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B -- TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR ASSESSING AND MANAGING THE ECOLOGICAL AND HUMAN HEALTH RISKS OF TOXIC CONTAMINANTS AND MICROBIAL PATHOGENS SOL PR-CI-97-10293 POC Nancy Muzzy (513) 366-2023 WEB: Office of Acquisition Management -- Cincinnati Contracts Mgmt. Division, http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd. E-MAIL: Nancy Muzzy, Cincinnati Contracts Management Division, muzzy.nancy@epamail.epa.gov. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (US EPA) Office of Water (OW), is seeking a contractor to provide support in the areas of assessing and managing the ecological and human health risks of toxic bioaccumulative contaminants in water, fish and sediments and microbial pathogens in surface waters. The EPA Standards and Applied Science Division (SASD) is in the Office of Science and Technology within the Office of Water. SASD's responsibilities under the Clean Water Act of 1987 (CWA) include directing the national program for adoption of Water Quality Standards, developing prevention and remediation strategies to reduce the risk to human health and aquatic life resulting from Contaminated Fish and Sediment and microbial pathogens in surface waters, providing technical support to the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) program (section 303(d)) and technical support to the Effluent Guidelines program (section 304(m)), and preparing outreach and awareness materials including developing instructional material and presenting workshops. The successful contractor will be expected to provide technical support services to aid the Agency in the following task areas: risk-based analyses, model development, guidance and report development, compilation and analysis of national and international environmental data, methods development and validation, environmental assessments, field sampling, workshops, conferences, and training, expert/peer review support, public outreach and technology transfer, compilation, categorization, and summarization of comments received on SASD documents, preparation of presentation materials, and quality assurance/quality control. Identified needs include (1) developing methods and guidance for EPA program offices, State agencies, local governments, and nongovernmental organizations to assess, remediate or otherwise manage, and communicate the risks associated with exposure toxic bioaccumulative contaminants in surface waters, sediments, and fish tissue as well as microbial pathogens in bathing beach surface waters, (2) conducting studies to assess the national extent and severity of sediment and fish tissue contamination in water bodies throughout the U.S. as well as water-borne pathogens present at bathing beaches, (3) providing technical support for maintaining and updating SASD's national and international environmental databases, (4) providing technical support for developing standard bioaccumulation and sediment toxicity assessment methods, (5) providing technical support for performing field sampling for benthic organisms, sediment, fish, indicators of microbial pathogens, and field sampling for toxic pollutants, (6) preparing, revising, and conducting training sessions, interactive workshops, technical assistance workshops, public fora, facilitated negotiations and conferences to support the mission of SASD programs (7) performing risk-based analyses to assess the human health and/or ecological risks associated with exposure to toxic bioaccumulative contaminants in water, sediment, and fish tissue. The proposed contract will be a term form with a base period of 12 months and two twelve month options. The base level of effort (LOE) for each period will be approximately 22,000 hours with options for an additional LOE of up to 50% in each period, for a total potential of 99,000 direct labor hours over the 36 months. . All responsible sources may submit an offer which will be considered by the Agency. Solicitation PR-CI-97-10293 will appear on the Internet. It may be accessed through the EPA's home page on the World Wide Web (www.epa.gov). The direct link URL is http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd. It is anticipated that this solicitation will be issued on or around late July 1997. Only a limited number of hard copies of the solicitation will be available on a first come first serve basis. All requests for the solicitation must be in writing, telephone requests will not be honored. You may fax your request to Nancy Muzzy at 513-366-2004. (0171)

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