four-quarter period ended September 30, 2004, the Leverage Ratio was 2.09 to 1.0 which was within covenant.
 
The Company is also required under the Credit Agreement to maintain a minimum Interest Coverage Ratio (as defined below) of not less than 2.25 to 1.0, 2.40 to 1.0 and 2.65 to 1.0 for the four-quarter periods ending September 30, 2004, December 31, 2004 and March 31, 2005, respectively.  The minimum Interest Coverage Ratio is then increased to not less than 2.70 to 1.0 for the four-quarter period ending June 30, 2005, and then, in approximately equal increments, to not less than 2.85 to 1.0 for the four-quarter period ending December 31, 2006 through December 31, 2008, and not less than 3.00 to 1.0 for each succeeding four-quarter period.  The Interest Coverage Ratio is defined as the ratio of the Company’s consolidated EBITDA to its consolidated interest expense.  For the four-quarter period ended September 30, 2004, the Interest Coverage Ratio was 2.98 to 1.0 which was within covenant.
 
The Company is also required to maintain a fixed charge coverage ratio of not less than 1.0 to 1.0 for each four-quarter period, commencing with the quarter ending December 31, 2004.  The Company must also achieve at least $15.0 million in consolidated EBITDA for the quarter ended September 30, 2004.  For the quarter ended September 30, 2004, EBITDA was $19.6 million which was within covenant.
 
The $0.3 million cost associated with the issuance of the Revolving Facility was recorded as a component of deferred financing costs and is being amortized to interest expense over the life of the Revolving Facility.
 
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Synthetic LC Facility.  The Synthetic LC Facility provides that Credit Suisse First Boston (the “LC Facility Issuing Bank”) will issue up to $90.0 million of letters of credit at the Company’s request.  The LC Facility requires that the LC Facility Lenders maintain a cash account (the “Credit-Linked Account”) to collateralize the Company’s outstanding letters of credit.  Should any such letter of credit be drawn in the future and the Company fail to satisfy its reimbursement obligation, the LC Facility Issuing Bank would be entitled to draw upon the appropriate portion of the $90.0 million in cash which the LC Facility Lenders under the Credit Agreement have deposited into the Credit-Linked Account.  Acting through the LC Facility Agent, the LC Facility Lenders would then have the right to exercise their rights as first-priority lien holders (second-priority as to receivables) on substantially all of the assets of the Company and its domestic subsidiaries.  The Company has no right, title or interest in the Credit-Linked Account established under the Credit Agreement for purposes of the Synthetic LC Facility.  The Company is required to pay (i) a quarterly participation fee at the annual rate of 5.35% on the average daily balance in the Credit-Linked Account and (ii) a quarterly fronting fee at the annual rate of 0.30% of the average daily aggregate amount of letters of credit outstanding under the Synthetic LC Facility.  At September 30, 2004, letters of credit outstanding under the Synthetic LC facility were $89.3 million.  The term of the Synthetic LC Facility will expire on June 30, 2009.
 
The $3.3 million cost associated with the issuance of the Synthetic LC Facility was recorded as a component of deferred financing costs and is being amortized to interest expense over the life of the Synthetic LC Facility.
 
Stockholder Matters
 
Dividends on the Company’s Series B Convertible Preferred Stock are payable on the 15th day of January, April, July and October, at the rate of $1.00 per share, per quarter; 112,000 shares were outstanding on September 30, 2004.  Under the terms of the Series B Preferred Stock, the Company can elect to pay dividends in cash or in common stock with a market value equal to the amount of the dividend payable.  The Company paid in cash the dividends due on January 15, 2003 and April 15, 2003 but, because of restrictions in the Company’s prior debt agreements that were refinanced on June 30, 2004, the Company issued shares of the Company’s common stock in payment of the dividends due from July 15, 2003 through April 15, 2004.  The Company now anticipates that dividends on the Series B Preferred Stock will be paid in cash for the foreseeable future.
 
New Accounting Pronouncements
 
In January 2003, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued FASB Interpretation No. 46 (“FIN 46”), “Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities.”  FIN 46 requires that unconsolidated variable interest entities must be consolidated by their primary beneficiaries.  A primary beneficiary is the party that absorbs a majority of the entity’s expected losses or residual benefits.  FIN 46 applies immediately to variable interest entities created after January 31, 2003.  In December 2003, the FASB issued FIN 46-R.  FIN 46-R deferred to March 15, 2004 the effective date for variable interest entities created before January 31, 2003.  FIN 46 and FIN 46-R will have no impact on the Company’s results of operations since it has no variable interest entities.
 
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Item 3.  Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
 
The Company is subject to market risk on the interest that it pays on its debt due to changes in the general level of interest rates.  The Company’s philosophy in managing interest rate risk is to borrow at fixed rates for longer time horizons to finance non-current assets and, to the extent required, to borrow at variable rates for working capital and other short term needs.  The following table provides information regarding the Company’s fixed rate borrowings at September 30, 2004 (in thousands):
 
Scheduled Maturity Dates	 	Three
Months
Remaining
2004	 	2005	 	2006	 	2007	 	2008	 	Thereafter	 	Total	 	
Senior Secured Notes	 	$	—	 	$	—	 	$	—	 	$	—	 	$	—	 	$	150,000	 	$	150,000	 	
Capital Lease Obligations	 	375	 	1,490	 	1,454	 	1,047	 	741	 	95	 	5,202	 	
 	 	$	375	 	$	1,490	 	$	1,454	 	$	1,047	 	$	741	 	$	150,095	 	$	155,202	 	
Weighted average interest rate on fixed rate borrowings	 	11.4	%	11.4	%	11.4	%	11.5	%	11.5	%	11.5	%	 	 	
 
In addition to the fixed rate borrowings described in the table above, the Company has a $30.0 million Revolving Facility which bears interest at variable interest rates of either the U.S. or Canadian prime rate or the Eurodollar rate plus 1.50%, depending on the currency of the underlying loan.  This total of $30.0 million is separated into two lines of credit, namely a line for the Company and its U.S. subsidiaries equal to $24.7 million and a line for the Company’s Canadian subsidiaries of $5.3 million. $0.0 of loans were outstanding under the Revolving Facility at September 30, 2004.
 
Historically, the Company has not entered into derivative or hedging transactions, nor has the Company entered into transactions to finance debt off of its balance sheet.  The Company views its investment in the Canadian and Mexican subsidiaries as long-term; thus, the Company has not entered into any hedging transactions between the Canadian dollar and the U.S. dollar, or between the Mexican peso and the U.S. dollar.  During the three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2004, total foreign currency losses were $623 thousand and $282 thousand, respectively, primarily between U.S and Canadian dollars.  The Canadian subsidiaries transact approximately 28.7% of their business in U.S. dollars and at any period end have cash on deposit in U.S. dollars and outstanding U.S. dollar accounts receivable related to these transactions.  These cash and receivable accounts are vulnerable to foreign currency translation gains or losses.  During the three- and nine- month periods ended September 30, 2004, the U.S. dollar fell approximately 5.4% and 1.9%, respectively, against the Canadian dollar resulting in foreign currency losses of $622 thousand and $271 thousand, respectively.  During the three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2003, the U.S. dollar fell approximately 0.4% and 17.0%, respectively, against the Canadian dollar resulting in foreign currency losses of $0.1 million and $2.3 million, respectively.  The average exchange rate for the three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2004 was 1.32 and 1.33 Canadian dollars to the U.S. dollar, respectively.  Had the Canadian dollar been 10.0% stronger against the U.S. dollar, the Company would have reported increased net income of approximately $0.5 million for the three-month period ended Septmber 30, 2004 and decreased net loss of approximately $1.0 million for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2004, respectively.  Had the Canadian dollar been 10.0% weaker against the U.S. dollar, the Company would have reported decreased net income of approximately $0.5 million for the three-month period ended Septmber 30, 2004 and increased net loss of approximately $1.0 million for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2004, respectively.  The Company is subject to minimal market risk arising from purchases of commodities since no significant amount of commodities are used in the treatment of hazardous waste.
 
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Item 4.  Controls and Procedures
 
In connection with compliance with its reporting obligations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Company maintains, evaluates and continuously improves its disclosure controls and procedures and internal controls over financial reporting. “Disclosure controls and procedures” are controls and procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms.  “Internal controls over financial reporting” are procedures which are designed with the objective of providing reasonable assurance that (1) transactions are properly authorized; (2) assets are safeguarded against unauthorized or improper use; and (3) transactions are properly recorded and reported, all so as to permit the preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States.  Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“SOX 404”) and the regulations and auditing standards subsequently adopted thereunder by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (the “PCAOB”) have imposed significantly more stringent standards for the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting than were applicable in the past.
 
Since the acquisition of the assets of the Chemical Services Division (the “CSD”) of Safety-Kleen Corp. (“Safety-Kleen”) effective September 7, 2002 (see Note 2 to the financial statements included in this report), the Company has focused upon integrating the operations acquired into the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures and internal controls over financial reporting.  Prior to that acquisition, Safety-Kleen had publicly disclosed that it historically had material weaknesses in many of its financial systems, processes and related internal controls.  Due to the deficiencies in these systems and the Company’s belief that it would be able to utilize its own systems in order to improve the operations of the former CSD, the decision was made to integrate the United States operations of the former CSD into the Company’s business and financial reporting systems effective as of the acquisition date.  As anticipated, the Company experienced certain systems and efficiency issues and the significant increase in transaction volume and the number of new users of the Company’s systems increased the risk of human error or mistake during the integration period.  The Company has made significant progress in integrating the CSD into the Company’s business and financial reporting systems and believes that all major systems for operations are substantially integrated and efficiently operating as of September 30, 2004.
 
In October 2002, the Company established a Disclosure Committee pursuant to the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.  The Committee is chaired by the Company’s General Counsel and consists of the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Controller, Senior Vice President of Risk Management and the Vice President responsible for oversight of the environmental liabilities associated with discontinued facilities and operations.  From time to time, the Committee also confers with two outside consultants, one an expert in investor relations and the other, an attorney specializing in SEC matters.
 
In connection with the audit for the year ended December 31, 2003, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PwC”) advised the Audit Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors, and the Chief Financial Officer and the Corporate Controller advised the Disclosure Committee, that during the course of the audit of the Company’s financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2003, PwC noted a material weakness existed in the reconciliation and calculation of deferred revenue.  That material weakness arose in connection with the Company’s acquisition of incineration facilities as part of the CSD assets due to the lack of proper integration of legacy incineration management systems into the Company’s billing and waste management system. PwC also noted that reportable conditions existed for environmental and landfill accounting, valuation of unbilled receivables, fixed asset accounting and income tax accounting.
 
The Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Controller have advised the Audit Committee and the Disclosure Committee that the Company has performed substantial additional procedures designed to correct the material weakness and the reportable conditions referenced above and to ensure that these internal control deficiencies have not and do not lead to any material misstatement in its consolidated financial statements or significant delay in the completion of audits of its consolidated financial statements. In particular, with respect to that material weakness, the Company instituted new procedures and developed new computer reports to insure that all waste on site is valued and properly deferred. With respect to those reportable conditions, the Company has developed written procedures to document the processes and controls; the Company has hired additional accounting personnel; and the Company has increased its management oversight over those areas. While these corrective actions have generally been completed, further efforts to enhance the Company’s systems and internal controls over financial reporting are ongoing.
 
In light of this information, the Company’s Disclosure Committee carried out an evaluation, with the participation of the Company’s management, including the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of its disclosure controls and procedures pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act Rule 13a-15. Based upon that evaluation, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that while the Company’s
 
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disclosure controls and procedures are effective for these purposes as of September 30, 2004, the Company should continue its efforts to further improve its disclosure controls and procedures.
 
SOX 404 and the SEC and PCAOB regulations and auditing standards adopted thereunder require that management document and test the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting and assert in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004, whether such internal controls are effective as of December 31, 2004. Management would be precluded from asserting that such internal controls are “effective” as of December 31, 2004 if either there then exists any “material weakness” in such internal controls or such controls have not by then been adequately documented and tested. Since early 2003, the Company’s financial personnel have treated as a major priority the correcting of systems and efficiency issues brought about by the CSD acquisition and the documentation of the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting. To assist in this process, the Company hired in February 2004 a full-time Section 404 Project Director and a consulting firm with expertise in SOX 404 compliance.  The Company is still in the process of documenting and testing its internal controls and remediating deficiencies to the extent required.  Management is striving to complete this process by December 31, 2004 so that management will be able to make a positive assertion as to the effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting as of December 31, 2004. However, due to the limited time remaining and the magnitude of the task, there is a risk that the Company will not be able to complete this process by December 31, 2004 and be able to assert that the internal controls over financial reporting as of December 31, 2004 are “effective” as that term is used in SOX 404 and the SEC and PCAOB regulations and auditing standards adopted thereunder. Also, there is a risk that PwC will not be able to complete their testing of the Company's internal controls over financial reporting in order to be able to provide an opinion that the controls are "effective" as of December 31, 2004.
 
Other than the ongoing actions described above, there have been no significant changes in the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting or in other factors that could significantly affect these controls subsequent to the date of their evaluation.
 
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CLEAN HARBORS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
PART II—OTHER INFORMATION
 
Item 1 – Legal Proceedings
 
See Note 7, “Legal Proceedings and Contingencies,” to the financial statements included in this report, which description is incorporated herein by reference.
 
Item 2 – Unregistered Sale of Equity Securities, Use of Proceeds and Issuer/Purchaser of Equity Securities – None.
 
Item 3 – Defaults Upon Senior Debt – None.
 
Item 4 – Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holder – None.
 
Item 5 – Other Information – None.
 
Item 6 – Exhibits and Reports on Form 8-K
 
a. Exhibits
 
Item No.	 	Description	 	Location	
 	 	 	 	 	
31	 	Rule 13a-14a/15d-14(a) Certifications	 	Filed herewith	
 	 	 	 	 	
32	 	Section 1350 Certifications	 	Filed herewith	
 
b. Reports on Form 8-K
 
During the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2004, the Company filed a Report on Form 8-K dated July 28, 2004.  Pursuant to Item 12 of Form 8-K, such Report furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission the Company’s press release dated July 28, 2004, which contains an earnings announcement for the quarter ended June 30, 2004.
 
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CLEAN HARBORS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements 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.

 	 	CLEAN HARBORS, INC.	
 	 	Registrant	

Dated: November 9, 2004	By:	/s/   ALAN S. MCKIM	
 	 	Alan S. McKim	
 	 	President and Chief Executive Officer	
 	 	 	
Dated: November 9, 2004	By:	/s/   MARK S. BURGESS	
 	 	Mark S. Burgess	
 	 	Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer	
 
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EXHIBIT 31.1
 
CERTIFICATION OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
 
I, Alan S. McKim, certify that:
 
I have reviewed this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of Clean Harbors, Inc.;
 
Based on my knowledge, this quarterly report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;
 
Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this quarterly report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;
 
The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-14 and 15d-14) for the registrant and we have:
 
(a)   Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared:
 
(b)   Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures as of a date within 90 days prior ro the filing date of this report (the “Evaluation Date”) and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of Evaluation Date; and
 
(c)   Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and
 
The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
 
(a)   All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
 
(b)   Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.
 
Date: November 9, 2004	/s/ Alan S. McKim	
 	Alan S. McKim	
 	President and Chief Executive Officer	

EXHIBIT 31.2
 
CERTIFICATION OF CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
 
I, Mark S. Burgess, certify that:
 
I have reviewed this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of Clean Harbors, Inc.;
 
Based on my knowledge, this quarterly report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;
 
Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this quarterly report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;
 
The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-14 and 15d-14) for the registrant and we have:
 
(a)   Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared:
 
(b)   Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures as of a date within 90 days prior to the filing date of this report (the “Evaluation Date”) and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the Evaluation Date; and
 
(c)   Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and
 
The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
 
(a)   All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
 
(b)   Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.
 
Date: November 9, 2004	/s/ Mark S. Burgess	
 	Mark S. Burgess
Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer	

EXHIBIT 32
 
CLEAN HARBORS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO
SECTION 1350, CHAPTER 63 OF TITLE 18, UNITED STATES CODE,
AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO
SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
 
Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §1350, each of the undersigned certifies that, to his knowledge, this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2004 fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the information contained in this report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of Clean Harbors, Inc.
 
Date: November 9, 2004	/s/ Alan S. McKim	
 	Alan S. McKim	
 	Chief Executive Officer	
 	 	
Date: November 9, 2004	/s/ Mark S. Burgess	
 	Mark S. Burgess	
 	Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer