MODEL PROCEDURES Sample Clauses

MODEL PROCEDURES. 1. Fertilizer and Pesticide Management Usage ✓ Utilize a comprehensive management system that incorporates integrated pest management techniques. Usage (cont’) ✓ Follow all federal, state, and local laws and regulations governing the use, storage, and disposal of fertilizers and pesticides and training of applicators and pest control advisors. ✓ Educate and train employees on use of pesticides and pesticide application techniques to prevent pollution. ✓ Pesticide application must be under the supervision of a qualified and properly licensed or certified pesticide applicator. ✓ When applicable use the least toxic pesticides that will do the job. Avoid use of copper-based pesticides if possible. ✓ Do not mix or prepare pesticides for application near storm drains. ✓ Prepare the minimum amount of pesticide needed for the job and use the lowest rate that will effectively control the pest. ✓ Employ techniques to minimize off-target application (e.g. spray drift) of pesticides, including consideration of alternative application techniques. ✓ Calibrate fertilizer and pesticide application equipment to avoid excessive application. ✓ Periodically test soils for determining proper fertilizer use. ✓ Sweep pavement and sidewalk if fertilizer is spilled on these surfaces before applying irrigation water. ✓ Inspect pesticide/fertilizer equipment and transportation vehicles daily. ✓ Refer to Appendix D for further guidance on Fertilizer and Pesticide management ✓ Refer to permit “Monitoring and Reporting Program No. 2001-160 for Discharges of Aquatic Pesticides to Waters of the United States” if lake discharges to Waters of the United States. OPTIONAL: • Use beneficial insects where possible to control pests (green lacewings, ladybugs, praying mantis, ground beetles, parasitic nematodes, trichogramma wasps, seedhead weevils, and spiders prey on detrimental pest species). • Use slow release fertilizers whenever possible to minimize leaching. Scheduling ✓ Do not use pesticides if rain is expected within 24 hours. ✓ Apply pesticides only when wind speeds are low (less than 5 mph). Disposal ✓ Purchase only the amount of pesticide that you can reasonably use in a given time period (month or year depending on the product). ✓ Triple rinse containers, and use rinse water as product. Dispose of unused pesticide as hazardous waste. ✓ Dispose of empty pesticide containers according to the instructions on the container label.

MODEL PROCEDURES. 1. Mowing, Trimming/Weeding, and Planting Mowing, Trimming/Weeding ✓ Whenever possible, use mechanical methods of vegetation removal rather than applying herbicides. Use hand weeding where practical. ✓ When conducting mechanical or manual weed control, avoid loosening the soil, which could erode into streams or storm drains. ✓ Use coarse textured mulches or geotextiles to suppress weed growth and reduce the use of herbicides. ✓ Do not blow or rake leaves, etc. into the street or place yard waste in gutters or on dirt shoulders. Sweep up any leaves, litter or residue in gutters or on street. ✓ Collect lawn and garden clippings, pruning waste, tree trimmings, and weeds. Chip if necessary, and compost or dispose of at a landfill (see waste management section of this procedure sheet). ✓ Place temporarily stockpiled material away from watercourses, and berm or cover stockpiles to prevent material releases to storm drains. Planting ✓ Where feasible, retain and/or plant selected native vegetation whose features are determined to be beneficial. Native vegetation usually requires less maintenance (e.g., irrigation, fertilizer) than planting ornamental vegetation. ✓ When planting or replanting consider using low water use groundcovers. OPTIONAL: • Careful soil mixing and layering techniques using a topsoil mix or composted organic material can be used as an effective measure to reduce herbicide use and watering.

MODEL PROCEDURES a. Mowing, Trimming/Weeding, and Planting i. �Whenever possible, use mechanical methods of vegetation removal rather than applying herbicides. Use hand weeding where practical.

MODEL PROCEDURES. Some procedures and processes currently utilized in the TModel2 may not have a direct conversion in the TransCAD platform, or it may be determined that TModel2 procedures should be updated or revised with development of the TransCAD model. “Conversion” of model operating procedures will primarily involve developing TransCAD routines to implement operational decisions reached in Task 200 and documented in the Task 200 Working Paper. Model procedures will be developed to create a time-of-day model to model discrete periods of an average day separately. As opposed to a daily model, a time-of-day model allows modeling of street and intersection congestion more accurately than a daily model. We anticipate three periods will be utilized: • AM Peak Period • PM Peak Period • Off Peak Period We anticipate performing Trip Generation on a daily basis, then factoring daily trips to create time-of-day trip tables. The factoring process will discretely estimate the fraction of trip origins and destinations for each trip purpose for each time-of-day period. It is anticipated that the time-of-day factoring and Auto Occupancy will be performed separately for each trip purpose. Trip Distribution, Mode Split and Traffic Assignment functions will also be performed for three discrete time-of-day periods. To obtain data for an all-day period, the discrete time-of-day model results will typically be added together (to determine average daily traffic volume, for instance).