[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 40 (Tuesday, March 3, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 9266]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-4540]


-----------------------------------------------------------------------

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Temporary Concession Contract for Lake Chelan National Recreation 
Area, WA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

ACTION: Notice of proposed award of temporary concession contract for 
the Lake Chelan National Recreation Area, WA.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

SUMMARY: Pursuant to 36 CFR 51.24, public notice is hereby given that 
the National Park Service proposes to award a temporary concession 
contract for the conduct of certain visitor services within Lake Chelan 
National Recreation Area, Washington for a term not-to-exceed 3 years. 
The visitor services include overnight accommodations, food and 
beverage, retail, fuel, and transportation services. This action is 
necessary to avoid interruption of visitor services.

DATES: The term of the temporary concession contract will commence (if 
awarded) no earlier than March 1, 2009.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The temporary concession contract is 
proposed to be awarded to Stehekin Adventure, LLC, a qualified person. 
Stehekin Adventure, LLC, also is the incumbent concessioner, who 
operated all visitor services, after a sale and transfer was completed 
in 2006, under Concession Contract CC-LACH003-94. The 1998 Concessions 
Management Improvement Act provides by its terms that, to avoid 
interruption of services to visitors, the National Park Service may 
award non-competitively a temporary contract to perform such services 
for a term not-to-exceed 3 years in aggregate. 16 U.S.C. 5952(11). 
Because this temporary contract will not exceed 3 years, this action 
complies with the provisions of this statutory provision.
    The National Park Service issued a prospectus on March 21, 2008, 
closing on June 4, 2008, for solicitation of a new 10-year concession 
contract; however, no proposals were received. The National Park 
Service has determined that a temporary contract is necessary in order 
to avoid interruption of visitor services and has taken all reasonable 
and appropriate steps to consider alternatives to avoid an interruption 
of visitor services.
    This action is issued pursuant to 36 CFR 51.24(b). This is not a 
request for proposals.

    Dated: February 3, 2009.
Ernest Quintana,
Acting Deputy Director, Operations.
[FR Doc. E9-4540 Filed 3-2-09; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4310-70-P