1. Environmental Commitments
Managing the Environmental & Project Development Process

2. Environmental Commitments
Documentation of Environmental Commitments – Section 1502, ODOT L&D Manual
Procedures for Environmental Commitments
Applicable to all projects
Managing the Environmental & Project Development Process

3. Environmental Commitments
Following approval of the environmental document
District Environmental Coordinator will compile a list of the commitments for mitigating, minimizing or avoiding environmental impacts, and forward the District’s design project manager.
If there are no commitments required, this should be noted.
Appropriate plan notes are inserted in the contract plans
Managing the Environmental & Project Development Process

4. Environmental Commitments – Environmental Consultation Form
Prepared upon completion of Contract Plans
Ensures that :
all the environmental clearances and assumptions are still valid
any required environmental commitments have been implemented into the design
there are appropriate plan notes or other measures in place to ensure that any remaining commitments are followed through with during the construction phase
Included with the plan file package which should be sent to the Office of Estimating. Copy also kept at District.
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5. Environmental Commitments – Additional Considerations
During the construction phase, if a change order is required, that may change the scope of work or disturb a new area, the District Environmental Coordinator must be notified and the Environmental Consultation Form must be reevaluated and sent to The Office of Highway Management before that
change order can be approved.
Managing the Environmental & Project Development Process