USDA, FOREST SERVICE, 517 GOLD AVENUE, SW, ALBUQUERQUE, NM 87102

B -- NAGPRA INVENTORY COORDINATOR, ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS POC Contracting Officer, Dolores Rottach, (505)842-3346, Additional Contact, Barbara Castillo, (505)842-3347 The USDA Forest Service (FS), Region 3, plans to issue a noncompetitive contract with two option years for personal services of a Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Inventory Coordinator. The FS believes because of the complexity of this project and the extreme importance of the one-on-one relationships established with museum officials and Indian tribes across the country that Dr. Frank Wozniak, current contractor, is the only source capable of: (1) the completion of the inventory and summary of human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects of cultural patrimony unerary objects, sacrein archaeological collections from the 11 National Forests in the Southwestern Region and for the Bureau of Land Management lands in Arizona and New Mexico; (2) consultation affiliation and repatriation; (3) repatriation of materials, including notification of the Secretary of the Interior and the NAGPRA Review Committee, coordination with museums and repositories, and arrangements with Indian tribes and pueblos for return of materials. (0206)

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