Memaloose Island Cultural Resource Monthly Monitoring

The United States Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) intends to award a noncompetitive firm fixed price contract for the management of historic properties affected by operations of the Federal Columbia River Power System. The contract requires qualified staff, including a Tribal cultural representative, to visit Memaloose Island monthly to document ongoing effects from FCRPS operations and maintenance and gather information that can assist in meeting long-term cultural resource management objectives. The scope of work includes observing, documenting, and reporting on physical dynamics, recording site conditions, monitoring for looting and vandalism, accurate documentation of potential impacts, providing tribal insight, and providing recommendations for treatment of monitored sites. • Observing and documenting physical dynamics at monitored sites • Recording site conditions to provide information for future changes • Monitoring for looting, vandalism, and burial desecration • Accurate documentation of potential impacts and causal factors • Providing tribal insight about the religious and cultural significance of sites • Providing recommendations for treatment of monitored sites