W9127N2420005-Sherman Questions and Answers 1-4.pdf
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This document provides details on a federal cooperative agreement opportunity to manage undesirable plant species on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lands in Sherman County, Oregon. The agreement will be awarded to the state department of agriculture or other state agency responsible for administering undesirable plants laws in Oregon. Services required under the agreement include professional management of rush skeletonweed, knapweed, puncturevine, blackberry, and sandbur species at locations including The Dalles Project, Rufus Landing, Giles French, LePage Park, and the John Day Operations area. The recipient will work with Natural Resource Managers at both locations to develop management plans utilizing methods such as mechanical removal or approved herbicide application. The cooperative agreement is being offered under the Federal Noxious Weed Act of 1974 and the Management of Undersirable Plants on Federal Lands program administered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Portland District with a CFDA number of 12.012. Interested state agencies should contact the agreement administrator upon award to begin the project planning process.
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W9127N-24-2-0005 Question and Answers 1-4
Q1 - What type of plants are these?
A1 - Please reference Attachment 1 Sherman County The Dalles 2024-2025 Statement of Work, paragraph 4, and Attachment 2 Sherman County John Day 2024-2025 Statement of Work, paragraph 4 for specific and known target species are listed in the Statements of Work. Please review those documents for more details. At The Dalles that includes Rush Skeletonweed, knapweed and puncturevine. At John Day that includes knapweed, puncturevine, blackberry and sandbur.
Q2 - What kind of terrain are they on?
A2 - Please reference Attachment 1 Sherman County The Dalles 2024-2025 Statement of Work, description of services, and Attachment 2 Sherman County John Day 2024-2025 Statement of Work, description of services for the location of the specific targets named in the Statements of Work are provided. These locations are known locally and/or are easily searchable on Google Maps/Google Earth.
Rufus landing, Giles French, LePage Park and the John Day Operations area are all adjacent to the Columbia River.
Q3 - Can these undesirable plants be cut and bailed? (and hauled to a central location for disposal/burning?)
A3 - Please reference Attachment 1 Sherman County The Dalles 2024-2025 Statement of Work and Attachment 2 Sherman County John Day 2024-2025 Statement of Work for further details. Mechanical removal is permissible. The proposed method of management is up to the recipient, but will be discussed and ultimately approved by USACE in the planning process. The best method would be one that is efficient with time and resources, and prevents the spread of the undesirable plants. Caution should be exercised when considering applying herbicide in an aquatic environment (within 3 feet of OHWM of Waters of the US), but is permissible with approval from the USACE POC, and when explicitly following herbicide labels that are specifically named in the Portland District PDMP (attached to application package).
Q4 - How would we contact the government or state organization that needs this to team with?
A4 - Please be aware that in accordance with the FOA section C, only “State department of agriculture, or other state agency or political subdivision thereof, responsible for the administration and implementation of undesirable plants laws of the state” are eligible for the primary award of this cooperative agreement.
If/When this Agreement is awarded, POC information will be shared with the recipient to begin the planning process. This Agreement covers both The Dalles and John Day Lock and Dam. See the separate Statements of Work. The Natural Resource Manager at both locations would be the primary USACE
POC.
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