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Show advised that violation of the domestic processing requirement constitutes breach of contract and may result in contract cancellation can-cellation or in refusal to award timber sales to vilator, or debarment or suspension from bidding on future timber sales. The right to reject any and all bids is reserved. Full information concerning the timber, the conditions of sale, and the submission of bids should be obtained from the District Ranger, Cedar City Hanger District, Cedar City, Utah. I'll!). Aug. 24, 31, 1978. NATIONAL FOREST TIMBER FOR SALE NATIONAL FOREST TIMBER SALE, DIXIE NATIONAL FOREST, Lowder Creek Sale, located within T36S, R8W; Salt Lake Base and Meridian. Sealed Bids will be received by the Forest Supervisor, Federal Building, P.O. Box 580, Cedar City, Utah 84720 at 2:00 p.m. local time at the place of bid opening, on September 25, 1978, to be followed immediately by ORAL BIDDING for an estimated 1464 M board feet of Engelmann Spruce and other species of timber marked or otherwise designated for cutting. The minimum acceptable bid per M board feet for Engelmann Spruce and other species is $94.28. Additional deposit required for slash disposal is $9.38 per M board feet of all species. The bid rates will be subject to 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. Required bid guarantee is $11,800. 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 sub-mission to have the Forest Service construct the included in-cluded 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 cost which is $138,223. Such road will be constructed to the design classes and in accordance ac-cordance with drawings and specifications included in the sample contrract. Purchaser Credit Limit is stated in the sample contract con-tract and is $133,467. Specified roads, whether constructed by the purchaser or the Forest Service shall be completed by November 15, 1979. (Final date for completion of all road construction.) If the purchaser elects to have the Forest Service construct the roads, the forest service intends to perform construction 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 bid is received, or if Forest Service Ser-vice 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 |