Common use of Environmental Impacts Clause in Contracts

Environmental Impacts. The Reference Information Documents contain information relating to environmental features including wetlands, habitat, cultural and natural resources, rare threatened or endangered species, archaeological remains, etc. The Phase Developer shall verify this information is applicable for its intended use and perform all necessary additional studies, field verification, sampling, testing, or other investigations as required to mitigate and manage associated risks eliminate the potential for Unknown Archaeological Remains and Unknown Endangered Species and submit a compliant Committed Section Proposal. The Phase Developer shall alert MDOT if errors or discrepancies are discovered in the MDOT provided Reference Information Documents. The Phase Developer shall perform the Predevelopment Work necessary to confirm that the LOD as presented in the NEPA documents is sufficient for all Section Work. If, after evaluation of potential avoidance measures, the Section Work requires additional LOD beyond that identified in the NEPA documents, the Phase Developer shall conduct additional studies, field investigations, and coordination activities needed to obtain approval of Environmental Summary/NEPA Re-evaluations, permit revisions, and other permits/approvals as described in Exhibit 6 Article 5 (Environmental Management). The Phase Developer shall report to MDOT on the status of the acquisition of additional data and coordination activities as the Work progresses. Prior to the Phase Developer establishing the Design-Build Price, for a Section, the Phase Developer shall prepare an approach to the avoidance and minimization of impacts for the Section demonstrating efforts to further reduce impacts to environmental features.