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The Department of the Interior announced today award of a $430,258 construction contract for a major expansion and remodeling of the Indian Bureau's boarding school plant at Seba Dalkai, Arizona.
The Anchor Construction Company of Roswell, New Mexico was awarded the contract. Six contractors from Arizona and New Mexico submitted higher bids ranging from $457,750 to $498,553.
When completed, the expansion will enable the school to accommodate 128 Navajo pupils, compared to 97 at the present. The project is part of the Bureau's long-range program of providing adequate educational opportunities for school-age Indian children.
To be constructed are a dormitory with kitchen and dining facilities, an addition and some remodeling to an existing school, and necessary staff quarters and utilities improvements.