USDA Forest Service, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, 21905 64th Avenue W, Mountlake Terrace, WA 98043

Z -- EQUIPMENT RENTAL WITH OPERATOR #7, COWLITZ VALLEY RANGER DISTRICT, LEWIS & SKAMANIA COUNTIES, WA, GIFFORD PINCHOT NATIONAL FOREST SOL R6-5-98-23-g POC Contact Point: Janet Hada (425) 744-3330 WEB: click here to check if solicitation has been issued, http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/purchasing/index.html. This project consists of the decommissioning of approximately 54 miles of roads and closing of approximately 36 miles of roads. Work includes but is not limited to removing and disposing of culverts, removing and disposing of a log stringer bridge, pulling back and resloping fill material, construction of waterbars, cross ditches and road closure berms. It may be necessary to construct temporary access roads on some project roads to install government furnished culverts or previously removed culverts. Estimated issue date of the solicitation is on or about August 5, 1998. Estimated start work date of this project is approximately mid-September. Contract work time is approximately 730 days. Posted 07/21/98 (W-SN226333). (0202)

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