Questions_and_Answers_1.docx

MUSSELLSHELL CLASS III INVENTORY

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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS DOCUMENT 1

Q1) Are there any recent contracts in or around your coverage area?

a. What was the contract amount?

b. What was the name of the contract?

c. Who was awarded the contract?

A1) No other current contracts for the Miles City area at this time. One contract for the Miles City Office last year for $17,000 titled M.C. Cultural Inventory, awarded to Hope Archaeology. It had a different scope of work.

Q2) The Scope of work mentions “Each of the fuels projects will require a separate report.” Later, it mentions “One unbound original and 2 copies of the final Class III cultural resources inventory report.”

Will this involve one report or multiple reports? If multiple reports, how many in total?

A2) There is only one report. The author of the scope of work has corrected the document and an amendment shall be forthcoming.

Q3) The map for the Mosby Vegetation Treatment Area lists a proposed 9,063, but the total acres to be inventoried is listed as 9,825. Which acreage number is accurate?

A3) The correct acreage is 9825 per the Scope of Work. The specialist incorporated all maps for location references only. We have removed Maps 2 and 3 and left one area reference map.

Q4) Is there any specific info on the lots mentioned?

It seems the legal descriptions mostly correspond with the Mosby Vegetation Treatment Area on the Musselshell Breaks Fuels Treatment Area Map. With that in mind, here are our questions about potential inconsistencies:

*T14N, R31E, Sects 6 (all) and 8 (N/2) – are these to be inventoried?

*T15N, R30E, Sect 12: NWNE – Not BLM land; is this supposed to be Sect 1: SWSE?

*T15N, R30E, Sect 22: S/2S/2 – The mapped area differs slightly from this description; is the inventory strictly based on the description, or the map?

*T15N, R31E, Sect 5: SWNW – Not BLM land; should this be SENW?

*T15N, R31E, Sect 8: SWNW – Not BLM land; should this also be SENW?

*T15N, R31E, Sect. 9: NESE – Not BLM land; should this be NWNE?

*T16N, R31E, Sect 5: SWNW& SWNE – Not BLM land; neither matches mapped areas; should one be SESW?

*T16N, R31E, Sect 7: S/2SE – Not entirely BLM land; should this be E/2SE *T15N, R31E, and T16N, R31E, Sect. 18 – Both of these list the exact same lot numbers and acres. Which is correct?

A4) Changes have been made to the legal descriptions in the Scope of Work. Following is info received from technical expert: Section 6 and 8 1T4N R31E are not part of the areas to be inventoried. For 15N, R30E Sect 22, use the description in Table One.