Common use of Protection of Land Survey Monuments Clause in Contracts

Protection of Land Survey Monuments. Forest Service shall appropriately designate on the ground all known survey monuments, section corners, and other corner accessories. Forest Service shall post identifying signs on two sides of each known bearing tree. Forest Service shall arrange protective or perpetuative action that does not cause unnecessary delay to Contrac- tor in authorized clearings, such as Clearcutting Units and road construction, and in other instances where damage to monuments, section corners, and other corner accessories is unavoidable. Contractor shall protect all known survey monuments, witness corners, reference monuments, and bearing trees against avoidable destruction, obliteration, or damage dur- ing Contractor’s Operations. If any known monuments, cor- ners, or accessories are destroyed, obliterated, or dam- aged by Contractor’s Operations, Contractor shall hire the appropriate county surveyor or a registered land surveyor to reestablish or restore at the same location the xxxx- ments, corners, or accessories. Such surveyors shall use procedures in accordance with the Bureau of Land Man- agement “Manual of Instructions for the Survey of the Pub- lic Lands of the United States” for General Land Office sur- veys and in accordance with State law for others. Contrac- tor shall record such survey in appropriate county records. BT6.24 Protection Measures Needed for Plants, Animals, Cultural Resources, and Cave Re- sources. Locations of known areas needing special measures for the protection of plants, animals, cultural re- sources, and/or cave resources are shown on Contract Area Map and/or identified on the ground. Special protec- tion measures needed to protect such known areas are identified in CT6.24#. In addition to any special protection measures noted, Contractor has a general duty to protect all known and identified resources referenced in this Subsection from damage or removal during Contractor’s Operations. Dis- covery of additional areas, resources, or members of spe- cies needing special protection shall be promptly reported to the other party, and operations shall be delayed or inter- rupted at that location, under BT8.33, if Contracting Officer determines there is risk of damage to such areas, re- sources, or species from continued operations. Wheeled or track-laying equipment shall not be oper- ated in areas identified as needing special measures for the protection of cultural resources, except on roads, land- ings, tractor roads, or skid trails approved under BT5.1 or BT6.422. Unless agreed otherwise, trees will not be felled into such areas. Contractor may be required to backblade skid trails and other ground disturbed by Contractor’s Op- erations within such areas in lieu of cross ditching required under BT6.6. Contractor shall immediately notify Forest Service if disturbance occurs to any area identified as needing spe- cial protection measures and shall immediately halt opera- tions in the vicinity of the disturbance until Forest Service authorizes Contractor to proceed. Contractor shall bear costs of resource evaluation and restoration to identified sites. Such payment shall not relieve Contractor from civil or criminal liability otherwise provided by law. Nothing in this Subsection shall be interpreted as cre- ating any warranty that all locations and special measures for the protection of plants, animals, cultural resources, and cave resources have been described herein, else- where in the contract, or designated on the ground.