The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District awarded a firm fixed price contract valued at three million eighty-six thousand six hundred eighty-eight dollars ($3,086,688) to ESP Tunica Opportunities LLC. The contract is to purchase two hundred twelve (212) average annual habitat units of Bottomland Hardwood mitigation bank credits located in the Lake Pontchartrain or Mississippi River Basins watersheds. This purchase fulfills mitigation requirements under the Comite River Diversion Project construction effort in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, compensating for unavoidable habitat losses from that project by March 2023. There was no set-aside designated in the original solicitation to provide the required Bottomland Hardwood credits. Performance will take place in New Orleans, Louisiana from April 28, 2021 through May 30, 2021.
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