A04_44005235_REDW_12-187_Survey_SOW_RFQ.pdf

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEY SERVICES

SCOPE OF WORK FOR BOUNDARY SURVEY

NPS TRACTS 12-89, 12-90, AND 12-91

REDWOOD NATIONAL PARK (REDW)

HUMBOLT COUNTY, CALIFORNIA

PROJECT TITLE: REDW 12-87 + FRESHWATER

DATE: 11/19/2024

CONTENTS

I. PROJECT INFORMATION/LIMITS OF SURVEY:

II. PROJECT DETAILS:

PERFORMANCE PERIOD AND SCHEDULE:

PROJECT STAFF:

STANDARD SURVEY TASKS:

SURVEY STANDARDS OF CARE:

SURVEY & MAPPING CONTROL:

DELIVERABLES:

III. POINTS OF CONTACT:

IV. DATA AND MATERIALS PROVIDED BY NPS:

V. OTHER CONTRACT DETAILS:

DEFINITIONS:

TERMS AND CONDITIONS:

CONFIDENTIALITY:

QUALITY CONTROL:

INSPECTION AND ACCEPTANCE:

ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL FINDINGS:

INSURANCE:

I. PROJECT INFORMATION/LIMITS OF SURVEY:

General Project Location: Lat. 41° 14’ 51” N., Long. 124° 03’ 19” W. (WGS84)

This project area is generally located in section 5 and 8, Township 10 North, Range 1 East, Humbolt Meridian, Humboldt County, California.

The National Park Service (NPS) is in the process of acquiring 3 contiguous parcels, identified as NPS tracts 12-89, 12-90, and 12-91 that need to be partial surveyed. These tracts adjoin private property to the north, south, and west.

This project involves locating field evidence required to re-establish or recover the

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Center 1/4 sec. cor. of sec. 8, the Center North 1/16 sec. cor. of sec. 8, and the 1/4 sec. cor. of secs. 5 and 8, and the Center South 1/16 sec. cor. of sec. 5, T. 10 N., R. 1 E.

Posting and marking the north, west, and south boundary lines of the contiguous parcel to be acquired. Being the west 1/2 of the east 1/2 of the east and west centerline of sec. 8, the north 1/2 of the north and south centerline of sec. 8, the south 1/2 of the south 1/2 of the north south centerline of sec. 5, and the west 1/2 of the east and west centerline of the southeast 1/4 of sec. 5, T. 10 N., R. 1 E.

Collect any evidence of trespass or encroachments originating from the adjoining private parcels across this boundary line.

A land survey plat will be prepared and filed in the records of Humbolt County, California.

A general project vicinity map is included for reference and a survey request diagram depicting the lines to be marked.

II. PROJECT DETAILS:

PERFORMANCE PERIOD AND SCHEDULE:

The selected firm can begin work on the day the contract is signed by both the federal contracting officer and company representative. All work will be completed and delivered no later than December 1, 2025.

A pre-project conference call between NPS and contract staff will take place within two weeks of the award date of this contract.

Progress reports will be provided on a monthly schedule.

Draft deliverables will be submitted electronically to the technical POC listed in Section III for review no later than two months before the end date of the contract. The reviewer will provide approval or request for changes within 14 days of receipt of the draft documents. The contractor will deliver all final products except the recorded plat to no later than October 1, 2025. A copy of the recorded plat will be delivered no later than December 1, 2025.

PROJECT STAFF:

Project staff must include an individual who is a Registered Professional Land Surveyor in California fully qualified to perform land surveys, prepare legal descriptions, has working knowledge of the Public Land Survey System, and comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws. This person will be the responsible charge of the land survey work and all land survey decisions.

STANDARD SURVEY TASKS:

The contractor will provide labor, equipment and supplies to complete a boundary survey as identified herein unless otherwise noted. Specific tasks noted below will be completed as part of this project:

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1. Landowner Contacts (complete prior to field work)

a. Contact the NPS park contact to provide times and dates of entry and coordinate any logistics regarding physical access to the project area (reference Section III for contact information).

b. Contact all adjoining private property owner(s), if applicable, to provide times and dates of entry and obtain permission if needed or required by local jurisdictions (reference Section III for contact information). For larger projects, a general window of anticipated field work can be provided in lieu of specific times and dates. Please coordinate with the Technical POC listed in Section III to determine appropriate level of notification.

c. Contact the local utility line location services (811) if there are any indications of utility infrastructure in the project area. Contractor is responsible for any damaged utility lines from survey activities. Please request that markings on hard surfaces be minimized to the greatest extent possible.

2. Records Research Contractor is responsible for conducting the necessary research required to complete the tasks listed herein. To the extent available, NPS will provide land title, survey records, maps or other documents in the possession of NPS related to the project area.

3. Investigate Boundary Line Evidence

a. The character and location of evidence of possession or occupation along the perimeter of the surveyed property, both by the occupants of the surveyed property and by adjoiners, observed in the process of conducting the fieldwork.

b. Without expressing a legal opinion as to the ownership or nature of the potential encroachment, the evidence, location and extent of any conflicting boundary evidence related to record title documents.

c. The location, size, character, and type of any monuments found during the fieldwork, including legislated park boundary monuments and private property boundary monuments.

d. The location, description, and character of any lines or natural features that appear to delineate or control the boundaries of the surveyed property (i.e. fences, walls, rivers).

4. Existing Survey Monuments

a. Any existing local monuments recovered and accepted as demarking property boundary extents will be left in place or upgraded as noted below under New Survey Monuments.

b. Any recovered monuments purporting to mark boundary corner locations which are found to be deficient or are not accepted as originally intended will be noted on the plat, including a brief summary of the evidence used to make this determination.

These corners will be considered lost, requiring a new survey monument be established at the most defensible location of the boundary corner.

c. In the event any existing survey monument(s) established by prior National Park Service surveys (either contract or in-house) are not accepted as boundary monuments as noted above in 4.b, the letters “RM” will be added to the monument cap along with an arrow pointing towards the actual boundary line or angle point

SOW, Boundary Survey Services Page 4 of 9 and the year of the current survey. If there is enough space on the cap, the distance to the actual corner location will be included near the arrow.

5. New Survey Monuments

a. Legislated park boundary monuments established or missing monuments re-established on any angle points, lot or parcel corners coincident with the legislated boundary line1 of the National Park or significant federal property boundaries identified in this Scope will be at a minimum a 2 inch diameter stainless steel flared or flanged pipe, 30 inches long, with a 3 inch diameter metal cap stamped, “NPS/PARK/Proper PLSS DESIGNATION/YEAR/RPLS No.” The monument will have either an integrated magnet or a separate underground survey magnet deposited at the base (DEEP1 or equivalent). Corners located in bedrock will be a minimum of a 2½ inch diameter brass or bronze cap with 3 inch stem (preferred), drilled and set in place with concrete or epoxy. Please consult with NPS staff if site conditions warrant the use of unique survey monumentation. (1 see Definitions in Section V)

b. Private property monuments established on lands interior to the legislated park boundary (a.k.a. private inholding parcels), will be at a minimum a ⅝ inch diameter iron rod or rebar, 30 inches long with 1 inch diameter metal cap stamped with the surveyor’s or firm’s license number and year of the project. Additional cap markings will include the proper PLSS designation. Any boundary monuments re-established on controlling corners adjoining the project area or outside the legislated boundary will comply with current federal, state or local requirements and will be noted on the plat.

c. Temporary project control point(s)/traverse station(s) established will comply with current federal, state, or local requirements. All project control monuments will be clearly marked to differentiate these from property boundary monuments. Where practicable or in areas where project control may be confused with boundary location, control monuments will be removed after field work is completed and draft deliverables have been approved. All project control monuments which remain in place will be noted on the final plat.

d. Corner locations that are inaccessible will have a reference monument installed to the same criteria listed above, established as close as practicable near the actual corner.

e. Any reference monuments established will clearly note “RM” with an arrow pointing towards the actual corner location. If there is enough space on the cap, the distance to the actual corner location will be included near the arrow.

6. Other Survey Tasks

___ All areas and features of encroachment onto USA lands (examples include cleared land, mowed areas, gardens, fences, buildings, roads, trails, riprap, etc.) Note the area of the encroachment(s) as surveyed in acres to the nearest hundredth (0.01). Parcels less than 0.01 acres will be reported in square feet. The length of linear encroachment features will be noted to the nearest tenth of a foot (0.1). Photos (with information on what the photo depicts) of all encroachments will be taken and provided as a deliverable.

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____ Install a minimum 3-foot wood lath/stake and a 60d nail alongside the stake at 200- 300 ft. intervals (or line of sight between each) during the course of the survey project. The top 6 inches of the stake shall be visible and marked with flagging or paint. Posting line may not be required for the entire boundary especially in areas of extreme terrain and infrequent visitation. Work with Park staff and the regional surveyor to determine the needed areas for posting and that the same or similar standards for posting materials are agreed on.

SURVEY STANDARDS OF CARE:

1. Other Requirements and Standards of Practice - Many states and some local jurisdictions have adopted statutes, administrative rules, and/or ordinances that set out standards regulating the practice of surveying within their jurisdictions. In addition to the standards set forth herein, surveyors must also conduct their surveys in accordance with applicable jurisdictional survey requirements and standards of practice. Where conflicts between the standards set forth herein and any such jurisdictional requirements and standards of practice occur, the more stringent must apply.

2. Prior Federal Surveys - The procedures used to recover or reestablish any previous federal survey monuments or lines that control the location of any project boundary will comply with the federal “Manual of Survey Instructions” in affect at the time of the survey. New monuments or controlling corners not previously established will comply with the most current “Manual” version prepared by the Bureau of Land Management, unless otherwise indicated by this document. Federal surveys include all approved Public Land Surveys or official federal boundary surveys completed for the National Park Service or other agency.

3. Boundary Resolution - The boundary lines and corners of any property or interest in real property being surveyed as part of this contract must be laid out in an original survey or by retracement of existing boundary lines in accordance with appropriate boundary law principles and location doctrines governed by the set of facts and evidence found in the course of performing the research and fieldwork.

4. Measurement Standards - The acceptable relative positional accuracy of the survey is the same as identified in the current version of Section C, NSPS Classifications and Accuracy Standards for Property Surveys.

SURVEY & MAPPING CONTROL:

All reported horizontal distances will be based on ground measurements in either U.S. or International Feet at the discretion of the surveyor or as required by law. The basis of bearings for the project is at the discretion of the surveyor. Both the units and basis of bearings will be noted on the plat.

At least two survey monuments (existing or new) within the project extents will serve as mapping control points. These can be existing property corner monuments, project control points, NGS monuments or combination thereof. Both will be described and referenced on the final plat in California State Plane Grid Coordinates, Zone 1, NAD 83(2011), U.S. Survey Feet. The grid coordinate pairs for each point and combined scale factor from ground to grid will also be noted. If either control point is not a boundary

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These points should be located on opposite sides of the project area if possible.

At least one of the control points will be occupied by a dual-frequency GPS unit for a minimum of four hours. A current Online Positional User Service (OPUS) solution data sheet for this monument will be provided as a deliverable. If site conditions prevent the use of GPS equipment, sufficient information will be included on the plat as to the procedure and control utilized to determine coordinate information.

DELIVERABLES:

All deliverables and products created under this project including such items certified plats of survey, field notes and research documents used to produce this survey and descriptions are considered property of the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

At a minimum, one land survey plat will be prepared on an 18”x24” (Architectural C) or 24”x36” (Architectural D) map sheet. The size will be based on any state or local requirements or the surveyor’s professional opinion as to the appropriate degree of precision to convey the required information in an easy to understand manner. A copy of this plat will be deposited or recorded in the designated public land records office in which the project is located. In jurisdictions where no recording procedures exist for plat recordation, two signed and sealed original plats will be provided to NPS.

Detailed information or decisions related to corner evidence, acceptance or rejection of conflicting monuments, land records research, or any other unique situations that are not required to be documented on the face of the plat but are deemed important to the survey results will be provided as a separate Land Surveyors Report to accompany the plat. The report will be signed, sealed and dated by the surveyor in responsible charge of the project.

Land Survey Plat Elements

1. The evidence and locations gathered, and the monuments and lines located during the fieldwork pursuant to Section II above, with accompanying notes if deemed necessary by the surveyor or as otherwise required as specified below.

2. Boundary, descriptions, dimensions, and closures:

a. A full description of all found and set monuments, including artificial and natural monuments or features. A full description will include monument material(s), size, depth, and markings (e.g. found ⅝” rebar projecting 6”, set in concrete base, 4” diam., with 2½” diam. aluminum cap stamped, “PLS XXXXX, S&S Co., 1995”)

b. The point of beginning, the remote point of beginning or point of commencement (if applicable) and all distances and directions identified in the record description of the surveyed property (and in the new description, if one was prepared). Where a measured or calculated dimension differs from the record by an amount deemed significant by the surveyor, such dimension must be shown in addition to, and differentiated from, the corresponding record dimension. All dimensions shown on the survey and contained in any new description must be ground dimensions unless otherwise noted.

c. The directional, distance and curve data necessary to compute a mathematical

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d. The relationship of the boundaries of the surveyed property with its adjoiners where ascertainable from documents provided to or obtained by the surveyor and/or from field evidence gathered during the process of conducting the fieldwork.

e. When, in the opinion of the surveyor, the results of the survey differ significantly from the record, or if a fundamental decision related to the boundary resolution is not clearly reflected on the plat or map, the surveyor must explain this information with notes on the face of the plat or map.

f. Note the area of the property as surveyed in acres to the nearest hundredth (0.01).

Parcels less than 0.01 acres will be reported in square feet.

g. A note on the face of the plat or map explaining the site conditions that resulted in a Relative Positional Precision that exceeds the maximum noted above under Measurement Standards.

h. The survey mapping control point coordinate pairs, datum and combined scale factor from ground to grid, and any related field procedure information.

3. Map layout elements:

a. Title block with project name, project location information, date of the survey, and the signature and seal of the licensed surveyor in responsible charge.

b. Name and address of the contractor and any subcontractor.

c. Bar and numeric scale, legend defining map point and line symbols and north arrow.

d. Map number provided by NPS (Technical Information Center map number).

4. Any items checked below will also be included on the plat.

_X_ NPS Tract numbers (provided by NPS).

___ The current record description of the surveyed property.

_ _ A table indicating the northing and easting coordinate pairs of all found and set monuments. The datum to be used is noted above under Survey & Mapping Control.

___ A note on the face of the plat or map identifying the source of the title commitment or other title evidence provided pursuant to Section II, and the effective date and the name of the insurer of same.

___ County Parcel numbers.

___ Zoning of the property.

___ Names of adjacent owners.

___ Flood zone classification and limits based on graphic plotting from the current applicable FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Map.

Items to Deliver

1. Two signed and sealed original copies of the land survey plat and any related reports.

2. One electronic copy (.pdf or equivalent) of the final signed, and if applicable, recorded plat.

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Consult with NPS staff for clarification if needed.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS:

In accordance with the terms and conditions of the solicitation and resultant purchase order, the selected firm must perform the work for the National Park Service (NPS) as described herein.

CONFIDENTIALITY:

The information developed under this contract is the property of the U.S. Government and will remain in strict confidence unless otherwise indicated.

QUALITY CONTROL:

The contractor is responsible for Quality Control, which includes ensuring the technical accuracy, completeness, and correctness of the work associated with this land survey contract, including the coordination and management of all subcontractors (if applicable). The contractor must accomplish a Quality Control Review of all deliverables prior to submittal to NPS.

INSPECTION AND ACCEPTANCE:

NPS park staff and the contractor’s representative will coordinate and conduct a final walk-through of the project area prior to the end date of the contract. The purpose of this walk-through is to provide park staff with a final visual inspection of the location and physical characteristics of all boundary markers found or placed as a result of this survey.

All deliverables will be provided to the technical point of contact in a draft format for review and approval prior to the end of the contract date as noted above under Performance Period and Schedule.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL FINDINGS:

NPS is responsible for all required NEPA/106 investigations and compliance prior to survey work. If the contractor or subcontractor discovers archaeological or cultural artifacts during the course of field work, immediately stop work and contact the technical or park contact listed in Section III.

INSURANCE:

The contractor or subcontractor agrees to maintain the following insurance for the term of this contract. Certificates of insurance will be provided at the request of the government.

1. Worker’s Compensation Insurance, in the form and amounts required by statute or other applicable law.

2. General Liability Insurance with limits of $1,000,000 per occurrence.

3. Professional Liability Insurance with a limit of $1,000,000.

4. Commercial Automobile Liability Insurance with a combined single limit of $500,000.