BacTech Environmental Corporation announced a further advancement on the Company's Snow Lake, Manitoba arsenic reclamation project. BacTech has engaged the services of Tetra Tech to provide Front End Engineering Design for the bioleach plant that is scheduled to commence construction in Second Quarter of 2013. Tetra Tech has extensive engineering and design knowledge with regards to the bioleach process and will be responsible for the process overview, equipment review and specifications, and other associated process details.

Work will commence immediately and is scheduled to be completed before the end of March 2013. The results of the FEED package will be the basis for the detailed design engineering phase of the Snow Lake plant that will include civil, mechanical, electrical, and process automation.