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I ' Post Office Box 27307 United Siat~s Soil Depadment o¢ Conservalio~ Raleigh, Noyth Carolina -77611 Agriculture Service Telephone: 919~755-4210 September 17, 1981 Mr. Ralph Bonds, Chaiman Cabarzns Cotmty Co]missioners Post Office Box 707 Concord, North Carolina 28025 Dear Hr. Bonds: In a few months, the field work in the Cabarr~ soil sm~ey will be f~ish~. The next step is the preparation of the maps and m~uscript for publication. We ~ the Soil Conse]wation SerVice are mak~g plm~s for publishing the soil survey at this tflne. ~ September 5 m~d ~, several o{ ~'~!~?~8C$ met with Butcl~ Ch~dler~ Tom Speers, ~d ethers'of the Cabar~s st~ff to ~d{~hSs one Option for preparing the soil maps to be published~ ~is would e[~Ji%%~! 'digitizing tl~e soil map ~to the computer system berg utiliz~ to au~d~te com~ r~ords, in this process, compu~er tapes of the data would b~'~evelop~ m~d pTovid~ to the Service for use ~ publishing the soil maps. I~'e would also like to see a set of the tapes housed ~ the L~d Resources IRfo~tio~ Se~rice, DNRCD. Earlier this year, we learned that the Caban~s data syst~ ~d your cowry staff had this capabili~. Butch Ch~dler w~ contacted to lea~ if there was local ~terest ~ do~g this work. ~e ~ept~llbeT meeting was to assess the teclmical link [~ of the ~o CO~Uter systems ~d discuss fin~cial arr~lgements. t~e ~ S~ are i~ress~ with the preparation on the part o{ your local staff ~d their ~nteres~ ~ do~g ~his [mrk. '~lere are ~o te~mical reasons which preclude a successful result. Perhaps I should mention that this would be rite first occ~ion for a local staff to tu~dertake preparation of co~uter tapes ~d provide them To SCS for ~e ~ publication. 1here gte a nmber of mutugl beneEits ~ our jo~g together ~ this e{foTt. ?hey c~ be better s~at~ by Hessrs. ~dler ~d Speers th~ in a letter. For these re~ons~ we l~ould like to ~eRd the cooperative agreement between the Co~issio~ers ~d the Service Eo re~buTse Caba[~s Cowry, not to exceed $8000, to do this work. ACtach~ is a copy of the pressed ~en~ent. Please review the proposed ch~ges ~d take the action request~ if you approve. ~ter our meeting with the Cabarets staff, a notice was receiv~l from the Department of A~iculture which s~spend~ ~1 authori~ to procure ~P se[~ices of this t~e. We have already request~ approval to proceed with this work as mt exception to that s[mpension. If the exception is gr~t~, we will si~ the agreement m~d obligate the ~nds ne~ to do the work. You should not proceed with the work outlined ~ this letter ~d the attach~ ~en~ent ~til we noti~ you that f~ds are available.