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Show Legal Notices NATIONAL FOREST TIMBER FOR SALE NATIONAL FOREST TIMBER SALE, DIXIE NATIONAL FOREST, COWPUNCHER SALE, located within T32S and T33S; R2E and R3E; SLB&M. SEALED bids will be received by the Forest Supervisor, Federal Building, P.O. Box 580, Cedar City, Utah at 2:00 p.m. local time at the place of bid opening July 13, 1981, to be followed immediately by oral bidding for an estimated 6,397 M board feet of timber designated for 'cutting. The minimum acceptable bid per M board feet is $3.00 net for live ponderosa pine and other species and $.95 gross for dead ponderosa pine. The bid rate for green timber will be subject to adjustment ad-justment during the period of sale, as provided for by the quarterly adjustment provisions of the timber sale contract. The dead timber will be paid for lump sum at flat rates. The purchaser will be required to pay for the dead volume, but removal of the material is at the purchaser's option. If a dead tree is cut and it meets utilization standards, removal is required. Additional deposit required for slash disposal is $13.20 per M board feet of all live trees. Additional required deposit per M board feet for all species for surface rock replacement on existing Forest roads is $4.32. Deposit will be required for all green material and removed dead material. Bid opening for this timber sale is contingent upon successful award of a road reconstruction contract on the Hells Backbone Road. If the road contract is not awarded, the sale with be withdrawn from advertising. ad-vertising. In accordance with the National Forest Management Act of 1976, a bidder qualifying as a small business under the Small Business Act (as amended and the regulations issued thereunder) may elect at the time of sealed bid submission to have the Forest Service construct the included specified roads. If the bidder elects to have the Forest Service construct the roads, the price paid for the timber shall include the estimated construction con-struction cost which s $448,886. Such roads will be constructed to the design classes and in accordance with drawings and specifications included in the sample contract. Purchaser credit limit is $409,476. To the extent that bidding does not increase the total sum-page sum-page ' value ($345,450) above the advertised value, the maximum purchaser credit limit shall be decreased and offset by furnishing road construction material and-or cash payments for those roads constructed by the purchaser as described in the timber sale prospectus. There is no purchaser credit available at advertised ad-vertised rates. Specified roads, whether constructed con-structed by the pruchaser or the Forest Service, shall be completed by June 30, 1982 (final date for completion of all road construction). If the purchaser elects to have the Forest Ser-. Ser-. vice construct the roads, the Forest Service intends in-tends to perform construction con-struction by contract. When the Forest Service tends to construct a 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 opening timber sale bids, bidder agrees to perform road construction. All included timber shall be given domestic processing. Bidders are advised that violation of the domestic processing requirement constitutes breach of contract and may result in contract cancellation or in refusal to award timber sales to violator or debarment or suspension from bidding on future timber sales. If total bid value, plus required deposits, exceeds ex-ceeds one million dollars ($1,000,000), an EEO compliance review shall be made to determine if the provisions of Executive Order 11246 have been complied with before award can be made. I The required bid guarantee is $9,600.00. The right to reject any and all bids is reserved. Full . information concerning con-cerning the timber, the conditions of sale, and the submission of bids should be obtained from the District Ranger, Escalante, Utah or the Forest Supervisor, Cedar City, Utah. Published in the Iron County Record June 18 and 25, 1981. |