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B -- SPECIAL STUDIES AND ANALYSIS SOL 001236 DUE 071100 POC Sally Huber 301-713-0855, Lawrence Frazier 301-713-0851 B-U. S. Dept of Commerce/NOAA/Marine Sanctuaries Division intends to negotiate on a sole source with East Carolina University, Greenville, N. C. to conduct a remote sensing survey for historic shipwrecks in the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary. The National Marine Sanctuaries Program conducts these surveys to comply with the mandates of the National Historic Preservation Act which requires federal agencies managing public lands to survey and inventory those lands for historic and archaeological resources. The survey will be conducted by magnetometer and side scan sonar survey of the Destruction Island region for the purpose of locating eleven shipwrecks identified as lost by NOAA and OCNMS in the general survey area, as well as any unknown shipwrecks in the area. This is a notice of intent and cannot be considered a solicitation, therefore no solicitation package exist. Award will be made using Simplified Acquisition Procedures. Reference 001236 Posted 06/27/00 (W-SN468776). (0179)

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