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12.21 Exhibit 04

BMP 2.4 - Road Maintenance and Operations

Objective: To ensure water-quality protection by providing adequate and appropriate maintenance and by controlling road use and operations.

Explanation: Appropriate maintenance and control of road use and operations can protect water quality, aquatic and riparian resources, and capital investments. Maintenance needs and operational controls are informed by periodic inventory and assessment that determine road condition and the potential impacts the road has on water quality.

Properly designed and maintained road surfaces and drainage systems can reduce adverse effects to water resources by facilitating natural hydrologic function. Roads and drainage systems normally deteriorate because of traffic, weather, and effects of maintenance. In addition, roads occasionally become saturated by new groundwater springs and seeps after a wildfire or unusually wet periods.

Many such conditions can be corrected by timely maintenance. However, while routine maintenance may be needed to ensure the road performs as designed, it can also be a source of soil disturbance and therefore, sediment production. In particular, the grading of inside ditches and road surfaces can significantly increase sediment production rates. Less aggressive maintenance may be desired to minimize disturbance of stable sites.

Road management objectives include the level and type of maintenance that a road is expected to receive. Assigned road maintenance levels vary from 1 to 5, and are directly linked to the operational objectives for the road. Maintenance Level 1 is assigned to roads closed to all motorized vehicles for a year or more; they should be left in a stable condition, and by definition, require less maintenance.

Maintenance Levels 4 and 5 are assigned to roads that are typically double-lane, aggregate-surfaced or paved, and passenger vehicle traffic is “encouraged.” They are well maintained to provide a moderate to high degree of user comfort and convenience.

Operational objectives and activities are also defined by the road management objectives, and depend upon the amount of maintenance a road is expected to receive. Road operations also include permit, contract, and agreement administration, control of seasonal use, sustaining roads in closed status and revising maintenance levels and seasonal closures, as needed. Road closures and restrictions are necessary because many forest roads are designed for dry-season use. Most local roads are not surfaced, while others have some surfacing or spot stabilization. Roads without stabilized surfaces or adequate base can be damaged by use during wet periods or by loads heavier than the road was designed to convey. Road maintenance plans are implemented through contract, cooperators, force account, and active timber sale or other authorized activities. Contract, timber sale, and other authorized or permitted operations are bound by specifications and drawings. BMPs are incorporated as specifications, contract or sale clauses, operating plan requirements, permit clauses, and are often

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shown in the drawings. The contracting officer’s representative is responsible for assuring compliance by contractors; engineering representative, TSA, or FSR assures compliance by cooperator, purchaser or permitted operator. Project manager and crew supervisor assures compliance for force account work. Optimally, the forest hydrologist works with the forest quality assurance personnel to determine if approved maintenance tasks are completed with minimal resource impacts. Adjustments to future maintenance plans and methods are considered when previous methods do not provide the needed protection to water quality.

Risk from road maintenance activities can be managed by using the appropriate techniques from the following list adapted as needed to local site conditions.

Implementation

Inspection:

1. Periodically inspect system travel routes to assess condition and linkage to water quality.

This information assists in setting maintenance and improvement priorities.

a. Provide training to the engineering personnel performing condition surveys to successfully identify and assess linkage to water quality.

b. Conduct condition surveys jointly with engineering and hydrology personnel, to more accurately assess potential of road to impact water quality.

c. Prioritize inspections to roads at high risk of failure, followed by road segments that are hydrologically connected to the stream network, to reduce risk of diversions and cascading failures.

d. Identify diversion potential on roads, and prioritize for treatment.

2. Inspect drainage structures and runoff patterns after major storm events and snowmelt, and perform any necessary maintenance. Major storm events include all storm events for which the National Weather Service issues a local flood watch, advisory, or warning.

a. Determine the extent of hydrologic connectivity during and/or just after major storm events, including the connectivity of disturbed areas directly adjacent to the road network. Use this information to prioritize and plan improvements to road drainage.

b. Immediately clean out, repair or reconstruct waterbars, inside ditches, culverts, and other features that are not functioning in order to hydrologically disconnect roads

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3. Regularly inspect roads during all operations.

4. Keep roads closed to public use, but open for administrative use, in hydrologically functional condition. If waterbars are breached, forest personnel will promptly repair them.

5. Encourage field personnel of all disciplines to observe road deterioration or damage commensurate with travel to field activities, and report to engineering, for immediate action, if necessary.

a. Restrict operations if impact or imminent threat of impact to water quality is occurring.

b. Consider restricting operations if road damage such as surface displacement or active rutting is occurring.

Maintenance Planning:

1. Incorporate the forest’s Wet Weather Operations Standards and notification protocols in maintenance and operations.

2. Develop and implement an erosion control plan commensurate with the complexity and scale, and duration of the activity. See BMP 2.13.

3. Develop and implement annual maintenance plans that prioritize road maintenance work for the forest or district.

a. Include roads identified as needing maintenance from field condition surveys, and roads identified through roads analysis and travel analysis that negatively impact water quality.

b. Determine method of accomplishment (contract, force account, permit, and cooperative) and define responsibilities and maintenance timing in the plan.

4. Planning for emergency interim/temporary erosion controls to protect water quality is considered for roads that may require immediate maintenance, but are beyond capability of annual maintenance plan.

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5. Identify roads with potential to improve water quality by modifying road prism and drainage patterns through maintenance operations.

a. Analyze roads in an interdisciplinary manner to identify other impacts that may occur due to changes in road prism or drainage patterns. Consider local conditions and site characteristics.

b. Implement diversion potential method per Forest Service Publication 9777.1814P-

SDTDC Diversion Potential at Road-Stream Crossings.

c. Consider user safety and protection of other forest resources.

d. Provide training and reference materials for forest road managers, road maintenance operators, and road maintenance contract preparation personnel to work with hydrologists in identifying appropriate roads for revised maintenance procedures.

6. Evaluate road management objectives when an inspection indicates road design is not meeting current transportation and/or resource needs. Road management objectives support forest LRMP prescriptions.

Maintenance Activities:

1. Maintain road surfaces to dissipate intercepted water in a uniform manner along the road by outsloping with rolling dips, insloping with drains, or crowning with drains. Where feasible and consistent with protecting public safety, utilize outsloping and rolling the grade

(rolling dips) as the primary drainage technique.

2. Adjust surface drainage structures to minimize hydrologic connectivity by:

a. Discharging road runoff to areas of high infiltration and high surface roughness.

b. Armoring drainage facility outlet as energy dissipater and to prevent gully initiation.

c. Increasing the number drainage facilities with SMZs.

3. Clean ditches and drainage structure inlets only as often as needed to keep them functioning. Prevent unnecessary or excessive vegetation disturbance and removal on features such as swales, ditches, shoulders, and cut and fill slopes.

4. Minimize diversion potential by installing diversion prevention dips that can accommodate overtopping runoff.

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a. Place diversion prevention dips downslope of crossing, rather than directly over the crossing fill, and in a location that minimizes fill loss in the event of overtopping.

b. Armor diversion prevention dips when the expected volume of fill loss is significant.

5. Address risk and consequence of future failure at the site when repairing road failures. Use vegetation, rock, and other native materials to help stabilize failure zones.

6. Maintain road surface drainage by removing berms, unless specifically designated otherwise.

7. Install and preserve markers to identify and protect drainage structures that can be damaged during maintenance activities (that is, culverts, subdrains, and so forth)

8. When grading roads or cleaning drainage structure inlets and ditches, avoid undercutting the toe of the cut slope.

9. Grade road surfaces in accordance with road management objectives and assigned maintenance level. Grade only as needed to maintain a stable running surface and adequate surface drainage.

10. Accompany grading of hydrologically connected road surfaces and inside ditches with erosion and sediment control installation.

11. Identify additional road maintenance measures to protect and maintain water; aquatic, and riparian resources including: surfacing and resurfacing, outsloping, dips and cross drains, armoring of ditches, spot rocking, replacing culverts, and installing new drainage features.

12. Effectively maintain roads in storage to eliminate all motorized vehicle use. Maintain physical closure devices, if present, to be safe and effective. For roads where physical closure methods are not feasible, install signing to inform of road closure.

13. Enforce pre-haul maintenance, maintenance during haul, and post haul maintenance

(putting the road back in storage) specifications when maintenance level 1 roads are opened for use on commercial resource management projects. Require the commercial operator to leave roads in a satisfactory condition when project is completed.

14. Opened for use on commercial resource management projects. Require the commercial operator to leave roads in a satisfactory condition when project is completed

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Operations:

1. Restrict or prohibit road use during periods when such use would likely damage the roadway surface or road drainage features are identified through Travel Analysis and Travel

Management, and implement through enforcement of motor vehicle use map. Changes in road management are supported by appropriate analysis. Follow the forest’s WWOS. See

BMP 2.13.

2. Require users to obtain permit(s) when proposed operations involve use of roads by vehicles larger than the design vehicle, or beyond typical operation period or season of use

(that is, timber purchasers, mining operations, oversize vehicle movement, and so forth.

Conditions of the permitted use may require:

a. Strengthening the road surface by adding rock, dust palliatives, pavement, or armor, particularly in areas where surfaces are vulnerable to movement such as corners and steep sections.

b. Considering short-term road surface stabilization by dust abatement methods, such as watering.

c. Upgrading drainage structures.

d. Restricting use to low-ground-pressure vehicles or frozen ground conditions.

e. Strengthening the road base if roads are tending to rut.

f. Using a base course of rock and/or geotextile fabric to provide subsurface stability.

g. Intensifying maintenance to handle the traffic without creating excessive erosion and damage to the road surface.

h. Repairing damage to road and forest resources associated with use by permittee.

i. Restoring the road to original standard of features, such as restoring waterbars.

3. To the extent possible, ensure drainage features are fully capable of preventing pollutant discharges to surface waters before the start of the local winter season (such as November

16 to March 31) or before the start of runoff-inducing precipitation events.

4. Permits to oversize or overweight loads require that damage by such loads be repaired by the permit holder. Damage includes impacts to water quality.

5. Cooperative maintenance agreements follow Forest Service direction for use, maintenance, repairs, and responsibilities.

6. Roads under easement are subject to terms of conditions for operation and maintenance.

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BMP 2.8 - Stream Crossings

Objective: Minimize water, aquatic, and riparian resource disturbances and related sediment production when constructing, reconstructing, or maintaining temporary and permanent water crossings.

Explanation: Stream crossings present the highest risk to water quality associated with roads. Forest management activities often occur in areas that require surface waters to be crossed. Depending on the activity type and duration, crossings may be needed permanently or temporarily. Permanent crossings are designed to meet applicable standards while also protecting water, aquatic, and riparian resources.

Examples of crossings include culverts, bridges, arched pipes, low water crossings, fords, vented fords, and permeable fills. Crossing materials and construction will vary, based on the type of access required and volume of use expected. Optimally, crossings should be designed and installed to provide passage for the flow of water plus anticipated sediment and debris, provide for desired aquatic organism passage, and minimize disturbance to the surface and shallow groundwater resources. Sizing is based on a weighed balance between providing for larger storm events, and cost feasibility, while still meeting other resource objectives.

Construction, reconstruction, and maintenance of a water crossing usually requires heavy equipment to be in and near streams, lakes, and other aquatic habitats to install or remove culverts, fords and bridges and their associated fills, abutments, piles, and cribbing. Such disturbance near the waterbody can increase the potential for accelerated erosion and sedimentation from destabilization of streambanks or shorelines, vegetation and ground cover removal, and soil exposure or compaction. In addition, heavy equipment has potential for contamination of the surface water from vehicle fluids.

Permits may be required for in-stream work associated with stream crossing construction and maintenance projects. There are specific requirements for such projects under the Clean Water Act and implementing regulations. State and local entities may also provide guidance and regulations.

The risk from construction, reconstruction or maintenance of stream crossings can be managed by using the appropriate techniques from the following list adapted as needed to local site conditions.

Implementation:

Enforcement of the techniques is the responsibility of the inspector and contracting officer’s representative for public works contracts, the inspector and engineering representative for timber

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12.21 Exhibit 08

-- Continued BMP 2.8 - Stream Crossings sale roads, and the permit administrator for stream crossings constructed or reconstructed under administrative operations (for example, Road Use Permit, Special Use Permit). If stream crossings are constructed, reconstructed, or maintained by force account crews, the project manager and foreman are responsible for adherence to project drawings, specifications, and Erosion Control Plan.

The forest hydrologist works in conjunction with engineering and administrative personnel to provide additional monitoring and evaluation during implementation, as needed.

Location and Design:

1. Locate roads in an interdisciplinary manner with a hydrologist, soils scientist, and geologist if necessary.

2. Plan and locate surface water crossings to limit the number and extent required to service the activity.

3. Design the stream crossing to pass the 100-year flood flow plus associated sediment and debris; armor to withstand design flows and to provide desired passage of fish and other aquatic organisms.

4. Locate and design crossings to minimize disturbance to the waterbody.

5. Use structures appropriate to the site conditions and traffic levels:

a. Favor bridges, bottomless arches, or buried pipe-arches for those streams with identifiable floodplains and elevated road prisms, instead of pipe culverts.

b. Place bridge and arch footings below the scour depth for the 100-year flood flow plus the appropriate factor of safety.

c. Favor armored fords for those streams where vehicle traffic is either seasonal or temporary, or the ford design maintains the channel pattern, profile and dimension.

d. For perennial streams, use vented fords, so that the crossing can pass low flows.

6. See BMP BMP 2.2: General Guidelines for the Location and Design of Roads, for further guidance.

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BMP 2.8 - Stream Crossings

Construction and reconstruction - permanent and temporary crossings:

1. Implement the approved erosion control plan that covers all disturbed areas, including borrow areas, stockpiles, stream diversions, etc. used during stream crossing construction or reconstruction (see BMP 2.13- Erosion Control Plan).

a. Use temporary filters, berms, barriers, conveyances or other materials to collect sediment and prevent it from entering surface waters.

b. Set the minimum construction limits needed for the project and confine disturbance to within this area.

2. Accurately establish and preserve vertical control through design invert and outlet elevations on site for each crossing, to assure that the constructed stream-crossing structure will perform as intended, and promote effective drainage without damage or impact to water, aquatic, or riparian resources.

3. Accurately establish and preserve horizontal alignment for each stream-crossing structure, to assure that flows do not erode stream banks or shoreline.

4. Install stream crossings according to project design specifications and drawings. Design should sustain bankfull dimensions of width, depth and slope, and maintain streambed and bank resiliency.

5. Minimize streambank and riparian area excavation during construction:

a. Stabilize adjacent areas disturbed during construction using surface cover (mulch), retaining structures, and or mechanical stabilization materials.

b. Keep excavated materials out of channels, floodplains, wetlands, and lakes.

c. Install silt fences or other sediment- and debris-retention barriers between the water body and construction material stockpiles and wastes.

6. Bypass roads for use during construction are considered temporary roads, and are subject to the all relevant BMPs. Decommissioning and stabilization of the bypass roads are inherent in the project plan.

7. Ensure imported fill materials meet project specifications, and are free of toxins and invasive aquatic or riparian species.

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8. To the extent possible, conduct operations during the least critical periods for water and aquatic resources: when streams are dry; during low-water conditions; in compliance with spawning and breeding season restrictions.

9. Divert or dewater stream flow for all live streams or standing waterbodies during crossing installation and invasive maintenance:

a. Return clean flows to channel or water body downstream of the activity.

b. Restore flows to their natural stream course as soon as possible after construction or prior to seasonal closures.

c. Install downstream collection basins, retention facilities, or filtering systems as needed to capture and retain turbid water.

d. Remove collected sediment as needed to maintain their design capacity during the life of the project.

10. Construct diversion prevention dips to accommodate overtopping of runoff if diversion potential exists, when shown on project drawings and specifications. Locate diversion prevention dips downslope of the crossing rather than directly over crossing fill; if designed, armor diversion prevention dips based on soil characteristics and potential risk.

11. Install cross drains (for example, rolling dips; waterbars) to hydrologically disconnect the road above the crossing and to dissipate concentrated flows.

12. Remove all project debris from the water body in a manner that will cause the least disturbance.

13. Dispose of unsuitable material in approved waste areas outside of the SMZ.

14. Clean equipment used for instream work prior to entering the water body:

a. Remove external oil, grease, dirt and mud from the equipment and repair leaks prior to arriving at the project site.

b. Inspect all equipment before unloading at site.

c. Inspect equipment daily for leaks or accumulations of grease, and correct identified problems before entering streams or areas that drain directly to waterbodies.

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d. Remove all dirt and plant parts to ensure that noxious weeds and aquatic invasive species are not brought to the site.

15. Fuel and service equipment used for in-stream or riparian work (including chainsaws and other hand power tools) only in designated areas (see BMP 2.10).

16. Fully suspend logs, pipes, posts and other transported materials when crossing waterbodies and SMZs.

17. Restore the original surface of the streambed, lake bottom, or wetland upon completing the crossing construction or maintenance. Construct the surface of the streambed according to project specifications and drawings for aquatic passage projects. Stockpile materials by strata or as indicated by specified design criteria when extensive dredging or excavation of these substrates is required.

18. Stabilize streambanks, shorelines, cut and fill slopes, turnouts, and other disturbed areas adjacent to the water resource following crossing installation or maintenance:

a. Use riprap or rock, wood, vegetation, and other native materials as appropriate.

b. Install riprap or other slope protection to prevent erosion from water movement.

c. Size rock slope protection for the 100-year flood flow.

d. Use appropriate construction techniques (keying in riprap) and underlayments (filter blankets or other geotextile) to prevent undermining.

e. Ensure stone used for riprap is free of weakly structured rock, soil, organic material, and other material not resistant to erosive water action.

f. Place stable materials below drainage outlets on erodible soils to dissipate energy.

19. Provide effective soil cover (mulch, woody debris, rock, vegetation, blankets) on exposed soil surfaces for both short- and long-term recovery.

20. Revegetate disturbed areas.

21. Stabilize temporary crossings that must remain in place during high-runoff seasons.

22. Remove temporary crossings and restore the waterbody profile and substrate when the need for the crossing no longer exists.

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Maintenance:

1. Implement the approved erosion control plan that covers all disturbed areas, including borrow areas, stockpiles, stream diversions used during stream-crossing maintenance and culvert cleaning (see BMP 2.13- Erosion Control Plan). Use temporary filters, berms,

2. barriers, conveyances, or other materials to collect sediment and prevent it from entering surface waters.

3. Remove all project debris from the stream or creek in a manner that will cause the least disturbance.

4. Dispose of unsuitable material in approved waste areas outside of the SMZ.

5. Clean equipment used for instream work prior to entering the stream/creek.

a. Remove external oil, grease, dirt and mud from the equipment, and repair leaks prior to arriving at the project site.

b. Inspect all equipment before unloading at site.

c. Inspect equipment daily for leaks or accumulations of grease, and correct identified problems before entering streams or areas that drain directly to waterbodies.

d. Remove all dirt and plant parts to ensure that noxious weeds and aquatic invasive species are not brought to the site.

6. Fuel and service equipment used for in-stream or riparian work (including chainsaws and other hand power tools) only in designated areas (see BMP 2.10).

7. Maintain and remove buildup of sediment and debris in diversion prevention dips, rolling dips, and waterbars to ensure they are functioning properly, and do not contribute to the hydrological connectivity of the road.

8. Ensure that inside ditches are maintained properly, and are relieved at regular intervals to eliminate hydrological connectivity. See BMP 2.4, Road Maintenance and Operations.

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12.21 Exhibit 10

BMP 2.10 - Parking and Staging Areas

Objective: Construct, install, and maintain an appropriate level of drainage and runoff treatment for parking and staging areas to protect water, aquatic, and riparian resources.

Explanation: Designated parking and staging areas on NFS lands may be permanent or temporary and are associated with a variety of uses including administrative buildings, developed recreation sites, trailheads, off-highway vehicle (OHV) areas, and management projects. These parking facilities sometimes constitute large areas with little or no infiltration capacity. Runoff from these areas can create rills or gullies, and carry sediment, nutrients, and other pollutants to nearby surface waters. The risk from parking and staging areas can be managed by using the appropriate techniques from the following list adapted as needed to local site conditions.

Implementation:

1. Design and locate parking and staging areas of appropriate size and configuration to accommodate expected vehicles and prevent damage to adjacent water; aquatic, and riparian resources.

a. Avoid sensitive areas such as riparian areas, wetlands, meadows, bogs, fens, inner gorges, overly steep slopes, and unstable landforms to the extent practicable.

b. For staging areas, designate specific locations for fueling so that water-quality impacts are minimized.

2. Consider the number and type of vehicles to determine parking or staging area size.

a. Calculate the expected runoff generated using the appropriate design storm to determine necessary drainage based on the size of the parking or staging area.

b. Consider run-on from any contributing areas.

3. Provide signage to designate parking, staging, and refueling areas, and to minimize impacts to sensitive areas.

4. Use permeable pavements where possible, and integrate vegetative islands to trap and filter runoff.

5. Infiltrate as much of the runoff as possible using permeable surfaces and infiltration ditches or basins in areas where groundwater contamination risk is low.

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12.21 Exhibit 10

-- Continued BMP 2.10 - Parking and Staging Areas

6. Pave parking areas that experience heavy use and those that are used during wet periods.

7. Install curbs and gutters to direct and capture surface flow from these paved surfaces.

8. Install and maintain oil and grease separators in larger parking lots with high use and where drainage discharges directly to streams.

9. Plan for necessary clean out and disposal of material collected in these vaults.

10. Connect drainage system to existing stormwater conveyance systems where available and desirable.

11. Conduct maintenance activities commensurate with parking or staging area surfacing and drainage requirements as well as precipitation timing, intensity, and duration.

12. Limit the size and extent of temporary parking or staging areas.

13. Take advantage of existing openings, sites away from waterbodies, and areas that are apt to be more easily restored.

14. Rehabilitate temporary parking or staging areas immediately following use.

15. Effectively prevent access to the area once site restoration activities have been completed.

16. Consider the need to upgrade roads that access parking areas such as OHV parking areas or snow play areas.

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12.21 Exhibit 11

BMP 2.11 - Equipment Refueling and Servicing

Objective: Prevent fuels, lubricants, cleaners, and other harmful materials from discharging into nearby surface waters or infiltrating through soils to contaminate groundwater resources.

Explanation: Many activities require the use and maintenance of petroleum-powered equipment in the field: vegetation harvest and regeneration; road, trail, and facility construction, reconstruction, and maintenance. The activities often employ equipment that uses or contains gasoline, diesel, oil, grease, hydraulic fluids, antifreeze, coolants, cleaning agents, and/or pesticides. These petroleum and chemical products may pose a risk to surface water and groundwater during refueling and servicing the equipment.

Sale administrators, contracting officer’s representatives, engineering representatives, inspectors, permit administrators, and force account crew supervisors are responsible for enforcing requirements of equipment fueling and servicing activities. They can manage the risk from fuel and chemical spills during equipment refueling or servicing by using the appropriate techniques from the following list adapted as needed to local site conditions.

Implementation:

1. Plan for appropriate equipment refueling and servicing sites during project planning and design.

2. Allow temporary refueling and servicing only at approved locations, which are well away from water or riparian resources.

3. Develop or use existing fuel and chemical management plans (for example, spill prevention control and countermeasures (SPCC), spill response plan, emergency response plan) when developing the management prescription for refueling and servicing sites.

4. Locate, design, construct, and maintain petroleum and chemical delivery and storage facilities consistent with local, State and Federal regulations.

5. Install contour berms and trenches around vehicle service and refueling areas, chemical storage and use areas, and waste dumps to fully contain spills.

6. Use liners as needed to prevent seepage to groundwater.

7. Provide training for all personnel handling fuels and chemicals in their proper use, handling, storage, and disposal.

8. Avoid spilling fuels, lubricants, cleaners, and other chemicals during handling and transporting.

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BMP 2.11 - Equipment Refueling and Servicing

9. Prohibit excess chemicals or wastes from being stored or accumulated in the project area.

10. Remove service residues, waste oil, and other materials from NFS land and properly dispose them following completion of the project.

11. Clean up and dispose of spilled materials according to specified requirements in the appropriate guiding document.

12. Report spills and initiate appropriate clean-up action in accordance with applicable State and Federal laws, rules and regulations. The forest hazardous materials coordinator’s name and phone number shall be available to Forest Service personnel who administer or manage activities utilizing petroleum-powered equipment.

13. Remove contaminated soil and other material from NFS lands and dispose of this material in a manner according to controlling regulations.

14. Prepare a certified SPCC Plan for each facility, including mobile and portable facilities that have oil storage capacity of at least 1,320 gallons in containers 55 gallons or greater.

a. Install or construct the containment features or countermeasures called for in the SPCC

Plan to ensure that spilled oil does not reach groundwater or surface water.

b. Ensure that each SPCC Plan includes a spill contingency plan at each facility that is unable to provide secondary spill containment.

c. Ensure that clean-up of spills and leaking tanks complies with Federal, State and local regulations and requirements.

15. Prepare a contingency plan when quantities of petroleum products are capable of violating Basin Plan water-quality objectives.

16. Section H clauses for Public Works Construction include a standard clause for Spill Plan when project or activity includes oil or oil products storage exceeding 1,320 gallons, or a single container exceeding 660 gallons. Section H clauses also require designation of contractor’s key personnel, including authorized on-site representative and phone number(s).

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