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DN Powerhouse Digital Governor PLC Replacement CDS20007

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WORK RESTRICTIONS (SWL)

PART 1 GENERAL

1.1 PROTECTION OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY

1.1.1 Protection of Government Facilities

Take whatever measures are necessary or required for protection of the existing buildings, grounds, parking area and other Government facilities.

1.2 REFERENCES

The publications listed below form a part of this specification to the extent referenced. The publications are referred to within the text by the basic designation only.

U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS (USACE)

EM 385-1-1 (2014) Safety and Health Requirements Manual

1.3 SUBMITTALS

Government approval is required for submittals with a "G" designation;

submittals not having a "G" designation are for information only. When used, a designation following the "G" designation identifies the office that will review the submittal for the Government. Submit the following in accordance with Section 01 33 00 SUBMITTAL PROCEDURES:

SD-01 Preconstruction Submittals

List of Contact Personnel; G

1.4 CONTRACTOR ACCESS AND USE OF PREMISES

1.4.1 Activity Regulations

Ensure that Contractor personnel employed on the Activity become familiar with and obey Activity regulations including safety, fire, traffic and security regulations. Keep within the limits of the work and avenues of ingress and egress. Wear hard hats in designated areas. Do not enter any restricted areas unless required to do so and until cleared for such entry. Mark Contractor equipment for identification.

1.4.1.1 Subcontractors and Personnel Contacts

Provide a list of contact personnel of the Contractor and subcontractors including addresses and telephone numbers for use in the event of an emergency. As changes occur and additional information becomes available, correct and change the information contained in previous lists.

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1.4.1.2 No Smoking Policy

Smoking is prohibited within and outside of all buildings on installation, except in designated smoking areas. This applies to existing buildings, buildings under construction and buildings under renovation. Discarding tobacco materials other than into designated tobacco receptacles is considered littering and is subject to fines. The Contracting Officer will identify designated smoking areas.

1.4.2 Working Hours

Arrange work schedule so that the work performed at the Government installation will be during the normal day shift established as 6:30 a.m.

to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Thursday, except Federal holidays.

1.4.3 Work Outside Regular Hours

Work outside regular working hours requires Contracting Officer approval.

Make application 15 calendar days prior to such work to allow arrangements to be made by the Government for inspecting the work in progress, giving the specific dates, hours, location, type of work to be performed, contract number and project title. Based on the justification provided, the Contracting Officer may approve work outside regular hours. During periods of darkness, the different parts of the work must be lighted in a manner approved by the Contracting Officer. Make utility cutovers after normal working hours or on Saturdays, Sundays, and Government holidays unless directed otherwise.

1.4.4 Inspection Hours

The contract requires that certain tests be performed in the presence of the Contracting Officer or his representative. These tests will be scheduled between 10:30 a.m. and 03:00 p.m., Monday through Thursday, excluding Federal holidays; the Government shall be given 72 hours advance notice.

1.4.5 Outage Time

Installation activity shall be planned and scheduled so that all the installation and operational testing shall not exceed the indicated outage period. Contractor shall only take down one unit at a time. As much as possible preparatory work shall be accomplished prior to unit outages to minimize downtime. The Contractor shall assure that an adequate number of personnel are present during unit outages to assure that the specified outage time is not exceeded. Generator unit outages for power plant work are not permitted 15 June – 15 September and 15 December – 15 March. The Contractor shall provide a detailed sequence of outages in the construction schedule. Outages shall be detailed to the day level.

All work shall be performed within the 13 week specified outage periods between 15 September 2021 to 15 December 2021 and 15 March 2022 to 15 June 2022.

Work on each unit will be separated into 6-7 week periods.

1st Unit: September 15 - October 30, 2021 2nd Unit: October 26 - December 15, 2021 3rd Unit: March 15 - April 30, 2022 4th Unit: April 27 - June 15, 2022

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The base contract includes a 4 day work week, however, the contractor may elect to use a 5, 6 or 7 day work week if submitted in writing 2 weeks in advance and authorized by the Contracting Officer.

1.4.6 Utility Cutovers and Interruptions

a. Make utility cutovers and interruptions after normal working hours or on Saturdays, Sundays, and Government holidays. Conform to procedures required in paragraph WORK OUTSIDE REGULAR HOURS.

b. Ensure that new utility lines are complete, except for the connection, before interrupting existing service.

c. Interruption to water, sanitary sewer, storm sewer, telephone service, electric service, air conditioning, heating, fire alarm, compressed air, and raw water are considered utility cutovers pursuant to the paragraph WORK OUTSIDE REGULAR HOURS. Such interruptions are further limited to 2 hours unless approved otherwise by the Contracting Officer. This time limit includes time for deactivation and reactivation.

d. Operation of Station Utilities: The Contractor must not operate nor disturb the setting of control devices in the station utilities system, including water, sewer, electrical, and steam services. The Government will operate the control devices as required for normal conduct of the work. The Contractor must notify the Contracting Officer giving reasonable advance notice when such operation is required.

1.5 SECURITY REQUIREMENTS

Contract Clause FAR 52.204-2 Security Requirements and the following apply:

a. Requirements of the USACE Security Manager, Little Rock, Arkansas which are inserted into the Contract Clauses.

1.6 TIME EXTENSIONS FOR UNUSUALLY SEVERE WEATHER

1.6.1 Procedure for Determination

This provision specifies the procedure for determination of time extensions for unusually severe weather in accordance with the contract clause entitled FAR 52.249-10 "Default (Fixed Price Construction)". In order for the Contracting Officer to award a time extension under this clause, the following conditions must be satisfied:

a. The weather experienced at the project site during the contract period must be found to be unusually severe, that is, more severe than the adverse weather anticipated for the project location during any given month.

b. The unusually severe weather must actually cause a delay to the completion of the project. The delay must be beyond the control and without the fault or negligence of the Contractor.

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1.6.1.1 Schedule of Anticipated Adverse Weather Days

The following schedule of monthly anticipated adverse weather delays is based on National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) or similar data for the project location and will constitute the base line for monthly weather time evaluations. The Contractor's progress schedule must reflect these anticipated adverse weather delays in all weather dependent activities.

MONTHLY ANTICIPATED ADVERSE WEATHER DELAY

WORK DAYS BASED ON (4) DAY WORK WEEK

JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC

6 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 4

1.6.1.2 Reporting Adverse Weather Delays

Upon acknowledgment of the Notice to Proceed (NTP) and continuing throughout the contract, the Contractor will record on the daily CQC report, the occurrence of adverse weather and resultant impact to normally scheduled work. Actual adverse weather delay days must prevent work on critical activities for 50 percent or more of the Contractor's scheduled workday. The number of actual adverse weather delay days shall include days impacted by actual adverse weather (even if adverse weather occurred in previous month), be calculated chronologically from the first to the last day of each month, and be recorded as full days. If the number of actual adverse weather delay days exceeds the number of days anticipated in paragraph (b), above, the Contracting Officer will convert any qualifying delays to calendar days, giving full consideration for equivalent fair weather work days, and issue a modification in accordance with the contract clause entitled "Default (Fixed Price Construction)".

1.6.1.3 Special Conditions on MKARNS run of the river hydro units

During certain flow conditions on the MKARNS the contractor will not be able to test Governor units due to "NO HEAD" open river condition on the river which does not allow the units to operate. This will be considered by the Contracting Officer in requests for time extensions.

1.7 QUALITY CONTROL

1.7.1 General

The Contractor shall establish and maintain quality control for his operations to assure compliance with contract requirements and maintain records of his quality control for all construction operations under the contract as specified in SECTION 01 45 00.00 10 QUALITY CONTROL

1.7.2 Technical Provisions

This requirement shall apply equally to each section of the Technical Provisions, except where the QUALITY CONTROL requirements set forth critical items of work requiring special attention by the Contractor.

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1.7.3 Control Inspector Safety Responsibilities

Each Contractor quality control inspector shall be responsible for inspecting the work under his surveillance for compliance with EM 385-1-1 , and shall immediately bring to the attention of the Contractor's supervisory personnel all unsafe working conditions, unsafe work practices, unsafe tools or equipment and instances of noncompliance with the Safety and Health Requirements Manual.

1.7.4 Quality Control Inspector Environmental Responsibilities

The Contractor quality control inspector shall be responsible for quality control for environment protection specified in SECTION 01 57 19 TEMPORARY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS, and shall immediately bring to the attention of the Contractor's supervisory personnel all instances of noncompliance.

1.7.5 Records and Tests

A copy of the records and tests, as well as the records of corrective action taken, will be furnished the Government as directed by the Contracting Officer.

1.8 GOVERNMENT-FURNISHED UTILITIES

Utilities will be furnished by the Government to the Contractor free of charge as specified below. The Contractor shall carefully conserve any utilities furnished by the Government.

1.8.1 Water

Government furnished water will be available at existing hydrants or outlets that are located near the work area. The Contractor shall furnish all piping, hoses, valves, fittings and all other incidentals necessary to convey the water from the existing hydrants or outlets to the work site.

Backflow preventers are required when using water from a fire hydrant.

The backflow preventer must be tested for proper operation each time that it's moved. The contractor must have documentation of the testing in-hand to demonstrate that the backflow preventer was tested in its current location.

1.8.2 Electricity

Government furnished electricity will be available at existing electrical outlets that are located near the work area. The Contractor shall furnish all panels, circuit breakers, wiring, transformers and all other incidentals necessary to meet the needs of the equipment used in the work.

1.8.3 Work Area and Storage Area

The Contractor's work and storage area will be assigned by the Contracting Officer.

1.8.4 Sanitary Facilities

Existing sanitary facilities and drinking water fountains will be available for use by the Contractor's personnel. The Contractor shall be responsible for keeping the facilities clean. During normal Work hours of 6:30am to 5:00pm, Monday thru Thursday, the contractor can use the Govt.

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In that case, if the crew size is larger than 6 people, Govt. asks that a Porta-Potty be provided by the contractor as Govt. septic system would become overloaded and possibly break down and be out of service for all on site.

1.9 BULLETIN BOARD, PROJECT SIGN, SAFETY SIGN

1.9.1 Bulletin Board

The Contractor shall furnish, install, and maintain for the duration of the contract, a weather tight bulletin board, having hinged or sliding glazed doors, on which shall be displayed legible copies of (1) the poster entitled "equal employment opportunity is the law" (OFCCP Publication 1420) as required by CONTRACT CLAUSES: EQUAL OPPORTUNITY, AFFIRMATIVE

ACTION COMPLIANCE REQUIREMENTS FOR CONSTRUCTION, AFFIRMATIVE ACTION FOR

SPECIAL DISABLED AND VIETNAM ERA VETERANS, AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION FOR

HANDICAPPED WORKERS; (2) the Notice to Employees Poster (WH Publication 1321); (3) the schedule of minimum wage rates for the contract as required by CONTRACT CLAUSE: DAVIS-BACON ACT; and (4) current safety posters. The bulletin board shall be mounted where and as approved by the Contracting Officer, in a prominent place accessible to all employees of the Contractor and subcontractors, and to applicants for employment. The bulletin board shall remain the property of the Contractor and shall be removed by him upon completion of the contract work.

1.9.2 Project and Safety Signs

The requirements for the signs (see Section 01 00 50 Forms and Attachments), their content, and location shall be as shown on the drawings. Exact location and name of sponsor, to be placed on the sign, shall be determined by the Contracting Officer. Verify with the Contracting Officer, the exact text to be placed on the signs prior to construction of the signs.

PART 2 PRODUCTS

Not Used

PART 3 EXECUTION

Not Used.

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