Watershed assessment Sample Clauses

Watershed assessment. The department, in cooperation with the appropriate governmental units, shall prepare a water- shed assessment analyzing the water quality problems or threats to the water quality in the watershed’s lakes, streams, wetlands and groundwater and which determines the nonpoint sources causing the problem or threat. The watershed assessment shall contain:
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Watershed assessment. In priority watersheds: → Assess existing and potential sources of pollution to lakes, streams and coastal waters using volunteer watershed surveys and other assessment approaches. → Assess and prioritize wetlands and riparian lands for protection. → Submit to EPA the 2000 305(b) Water Quality Assessment Report to Congress on or before April 1, 2000. Provide electronic updates of waterbody assessments to EPA annually. Designate a DEP contact person for coordinating the 305(b) project. Salmon conservation. Participate in an interagency effort to implement the Salmon Conservation Plan. → Project managers of applications in the seven salmon watersheds make contact with the particular watershed association and consider salmon impacts in reviewing the applications. → Work with growers, EPA, Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE), U.S. Fish and Wildlife (USF&W) to identify and implement alternatives to water withdrawal. → Support interagency efforts to better define appropriate water levels, consistent with Class AA standards and associated designated uses, in the Pleasant River, Narraguagus River, and Mopang Stream. → Conduct water quality sampling program on the seven rivers in cooperation with the watershed councils. → Provide training to watershed councils on the NPS watershed survey methods. Monitoring and assessment. → Work with DEP Computer Services Division to implement Oracle STORET and convert data from existing databases to the Oracle system. Aquatic biodiversity. Initiate the formation of a workgroup of state agencies (DEP, Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, and Maine Natural Areas Program) and non- agency (The Nature Conservancy, Natural Resources Council of Maine and others) personnel to assess status of our knowledge about aquatic biodiversity and identification of issues requiring further study. Seek cooperative funding to support a staff position to assemble information on aquatic biodiversity. Conduct a workshop to present an assessment of existing knowledge of aquatic biodiversity in Maine. Sand/Salt. Work with DOT to update the sand/salt priority ranking list, and to develop BMP rules for the priority 4 and 5 category sites pursuant to the new sand/salt legislation (Ch. 387). Geographic Information System (GIS) data. → Provide EPA with DEP surface and ground water GIS data that are available in the Bureau. → Provide spatial data development for 303d listed waters. Education and outreach: Include education and outreach in the employee perfor...

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  • Needs Assessment 1. The Contractor shall conduct a cultural and linguistic group-needs assessment of the eligible client population in the Contractor’s service area to assess the language needs of the population and determine what reasonable steps are necessary to ensure meaningful access to services and activities to eligible individuals. [22 CCR 98310, 98314] The group-needs assessment shall take into account the following four (4) factors:

  • Environmental Assessment Buyer shall have the right for a period commencing upon execution of this Agreement by both parties and ending on November 28, 2012, to conduct an environmental assessment of the Assets, at Buyer’s sole risk, liability and expense. Seller shall make available to Buyer, during the environmental assessment period described above, Seller’s historical files regarding prior operations on the Assets, and provide Buyer and its representatives with reasonable access to the Assets to conduct the environmental assessment. Buyer shall provide Seller three (3) days prior written notice of a desired date(s) for such assessment and Seller shall have the right to be present during any assessment and, if any testing is conducted pursuant to Seller’s express prior written consent, Seller may require splitting of all samples. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, Buyer shall not have the right to drill any test, monitor or other xxxxx or to extract samples of any air, soil, water or other substance from the Assets without Seller’s express prior written consent. If Buyer proposes a reasonable request to drill a test well or extract a sample pursuant to a systematic and customary procedure for the assessment of the environmental condition of the Assets and Seller refuses to grant its consent to such a well or sampling, then Buyer shall have the right, for a period of seventy-two (72) hours following notification of Seller’s refusal to consent, to deliver written notice to Seller of Buyer’s election to exclude from this transaction the portion of the Assets affected by such proposed test well or sample, and the Purchase Price shall be adjusted accordingly by the Allocated Value of such portion of the Assets so excluded. Under no circumstances whatsoever shall Seller ever be obligated to grant its consent to any such test xxxxx or sampling proposed by Buyer, and Buyer’s sole and exclusive remedy for any refusal by Seller to grant its consent shall be the limited right contained in the preceding sentence to exclude the affected Assets from the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. If Buyer fails to exercise the right to exclude such Assets by written notice to Seller delivered prior to the expiration of the seventy-two hour period described above, then Buyer shall be conclusively deemed to have waived such right and shall be obligated to purchase the affected Assets without conducting such testing or sampling or any adjustment of the Purchase Price unless otherwise provided in this Agreement.

  • Impact Assessment If Service Provider desires to make any change, upgrade, replacement or addition that may have an adverse impact or require changes as described in Section 9.6(c) or increase the risk of Service Provider not being able to provide the Services in accordance with this Agreement or violate or be inconsistent with DIR Standards or Strategic Plans, then Service Provider shall prepare a written risk assessment and mitigation plan (1) describing in detail the nature and extent of such adverse impact or risk, (2) describing any benefits, savings or risks to DIR or the DIR Customers associated with such change, and (3) proposing strategies to mitigate any adverse risks or impacts associated with such change and, after consultation and agreement with DIR, implement the plan.

  • Risk Assessment An assessment of any risks inherent in the work requirements and actions to mitigate these risks.

  • Evaluation Cycle: Formative Assessment A) A specific purpose for evaluation is to promote student learning, growth and achievement by providing Educators with feedback for improvement. Evaluators are expected to make frequent unannounced visits to classrooms. Evaluators are expected to give targeted constructive feedback to Educators based on their observations of practice, examination of artifacts, and analysis of multiple measures of student learning, growth and achievement in relation to the Standards and Indicators of Effective Teaching Practice.

  • Assessment Center A promotional candidate may not appeal or dispute the Assessment Center or scoring of the Assessment Center to an administrative or judicial body except for fraud committed by an assessor.

  • Environmental Assessment and Mitigation Development of a transportation project must comply with applicable environmental laws. The party named in article 1, Responsible Parties, under AGREEMENT is responsible for the following:

  • Formative Assessment The process used to assess progress towards attaining goals set forth in Educator plans, performance on standards, or both. This process may take place at any time(s) during the cycle of evaluation, but typically takes place at mid-cycle.

  • PROPERTY ASSESSMENT The Buyer and Seller hereby acknowledge that the Province of Ontario has implemented current value assessment and properties may be re-assessed on an annual basis. The Buyer and Seller agree that no claim will be made against the Buyer or Seller, or any Brokerage, Broker or Salesperson, for any changes in property tax as a result of a re-assessment of the property, save and except any property taxes that accrued prior to the completion of this transaction.

  • Diagnostic Assessment 6.3.1 Boards shall provide a list of pre-approved assessment tools consistent with their Board improvement plan for student achievement and which is compliant with Ministry of Education PPM (PPM 155: Diagnostic Assessment in Support of Student Learning, date of issue January 7, 2013).

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