Natural Resources Conservation Service, 3737 Government Street, Alexandria, LA 71302

R -- CLOSING AGENT SERVICES SOL NRCS-LA-6-207 POC Patti D. Daye, Contracting Officer, (318)473-7645. The purpose of this advertisement is to solicit closing services for acquisitions of wetland easements on behalf of the United States of America, acting by and through the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), USDA. The Wetland Reserve Program (WRP) and other NRCS programs require utilization of Department of Justice approved attorneys, abstracters, and title companies. If you are acting as an agent for a title underwriter in the issuance of title insurance, and your underwriter has been approved for the issuance of title evidence in the state (Louisiana) where the property is located, you need not be approved. The contractor shall furnish all closing services, including obtaining a Class D-Rural Survey from a licensed registered land surveyor, and title insurance from a title company approved by the United States Attorney General. The contractor will perform the same closing services as in a commercial transaction, including obtaining deeds and any necessary curative instruments to assure merchantable insurable title in the name of the United States of America to the wetland easment. The closing services will be performed in the parish courthouse of the parish in which the wetland easement is located, unless the contractor and landowner mutually agree to a different location. The Louisiana parishes in which wetland easements may be filed are: Avoyelles, Caldwell, Point Coupee, St. Landry, Concordia, Madison, Tensas. Interested parties should fax their request to the Contracting Officer not later than April 22, 1996. The NRCS fax number is (318)473-7831. This is a Small Business Set-Aside. This contract contains 16 easements to be filed within 90 days of contract award, with an option for additional WRP contracts as required. (0099)

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