Document Summary

This is a Task Assignment Notification Form (Attachment A) issued under DEP Contract No. WM914, a TMDL (Total Maximum Daily Load) Program Technical Support Services contract. The contract involves the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP), BCI Engineers & Scientists (BCI), and the City of Lakeland in Polk County, Florida. The task assignment covers Phase I of a five-phased TMDL investigation project for Lake Hunter, an urban lake within the Hillsborough River Basin that has been designated as impaired for nutrient loading.

Task Assignment No. 1, titled "Lake Hunter BMAP Assistance," is valued at $62,493 with a fee schedule of $62,493 and no cost reimbursement component. The work is authorized from the assignment date of March 27, 2007, through December 31, 2007. Phase I focuses on approach development and sensitivity analysis, encompassing five primary tasks: review of existing data and applicable reports, definition of project boundaries, stakeholder identification and characterization, recommendation of data collection protocols, and recommendation of a refinement approach for the TMDL model. The project is funded through Organization Code 37353010000, Executive Order WP, with Object Code 750050 (TMDL), Project Code 780001, and Category 088964, allocated to fiscal year 2007. The funding is recorded against cost center code 088964 with supporting documentation and GIS databases to be submitted electronically.