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STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES

REAL ESTATE SERVICES DIVISION

PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT BRANCH

APPENDICES – Book V of V

FOR:

RELOCATION OF RED MOUNTAIN

COMMUNICATIONS SITE

STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR’S

OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES

DEL NORTE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA

Appendices:

A1) Environmental Requirements (4) pages

A2) Green Diamond Property Conditions (8) pages

Brad Tress, Project Director Telephone Number: (916) 217-6500 West Sacramento, California

Consultant: Stantec Consulting, Inc.

REAL ESTATE SERVICES DIVISION

PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT BRANCH

APPENDIX A1

FOR:

RELOCATION OF RED MOUNTAIN

COMMUNICATIONS SITE

STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR�S

OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES

DEL NORTE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA

A1) Environmental Requirements (4) pages

Brad Tress, Project Director Telephone Number: (916) 217-6500

Exhibit ER

Project Environmental Requirements

Contractor shall notify the State Environmental Planner at least 15 days before construction mobilization begins at each site.

Contractor shall allow a State Approved Biological and archeology monitor(s) on the project site.

Contractor shall install a fence around the work area before earth disturbing construction activities begin.

Contractor shall avoid environmentally sensitive fenced areas during construction, if any. Contractor shall install this fencing at the direction of the biologist before earth disturbing activities begin.

No construction activities are allowed outside the fenced designated area of work.

All vehicular construction traffic shall be confined to the designed area of work, access routes, and staging areas.

Contractor shall prepare a Storm Water Prevention Pollution plan (SWPPP) to prevent erosion and control sediment from leaving the site(s). This plan shall be submitted to the State for approval.

Contractor shall not work during the raining season 10/15 to 5/15, if at all feasible. If work cannot be avoided during this time, a State Approved biological monitor will be present during construction (at their discretion) to determine the presence of special-status amphibians in the activity areas and will remove them from the activity area, if possible.

Contractor shall store all equipment and materials away from the wetland and surface water features. No hazardous materials including fuels, oils, and solvents are to be within 150 feet of an identified waterway. This includes fueling and services areas unless it has a secondary containment for spills.

Contractor shall keep all equipment and vehicles in good working order to reduce the potential for mechanical breakdowns that lead to spills.

Contractor shall maintain a spill containment boom onsite at all times during construction.

Contractor shall do the following to prevent weed introduction:

o When using imported erosion control materials (as opposed to rock and dirt berms), use only mulch and seed, reducing the potential of establishing non-native plant populations to the extent possible.

o Limit any import or export of fill to materials that are known to be free of plant material.

o Thoroughly wash all construction equipment prior to its entering the worksite. Inspect equipment to ensure that it is free of plant parts as well as soils, mud, or other debris that may carry weed seeds.

o Use a State approved mix of native grasses, forbs, and non-persistent, non-native species for seeding disturbed areas that would be subject to infestation by non-native and invasive plant species appropriate, use a heavy application of mulch to discourage introduction of invasive plant species. Planting plugs of native grass species may also be used to accelerate the vegetation of disturbed sites and increase the likelihood of establishing a self- sustaining population of native plant species.

o Weed control associated with both construction and operation activities will be accomplished with hand tools only; no herbicides.

Contractor shall notify the State Environmental Planner at least 10 days before any vegetation is cleared by the contractor. A biologist will survey the project area to verify no special status plant or animal species is present. If found, temporary construction fencing shall be installed around the find, fencing shall be maintained by the contractor, and the area shall be avoided by the contractor. If a special status population cannot be fully avoided, the State will recover and relocate the species and will implement appropriate measures in coordination with CDFW staff and the Contractor.

Contractor shall remove all trees or structure(s) before 3/1 or after 7/31 to avoid impacts to bats or other special status animal, unless a State approved biologist surveys and finds no roost(s).

Contractor shall follow the State staff director on removing any trees if the tree(s) has an identified bat or other animal(s) in the tree.

Contractor shall allow for up to 1 hour of environmental sensitivity training for the crew(s) begin work.

o Site(s) may have:

cultural artifacts Special Status Bats Western bumble bee Ring-tail cats Del Norte salamander Northern red-legged frog Raptors, Vauz’s swifts, Olive-sided flycatcher, purple martin, and other species protected by California Fish and game Code.

Humboldt Martin

If buried Cultural resource(s) are found, all work within 50 feet of the find shall be halted unless given permission from the State’s Archeologist.

If human remains are encountered during construction on non-Federal lands, work in that area will be halted and the Del Norte or Humboldt County Coroner’s Office will be immediately contacted. If the remains are determined to be of Native American origin, the Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC) will be notified within 24 hours of determination, as required by California Public Resources Code, Section 5097. The NAHC will notify designated Most Likely Descendants, who will provide recommendations for the treatment of the remains within 24 hours. The NAHC will mediate any disputes regarding treatment of remains. If Native American human remains and associated items are discovered on Federal lands, they will be treated according to provisions set forth in the Native American Protection and Repatriation Act (25 USC 3001). If the find is determined to be a historical resource or a unique archaeological resource, as defined by CEQA, contingency funding and a time allotment sufficient to allow for implementation of avoidance measures or other appropriate mitigation will be made available. Work may continue on other parts of the project while mitigation for historical or unique archaeological resources takes place.

Contractor shall develop and send to the State for approval a dust control program to limit fugitive dust and particulate matter emission for all sites. The dust control program will include the following elements as appropriate:

o Vehicle speed for all on-site construction vehicles shall not exceed 15 mph on any unpaved surface of the construction site.

o Inactive construction areas will be watered as needed to ensure dust control.

o Pursuant to the California Vehicle Code (Section 23114), all trucks hauling soil or other loose material to and from the construction site will be covered or will maintain adequate freeboard to ensure retention of materials within the truck’s bed (e.g., ensure 1-2 feet vertical distance between top of load and the trailer).

o Excavation activities and other soil-disturbing activities will be conducted in phases to reduce the amount of bare soil exposed at any one time. Mulching with weed-free materials will be used to minimize soil erosion.

o Watering (using equipment and/or manually) be conducted on all stockpiles, dirt/gravel roads, and exposed or disturbed soil surfaces, as necessary, to reduce airborne dust.

o Stockpiles of dirt or other fine loose material shall be stabilized by watering or other appropriate methods sufficient to reduce visible dust emissions. If necessary and where feasible, 3-sided barriers shall be constructed around storage piles and/or piles shall be covered by use of tarps, hydro-mulch, woodchips, or other materials sufficient to minimize wind-blown dust.

o All onsite unpaved roads and offsite project-site access road(s) shall be effectively stabilized of dust emissions using water or North Coast Unified Air Quality Management District (NCUAQMD) approved dust suppressants/palliatives. If water is used, watering shall be applied sufficient to keep soil moist along actively used roadways. During the dry season, unpaved road surfaces and vehicle parking/staging areas shall be watered immediately prior to periods of high use (e.g., worker commute periods, truck convoys, etc.) Reclaimed (non-potable) water shall be used to the extent available.

o All paved access roads, parking areas, and staging areas will be swept (with water sweepers), as required by the State.

o Paved roads will be swept (with water sweepers) if visible soil material is carried onto adjacent private and public roads, as required by the State.

o All ground-disturbing activities with the potential to generate dust will be suspended when winds exceed 20 mph, as directed by the North Coast Unified Air Quality Management District (NCUAQMD).

o All disturbed areas anticipated to be inactive for periods of 30 days, or more, shall be treated to minimize wind-blown dust emissions. Treatment may include, but is not limited to, the application of an NCUAQMD-approved chemical dust suppressant, gravel, hydro-mulch, revegetation/seeding, or wood chips, o All active and inactive disturbed surface areas shall be compacted, where feasible.

o Water shall be applied prior to and during the demolition of onsite structures sufficient to minimize wind-blown dust.

o Haul trucks and off-road equipment leaving the site shall be washed with water or high-pressure air, and/or use rocks/grates at the project entry points, when necessary, to remove soil deposits and to minimize the track-out/deposition of soil onto nearby paved roadways.

o The State inspector will designate a person to monitor dust control and to order increased watering as necessary to prevent transport of dust offsite. This person will also respond to any citizen complaints.

o The Contractor will comply with NCUAQMD Rule 104 (4.0), Particulate Matter. This compliance could occur by using portable internal combustion engines registered and certified under the State portable equipment regulations (Health & Safety Code 41750 through 41755).

Contractor’s Heavy-duty off-road equipment (50 bhp, or greater) used during construction of the proposed communication sites shall meet, at a minimum, Tier 3 exhaust emission standards.

Alternatively, an emissions-reduction plan (ERP) can be prepared.

o The ERP shall include an assessment of all off-road equipment and on-road vehicles required for construction of the proposed communication sites and estimated daily emissions associated with these sources. Estimated daily emissions shall be compared to NCUAQMD’s significance thresholds (i.e., 50 lbs./day for ROG, NOX, and PM2.5, 500 lbs./day for CO, and 80 lbs./day for SOX and PM10.) Emission-reduction measures shall be identified and associated reductions quantified sufficient to reduce construction-generated emissions to below applicable NCUAQMD significance thresholds.

o Additional measures to be considered in the ERP may include, but are not limited to, changes in construction schedules and techniques that would minimize daily off-road equipment use or on-road vehicle trips (e.g., onsite mixing of concrete). The ERP shall be reviewed and approved by NCUAQMD staff prior to start of construction.

Contractor shall ensure that all construction equipment be equipped with the manufactures specified noise muffing devices.

Contractor shall place all stationary noise generating equipment as far away as feasibly possible from sensitive noise receptors (e.g. bird nests, Alder Camp residents) or in an orientation that would minimize noise impacts (e.g. behind existing barriers, storage piles, unused equipment.

The Contractor shall remove all garbage, trash, and human food daily to prevent habituating wildlife to human food. In addition, no trash cans will be permitted on Site.

Contractor shall not have any dogs onsite during construction.

Alder Camp o Contractor shall restore all staging areas and access routes to pre-construction condition.

REAL ESTATE SERVICES DIVISION

PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT BRANCH

APPENDIX A2

FOR:

RELOCATION OF RED MOUNTAIN

COMMUNICATIONS SITE

STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR�S

OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES

DEL NORTE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA

A2) Green Diamond Property Conditions (8) pages

Brad Tress, Project Director Telephone Number: (916) 217-6500

Exhibit GD 1.0

Green Diamond Resource Company Access Routes

1. Alder Camp Access Routes

2. Big Lagoon Access Routes

3. Rattlesnake Peak Access Routes

1 inch = 1,500 feet

Alder Camp Project Site

Intersection of D-10/D-1000

Start of D-10 Road

D-1000

D-10

Road Name Map for CB Use:

Alder Camp Access Route

1 inch = 2,000 feet

Road Name Map for CB Use:

Big Lagoon Tower Access Route

Start of BL-1000 Road Intersection of

BL-1000/BL-1600 Roads

Gate Entrance at Highway 101

Big Lagoon Tower Site

BL-1000 Road

BL-1600 Road

1 inch = 4,000 feet

Road Name Map for CB Use:

Rattlesnake Peak Access Route

Old Klamath Mill Site

Start of T-10 Road

Intersection of T-10 & T-920 Roads

T-10 Road

T-10 Road

T-920 Road

Rattlesnake Peak Project Site

Exhibit GD 2.0

Green Diamond Resource Company “Call-Out” Protocol

1. Mile markers are posted adjacent to the access roads at every one-half (½) mile and are either stand-alone signs or are painted on the trees. The Call-Out must be made at each one-half (½) mile marker while traveling Inbound and Outbound from the project site. See Exhibit GD-1.0 for the maps of the assigned access roads for each project site, and their names/numbers, that must be utilized at all times by all members of the construction crews and associated personnel while on the Property.

2. The Call-Out Information

A. The Call-Out must:

• Announce whether traveling Inbound or Outbound o Inbound = traveling to the project site o Outbound = traveling away from the project site

• Announce the name/number of the road

• Announce the mile marker

B. The Order of the Call-Out Information

• Organize the Call-Out information in the following order:

“Inbound/Outbound, on the ‘Road Name’ at the ‘# mile’ marker.”

Example:

“Inbound on the T-10 at the 3½ mile marker.”

3. Traveling only on the assigned access roads and utilizing the Call-Out protocol is mandatory at all times by all members of the construction crews and associated project personnel while on the Property.

Exhibit GD 3.0

Green Diamond Resource Company Property: Conditions of Use

The use of the land and roads owned and operated by Green Diamond Resource Company for these projects are subject to the following requirements and restrictions. These conditions are subject to change.

PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES and POSSESSIONS

The following activities and/or possession of certain items are prohibited on Green Diamond Resource Company property (“Property”):

• The act of hunting any animal or wildlife, including trapping and fishing.

• Killing, wounding, or harassment of any animal or wildlife, including fish, mollusks, and insects

• Feeding any animal or wildlife, including fish, mollusks, and insects.

• Removal of any animal or wildlife, including fish, mollusks, and insects, dead or alive.

• Collection, containment and/or capturing of any animal or wildlife, including fish, mollusks, and insects, dead or alive.

• Cutting or removal of any wood product such as firewood, split products, logs, branches, limbs, bark, burls, slabs, and the like.

• Cutting, damaging, killing or removal of any tree, shrub, bush, or any other plant or plant product, including flowers, leaves, branches, limbs, and the like, whether dead or alive, except as part of resource protection.

• Camping, including trailers, fifth-wheel trailers, cab-over-campers or recreational vehicles (RVs)

• Dogs or pets of any kind

• Fires, including warming fires, petroleum and/or wood burning stoves.

• Possession or use of any type of firearm, including by those persons with concealed carry permits.

• Possession or use of any type of air-powered rifle and/or pistol, e.g., pellet gun, BB gun, and the like.

• Possession or use of any type of bow or arrow or crossbow or bolt.

• Possession or use of any type of sling and/or slingshot.

• Explosives and explosive devices are prohibited except for use to blast large rocks and boulders within the project site. (Contact the DGS project representative per the project’s contract requirements for such activities, and at least a minimum of 24 hours prior to anticipated use of explosives at the project site.)

• Possession, use or being under the influence of alcohol or any drugs, including, but not limited to, prescription medications that may affect the user’s ability to operate vehicles or machinery.

VEHICLE OR HEAVY EQUIPMENT REQUIREMENTS

When operating a vehicle or heavy equipment on the Property, the following items are required to be carried in each vehicle or heavy equipment:

• Spill kit capable of containing and disposing of oil or hydrologic fluid spills appropriate capacity for the equipment and fuel storage.

• Axe and/or Pulaski tool and shovel.

• Fire extinguisher.

• Citizen’s Band Radio (CB) with a range of at least three (3) miles

• First aid kit

SPILLS, FUELING AND WASTE REQUIREMENTS

• Contractor shall maintain all their vehicles and equipment in serviceable condition to prevent discharge of oil, fuel, lubricants, pesticides, or other hazardous or toxic substances from the equipment onto the Property or into the air, including lakes, streams, wetlands, and ditches.

• Contractor shall service, fuel, and load all mobile equipment away from lakes, streams, wetlands, and, if practical, ditches. Contactor shall collect, contain and lawfully dispose of all hazardous or solid waste brought onto the Property or removed from mobile equipment during servicing on the Property.

• Fueling of vehicles and equipment is prohibited where any spill could reach or deliver to streams, rivers, lakes, lagoons, ponds, wetlands, or ditches where spills could deliver to such features.

• Contractor shall be responsible for the response and restoration costs of any release or discharge of oil, fuel, lubricants, pesticides, or other hazardous or toxic substances to soil, surface water or ground water while on the Property. In the event of a spill or any release or discharge of oil, fuel, lubricants, pesticides, or other hazardous or toxic substances, the contractor shall promptly comply with all federal, state, and local spill notification and response requirements, including, but not limited to, all federal and state health and safety requirements. The contractor shall, at a minimum, prevent further spills or releases, take appropriate corrective actions to mitigate the spill, release or discharge, and immediately notify the appropriate state agency with jurisdiction over the location where the spill, release or discharge occurred. Additionally, the contractor shall immediately notify the state’s representative/inspector and the designated Green Diamond Resource Company representative.

• The contractor shall be responsible for removing all hazardous waste, solid waste, trash and debris, including, without limitation, all drums and containers, caused or left by the contractor and its subcontractors, suppliers, and the like. The contractor shall remove and dispose of all such waste from the Property in compliance with the state contract and all applicable laws, rules and regulations.

FIRE PREVENTION REQUIREMENTS

• The contractor shall take all reasonable precautions to prevent the occurrence or spread of forest fires or any other fire originating on or spreading from the Property. The contractor shall notify Green Diamond Resource Company representatives and the appropriate authorities of any forest fires that occur or may threaten the timberlands and shall cooperate in the extinguishment of any such fires. The contractor accepts full and prompt responsibility and liability for all damages resulting from any fire attributable to the acts or omissions of the contractor or related parties.

DAMAGE TO THE PROPERTY

• The contractor and any other related parties shall not damage any real or personal property of Green Diamond Resource Company or any improvements or structures on any real property of Green Diamond Resource Company, including, without limitation, trees, fences, roads, land line witness markers, running streams or drainage ditches. If any contractor or related parties causes damage, the contractor shall notify Green Diamond Resource Company immediately of the occurrence thereof and shall promptly repair the damage or, at Green Diamond Resource Company’s election, compensate Green Diamond Resource Company, therefore.

ACCESS ROAD REQUIREMENTS

• The use of Citizens Band Radio (CB) is always required for communication on all roads on the Property. On roads on the Property outside the Project area, Channel 7 is the selected CB channel to communicate. Mile markers are posted along the road routes every half-mile: All vehicles, using the CB radio, must “call out” their location every half-mile, including the name of the road being traveled and whether travel is inbound or outbound from the project site. Maps with the names of the roads, including the “Call-Out” protocol, are attached as Exhibit GD-1.0 and GD-2.0, respectively.

• The contractor shall drive or travel on or otherwise utilize only the roads for travel to and from the project site identified in Exhibit GD-1.0. The contractor shall not drive or otherwise utilize any road or areas not designated for travel to and from the project site identified in Exhibit GD-1.0, except for any emergency escape routes designated by GDRCo at the start of construction activities and/or at the time of the emergency.

• Any road to and from the project area on the Property, including the project area, must be watered prior to use if use will result in significant amounts of dust.

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