US Environmental Protection Agency, Region III Contracts Branch (3PM10), 1650 Arch Street, Phildelphia, PA 19103-2029

B -- DEVELOPMENT OF GIS MODEL SOL RFQ-00029-JR DUE 062200 POC John Robb, Contracting Officer, 215-814-5468 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as part of a settlement agreement, has a requirement for assistance in gathering and assessing information required to support the development of a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement to assess the impacts of mountaintop mining and valley fill practices in the Appalachia. In order to economically mine coal in this area, mining interests have developed methodologies to move large quantities of earth to expose stratified coal seams in order to extract the resource. Massive machinery has been employed to displace hundreds of feet of earth and rock to reach the coal. This results in the creation of millions of cubic yards of overburden material that must be disposed. An Environmental Impact Statment has been court ordered to be delivered no later than December 23, 2000. The EPA intends to acquire these services on a sole source basis from Resource Technologies Coporation, State College, PA. This notice is not a request for competitive quotations. See Numbered Note 22. Posted 06/08/00 (W-SN462965). (0160)

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