Attachment_1_Scope_of_Work_Boundary_Survey.pdf

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEY SERVICES

SCOPE OF WORK FOR PARTIAL BOUNDARY SURVEY

WILSON’S CREEK NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD

GREENE AND CHRISTIAN COUNTIES, MISSOURI

PROJECT TITLE: PARTIAL BOUNDARY SURVEY

DATE: 4/13/2023

CONTENTS

I. PROJECT INFORMATION/LIMITS OF SURVEY:

II. PROJECT DETAILS:

PERFORMANCE PERIOD AND SCHEDULE:

PROJECT STAFF:

STANDARD SURVEY TASKS:

SURVEY STANDARDS OF CARE:

SURVEY 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. 37° 06’ 49.6” N., Long. 93° 23’ 53.9” W. (WGS84)

This project area is generally located southwest of Springfield, MO and west of Republic, MO, Greene and Christian Counties, Missouri.

This project involves locating field evidence required to re-establish the western, northern, and eastern boundaries of tract 01-109, western boundary of tract 01-146, eastern boundary of tract 01-101, partial eastern boundary of tract 01-103, northern and eastern boundary of tract 01-147, and the eastern and southern boundary of tract 01-135. See attached exhibit for further reference.

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A land survey plat will be prepared and filed in records of Greene County, MO, and Christian County, MO.

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 Oct 27, 2023.

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

Draft deliverables will be submitted electronically to the technical POC listed in Section III for review by Sep 28, 2023. 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 Oct 6, 2023. A copy of the recorded plat will be delivered no later than Oct 27, 2023.

PROJECT STAFF:

Project staff must include an individual who is a Registered Professional Land Surveyor in Missouri and fully qualified to perform land surveys, prepare legal descriptions, and comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws. This person shall 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:

1. Landowner Contacts (complete prior to field work)

a. Contact the NPS park contact and private landowner 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 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

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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.

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 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, found, (found corners on legislative boundary will be upgraded as local laws and regulations allow) or missing monuments re-established on any angle points, lot or parcel corners coincident with the legislated boundary line1 of the National Battlefield will be at a minimum a 2 inch diameter Stainless Steel/Aluminum pipe, 30 inches long with integrated metal cap (brass or aluminum), cap stamped, “NPS/PARK/ Project Point No./YEAR/RPLS No.”, Exact verbiage will be identified at pre start meeting. (Park will provide) Corners located in bedrock will be a minimum of a 2 inch diameter brass or bronze cap with 3 inch stem, drilled and set in place with concrete or epoxy. (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. 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.

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c. Temporary project control point(s) established will comply with current federal, state or local requirements and will be removed after field work is completed and draft deliverables have been approved.

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

_X__ Other monument requirements as noted in the Survey Monuments Attachment.

6. Other Survey Tasks ____ All tasks noted in the Other Survey Tasks Attachment.

__X_ All tasks noted in the Line Posting Attachment.

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 shall 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 shall 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 being surveyed as part of this contract shall be established and/or retraced in accordance with appropriate boundary law principles 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 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 control points. These can be existing property corner monuments or NGS monuments.

Both will be described and referenced on the final plat in Missouri State Plane Grid Coordinates, Central Zone, NAD 83(2011), U.S. Survey Feet. The combined scale factor from ground to grid will also be noted. These points should be located on opposite sides

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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.

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.

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 shall be shown in addition to, and differentiated from, the corresponding record dimension. All dimensions shown on the survey and contained in any new description shall be ground dimensions unless otherwise noted.

c. The directional, distance and curve data necessary to compute a mathematical closure of the surveyed boundary. A note if the record description does not mathematically close. The basis of bearings and, where it differs from the record basis, the difference. Note: assumed bearings are NOT acceptable.

d. The relationship of the boundaries of the surveyed property with its adjoiners (e.g., contiguity, gaps, overlaps), 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

SOW, Boundary Survey Services Page 6 of 8 not clearly reflected on the plat or map, the surveyor shall 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 control point coordinate pairs, datum and combined scale factor from ground to grid.

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).

_X_ The current record description of the surveyed property.

_X_ 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 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.

_X_ County Parcel numbers.

___ Zoning of the property.

_X_ Names of adjacent owners.

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

_X_ If checked, all tasks noted in the Deliverables Attachment will be completed.

All deliverables will be provided to:

Darren Miller, PLS National Park Service 601 Riverfront Dr Omaha, NE 68102

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III. POINTS OF CONTACT:

CONTRACTUAL: Martin Hauch, Contracting Officer, martin_hauch@nps.gov, 501-388-8727

TECHNICAL: Darren Miller, Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR), or 402-610-1608 or darren_miller@nps.gov

PARK CONTACT/ PROJECT INSPECTOR: SHAWN PEARCE, FACILITY MANAGER, 417-732-

2662 EXT. 287 or -matthew_pearce@nps.gov. Please contact park staff prior to beginning work on site.

LANDOWNER: Please see attached list

PARK ADDRESS AND MAIN PHONE NUMBER:

Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield, 5242 South State Highway ZZ, Republic, MO 65738, 417- 732-2662

IV. DATA AND MATERIALS PROVIDED BY NPS:

1. Map exhibit indicating project area.

2. Sample plat deliverables.

3. Current Title Commitments for the tract(s) in the project area. If available.

4. An ArcGIS shapefile with the parcel boundaries, survey monuments and NPS tract numbers projected to Missouri State Plane Grid Coordinates, South Central Zone, NAD83(86).

5. Right to enter permission letter template for private landowners in the project area to sign and return. Contractor is responsible for contacting adjoining private landowners.

V. OTHER CONTRACT DETAILS:

DEFINITIONS:

Legislated boundary line as used herein references the official legislated boundary of the park unit as established by proclamation or congressional authority. Each park unit is unique in its establishment. If the survey project involves any portion of a legislated boundary, a copy of the enabling legislation and boundary description or official map will be provided at the request of the contractor. Legislated boundaries may or may not follow existing property boundary lines.

Consult with NPS staff for clarification if needed.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS:

In accordance with the terms and conditions of the Service Contract, the selected firm shall 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.

mailto:martin_hauch@nps.gov mailto:-matthew_pearce@nps.gov

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QUALITY CONTROL:

In accordance with the FAR Sections 36.609-2(b) and 52.236-23 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 shall 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 investigations prior to survey work. If the contractor or subcontractor discovers archaeological or cultural artifacts during field work, immediately 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.