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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF MAY 1,1995 PSA#1336

US Department of Commerce/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), PGAS, Procurement Operations Division, General Contracts Branch, OA312:RRC, 1325 East West Highway - Station 4301, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910-3283

R -- CONVENE AND FACILITATE TAKE REDUCTION TEAMS SOL 52-DGNF-5-00164 DUE 051595 POC Robert Curtis, Contract Specialist, 301/713-0823 or John O. Thompson, Contracting Officer, 301/713-0823 The Government has a requirement for an environmental dispute resolution professional or agency to convene and facilitate Take Reduction Teams and to ensure that the Teams submit Take Reduction Plans, as specified under Section 118 (f) of the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Therefore, the twofold objective is to contract for an organization with a background in professional environmental dispute resolution that would 1) establish up to six teams across the country, each of which would focus on reducing bycatch of one or more ''strategic'' marine mammal stock(s) in regional commercial fisheries, and 2) convene and facilitate six or more meetings of each team and ensure that the teams produce draft plans to reduce bycatch of affected marine mammals. Members of the teams shall include representatives of Federal agencies, each coastal State which has fisheries which interact with the species or stock, appropriate Regional Fishery Management Councils, interstate fisheries commissions, academic and scientific organizations, environmental groups, all commercial and recreational fisheries groups that use fishing equipment which incidentally take the species or stock, Alaska Native organizations or Indian tribal organizations, and others as the Secretary deems appropriate. This acquisition is being conducted under 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(2), and a short response time for proposals will be required. There will not be a separate notice of the solicitation. Requests for inclusion on the solicitation mailing list must be in writing to the address above. (0117)

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