Summary
Services that may be required under this contract would be detailed in individual Performance Work Statements. These services may include, but are not necessarily limited to, the character of services outlined below. Background literature, archival, and courthouse record research and informant interviews, including preparation of land use histories, research of federal, state, and local regulatory agencies. Field work might not be necessary to meet this requirement unless specified. Geomorphological and environmental reconstruction.
Reconnaissance and sample surveys. Intensive, comprehensive cultural resources surveys. Architectural evaluation of standing structures, and structural conservation. Assessment, treatment, stabilization, restoration and preservation of historic wood, historic masonry, and mortar materials, including cleaning methods, paint removal, removal of biological growth or other destructive agents, mortar analysis, preparation of mortar joints and re-pointing, forensic evaluation of material conditions, use of protective coatings and water repellants, and the repair and treatment of concrete materials. National Register of Historic Places assessments of engineering structures and historic resources.
Test excavation of archeological sites for assessment of National Register of Historic Places eligibility and, if significant, preparation of detailed data recovery plans. Assessments of project impacts to cultural resources. Various types of mitigation including, but not limited to, archeological data recovery, forensic recovery, architectural mitigation measures, Historic American Building Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey (HABS/HAER/HALS) recordation, scaled drawings, popular histories, and collection of oral histories.