F -- CROOKED CREEK PENSTOCK REMOVAL, MINE REHABILIZATION & BURNED SITE REHAB

THE SOLICITATION FOR THIS PROJECT WILL BE AVAILABLE TO REVIEW AND PRINT ON THE FEDBIZOPPS WEB SITE IN APPROXIMATELY 15 DAYS.Crooked Creek Penstock Removal, Mine Rehabilitation & Burned Site Restoration Project. The project involves pulling approximately 5,000 feet of abandoned penstock from the banks and channel of Crooked Creek. Contractor will retrieve the penstock and size it as necessary to remove it to a collection point outside the Wilderness, where the Contractor will transport the penstock scrap to an approved landfill or other designated disposal site. The work is located in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness on the Payette National Forest. The work location along Crooked Creek may be accessed by trail from the Big Creek Trailhead: approximately 10 miles on the Big Creek Trail #196 and approximately 4 miles on the Crooked Creek Trail #002 to the Snowshoe Mine. The penstock is within the stretch of Crooked Creek between the Snowshoe Mine and the original point of diversion on Crooked Creek approximately 1 mile upstream. The Big Creek Trailhead is about 80 miles from McCall via road #412 to Yellowpine and road #340 to Big Creek. Estimated start date is August 15, 2003 with 75 calendar days for completion. See Government Numbered Note #1.