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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001144204-09-004890
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PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
FILED AS OF DATE:		20090203

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			ARGAN INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000100591
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	CONSTRUCTION SPECIAL TRADE CONTRACTORS [1700]
		IRS NUMBER:				131947195
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0131

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		ONE CHURCH STREET SUITE 401
		CITY:			ROCKVILLE
		STATE:			MD
		ZIP:			20850
		BUSINESS PHONE:		301 315-0027

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		ONE CHURCH STREET SUITE 401
		CITY:			ROCKVILLE
		STATE:			MD
		ZIP:			20850

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	PUROFLOW INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19920703

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	ULTRA DYNAMICS CORP
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19830522
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below are responses to your letter dated January 13, 2009 (the &#8220;Comment Letter&#8221;)
regarding our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2008; definitive
proxy statement on Schedule 14A filed on May 14, 2008; and our Form 10-Q for the
fiscal quarter ended&#160;&#160;October 31, 2008 of Argan, Inc. (the
&#8220;Company&#8221;).&#160;&#160;All responses correspond to the sequential numbering of
the comments and headings used in the Comment Letter issued by the staff (the
&#8220;Staff&#8221;) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
&#8220;Commission&#8221;).</font></div>
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Company affirms that it is responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the
disclosures that have been made in its filings. Furthermore, the Company
acknowledges that the comments made by the Staff, and any resulting
modifications of the Company&#8217;s disclosures, do not foreclose the Commission from
taking any action with respect to the Company&#8217;s filings and that the Company may
not assert Staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the
Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United
States.</font></div>
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              <div align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">In
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      adjust for items in addition to what the acronym
      suggests.&#160;&#160;Additionally, the presentation does not appear to
      comply with Item 10(e) of Regulation S-K since it includes stock option
      compensation expense which appears to be a necessary recurring cost of
      running your business and included the impairment losses of VLI which
      appears to have been reasonably likely to occur in the current fiscal
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filings, we intend to present information in tabular form that reconciles our
net income (loss) to Adjusted Earnings before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and
Amortization (&#8220;Adjusted EBITDA&#8221;) for the applicable periods. The reconciling
items will consist of adjustments for interest expense, income tax
expense/benefit, depreciation expense, amortization expense, and asset
impairment losses. Using amounts for the nine month periods ended October 31,
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                                  <td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;</font></td>
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                                  <td align="left" nowrap valign="bottom" width="1%" style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 2px"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;</font></td>
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                                  <td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 4px"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;</font></td>
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present either EBITDA or Adjusted EBITDA in attempts to &#8220;smooth out&#8221; or to
present &#8220;recurring&#8221; income. Rather, we believe that Adjusted EBITDA is a
meaningful measure of the cash flows provided by our business operations without
the effects of changes in working capital accounts. This presentation enables us
to assess and compare our cash flow performance on a consistent basis by
removing from our operating results the impacts of our capital structure and
asset base, the accounting methods used to compute depreciation and
amortization, the existence or timing of asset impairments, and the effect of
operating in different income tax jurisdictions. We believe that EBITDA is
useful to investors and analysts as it is a widely used measure of performance
and the additional adjustments we make to arrive at Adjusted EBITDA provide
further clarity on our cash flow performance. In the computation of Adjusted
EBITDA, we remove the effect of asset impairments for the same reason that we
remove depreciation and amortization as it is a part of the impact of our asset
base. Please note that we do not intend to present non-cash stock option
compensation expense as a reconciling item in order to determine either EBITDA
or Adjusted EBITDA.</font></div>
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neither EBITDA nor Adjusted EBITDA are measures of performance calculated in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (&#8220;GAAP&#8221;), we do not
believe that these measures should be considered in isolation from, or as a
substitute for, the results of our operations presented in accordance with GAAP
that are included in our consolidated financial statements. In addition, our
Adjusted EBITDA does not necessarily represent funds available for discretionary
use and is not necessarily a measure of our ability to fund our cash
needs.</font></div>
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believe that our net cash flow from operations is the most directly comparable
performance measure determined in accordance with GAAP, we also intend to
reconcile the amounts of Adjusted EBITDA for the applicable periods, as
presented above, to the corresponding amounts of net cash flows provided by
(used in) operating activities as included on our consolidated statements of
cash flows as follows:</font></div>
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                                        <td align="left" nowrap valign="bottom" width="1%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;</font></td>
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                                        <td align="left" nowrap valign="bottom" width="1%" style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 2px"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;</font></td>
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                                        <td align="left" valign="bottom" width="35%" style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 2px"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;
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                                        <td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 2px"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;</font></td>
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                                        <td align="left" nowrap valign="bottom" width="1%" style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 2px"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;</font></td>
                                        <td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 2px"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;</font></td>
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                                        <td align="left" nowrap valign="bottom" width="1%" style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 2px"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;</font></td>
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                                        <td align="left" valign="bottom" width="35%">
                                          <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.8pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">Adjusted
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                                        </td>
                                        <td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;</font></td>
                                        <td align="left" valign="bottom" width="1%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">$</font></td>
                                        <td align="right" valign="bottom" width="9%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">12,490,000</font></td>
                                        <td align="left" nowrap valign="bottom" width="1%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;</font></td>
                                        <td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;</font></td>
                                        <td align="left" valign="bottom" width="1%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">$</font></td>
                                        <td align="right" valign="bottom" width="9%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">10,087,000</font></td>
                                        <td align="left" nowrap valign="bottom" width="1%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;</font></td>
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                                        </td>
                                        <td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;</font></td>
                                        <td align="left" valign="bottom" width="1%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;</font></td>
                                        <td align="right" valign="bottom" width="9%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">(4,987,000
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                                        <td align="left" nowrap valign="bottom" width="1%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">)&#160;</font></td>
                                        <td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;</font></td>
                                        <td align="left" valign="bottom" width="1%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;</font></td>
                                        <td align="right" valign="bottom" width="9%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">(3,677,000
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                                        <td align="left" nowrap valign="bottom" width="1%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">)</font></td>
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                                        <td align="left" valign="bottom" width="35%">
                                          <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.8pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">Interest
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                                        </td>
                                        <td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;</font></td>
                                        <td align="left" valign="bottom" width="1%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;</font></td>
                                        <td align="right" valign="bottom" width="9%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">(336,000
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                                        <td align="left" nowrap valign="bottom" width="1%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">)&#160;</font></td>
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              <div align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">Please
      file your bylaws on EDGAR as an exhibit to a future filing.&#160;&#160;We
      note that they were originally filed in paper with your Form S-1 in
      1991.&#160;&#160;As such they should not be incorporated by reference as a
      document on file with the Commission for more than five
      years.&#160;&#160;Please see Item 10(d) of Regulation
  S-K.</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"><br></div>
    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">We will
file a copy of our bylaws as an exhibit to our Form 10-K for the fiscal year
ended January 31, 2009.</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; TEXT-DECORATION: underline">Definitive Proxy Statement
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              <div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">4.</font></div>
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              <div align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">In
      future filings, please disclose whether you have a code of ethics that
      applies to your principal executive officer, principal financial officer,
      principal accounting officer or controller or persons performing similar
      functions pursuant to Item 406 of Regulation S-K.&#160;&#160;We note that
      you have a code of ethics on file with the Commission which has been
      incorporated by reference as an Exhibit to your Form
  10-K.</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">As noted
by the Commission, we do have a Code of Ethics for Senior Officers that was
identified as Exhibit 14.1 in our Form 10-K for the year ended January 31,
2008.&#160;&#160;Accordingly, in future filings of our Proxy Statement on
Schedule 14A, we will disclose that we have a code of ethics pursuant to Item
406 of Regulation S-K.</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; TEXT-DECORATION: underline">Note 14 &#8211; Legal
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      on your current disclosures, it is unclear whether you believe a material
      loss is possible related to each of the lawsuits involved in the Kevin
      Thomas litigation.&#160;&#160;If a material loss is reasonably possible,
      please provide the additional disclosures required by SAB 5:Y and SFAS
      5.</font></div>
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intend to re-evaluate the likelihood of an unfavorable outcome related to these
matters as of each future reporting date. At October 31, 2008, we did not
believe a material loss was reasonably possible related to the lawsuits in the
Kevin Thomas litigation, individually or in the aggregate. In future filings, we
will include disclosure of our evaluation of the likelihood of material loss
related to these matters.</font></div>
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Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, page
18</font></font></div>
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      expand MD&amp;A in future filings to provide a discussion of the recent
      global economic downturn and its current and expected future impact on
      your operations, financial position and liquidity.&#160;&#160;This
      disclosure should provide detailed information on your customers, recent
      order activity, expected trends, management&#8217;s response for managing these
      events, potential future actions by management and other detailed
      information.&#160;&#160;Expand your liquidity discussion to address the
      expected impact to current and future cash flows of how you expect recent
      economic events, including the credit shortage, may affect other sources
      of liquidity.&#160;&#160;Please tell us your intentions with regard to
      this matter.</font></div>
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    <div>
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      our view, the current economic crisis in the U.S. represents a very
      volatile general business environment, particularly for the financial
      sector. We are continuously alert for effects of this crisis that may be
      impacting our business currently and any new developments that may affect
      us going forward.</font></div>
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as this crisis continues and due to its magnitude, we would expect to expand
MD&amp;A in future filings, including our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
January 31, 2009, to provide a discussion of the current global economic
downturn and any specific effects on our business, particularly the power
industry services segment. The net revenues of the power industries service
segment represented approximately 92% of consolidated revenues for the nine
months ended October 31, 2008. As a result, we expect that our discussion will
be focused on this industry.</font></div>
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year ended January 31, 2009, we expect to evaluate the manner in which the
current economic and financial market conditions in the U.S., including the
severe disruptions in the credit markets, are affecting our current projects and
may affect future business. For example, we would discuss any known difficulties
being experienced by project owners in obtaining or maintaining financing and
any risk such circumstances may present to the timely completion of current
projects or to anticipated new business opportunities. We will discuss plans
that management may have in reaction to any identified adverse effects of the
economic crisis on our business.</font></div>
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intend to assess our available liquidity in light of the financial market
conditions, to describe our current capital resources, and to discuss capital
issues impacting our ability to fund future operations as planned.</font></div>
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      note that your certifications omit the language in paragraph 4 which
      refers to internal controls over financial reporting as required by Item
      601(B)(31) of Regulation S-K.&#160;&#160;This language became required
      when you included a report by management on the effectiveness of the
      company&#8217;s internal control over financial reporting as disclosed in Item
      9A(T) of your Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31,
      2008.&#160;&#160;See Release No. 33-8760: <font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-STYLE: italic">Internal Control over
      Financial Reporting in Exchange Act Periodic Reports of Non-Accelerated
      Filers and Newly Public Companies</font> for guidance. Please revise all
      future filings to include the aforementioned language in your
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filings will include the certification language required by Item 601(B)(31) of
Regulation S-K, including paragraph 4(b).</font></div>
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have any further comments or questions regarding our response, please do not
hesitate to contact me by phone at (301) 315-0027 or by fax at (301)
315-0064.</font></div>
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