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Show Green River Base Road Work ( Contractor Being Sought ), WHITE SANDS MISSILE' RANGE, N. M. Feb. 19 - An invitation for bids for the job of seal coating and repairing re-pairing streets, roads and parkir.'g lots at White Sands Missile Range's Utah Launch Complex, at Green River, was issued Feb. 19. The job calls for applying a half-inch overlay of oil and gravel plant mix on a total of 99,430 sguare yards of paved surfaces. Also specified speci-fied are repairs to dust and erosion control structures, drainage ditches and parking lot bumper barriers, plus repainting re-painting of white and yellow traffic control marking lines. In the cantonment area the project will cover 54,111 square yards of streets and parking lots. On various access ac-cess roads and at outlying instrument in-strument and control stations, including "ROD Hill" and blockhouse and launch pad areas, seven additional phases phas-es will cover 45,319 square yards. The invitation was' Issued by WSMR's Purchasing and Contracting Directorate. Plans and specifications were -pre- pared by Post E . t whicn is responsible fot I buildings and grounds m': 1 ' Utah complex as welK,' the range. 1 Bids will be opened at), ' Thursday, March 19 J Purchasing and ContrJ Directorate. The work fc! pected to begin in W May, with completion ached ach-ed within 180 days. ' Funds for the project , authorized as part of an a maintenance program J ; 1970 fiscal year. The semiipermanent c. plex at Green Rjver . built six years ago. 0pe-by 0pe-by the Army, it supports" range firings of Air i, , Alhena missiles. Launched Utah and impacted in s ' Mexico,, the multi-stage "i enas are employed ' ABRES Advanced Ball- Re-Entry Systems - prop ; of the U.S. Air Force , ' terns Command's Space a Missile Systems Organize' (SAMSO). More than. 200 persons i employed at Green Rivct . the Army, the Air Force ? ' various private industry t traetors. |