Management of Undesirable Plants on USACE Lands at Willamette Valley Project, Oregon

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Portland District (NWP) intends to enter into a cooperative agreement with a state agency responsible for the administration or implementation of undesirable plants laws of the state, who will provide professional services to assist USACE with the management of undesirable plants on federal lands managed by the Natural Resource Management section associated with the thirteen dams of the Willamette Valley Project (WVP) in Oregon’s Lane, Benton, Linn, and Marion Counties. The cooperative agreement will be awarded pursuant to 7 U.S.C. § 2814 Federal Noxious Weed Act of 1974. The recipient for this cooperative agreement must be a state department of agriculture, or other state agency or political subdivision thereof, responsible for the administration or implementation of undesirable plants laws of a state.