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g) Coordinating with property owners <strong>and</strong>/or their authorized agents in the obtaining of property owner<br />
approvals <strong>and</strong> the execution of vault entry construction agreements, including all required preparation<br />
<strong>and</strong> registered mailings, with return receipts. An agreement shall be required <strong>for</strong> alteration of each<br />
vault.<br />
h) All vault data, survey notes, photographs, minutes of meetings with owners/tenants, estimates,<br />
treatment alternatives, Buildings Department documents shall be indexed by house number <strong>and</strong> crossreferenced<br />
to Lot <strong>and</strong> Block number, <strong>and</strong> shall be <strong>for</strong>matted/maintained in a Technical Supplement<br />
<strong>for</strong>mat <strong>for</strong> each house number.<br />
i) The Consultant shall be solely accountable to initiate all actions relative to owner coordination, the<br />
obtaining of data <strong>and</strong> in<strong>for</strong>mation, owner/tenant consultations, incremental reviews of proposed<br />
<strong>design</strong>s by the Department, including all coordination meetings, as required to complete the vault<br />
program.<br />
4.7 RAILROAD AND ABANDONED TROLLEY FACILITIES RESEARCH<br />
1. The Consultant shall research available records regarding ab<strong>and</strong>oned railroad facilities <strong>and</strong> trolley trackage within the<br />
project limits. The Consultant shall search the following record sources: The New York City Public Library Reference<br />
Desk, N.Y.C. Transit Authority, Private Utilities, Historical Society’s Trolley Museums.<br />
2. The Consultant shall prepare an inspection/research <strong>for</strong>m <strong>for</strong> each source, listing documents searched, date, time <strong>and</strong><br />
results; individual <strong>for</strong>ms shall be packaged into a technical supplement <strong>for</strong>mat.<br />
3. The Consultant shall select <strong>and</strong> coordinate the location <strong>for</strong> test pits to ascertain the existence, nature, extent <strong>and</strong><br />
location of ab<strong>and</strong>oned railroad facilities <strong>and</strong> trolley trackage. The test pits shall not be located with the intersection. The<br />
test pits shall be taken 50 ft. to 75 ft. into the leg(s) of the intersection.<br />
4. The Consultant shall combine the test pit program with any additional Subsurface Exploration Program required under<br />
separate tasks included in the Specific Requirements <strong>for</strong> the Project.<br />
5. The Consultant shall provide field verification <strong>and</strong> field observation during test pit operations to ensure that all relevant<br />
available data is recorded at each test pit location.<br />
6. The Consultant shall document each test pit in a <strong>for</strong>mat to be approved by the City.<br />
7. Upon completion of per<strong>for</strong>ming research, investigation, field observations, <strong>and</strong> test pits the Consultant shall prepare a<br />
letter report <strong>for</strong> DDC’s review <strong>and</strong> approval with all documentation attached.<br />
8. The Consultant shall incorporate any ab<strong>and</strong>oned railroad/trolley system data into the contract documents.<br />
9. The Consultant shall <strong>design</strong> <strong>and</strong> incorporate any necessary ab<strong>and</strong>oned railroad/trolley track work into the contract<br />
documents <strong>and</strong> fully coordinate the plans, specifications <strong>and</strong> estimates.<br />
4.8 ROADWAY PAVEMENT DESIGN<br />
1. Under this task the Consultant shall prepare roadway pavement <strong>design</strong>(s) to be per<strong>for</strong>med in conjunction with the<br />
project.<br />
2. The Consultant shall group the street locations <strong>and</strong> per<strong>for</strong>m separate pavement <strong>design</strong>s <strong>for</strong> each group based on soil<br />
conditions <strong>and</strong> traffic volumes. As many as three (3) separate pavement <strong>design</strong>s may be required.<br />
3. The Consultant, utilizing the traffic count data obtained under the Traffic Study Task included in the Specific<br />
Requirements <strong>for</strong> the Project, shall determine the appropriate traffic parameters to be used in conjunction with the<br />
AASHTO Pavement Design Guide. The Consultant shall integrate/evaluate the results of the mechanical traffic counts<br />
<strong>and</strong>/or manual turning counts provided, <strong>and</strong> any additional counts obtained under any other <strong>design</strong>/study element of this<br />
Total Design program with data obtained from the Department's Bureau of Traffic, where applicable, as well as from other<br />
sources.<br />
4. The Consultant, utilizing any soils data provided by the City, soils data obtained under the Soils Investigation Program<br />
provided <strong>for</strong> in this Contract <strong>and</strong> taking into consideration the fill <strong>requirements</strong> <strong>for</strong> reconstructing the roadways to the<br />
proposed grades, shall determine the appropriate soil parameters to be used in conjunction with the AASHTO Pavement<br />
NYC Department of Design <strong>and</strong> Construction<br />
Infrastructure, October 2012<br />
GR-34
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