Description
The National Park Service intends to award a single-source justified cooperative agreement for the Zion Canyon Trail Maintenance & Repair project. The project aims to provide opportunities for public service youth employment and training in conservation-related work, specifically maintaining historic infrastructure and rehabilitating historic trails and their associated structures. The recipient will be responsible for carrying out the statement of work, developing a youth conservation corps program, recruiting and hiring youth, and providing supervision, transportation, tools, and other support for crews. The NPS will monitor and provide federal oversight of activities performed under the agreement.
Key aspects of the project include:
• Maintaining historic infrastructure and rehabilitating historic trails and their associated structures
• Providing opportunities for public service youth employment and training in conservation-related work
• Developing a youth conservation corps program
• Recruiting and hiring youth from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, low- and moderate-income families, and those unemployed and/or out of school
• Providing supervision, transportation, tools, and other support for crews