### SCOPE OF SERVICES

### ACADIA NATIONAL PARK

**Base Flood Elevation Calculation for the Echo Lake Beach Site**

Contract No. GS-10-F-0084M

Task Order No. T200004A011

**INTRODUCTION**

This Scope of Services directs the contractor to prepare and calculate
the Base Flood Elevation (BFE) for the area of the Echo Lake Beach
Facilities. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Flood
Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) indicated the proposed rehabilitation of the
comfort station and changing room buildings are with the 100 year
floodplain. In order to address compliance regulation and the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and estimate of the BFE needs to be
calculated. From this elevation it can be determined if additional
permitting or compliance is needed for the project. The Contractor shall
provide all materials, supplies, labor, supervision, coordination, and
management necessary to complete the work as and when required. The
contractor shall perform all necessary technical analyses, edit the
documents, prepare graphics, and perform other work as required to
produce the products as specified in this scope of services. The work
shall begin following the issuance of the delivery/task order, proceed
in accordance with the schedule and be completed no later than May 1,
2004.

The NPS Denver Service Center (DSC) Project Manager is Richard Crane,
telephone (303) 969-2328, e-mail
[Richard_Crane@nps.gov](mailto:Glenn_Lamoree@nps.gov). The NPS DSC
contract specialist is Sandra Lintz, telephone (303) 969-2059, e-mail
<Sandra_Lintz@nps.gov>. The principal point of contact at the Park is
Jim Vekasi Chief of Maintenance, telephone (207) 288-8750, e-mail
Jim_Vakasi@nps.gov.

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**PROPOSED SCOPE OF WORK**

This scope of work addresses the need to determine the BFE by detailed
methods in the vicinity of the Echo Lake Beach in Acadia Nation Park,
Maine. As shown on the FEMA FIRM for Southwest Harbor, Maine,
(community-panel number 230293 0015 B), a BFE has not been determined in
the vicinity of Echo Lake Beach.

The prevailing FEMA floodplain in the vicinity of Echo Lake Beach is
denoted "Zone A", indicating that it was not determined by detailed
methods, and includes structures that are proposed as part of a
facilities rehabilitation program at Echo Lake Beach. However,
preliminary calculations performed by NPS contractor, Woodlot, suggest
that the proposed structures would be situated about the BFE. This scope
of work needs to provide for detailed determination of the BFE in the
vicinity of Echo Lake Beach, and includes work associated with
completing a FEMA Elevation Certificate as part of a request for a
Letter of Map Amendment (LOMA).

# PROJECT DESCRIPTION

NPS is proposing to build a comfort station and changing room at Echo
Lake Beach.

The Contractor shall review relevant source materials to develop a clear
understanding of the project area, the proposed project, and associated
issues. Data gaps shall be identified and brought to the attention of
the DSC technical representative as early in the process as possible.

The Contractor shall perform the following tasks:

1.  [Land Owner Coordination and Document Review]{.underline}

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a.  The Contractor shall coordinate access to public and private
    properties as required to perform survey work associated with the
    hydrologic study for the National Park Service. The National Park
    Service will acquire documents such as deeds and lot maps, as
    required for the Elevation Certificate, and local tax information
    needed to determine contact information for private landowners along
    Echo Lake and Little Echo Pond where the survey work will need to be
    performed.

b.  The contractor shall contact landowners by mail and request access
    to their properties to perform survey work associated with a
    hydrologic study on behalf o the NPS.

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2.  [Site Walk and Survey]{.underline}

> a\. The Contractor shall perform a site walk and limited survey to
> acquire data required for the hydraulic analysis and determination of
> the BFE in the vicinity of Echo Lake Beach. Factors pertinent to the
> determination of the BFE include such things as, for example:
> hydraulic controls and roughness. Photographs shall be taken to
> document the site walk.

c.  Survey data acquired shall include stream channel cross section data
    along Lurvey Spring adjacent to Echo Lake Beach, stream channel
    cross section and bridge/culvert data in the channel between Echo
    Lake and Little Echo Pond, and spillway geometry data for the dam at
    Little Echo Pond. It is anticipated that a maximum of three channel
    cross sections will be required in Lurvey Spring and a maximum of
    five channel cross sections will be required between Echo Lake and
    Little Echo Pond.

d.  The survey shall be performed using optical survey equipment, and
    shall be referenced to the assumed vertical benchmark of the
    National Park Service topographic survey, shown on Figures 2 and 3
    in the Echo Lake Beach Facilities Environmental Assessment.

e.  The survey shall not be referenced to a horizontal coordinate
    system.

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3.  [Peak Flow Hydrology]{.underline}

The contractor will determine peak flows of the BFE (100 year
return-interval hydrologic event) in the vicinity of the Echo Lake
Beach.

4.  [Hydraulic Analysis]{.underline}

The contractor will perform a hydraulic analysis to determine the BFE in
the vicinity of Echo Lake Beach. The decision on whether to determine
the BFE using a steady or unsteady hydraulic analysis will be determined
in the course of the hydraulic analysis.

5.  [Hydrology and Hydraulics Report and Elevation Certificate
    Preparation]{.underline}

The contractor will prepare a hydrology and hydraulics report
documenting the work performed in tasks 2, 3 and 4 and complete an
Elevation Certificate.

6.  [Submission of Report and Elevation Certificate to FEMA]{.underline}

The contractor will submit a completed Elevaton Certificate with backup
information (i.e., Hydrology and Hydraulics Report) to FEMA with a
letter requesting a LOMA.

**QUALITY/TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS**

1\. All work shall be technically and legally defensible and in
compliance with the requirements of the National Environmental Policy
Act (NEPA) of 1969, regulations of the Council on Environmental Quality
(40 CFR 1500-1508); the National Park Service NEPA Compliance Guideline
(DO-12 "*Conservation Planning, Environmental Impact Analysis, and
Decision-making"*); and the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966
(as amended) and its implementing regulations.

2\. The Contractor\'s efforts shall ensure that all draft and final
deliverables are complete documents that have been reviewed for academic
excellence, professional and copy quality, and technical accuracy.
Documents not displaying such efforts will not be accepted.

**DELIVERABLES**

1\. The Contractor shall provide electronic copies (e-mail attachments
in MS WORD format) of the BFE to the Denver Service Center.

2\. The Contractor shall provide one (5) five hard copies to Denver
Service Center.

**SCHEDULE**

1\. Completed LOMA to FEMA not later than May 1, 2004.

**FEE AND PAYMENT**

Progress payments to the Contractor shall be made on the basis of proper
and acceptable invoices submitted monthly for the actual percentage of
services completed by the Contractor.

After completion of the work and as a prerequisite to the final payment
on the order, the Contractor shall furnish to the Contracting Officer a
Release of Claims. Such claims as are asserted by the Contractor and
excepted from operation of the Release shall be listed in spaces
provided after the word \"except\" and shall be referenced to
correspondence or other identifying data, together with monetary amount
for each major claim item.

Original invoices are to be mailed directly to Contracting Officer,
National Park Service, Denver Service Center, 12795 West Alameda
Parkway, P.O. Box 25287-CS, Denver, Colorado 80225-0287. For the
furnishing of all supplies and services required to accomplish all
services required under the preceding scope of services, the Contractor
shall be paid the firm-fixed amount of \$\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.