BFI Waste Systems of North America, a subsidiary of Allied Waste Industries Inc., Scottsdale, Ariz., has been awarded a five-year, $4.8 million contract with the Miami-Dade County Commission to remove, sterilize and dispose of USDA-regulated solid waste from international flights arriving at Miami International Airport.

The IT Group Inc., Pittsburgh, has received a two-year, $13.4 million contract extension from the New York Department of Sanitation to continue with the Fresh Kills leachate mitigation system project. Work includes engineering design, long-term environmental and facility monitoring, and work on the closure and post-closure of the landfill as debris from the World Trade Center disaster continues to arrive.