Minarets IRSC Appendix B.pdf

Minarets Work Center (MWC) IRSC Sierra National Forest

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APPENDIX B - SCALED

STEWARDSHIP CONTRACT - TIMBER REMOVAL SPECIFICATIONS

B1.0 CONTRACT AREA

B1.1 Contract Area Map

B1.2 Claims

B2.0 TIMBER SPECIFICATIONS

B2.1 Included Timber

B2.11 Standard Timber

B2.12 Substandard Timber

B2.13 Damaged Timber

B2.131 Damaged by Contractor

B2.132 Negligent or Willful Damage

B2.134 Minor Damage by Natural Causes

B2.14 Unintentionally Cut Timber

B2.15 Construction Timber

B2.16 Other Material

B2.2 Utilization and Removal of Included Timber

B2.3 Timber Designations

B2.31 Clearcutting Units

B2.32 Construction Clearing

B2.33 Overstory Removal Units

B2.34 Understory Removal Units

B2.35 Individual Trees

B2.37 Minor Changes

B2.4 Volume Estimate

B3.0 RATES OF PAYMENT

B3.1 Current Contract Rates

B3.4 Other Payment Rates

B.341 Material Not in Division A

B3.42 Timber Cut Through Mistake

B3.43 Designated Timber Cut But Not Removed

B3.44 Undesignated Timber Damaged Without

Negligence

B3.45 Undesignated Timber Unnecessarily Damaged or Negligently or Willfully Cut

B3.46 Liquidated Damages

B3.47 Defect Caused by Abnormal Delay

B4.0 PAYMENTS

B4.1 Amount Payable for Timber

B4.2 Integrated Resource Account

B4.215 Deposits When Payment Guarantee

B6.0 OPERATIONS

B6.33 Safety

B6.4 Conduct of Logging

B6.41 Felling and Bucking

B6.411 Felling in Clearings

B6.412 Stump Heights

B6.413 Bucking Lengths

B6.414 Limbing

B6.42 Skidding and Yarding

B6.421 Rigging

B6.422 Landings and Skid Trails

B6.423 Skidding on Roads

B6.424 Arches and Dozer Blades

B6.63 Temporary Roads

B6.64 Landings

B6.65 Skid Trails and Fire Lines

B6.66 Current Operating Areas

B6.67 Erosion Control Structure Maintenance

B6.7 Slash Disposal

B6.8 Scaling

B6.81 Scaling Services

B6.811 Scaling Location

B6.812 Scaling Adjustments

B6.813 Delayed or Interrupted Scaling Services

B6.814 Weighing Services

B6.82 Presentation for Scaling

B6.83 Scaling Other Products

B6.84 Accountability

B6.841 Route of Haul

** B6.842 Product Identification

B6.85 Scaling Lost Products

B6.851 Scaling Lost Sample Loads

B6.86 Scale Reports

B8.0 OTHER CONDITIONS

B8.1 Title and Liability

B8.11 Title Passage

B8.12 Liability for Loss

B8.5 Sale of Other Materials

C2.2# Minimum Piece Size for Sawtimber. (2/2009)

C2.35# Utilization, Removal, and Amount Payable for

Non-Sawtimber. (5/2008)

C2.353# Designation by Damage Class (9/04)

C5.32# Road Maintenance Deposit Schedule (8/12)

C5.35# Road and Water Supply Use. (5/2008)

C6.22# Protection of Improvements. (5/2008)

C6.24# Site Specific Special Protection Measure (4/04)

C6.315# Sale Operations Schedule. (8/2006)

C6.331 Log Trucking. (8/2006)

C6.37 Substitute Methods. (8/2006)

C6.41# Felling, Bucking, and Limbing. (8/2007)

C6.42# Ground Based Skidding. (8/2006)

C6.5 Streamcourse Protection. (8/2006)

C6.6# Erosion Prevention and Control. (5/2008)

C6.7# Slash Treatment. (8/2006)

C6.817# Option 2 Load Count Services (7/2022)

C6.849 Product Accountability. (8/2006)

C7.2# Specified Fire Precautions. (6/2012)

C7.22# Emergency Precautions. (6/2012)

C8.66# Use of Timber (Option 1) (9/04)

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Division A

Location and Area:

This Contract Area of _81 acres is more or less located in T6S R21E., Section: 16 MDB&M.

Volume Estimate and Utilization Standards

Species Group Product

Estimated

Quantity*

Unit of

Measure

Minimum Specifications

Merchantable Tree Piece Required to be Removed

Diameter

Breast

High

(DBH)

(inches)

Number of

Minimum

Pieces per Tree

Length

(feet)

Diameter

Inside

Bark at

Small End

Net

Scale in

% Gross

Scale

Combined softwood 01** 675 Tons 10 1 10 6.0 40%

Timber Subject to Agreement

Total Quantity 675

**01 or 08 products may be removed per the Minimum Specifications.

Timber Designations, acres are approximate:

Number Acres

Clearcutting Units (B2.31)

Overstory Removal Units (B2.33)

Understory Removal Units (B2.34)

Individual Trees (B2.35) 1, 2, & 3 81

Designation by Description or Prescription (C2.351-C2.355) 1, 2, & 3 81

High Stumps

Species Product

Maximum Stump Height

All All 8 inches

Scaling Instructions and Specifications

Name and Date of Governing Instructions: National Forest Scaling Handbook, FSH 2409.11a, as authorized by

Regional Forester, February 2001

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Scaling Specifications

Species Product

Maximum

Scaling

Length

(feet)

Trim Allowance

Diameter

Range

(inches)

Length

Range

(feet)

Trim

Allowance

ALL ALL 20 ALL ALL 6

Scaling Services

Unit of

Measure Site and Geographic Location Method

Standard

Estimated

Cost per Unit

$0.00

Tons Douglas Station, T8S R23E Sec 18 Load Count

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service

TIMBER REMOVAL SPECIFICATIONS

CALUSES FOR SCALED TIMBER REMOVAL CONTRACTS

(Applicable to Contracts to be Measured After Felling)

This Division is organized into Parts, Sections, Subsections, and Items. These are numbered in accordance with the following scheme: Part Bl.0, Section Bl.1, Subsection Bl.11, and Item Bl.111. References to a Part include all Sections, Subsections, and Items within that Part; references to a Section include all Subsections and Items within that Section; and references to a Subsection include all Items within that Subsection. Cross references within this contract cite the reference number of the applicable Division, Part, Section, Subsection, and Item.

Descriptive headings used are not to be considered in determining the rights and obligations of the parties hereunder. The Standard Clauses in this Division are subject to Specific Conditions of the contract stated in

Division A. Wherever appropriate, Specific Conditions established in Division A are herein cited by reference number. References to Standard Clauses also apply to Special C Clauses with the same numbers. These clauses are applicable only to the timber removal portion of the Minarets Work Center (MWC) IRSC Stewardship

Contract except where otherwise specifically referenced. “Timber” when used in this appendix includes timber and other products.

B1.0—CONTRACT AREA

B1.1 Contract Area Map.

The boundaries of “Contract Area” and any subdivision thereof, are as shown on the attached “Contract Area

Map” that is made a part hereof, and were, before contract solicitation, designated on the ground by Forest

Service to meet the anticipated needs of the parties. The location of Contract Area and its approximate acreage are stated in Division A. Subdivisions may be revised and additional ones may be established only by written agreement.

Where applicable, the following are also identified on Contract Area Map:

(a) Identified claims limiting Contractor’s rights under B1.2

(b) Subdivisions defined in B2.3 where timber is to be Marked after date of contract solicitation

(c) Boundaries of Clearcutting Units, Overstory Removal Units, and Understory Removal Units under B2.3

(d) Diameter limits for Overstory Removal Units and Understory Removal Units under B2.33 and B2.34

(e) Areas where leave trees are Marked to be left uncut under B2.35

(f) Specified Roads

(g) Sources of base course, surface rock, and rock riprap listed in the Schedule of Items

(h) Roads where log hauling or use is prohibited or restricted

(i) Roads and trails to be kept open

(j) Improvements to be protected

(k) Locations of known wildlife or plant habitat and cave resources to be protected

(l) Locations of areas known to be infested with specific invasive species of concern

(m) Maximum stump heights when more than one height is listed by areas in Division A under B6.412

(n) Skidding or yarding methods specified under B6.42

(o) Streamcourses to be protected

(p) Locations of meadows requiring protection

(q) Locations of wetlands requiring protection

(r) Locations of temporary roads to be kept open; and

(s) Other features required by Division B or C.

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B1.2 Claims. Valid claims are excluded from Contract Area, except those on which timber cutting is authorized in writing by the claimant and except mining claims on which cutting is authorized by the Act of July 23, 1955

(30 USC 614). Claims that limit Contractor’s rights to operate under this contract and that Forest Service has been able to identify are shown on Contract Area Map. Contractor is not obligated to operate contrary to existing claim limitations. Forest Service shall designate boundaries of claims on the ground to the extent necessary to identify Included Timber.

B2.0—TIMBER SPECIFICATIONS

B2.1 Included Timber. “Included Timber” consists of:

B2.11 Standard Timber Live and dead trees and portions thereof that meet Utilization Standards under B2.2 and are designated for cutting under B2.3.

B2.12 Substandard Timber. Live and dead trees that:

(a) Do not meet Utilization Standards and

(b) Are located in Clearcutting Units or construction clearings or are otherwise designated for cutting.

B2.13 Damaged Timber.

B2.131 Damaged by Contractor. Undesignated live trees meeting Utilization Standards:

(a) Within 200 feet slope distance from centerline of roads constructed hereunder that are damaged by

Contractor’s construction to the extent that considerable deterioration or mortality is imminent and are designated by Forest Service for felling before the nearest road segment is Substantially

Completed or

(b) That are damaged by Contractor in logging or stewardship project operations and are subsequently

Marked before Contractor has completed work in the immediate area.

By agreement, such trees may be left without charge if their removal would cause undue damage or be grossly uneconomic.

B2.132 Negligent or Willful Damage. Undesignated timber meeting Utilization Standards and unnecessarily damaged or negligently or willfully cut by Contractor, if included by Contracting Officer.

B2.134 Minor Damage by Natural Causes. Undesignated trees within Contract Area and meeting Utilization

Standards, that become insect infested, wind-thrown, suffer serious damage, or die, as designated by agreement.

B2.15 Construction Timber. Trees to be used for construction under this contract.

B2.16 Other Material. Species or products not listed in the contract, upon written approval of Forest Service.

B2.2 Utilization and Removal of Included Timber. “Utilization Standards” for trees and minimum pieces are stated in Division A. To meet minimum tree specifications, trees must equal or exceed tree diameters listed in

Division A and contain at least one minimum piece. Except for timber required or authorized to be left

Contractor shall fell and buck such trees and shall remove from Contract Area and present for Scaling all pieces that:

(a) Meet minimum piece standards in Division A or

(b) Do not meet such standards but would have qualified as part of minimum pieces if bucking lengths were varied to include such material.

B2.3 Timber Designations. Timber designated for cutting shall be confined to Contract Area, except as

Page 6 of 40 Bass Lake Ranger District otherwise provided. Contract Area Map indicates subdivisions, if any, where Marking is to be done after contract solicitation, except for construction clearing, minor changes, and damaged timber. The boundaries of

Clearcutting Units, Overstory Removal Units and Understory Removal Units were plainly Marked on ground before contract advertisement and are shown on Contract Area Map. Boundary trees shall not be cut. The number of units and approximate acreage of timber designations are stated in Division A.

B2.31 Clearcutting Units. All trees that meet Utilization Standards within “Clearcutting Units” are designated for cutting.

B2.32 Construction Clearing. All timber is designated for cutting that is within the clearing limits of roads constructed hereunder or is in other authorized clearings. All dead or unstable live trees are designated for cutting that are sufficiently tall to reach Contractor’s landings, work areas, or the roadbed of Specified and

Temporary Roads when Marked in advance of work in the immediate area. Pieces meeting Utilization

Standards from such dead or unstable live trees shall be removed unless there is agreement that to do so could damage the road. Such designation may be revised as part of agreed changes in road locations.

B2.33 Overstory Removal Units. All trees within “Overstory Removal Units” are designated for cutting when they meet Utilization Standards and equal or exceed the diameter limits shown on Contract Area Map.

B2.34 Understory Removal Units. All trees within “Understory Removal Units” are designated for cutting when they meet Utilization Standards and are smaller than the diameter limits shown on Contract Area Map.

B2.34 Individual Trees. All trees to be cut, other than in the units described in B2.31, B2.32, B2.33, and B2.34, are Marked or designated by description. Trees are “Marked” when individually designated by Forest Service with paint marks above and below stump height. Contract Area Map indicates areas plainly identified on the ground where leave trees are Marked to be left uncut.

B2.37 Minor Changes. Within Contract Area, minor adjustments may be made in boundaries of cutting units or in the timber individually Marked for cutting when acceptable to Contractor and Forest Service.

B2.4 Volume Estimate. The estimated volumes of timber by species designated for cutting under B2.3 and expected to be cut under Utilization Standards are listed in Division A. If Contract Area Map indicates that there are incompletely Marked subdivisions, the objective of Forest Service shall be to designate for cutting in such subdivisions sufficient timber so that Contract Area shall yield the approximate estimated volume by species or species groups stated in Division A. However, the estimated volumes stated in Division A are not to be construed as guarantees or limitations of the timber volumes to be designated for cutting under the terms of this contract.

B3.0—RATES OF PAYMENT

B3.1 Current Contract Rates. Included Timber that is removed by Contractor and presented for Scaling in the product form stated in Division A shall be paid for at Current Contract Rates determined under this Section.

“Current Contract Rates” shall be Flat Rates. Flat Rates shall be those listed in the Schedule of Items –

Timber/Product Removal Price Schedule. In the event contract time is adjusted, Current Contract Rates shall be continued in the same manner as immediately prior to the adjustment period. In addition, Required Deposits, if applicable, shall be made as listed in C5.32# and C6.816#.

B3.4 Other Payment Rates.

B3.41 Material Not in Division A. Incidental amounts of products or portions of trees of species that do not meet Utilization Standards may be removed without charge. Such material may be purposely removed in more

Page 7 of 40 Bass Lake Ranger District than incidental amounts without charge upon written approval of Contracting Officer, and subject to agreement on deposits if needed for road maintenance and use. Other species or products not listed may be cut and removed upon written approval of Contracting Officer and subject to agreement on rates of payment. Timber for which the quantity is not included in the estimate, shall be paid for at Current Contract Rates and Required

Deposits.

B3.42 Timber Cut Through Mistake. Undesignated timber meeting Utilization Standards, cut by Contractor through mistake and included by Contracting Officer under B2.14, shall be removed and paid for at Current

Contract Rates and Required Deposits, unless such material is not listed in Division A. In such event, Contracting Officer, in accord with standard Forest Service methods, shall establish rates to be paid.

B3.43 Designated Timber Cut But Not Removed. Standard timber shall be removed, as provided in B2.2, prior to acceptance of a subdivision. There shall be no charge when:

(a) The leaving of incidental material is justified under existing conditions, or

(b) Cut timber is left by option or requirement.

B3.44 Undesignated Timber Damaged Without Negligence. Undesignated timber meeting Utilization

Standards, damaged without negligence by Contractor and designated by Forest Service under B2.131, shall be cut, removed, and paid for at Current Contract Rates and Required Deposits.

B3.45 Undesignated Timber Unnecessarily Damaged or Negligently or Willfully Cut. Undesignated timber meeting Utilization Standards and unnecessarily damaged or negligently or willfully cut by Contractor, if included by Forest Service, shall be cut, removed, and paid for at Current Contract Rates and Required Deposits that are in addition to liquidated damages under B3.46. If such timber is of a species or size not listed in

Division A or is of a quality different from designated timber, Contracting Officer shall establish payment rates in accord with standard Forest Service methods.

B3.46 Liquidated Damages. Unnecessary damage to or negligent or willful cutting of undesignated timber, as described in B3.45, on portions of Contract Area cut over under this contract is likely to cause substantial silvicultural or other damage to the National Forest. It will be difficult, if not impossible, to determine the amount of such damage. Therefore, Contractor shall pay as fixed, agreed, and liquidated damages an amount equivalent to the amount payable at Current Contract Rates. If designated by Contracting Officer, Contractor shall remove such damaged or cut timber and pay for it at Current Contract Rates.

B3.47 Defect Caused by Abnormal Delay. Scaling deductions made for rot, check, or other defect resulting from abnormal delay in Scaling caused by Contractor shall be recorded separately and charged to Integrated

Resource Account at Current Contract Rates and applicable deposits.

B4.0—PAYMENTS

B4.1 Amount Payable for Timber. Current Contract Rates and Required Deposits in effect when the timber is

Scaled shall be applied to the Scaled volume to determine the amount Contractor shall pay.

B4.2 Integrated Resource Account. “Integrated Resource Account” is an account maintained by Forest

Service of all Contractor’s deposits, credits, payment guarantees, and the charges for:

(a) Timber at Current Contract Rates

(b) Slash disposal, road maintenance at Required Deposit rates

(c) Stewardship Credits established

(d) Contract Scaling Deposits, and

(e) Other charges provided in this contract.

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Cash deposits and Stewardship Credits earned shall be recorded currently in such account.

Charges for timber cut shall be made when Forest Service prepares and furnishes to Contractor periodic statements of volume and value of such timber cut and Scaled. Charges against Stewardship Credits shall be limited to timber value in excess of Required Deposits. Required Deposits, and Other Charges shall be paid in cash.

Contractor shall make cash deposits to meet Contractor’s obligations within 15 days of billing by the Forest

Service. Deposits shall be made to Forest Service, USDA, by mail or delivery to the address shown on the bill for collection.

B4.215 Deposits When Payment Guaranteed. To the extent payment guarantee is provided under Clause entitled, “PRODUCT PAYMENT GUARANTEE” requirements for advance cash deposits shall be waived for the value of Product on contract area that is cut, but not removed, and for the value of Products removed from contract area, up to limit of remaining stewardship credits to be earned and exchanged for value of included product except for Required Deposits and Associated Charges. Associated charges shall be waived for not more than one monthly billing period.

B6.0—OPERATIONS

B6.33 Safety. Contractor’s Operations shall facilitate Forest Service’s safe and practical inspection of

Contractor’s Operations and conduct of other official duties on Contract Area. Contractor has all responsibility for compliance with safety requirements for Contractor's employees.

In the event that Contracting Officer identifies a conflict between the requirements of this contract or agreed upon methods of proceeding hereunder and State or Federal safety requirements, the contract shall be modified and Contractor may request an adjustment in Current Contract Rates to compensate for the changed conditions.

Unless otherwise agreed in writing, when Contractor’s Operations are in progress adjacent to or on Forest

Service controlled roads and trails open to public travel, Contractor shall furnish, install, and maintain all temporary traffic controls that provide the user with adequate warning of hazardous or potentially hazardous conditions associated with Contractor’s Operations. Contractor and Forest Service shall agree to a specific

Traffic Control Plan for each individual project prior to commencing operations. Devices shall be appropriate to current conditions and shall be covered or removed when not needed. Except as otherwise agreed, flagmen and devices shall be as specified in the “Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways”

(MUTCD) and as shown on Plans, Contract Area Map, Traffic Control Plan, or in specifications attached hereto.

B6.4 Conduct of Logging. Unless otherwise specifically provided herein, Contractor shall fell trees designated for cutting and shall remove the portions which meet Utilization Standards, except for occasional trees inadvertently not cut or trees or pieces not removed for good reason, including possible damage to forest resources or gross economic impracticability at the time of removal of other timber. Logging shall be conducted in accordance with the following, unless other clauses set forth requirements to meet special or unusual logging conditions:

B6.41 Felling and Bucking. Felling shall be done to minimize breakage of Included Timber and damage to residual timber. Unless agreed otherwise, felling shall be done by saws or shears. Bucking shall be done to permit removal of all minimum pieces set forth in Division A. Contractor may buck out cull material when necessary to produce pieces meeting Utilization Standards. Such bucked out material shall contain a minimum amount of sound wood, not in excess of the net scale in percentage of gross scale, or based on the merchantability factor, whichever is stated in Division A. If necessary to assess the extent of defect, Contractor shall make sample saw cuts or wedges.

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B6.411 Felling in Clearings. Insofar as ground conditions, tree lean, and shape of clearings permit, trees shall be felled so that their tops do not extend outside Clearcutting Units, construction clearings, and areas of regeneration cutting.

B6.412 Stump Heights. Stumps shall not exceed, on the side adjacent to the highest ground, the maximum heights set forth in Division A, except that occasional stumps of greater heights are acceptable when Contractor determines that they are necessary for safe and efficient conduct of logging. Unless otherwise agreed, Contractor shall re-cut high stumps so they will not exceed heights specified in Division A and shall dispose of severed portions in the same manner as other logging debris. The stump heights shown in Division A were selected with the objective of maximum reasonable utilization of the timber, unless Contract Area Map shows special areas where stump heights are lower for aesthetic, land treatment, or silvicultural reasons.

B6.413 Bucking Lengths. Trees shall be bucked in various lengths to obtain the greatest utilization of material meeting Utilization Standards.

B6.414 Limbing. When Forest Service determines it is necessary to minimize damage to the residual stand during skidding, Contractor shall cut exposed limbs from products prior to skidding. Contractor may leave uncut those limbs that cannot be cut with reasonable safety.

B6.42 Skidding and Yarding. Methods of skidding or yarding specified for particular areas, if any, are indicated on Contract Area Map. Outside Clearcutting Units and construction clearings, insofar as ground conditions permit, products shall not be skidded against reserve trees or groups of reproduction and tractors shall be equipped with a winch to facilitate skidding.

B6.421 Rigging. Insofar as practicable, needed rigging shall be slung on stumps or trees designated for cutting.

B6.422 Landings and Skid Trails. Location of all landings, tractor roads, and skid trails shall be agreed upon prior to their construction. The cleared or excavated size of landings shall not exceed that needed for efficient skidding and loading operations.

B6.423 Skidding on Roads. Products may be skidded on permanent roads authorized for hauling only by prior written agreement.

B6.424 Arches and Dozer Blades. Skidding tractors equipped with pull-type arches or dozer blades wider than tractor width or C-frame width, whichever is greater, shall not be used in residual timber outside Clearcutting

Units and other authorized clearings, except on constructed tractor roads or landings, unless there is written agreement that residual timber will not be damaged materially by such use.

B6.63 Temporary Roads. As necessary to attain stabilization of roadbed and fill slopes of Temporary Roads, Contractor shall employ such measures as out- sloping, drainage dips, and water-spreading ditches.

After a Temporary Road has served Contractor’s purpose, Contractor shall give notice to Forest Service and shall remove bridges and culverts, eliminate ditches, outslope roadbed, remove ruts and berms, effectively block the road to normal vehicular traffic where feasible under existing terrain conditions, and build cross ditches and water bars, as staked or otherwise marked on the ground by Forest Service. When bridges and culverts are removed, associated fills shall also be removed to the extent necessary to permit normal maximum flow of water.

B6.64 Landings. After landings have served Contractor’s purpose, Contractor shall ditch and slope them to permit water to drain or spread. Unless agreed otherwise, cut and fill banks around landings shall be sloped to remove overhangs and otherwise minimize erosion.

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B6.65 Skid Trails and Fire Lines. Contractor shall construct cross ditches and water-spreading ditches on tractor roads and skid trails, where staked or otherwise marked on the ground by Forest Service. Forest Service shall designate cross ditching on Contractor-built fire lines prior to or during construction. By agreement, Contractor may use other comparable erosion control measures, such as backblading skid trails, in lieu of cross ditching.

B6.66 Current Operating Areas. Where logging, road construction, or other stewardship project work is in progress but not completed, unless agreed otherwise, Contractor shall, before operations cease annually, remove all temporary log culverts and construct temporary cross drains, drainage ditches, dips, berms, culverts, or other facilities needed to control erosion.

Such protection shall be provided, prior to end of November 15, for all disturbed, unprotected ground that is not to be disturbed further prior to end of operations each year, including roads and associated fills, tractor roads, skid trails, and fire lines. When weather permits, operations during September 15th – June 15th Contractor shall keep such work on any additional disturbed areas as up to date as practicable.

B6.67 Erosion Control Structure Maintenance. During the period of this contract, Contractor shall provide maintenance of soil erosion control structures constructed by Contractor until they become stabilized, but not for more than 1 year after their construction. Contractor shall not be responsible for repair of such structures damaged by other National Forest users whose activities are not a part of Contractor’s Operations.

B6.7 Slash Disposal. Contractor’s timing of product removal and preparatory work shall not unnecessarily delay slash disposal. Specific slash disposal measures to be employed by Contractor are stated in elsewhere herein and are in addition to Required Deposits for slash disposal.

B6.8 Scaling. “Scaling,” as used herein, involves:

(a) Various volume determination methods, such as log rule, sampling, measuring, linear measuring,

(b) Various sites, such as truck Scaling stations, rollways, weighing stations, woods landings, water

Scaling stations, or other sites; and

(c) Various geographic locations.

B6.81 Scaling Services. Scaling services shall be performed by Forest Service personnel or parties under contract to Forest Service, except that weighing services may be performed by personnel or parties approved by

Forest Service. Scaling shall be provided in accordance with the instructions and specifications in Division A.

Scalers shall be currently certified to perform accurate Scaling services. The Scaling services provided shall be selected exclusively by Forest Service.

Scaling services may be Continuous, Intermittent, or Extended. “Continuous Scaling Services” is Scaling at one site five (5) 8-hour shifts a week, exclusive of Sundays and Federal holidays. “Intermittent Scaling

Services” are non-continuous Scaling services. “Extended Scaling Services” are Scaling services exceeding

Continuous Scaling Services and may include Sundays and designated Federal holidays.

Upon written request of Contractor and approval of Contracting Officer, Forest Service may provide other services, such as but not limited to grading, tagging, or marking of Scaled logs.

B6.811 Scaling Location. Forest Service shall provide Scaling services at the Scaling site(s) shown in

Division A. The Scaling site(s) shown in Division A normally will be a non-exclusive site where more than one National Forest contractor may be served.

Contractor may request, in writing, an alternate Scaling site, such as at a private mill yard, private truck ramp, or a privately operated log transfer facility. Contracting Officer may approve an alternate Scaling site, when

Contracting Officer determines that Scaling conditions at an alternate site are acceptable. Such conditions shall

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(a) Scaler safety and comfort,

(b) Product accountability and security,

(c) Facilities and practices conducive to accurate and independent Scaling, and

(d) The ability to provide for remote check Scaling. Upon approval of an alternate Scaling site, Forest

Service and Contractor shall enter into a written memorandum of agreement governing Scaling at that alternate location. Contractor agrees that Forest Service personnel or persons under contract with

Forest Service shall perform Scaling services at an alternative Scaling site. In no instance shall

Contractor or employees of Contractor perform Scaling services.

B6.812 Scaling Adjustments. Forest Service shall check the accuracy of the Scaling performed on National

Forest logs. Scaling will be satisfactory if performed within the accuracy standards stated in governing instructions identified in Division A. In the event Forest Service check Scale(s) shows a variance in net Scale in excess of the allowable variance, an adjustment to volume reported Scaled may be made by Forest Service.

Such adjustment will be based on the difference between Forest Service check Scale(s) and original Scale for contract volume Scaled within the adjustment period. The volume to which this difference will be applied will be:

(a) One-half of the volume Scaled between the last satisfactory check Scale and the first unsatisfactory check Scale or, if a period of 120 days or more occurs without Scaling National Forest timber for stumpage, the adjustment will be applied to 100 percent of the volume Scaled after this period and

(b) 100 percent of the volume Scaled between unsatisfactory check Scales and

(c) One-half of the volume Scaled between the last unsatisfactory check Scale and the next satisfactory check Scale, or if no satisfactory check Scale is completed and a period of 120 days or more occurs without Scaling of National Forest timber for stumpage, the adjustment will be applied to 100 percent of the volume Scaled since the last unsatisfactory check Scale.

Adjustments may increase or decrease the original Scaled volume. Adjustments will be applied to Integrated

Resource Account to correct charges for Included Timber, plus deposits, Scaled during the adjustment period.

B6.813 Delayed or Interrupted Scaling Services. In the event Scaling services are delayed or interrupted, Contractor shall discontinue hauling. Contractor further agrees that no logs will be presented for Scaling outside agreed upon Scaling services schedule.

B6.814 Weighing Services. Weighing services for stumpage payment purposes may be provided by either public or privately owned and operated weighing facilities. A “Weighing Services Agreement,” approved by the Forest

Supervisor, must be executed at each weighing facility providing weighing services.

Scales used to weigh National Forest products for payment purposes must be a currently certified scale in accordance with State law and be capable of weighing the entire load of logs in a single operation. The weighing of less than the entire load or weighing two loads at once is prohibited. Unless otherwise agreed, the minimum sized weighing facility shall be a 60-ton capacity scale with a 10-foot by 70-foot platform or larger.

The weighmaster must work in a position where it is possible to verify that the truck wheels are on or off the scales.

Weighing facilities shall meet the following minimum requirements:

(a) Be an electronic design,

(b) Use electronic load cells or have a fully enclosed and sealed weigh-beam,

(c) Have digital weight meters sealed with a seal approved by the State,

(d) Have a zero-interlocking device on the printer,

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(f) Have an automatic motion-detecting device,

(g) Be shielded against radio or electromagnetic interference, and

(h) Have a date and time stamp and gross and tare weights that print electronically with each weighing.

Contracting Officer may waive electronic printing for public or third-party weighing facilities.

Contractor shall bear all charges or fees for weighing services.

B6.82 Presentation for Scaling. Contractor shall present products so that they may be Scaled in an economical and safe manner. If prior to Scaling, Included Timber is to be mixed with other timber, Contractor shall, prior to mixing, provide for distinguishing, by means approved by Forest Service, each product included in this contract.

Trees or pieces presented for Scaling that have not been bucked to separate material meeting minimum piece standards from material not meeting minimum piece standards due to diameter, shall be Scaled as though such bucking had been done.

Deductions made for rot, check, or other defects resulting from abnormal delay in Scaling caused by Contractor shall be recorded separately and charged to Integrated Resource Account under B3.47.

Any timber that has been removed from Contract Area during the period of this contract, but remains unscaled after the Period of Performance Date, shall be Scaled at the earliest reasonable date.

B6.83 Scaling Other Products. The Scaled volume of material presented for Scaling in forms other than those stated in Division A, when appropriate, shall be converted to the Division A unit of measure by the application of standard converting factors and procedures in effect at the time the contract was sold. Other converting factors may be used by written agreement.

B6.84 Accountability. When Scaling is performed away from Contract Area, products shall be accounted for in accordance with Forest Service written instructions or an Accountability Agreement between Forest Service and

Contractor and as follows:

(a) Contractor shall plainly mark or otherwise identify products prior to hauling in accordance with

B6.842.

(b) Forest Service shall issue removal receipts to Contractor.

(c) Contractor shall assign a competent individual at the landing to complete removal receipts and attach them to each load of products removed from Contract Area.

(d) Removal receipts shall be returned to Forest Service at periodic intervals.

(e) When products are in transit, the truck driver shall possess or display removal receipt and show it upon request as evidence of authority to move products.

(f) The scaler’s portion of removal receipt shall be surrendered at point of Scaling, the unloading point, or as requested by Forest Service; and

(g) Contractor shall notify Forest Service of lost or off-loaded logs and their location within 12 hours of such loss.

Contractor shall not place products in storage for deferred Scaling until an accountability system has been agreed to in writing for a stated period.

B6.841 Route of Haul. As part of the annual Operating Schedule, Contractor shall furnish a map showing the route of haul over which unscaled products will be transported from Contract Area to the approved Scaling location. Such route of haul shall be the shortest, most economical haul route available between the points.

Upon advance written agreement, other routes may be approved. All unscaled products removed from Contract

Area shall be transported over the designated routes of haul. Contractor shall notify Forest Service when a load

Page 13 of 40 Bass Lake Ranger District of products, after leaving Contract Area, will be delayed for more than 12 hours in reaching Scaling location.

Contractor shall require truck drivers to stop, if requested by Forest Service, for the following reasons:

(a) For accountability checks when products are in transit from Contract Area to the designated Scaling location, or

(b) For a remote check Scale when products are in transit after being truck Scaled at the designated

Scaling location.

Contractor and Forest Service shall agree to locations for accountability checks and remote check Scales in advance of haul. Such locations shall be established only in areas where it is safe to stop trucks.

Forest Service shall notify Contractor of the methods to be used to alert truck drivers of an impending stop.

B6.842 Product Identification. Before removal from Contract Area, unless Contracting Officer determines that circumstances warrant a written waiver or adjustment, Contractor shall:

(a) Hammer brand all products that are eight (8) feet or more in length and one-third (1/3) or more sound, on each end that is seven (7) inches or more in diameter.

(b) West of the 100th meridian, paint with a spot of highway-yellow paint all domestic processing products that are eight (8) feet or more in length and one-third (1/3) or more sound, on each end that is seven (7) inches or more in diameter. Each paint spot must be no less than three (3) square inches in size.

(c) Contracting Officer shall assign brands and, if Contract Area is within a State that maintains a log brand register, brands shall be registered with the State. Contractor shall use assigned brand exclusively on logs from this contract until Contracting Officer releases brand. Contractor will furnish and apply highway-yellow paint of a lasting quality (oil-base or equivalent).

All hammer brands and/or highway-yellow paint must remain on logs until they are domestically processed.

Contractor shall replace identifying marks if they are lost, removed, or become unreadable. Contractor may remanufacture products into different log lengths. Except for logs remanufactured as part of the mill in-feed process immediately before processing, remanufactured products must be rebranded with the assigned contract brand and repainted with highway-yellow paint, unless otherwise agreed to in writing by Contracting Officer.

For such remanufactured products, Contracting Officer may approve use of a brand to be used exclusively as a catch brand, in lieu of the assigned contract brand.

B6.85 Scaling Lost Products. The volume of lost products shall be determined by the best methods currently available, using data from the records for the period in which the loss occurred or the most applicable period if loss should occur substantially after cutting. In the absence of specific information indicating size or species of lost products, species distribution and volume for entire truckloads shall be assumed to be the same as the average volume Scaled per truck during the report period, and for individual products it shall be assumed that the volume and species were the average volume of the highest priced species Scaled during the report period.

B6.851 Scaling Lost Sample Loads. If Scaling is being done by sampling loads of logs, Contractor shall present such sample loads for Scaling by Forest Service. If loads of logs selected to be sample Scaled are placed in the decks before they are Scaled, they will be considered as lost sample loads. It will be difficult, if not impossible, to determine the volume and species contained in such loads for payment purposes. Therefore, lost sample loads will be deemed to have a Scale volume and species composition equal to that of the highest value load Scaled during the sampling period, as established by Forest Service. If no sample loads were Scaled during the period, the Scale data for the high valued load will be taken from the most current preceding sampling period with Scale. Sample loads lost as a result of Forest Service actions shall be treated as non-Scaled loads.

B6.86 Scale Reports. Forest Service shall provide Contractor a copy of Forest Service scaler’s record, if requested in writing.

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B8.0—OTHER CONDITIONS

B8.1 Title and Liability.

B8.11 Title Passage. All right, title, and interest in and to any Included Timber shall remain in Forest Service until it has been cut, Scaled, removed from Contract Area or other authorized cutting area, and paid for, at which time title shall vest in Contractor. Timber cut under the terms of clause titled Product Payment Guarantee, shall be considered to be paid for. Title to any Included Timber that has been cut, scaled and paid for, but not removed from Contract Area or other authorized cutting area by Contractor on or prior to contract termination, shall remain in Forest Service.

B8.12 Liability for Loss. If Included Timber is destroyed or damaged by an unexpected event that significantly changes the nature of Included Timber, such as fire, wind, flood, insects, disease, or similar cause, the party holding title shall bear the timber value loss resulting from such destruction or damage; except that such losses after removal of timber from Contract Area, but before Scaling, shall be borne by Contractor at Current Contract

Rates and Required Deposits. Deterioration or loss of value of salvage timber is not an unexpected event.

In the event Included Timber to which Forest Service holds title is destroyed, Contractor will not be obligated to remove and pay for such timber. In the event Included Timber to which Forest Service holds title is damaged, Contracting Officer shall make an appraisal to determine for each species the difference between the appraised unit value of Included Timber immediately prior to the value loss and the appraised unit value of timber after the loss. Current Contract Rates in effect at the time of the value loss shall be adjusted by differences to become the redetermined rates.

There shall be no obligation for Forest Service to supply, or for Contractor to accept and pay for, other timber in lieu of that destroyed or damaged. This Subsection shall not be construed to relieve either party of liability for negligence.

B8.5 Sale of Other Materials. Forest Service reserves the right to sell from Contract Area during the period of this contract any materials or products not subject to its terms, but shall not permit removal, possession, or use thereof that will materially interfere with Contractor’s Operations. Contractor shall not be obligated to do any work made necessary by the action of others.

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C2.35# DESIGNATION OF TIMBER, CUTTING UNIT BOUNDARIES, AND SUBDIVISION/PAYMENT

UNIT BOUNDARIES (6/2012) Trees are designated for cutting under B2.35 only if designated as shown in the

Timber Designation table below. The boundaries of Subdivisions/Payment Units and Cutting Units are designated as shown in the Boundary Designation table below. Trees used for boundary designation are not to be cut.

SPECIFICATIONS PURSUANT TO C2.35# - DESIGNATION OF TIMBER. CUTTING UNIT

BOUNDARIES, AND SUBDIVISION/PAYMENT UNIT BOUNDARIES

Timber Designation Table

Cutting Unit/

Subdivision/Area/Pa yment Unit

Tree

Paint

Color

Designation or Specification

All

Blue

Hazard Tree. Notwithstanding B2.32 all dead and unstable live trees which are leaning towards a road or are otherwise hazardous to a road, and are sufficiently tall to reach

Contractor's landings or the roadbed of National Forest

System roads within Contract Area, shall be felled by

Contractor when Marked in the specified paint color above and below stump height by Forest Service in advance of felling any other timber in the vicinity. Pieces meeting

Utilization Standards from such dead and unstable live trees shall be removed unless Contractor is notified in writing that removal would cause unacceptable damage to areas requiring special protection such as residual timber, roads, administrative sites, streamside management zones, and areas identified on Contract Area Map or on the ground.

ALL

Blue

Individual Tree Mark. Individual trees are designated for cutting only if Marked above and below stump height with the specified paint color.

Leave Tree Mark. All live < > are designated for cutting unless Marked as leave trees. Leave trees are Marked above and below stump height with the specified paint color.

Contract Area Map indicates areas plainly identified on the ground where leave trees are Marked to be left uncut.

Orange

Wildlife Trees. Notwithstanding the designation for cutting under B2.3l, B2.33, B2.34,or B2.35, trees which are identified by standard Forest Service metal wildlife tree sign or painted with the specified paint color on the uphill and downhill side, shall be left uncut. In event such trees are destroyed in Contractor's Operations, Forest Service may designate alternate trees to be saved.

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Black

Marked Out Trees. When it is necessary to delete previously marked trees, an unique tree marking paint color will be

Marked over or adjacent to the original mark, but will not obscure the original marking. Trees Marked with the original marking paint color and the unique tree marking paint color are not Included Timber.

N/A Designation by Spacing C2.351#

N/A Designation by Species and Diameter, C2.352#

ALL Designation by Damage Class, C2.353#

N/A Designation by Row Spacing, C2.354#

Subdivision/Payment Unit and Cutting Unit Boundary Designation Table

Subdivision/Payment

Unit

Boundary Paint

Color

Boundary Designation

N/A

Cutting Unit Boundary Paint

Color

Boundary Designation

ALL Orange

C2.353# – DESIGNATION BY DAMAGE CLASS. (9/04) Within Subdivision(s) or cutting unit(s) _ALL__, as shown on Contract Area Map, the following criteria are used to designate trees and other products for cutting and removal:

(a) Dead trees that do not have any remaining green foliage and have a height that is equal to 11/2 times the height of the tree from the horizontal distance of the base of the tree to roads, turnout, campground, or other facility and also presents a felling hazard towards the roads, turnout, campground, or other facility available to the public. Also, logs that have been previously felled.

(b) Additional trees to be cut, if any, are Marked with 2/___Blue____ paint.

(c) Cutting unit boundaries and other trees that shall be left uncut are Marked with 2/___Orange____ paint.

C5.35# – ROAD AND WATER SUPPLY USE. (5/2008) National Forest water supply locations, access, method of filling trucks, period of water availability and procedures designed to maintain water quality at each location shall be agreed in advance of use. Such use shall at no time reduce water supplies to the level that further use may be detrimental to aquatic resources or other established use. Waterholes and other

Page 17 of 40 Bass Lake Ranger District improvements relating to said water supplies shall be put into condition, prior to expected seasonal periods of precipitation or runoff, to avoid resource damage.

Damage to resources at such locations caused by Contractor's Operations, other than fire suppression activities, shall be repaired by Contractor in a timely and agreed manner to the extent practicable to restore and prevent further resource damage.

Unless otherwise agreed, Contractor’s use of roads and other water supply requirements shall conform to the following table.

SPECIFICATIONS PURSUANT TO C5.35# - REQUIREMENTS OF ROAD AND WATER SUPPLY USE

Load

Limitations

Contractor shall notify Forest Service in writing of the planned size and load distribution for equipment which exceeds the State of California Vehicle Code legal size and weight, and the National Forest System roads to be used. Such notice may be part of plan of operation under B6.311. Within l5 days after receipt of the written notice Forest Service shall notify Contractor in writing of any regulations or restrictions that may be needed to protect National Forest

Transportation Facilities.

A written permit shall be required for moving any vehicle which is in excess of the established legal size and weight which is not listed in the above plan, except as may be authorized in prior written agreements.

Existing Non-

National Forest

System Roads

Roads not shown on Contract Area Map may be used as Temporary Roads if there is agreement before use is started.

Snow Removal

If Contractor removes snow from roads, such work shall be done with Forest

Service approval and in a manner that will protect roads and adjacent resources.

Snow berms shall be removed or placed to avoid accumulation of melt water on the road and prevent water concentration on erosive slopes or soils.

Snow must not be removed to the road surface. A minimum < 6 > inch snow depth must be left to protect the roadway. If the road surface is damaged, Contractor shall replace lost surface material and repair structures damaged in blading operations prior to hauling, unless climatic conditions prevent necessary work from…