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FOREST SERVICE MANUAL
PORTLAND, OREGON
TITLE 7100 - ENGINEERING OPERATIONS
R-6 Supplement No. 7100-96-1
Effective October 9, 1996
POSTING NOTICE. Supplements are numbered consecutively by title and
calendar year. Post by document name. Remove entire document, if one exists, and
replace with this supplement. The last R-6 supplement to this manual was
Supplement No. 7100-95-5.
This supplement supersedes 7100-95-5
Document Name
7170
Superseded New
Number of Pages
1
Digest:
7170.4 - Specifies responsibility for rock material management.
ROBERT W. WILLIAMS
Regional Forester
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FSM 7100 - ENGINEERING OPERATIONS
R-6 SUPPLEMENT 7100-96-1
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CHAPTER 7170 - GEOTECHNICAL AND MATERIALS ENGINEERING
7170.4 - Responsibility
1.
The Regional Office Director of Engineering has the responsibility for
geotechnical engineering requirements for rock material management. To fulfill
this responsibility, the Director of Engineering shall:
a.
Develop appropriate technical direction and guidelines for forest
rock material management, investigation requirements, source
development and operating plans, site rehabilitation, resource
inventory, and documentation procedures.
b.
Selectively evaluate forest rock material management programs
through the Activity Review process.
c.
Provide consultation, technical assistance, and support services
for rock material management.
d.
Coordinate safety requirements promulgated by Federal and
State laws and regulations pertaining to rock material source
development.
e.
Consolidate and report annual rock material reserve and
depletion data from individual forest reports.
2.
Forest Supervisors shall develop appropriate direction for management
of rock material on each forest. The objectives of this management direction are to:
a.
Provide forest direction for use and administration of the rock
material relating to development, implementation, and administration
of the rock material resource.
b.
Establish technical standards of performance required to develop
and administer the forest rock material program.
c.
Adequately assess rock material reserves, monitor utilization
rates, and conserve the resource.
3.
The forest direction shall provide for the following plan and procedures:
a.
Forest Rock Material Management Plan. Each forest shall
develop a rock material resource plan which provides for acquisition of
the following management information.
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(1)
Inventory of presently developed rock material sources.
(2)
Identification of developable rock material reserves.
(3)
Identification
requirements.
of
present
and
projected
rock
material
(4)
Strategy to meet present and future material requirements.
(5)
Resource protection and site rehabilitation requirements.
b. The forest Rock Material Management Plan shall also emphasize
interdisciplinary coordination during program development and review
to ensure that the widest range of management factors is considered
during planning and utilization of the resource.