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ROAD USE RULES AND RESTRICTIONS

ROAD USE RULES AND RESTRICTIONS

Commercial Road Rules

Objectives: The Road Rules and Regulations for commercial use of roads on the Tribal Forestlands are:

1. Provide road users with a uniform and timely system concerning use requirements on roads in advance of applying for permits or bidding on contracts.

2. Provide Forest Officers with a system to display their road use requirements and to administer them uniformly with all commercial users

3. Implement a responsive system for issuing permits or making other arrangements for authorizing road use to meet the special needs unique to any commercial user.

General Road Rules:

1. Damaging, and leaving in a damaged condition, any road or segment thereof is prohibited. In addition to the road damage the following are prohibited:

A. Driving crawler or lug equipment upon or leaving tractor marks upon any bridge or structure, including asphalt, concrete, wood or metal surfaces.

B. Any bending, breaking, removal, or other damage to bridge rails, bridge decks, guardrails, culverts, signs or signposts, markers, or other structures.

C. Destruction of the road prism (travelway, ditches, fill and cut slope) not correctable by normal maintenance activity.

2. Exceeding posted bridge weight limits is not authorized without Tribal approval.

3. Unless otherwise provided in a contract, permit, or agreement, no road shall be blocked by placing of any vehicle or other object upon it in a manner that is an impediment or hazard to safety, or conflicts with other users.

4. The following are examples of impediments or hazards:

A. Falling trees onto the roadway without permit and proper warning signs.

B. Slow moving logging, construction, or road maintenance equipment operated without posting proper warning signs.

C. Logging slash or debris deposited or left in the roadway, ditches or cut bank.

D. Parking equipment or vehicles in the roadway without proper signing.

E. Logs yarded or decked on the roadway without proper signing.

5. Any logging operation that requires cables to be suspended above or used across the roadway without proper signing and/or traffic control.

6. Waivers to Rules may be allowed when such permission is in writing from the Tribe.

ROAD DISTRESS AND DAMAGE DEFINITIONS

1. Road Distress: Indicates maintenance must be performed as specified in maintenance specifications. If maintenance cannot be performed, use must be reduced or stopped until signs of distress are no longer present unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Tribe.

A. Road distress indicators on gravel surfaces are:

1. Surface course deformities (potholes, soft spots, ruts, etc.) greater than 2" deep that can be repaired with incidental loads of aggregate.

2. Drainage not functioning as designed (surface and/or structures).

3. Slurry affecting traction or strength of road and not causing damage as defined under Environmental Damage below.

B. Road distress indicators on pavement are:

1. Any perceptible change in the pavement cross section or surface (cracking, visible deflection, etc.) caused by contractor's operations. 2. Drainage structures not functioning as designed.

2. Road Damage: Is a reduction in the ability of a road or structure to carry traffic that cannot be corrected by recurring maintenance methods. Use must be stopped and the road repaired unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Tribe citing the appropriate contract provisions. Road damage exists when:

A. Load carrying ability of the road is reduced as a result of, but not limited to:

1. Subgrade pumping.

2. Excessive soft spots, potholes, or ruts that result in subgrade deformation.

3. Slurry exists in the roadway but is contained within the roadway or is draining on locations which are containing the sediment by use of biological or man-made erosion control filters.

B. Maintenance methods specified in the contract cannot repair the road.

C. Failure to maintain drainage causes loss of surfacing, saturation of subgrade layers, degradation of surface course, or erosion of fill slopes.

D. Use of asphalt road results in permanent deformation of pavement cross section or degradation of asphalt surface.

II. ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE: Is the displacement of soil material, resulting from contract operations, into intermittent or perennial streams that results in an increase in sediment. Environmental damage exists when all of the following occur:

A. Vehicular traffic causes displacement of fines through pumping, rutting or damage to drainage features creating sediment-laden water on or from the road surface.

B. Sediment laden water resulting from pumping of fines is reaching intermittent or perennial streams.

C. Sediment is visible and there is an increase in turbidity in streams occurring at points downstream from the outfalls of culverts, ditch lines, or fords.

Haul will be permitted when facility or environmental damage will not result.