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B -- AQUATIC LIMITING FACTORS ASSESSMENT SOL RFQ RMAST-97-181 DUE 090297 POC Contact Barbara Hayden 303/275-5273; Contracting Officer Joe Milburn The upper Animas River biological evaluation involves the identification of limiting factors for macroinvertebrate populations affected by historic hard-rock mining activity. Project location is the Animas River south of Silverton, Colorado (T41N, R7W, S20) to the confluence with Elk Creek (T40N, R7W, S20), San Juan County. See Note 1. (0195)

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