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Show ASH I . F Y N V IKtN VI. FOREST TlMltl'.K SALE NATIONAL FOREST TIMBER SALE, ASHLEY NATIONAL FOREST, POLE MOUNTAIN MOUN-TAIN SALE, LOCATED WITHIN T2N, T3N, RlW, USM. SEALED bids will be received by the FOREST SUPERVISOR or his authorized representative at the office of-fice of the Forest Supervisor Super-visor at 437 E. Main Street, Vernal, Utah 84078, at 2:00 p.m., local time, March 3, 1980, to be followed immediately by oral bidding, for an estimated 2102 M board feet of timber marked or otherwise designated for cutting. The minimum acceptable bid per M board foot is: Lodgepole Pine and all other species, $2.00. Additional deposit required for slash disposal is $2.50 per M board feet for all species. The bid rates will be subject to adjustment during the period of the sale as provided by quarterly adjustment provisions of the timber sale contract. In addition there is within the sale area an unestimated volume of dead timber of all species which will be paid for at $1.00 per M board feet. The required bid guarantee is $500.00. There are no applicable road credits available at advertised rates. The maximum amount that may become available for this sale is $40,307.14. In accordance with the National Forest Management Manage-ment Act of 1976, a bidder qualifying as a small business under the Small Business Act, (as amended amend-ed and the regulations issued thereunder) may elect at the time of sealed bid submission to have the Forest Service construct con-struct the included specified roads. If the bidder bid-der elects to have the Forest Service construct the roads, the price paid for the timber shall include in-clude the estimated construction con-struction cost which is $44,088.25. Such roads will be constructed to the design classes and in accordance ac-cordance with drawings and specifications included includ-ed in the sample contract. Purchaser credit limit is stated in the sample contract con-tract and is $40,307.14. Specified roads, whether constructed by the purchaser pur-chaser or the Forest Ser- vipp :hall hp rnmnlptpH by November 30, 1980. If the purchaser elects to have the Forest Service Ser-vice construct the roads, the Forest Service intends in-tends to perform construction con-struction by contract. When the Forest Service intends to construct the road through a contract, the award of the timber sale contract will not be made unless either a satisfactory road construction con-struction bid is received, or if Forest Service fails to receive such a bid within 120 days of determination deter-mination of acceptable high bidder, bidder agrees to perform road construction. All included timber shall be given domestic processing. Bidders are advised that violations of the domestic processing requirement constitutes breach of contract and may result in contract cancellation, or refusal to award timber sales to the violator, or debarment or suspension from bidding on future timber sales. The right to reject any and all bids is reserved. Full information concerning concern-ing the timber, the condition condi-tion of sale, and the submission sub-mission of bids should be obtained from the District Ranger, 150 S. 2nd East, Roosevelt, Utah 84066 or the Forest Supervisor, Super-visor, 437 E. Main Street, Vernal. Utah R407R Published in the Vernal Express Jan. 31, 1980. |