LAND IMPROVEMENT CONTRACTORS PROGRAM Supplemental

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LAND IMPROVEMENT CONTRACTORS PROGRAM

Supplemental Application

Account Name

Account Contact Name

Account web site address

Contractors License Number:

Are you a member of a trade association?

Producer Name

Account Telephone No:

Account e-mail address Date Completed

Yes No

ELIGIBILITY:

Enter the percentage of your PAYROLL that emanates from the following operations . Exclude work that you subcontract when determining eligibility percentages. Do not add % of payroll if the activity is part of a primary job. For example, if you do grading as part of putting in a driveway, 100 % of payroll should be allocated to Driveway.

Percentage based on payroll:

Grading of Land - Residential

Grading of Land - Commercial

Grading of Land - Curb to Curb

Excavation

Irrigation or Drainage System Construction

Driveway, Parking Lot or Sidewalk - Paving or Repaving

Street/road construction or reconstruction, including clearing of right-of-way, excavation, filing

or grading (i.e. site preparation)

Street/road paving or repaving or surfacing, including street/road striping

Conduit construction for cables and wires

Telephone, telegraph or cable television line construction (underground only)

Tunneling operations for the installation, service or repair of underground utility lines

 using trenchless excavation construction

Gas mains or connections construction

Water Mains or connections construction including Residential Hook-

Up’s

Water Mains or connections construction excluding Residential HookUp’s

Sewer mains or connections construction including Residential Hook-

Up’s

Sewer Mains or connections construction excluding Residential HookUp’s

Concrete Work

– sound walls, concrete cutting, etc. Do not include pad work

Water Well Drilling

Septic Tank

Asphalt Works, Sand/Gravel Digging, Stone Crushing

Contractor Permanent Yards

If the total is less than 100%, you may be ineligible for the LCA Program.

TOTAL

Describe any other operations:

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Do you communicate with the USA Dig Alert and the area utility owners that are not members of the USA Dig

Alert prior to all excavation work? If no, you are ineligible for the LICA Program

Yes No

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Related operations:

Hook-ups for water, sewer or gas? Yes No If yes, indicate type

Airport runways or warming aprons

Any residential finish grading which is not curb to curb?

Yes

Yes

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No

Are you involved in any of the following operations:

Bridge construction – including bridge culvert and tunneling unless clearance is less than 10 ft. and not more than 20 ft. wide

Concrete Construction of a structural nature and/or foundation work

Dam Construction (reservoirs) except ponding basins

Demolition works except in conjunction with site development work not over 2 stories and clearing land for agricultural purposes

Flood Control or Prevention except in conjunction with site work

Foundation Pouring Work - load bearing

Hauling for others except if incidental (less than 20% of gross receipts)

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How many per year? Commercial % Residential %

Irrigation companies or water-works operations

Levee or Breakwater Construction Except for agricultural irrigation

Oil or gas well drilling, repair or service

On-site Waste Treatment except septic tanks

Pile Driving or Caisson work

Quarry, mining, or asphalt plant operations including gravel digging, stone crushing and asphalt batch plant operations if more than 30% sold to others

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Removal of underground petroleum storage tanks

Renting or leasing of owned equipment (power or otherwise) without operator to others

Sewage/Water Treatment Plant Construction other than site grading and excavation

Street or Road Work on Freeway, Bi-ways, connectors or Express Highway construction

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Subcontracting other than incidental amounts (less than 25%) as described in the eligibility guidelines Yes No

Surveyors third party Yes No

Tree Pruning or Removal except for clearing land for agricultural purposes or incidental to other site development work

Tunneling except at street crossings unless trenchless

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Underpinning buildings

Work done within city-center (downtown) or major metro areas (City of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and

San Diego) unless incidental to operations

Work on hillsides with slopes greater than 20 percent

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No

If Yes to any of the above you may be ineligible for the LICA Program.

1. You operate as:

Construction Manager % General Contractor %

2. Any current or past involvement with wrap-up/OCIP?

Any residential wrap-ups?

Note: Be sure to exclude receipts and payroll from above operations.

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Subcontractor %

Yes No

Yes No

3. Enter the percentage of your payroll and/or sales that emanate from residential or commercial work from the following operations:

Residential site preparation: Rough grading % Finish grading % Soil compaction %

Commercial site preparation:

Building site pad preparation

Foundation form construction

Rough grading % Finish grading %

% Soil stabilization

% Foundation design

Soil compaction

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Concrete pouring for foundations Foundation pier hole drilling

3. Indicate the average percentage of your TOTAL payroll or sales during the past 3 years for the following:

Percentages based on: (Check one)

COMMERCIAL WORK

Payroll or Sales

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INDUSTRIAL WORK

HABITATIONAL WORK

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TOTAL ( THE TOTAL SHOULD EQUAL 100 %.)

Please complete if you do any habitational work.

HABITATIONAL WORK BREAKDOWN

CONDOMINIUMS (High And Low Rise)

MULTI-FAMILY DEVELOPMENTS (including townhouses)

APARTMENTS

TRACT HOUSING

CUSTOM HOMES

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MAJOR REHAB/

RENOVATION

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TOTAL ( THE TOTAL SHOULD EQUAL 100 %.) % + %

5. Do you have any future plans related to work involving apartments, condos, townhouses, tract homes, custom homes or homes of unusual design?

If Yes , please describe.

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6. PAYROLL/GROSS RECEIPTS HISTORY

Year Payroll Subcontractor

Costs

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– OCIP

Receipts

Premium Deductible

Anticipated $

Current

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OPIC Receipts

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7. List the states you have worked in during the last 5 years.

8. Have you ever been cited for any OSHA or state labor board violations in the past three years

If yes, please explain:

9. Describe your three largest jobs currently underway or planned for the next year:

Start Date End Date

Year Completed

Description

10. Describe the four largest projects completed in the past five years:

Description

Yes

Value

Value

No

11. Have you ever been named in claims and/or litigation regarding faulty or defective construction or workmanship, including claims due to subsidence or construction defect issues?

If Yes , were you acting as a general or sub-contractor?

Was it a commercial project?

Provide detail on claims/litigation and what loss control measures you implemented for the future.

Was it a habitational project?

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Yes No 12. Do you have knowledge of any pre-existing act, omission, event; condition or damages to any person or property that may potentially give rise to any future claim or legal action? If Yes , please describe.

13. Do you have an architect on staff?

If Yes , do you carry professional liability insurance?

If No , do you require that the architect carry his/her own professional liability insurance?

14. Do you sub-contract work?

15. Indicate percent of receipts:

16. List the types of work subcontracted.

17. Do you obtain Certificates of insurance from all subcontractors?

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Are you named as an additional insured on all subcontractors’ policies?

19. Do require all subcontractors to carry primary limits equal to or greater than their own?

20. Do you use written subcontractor agreements containing hold harmless/indemnity agreements in your favor?

21. . Do you always use them with all your subcontractors?

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22. Indicate the types of subcontractor agreements you typically sign when you are working for a general.

Standard (AGC, AIA contracts) Custom Other

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RISK CONTROL

1. Do you have a quality control program?

If Yes , is it? Informal Formal Documented

Yes No

2. Is it a written a written quality control program?

3. Do you retain job files?

Yes

Yes

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No

If Yes , how long are they retained? years

4. Do you employ a full-time safety director and have a written safety program? Yes No

5. The safety program includes driver selection and training requirements.

6. Do you have a drug testing program?

Yes No

Yes No

SEWER AND WATER – UNDERGROUND UTILITY WORK

1. Do you communicate with the One-Call Service Center and non-members of the center a minimum of 48 hours before the job begins (or per state regulations)?

2. Is the route of excavation white lined before the utility locator arrives on site?

3. Do you do hand digging within 18 inches to 24 inches (depending on state regulations) from the center of the utility line?

4. Do you request new locates for excavations incurring extended time requirements (10 days or more) and following inclement weather?

5. Are photographs or videos taken before and after the excavation?

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HIGH PRIORITY/CRITICAL JOBS

The utility owner needs to be asked if this job is considered a high priority or critical job. Some job examples would be high pressure water or gas pipe, power transmission lines, 15-pair communication cable, Sonet Ring Architecture Fiber Optics, etc.

In addition to the five requirements noted above, do you:

1. Schedule a pre-excavation meeting on the job-site with the facility owner and prime contractor?

2. Utilize pot holing, air knives, or vacuum excavation techniques to verify utility locates? (A substitute for pot holing would be the excavator’s use of state of the art locating equipment).

3. Map the coordinates of the locations in relation to a stationary object(s), such as a tree, building, fence, etc?

Yes No

Yes No

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Producer’s Signature

Applicant’s Signature

Date

Date

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