Flathead National Forest, Attn: Contracting, 1935 Third Avenue East, Kalispell, MT 59901

Z -- GLACIER VIEW, HUNGRY HORSE, AND SPOTTED BEAR BMP SOL IFB R1-10-97-36 DUE 092397 POC Nola Rice/Barb Venturini, 406-758-5310/406-758-5318. The Flathead National Forest will be advertising an Invitation for Bids for the Glacier View, Hungry Horse, and Spotted Bear BMP, Glacier View, Hungry Horse, and Spotted Bear Ranger Districts, Flathead County, Montana. This work consists of furnishing and/or installing culverts, inlets, drain dips, and hand-placed waterbars on twelve roads; laydown of borrow and/or crushed aggregate at specific locations; construction of an equipment turnaround site; porducing and placing riprap; and seeding, fertilizing, and mulching disturbed soil. Issue date, August 25, 1997. Contract time, project must be completed October 15, 1998. Notice to Proceed estimated to be issued July 15, 1998. Government price estimate range is between $100,000 and $250,000. (0213)

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