Permit Application Procedures. A. Licensee shall not install any Attachments on any Pole, or materially modify the Communications Facilities on any Pole, without first applying for and obtaining a Permit by complying with Utility’s Permit Application Process. Authorized Attachments installed prior to the Effective Date of this Agreement shall be grandfathered with respect to Permitting, but shall be subject to payment of the Annual Pole Attachment Fee. Pre-existing Attachments shall be included and identified in Licensee’s Attachment Inventory.
Permit Application Procedures. Application for an ADF&G Fish Habitat Permit for a culvert structure will describe the proposed culvert installation, time periods requested for in-water activity, and for Tier 2 and Tier 3 designs (See Section 4) will include a fish passage analysis for the fish design discharge (Qfish) and an evaluation of low flow fish passage characteristics. A standard application form is not required for ADOT&PF installations. However, a written description from ADOT&PF is required and should contain the information identified in Exhibit C. The amount of information required is directly linked to the specific design tier used. Tier 1 designs require less site-specific information than Tier 2 or 3. There will be pre-application coordination between ADF&G and ADOT&PF staff prior to a formal application being submitted. It is easier and less costly for ADOT&PF to revise and modify plans while they are still in preliminary design. Optimally, all disagreements should be resolved before a permit application is submitted to ADF&G. EXHIBIT B FISHPASS Culvert Fish Passage Program And Technical Advisory FISHPASS.EXE Computer Program The Tier 2 evaluation of culverts for fish passage is based on a microcomputer-supported analysis of the combined profile drag (velocity), virtual mass forces, and non- Archimedean buoyant (gradient) forces acting on a swimming fish in a culvert. The component forces are described in the “Fundamentals of Culvert Design for Passage of Weak Swimming Fish” (Xxxxxx et al., 1991). This design is not based on acceptable cross-section culvert velocities. Rather, the design method evaluates the component hydraulic forces within a culvert against a fish’s available power and energy capabilities. The analysis further differentiates between the red muscle (aerobic) propulsive mode typically used by fish within the culvert barrel and the white muscle (anaerobic) propulsive mode used under most flow regimes at the culvert inlet and outlet. Power and energy evaluations are particularly useful in steep culverts, perched culverts and culverts with significant inlet contraction where virtual mass and gradient forces become significant relative to profile drag (velocity). ADF&G, in cooperation with the University of Alaska Fairbanks, currently is funded by ADOT&PF to collect fish swimming performance data for juvenile chinook, coho, Xxxxx Xxxxxx, and cutthroat trout. This information will be used to modify the power and energy equations for non-grayling fish species...
Permit Application Procedures
