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7. Environmental Compliance - The contractor complied with all Federal, State, and local environmental regulations, including permit requirements, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES), and the contract erosion control plan. Contractor takes the initiative to review environmental compliance and corrects deficiencies as necessary to minimize the affects on the environment. (*) Note: On projects over 300 days of allowable contract time, a bonus of 2 points will be given if the contractor did not receive any deficiency letters in this category.
Contractor Notification Method: Contractor notified via verbal warning, deficiency warning letter, or Deficiency letter. Contractor can appeal to the District Construction Engineer Deficiency Letters within 10 days of receipt.
Guidance provided:
1. Question: Can we add in Section 7 that if a project receives a NOV from a permitting agency that the contractor has points from this category automatically deducted?
Answer: This would be automatic the way the section is written now. If the contractor receives a Notice of Violation from a permitting agency, we should issue an automatic DL which would affect the points.
2. A great deal of attention is paid to this category due to it being an environmental safety and protection issue. The guidance that we give our personnel in this category is that we generally start with Verbal Warnings (VW). If the Contractor does not correct the issue, we expect our personnel to next issue a Deficiency Warning Letter (DWL) for the same issue. If after this DWL the Contractor has still not corrected the problem, our personnel are expected to issue a Deficiency Letter (DL). That is the typical process, however there are times in which the VW and DWL will be omitted and issue goes directly to DL if it is a serious concern over poor environmental protection compliance.
