Construction Terms & Equipment
Sensitive Resources
The Feds
Owens Valley
200
LADOT must issue these for construction projects in the city that provide for the safe and efficient movement of traffic through work zones.
What is a traffic control plan?
200
This bill requires public agencies to consult with tribes during the CEQA process.
What is AB 52?
200
This is the name of the form you must submit to request a permit from a federal agency.
What is an SF-299 form?
200
Reaching an elevation of 14,505 feet, it towers more than 10,000 vertical feet above Owens Valley.
What is Mount Whitney?
400
Depicted here, this inlet is designed to collect and discharge roadway runoff into down-slope areas to prevent erosion on steep slopes. Many are installed on the ANF.
What is a McCarthy Drain?
400
These three key parameters are necessary to describe and analyze in a jurisdictional delineation.
What are hydrology, vegetation and soil?
400
Section 106 of this act requires federal agencies to consider the effects on historic properties of projects they carry out.
What is the National Historic Preservation Act?
400
The four main towns in Owens Valley appear in this order from south to north.
Lone Pine, Independence, Big Pine, Bishop
600
This is a type of compact heavy equipment with wheels that have no separate steering mechanism and hold a fixed straight alignment on the body of the machine, making it extremely maneuverable and valuable for applications that require a compact, powerful and agile loader or tool carrier in confined-space work areas.
What is a skid steer or Bobcat?
600
This City-protected tree/shrub is known for its distinctive red berries that arise during the holidays. This plant is rumored to inspire Hollywood's name and is also the official City native plant.
What is Toyon or heteromeles arbutifolia?
600
Once an Enivronmental Impact Statement is completed, BLM will follow with this document that explains how they will move forward with a proposed action.
What is a Record of Decision or ROD?
600
A favorite for Hollywood movies, this area consists of weathered granite resulting in rounded boulders and eroded hills set at the base of the jagged peaks of the Sierra Nevada.
What are the Alabama Hills?
800
This is a trenchless, non-disruptive method of installing trunklines by thrusting pipes through the ground as controlled excavation is undertaken at the face.
What is pipejacking or microtunneling?
800
The Migratory Bird Protection Act was enacted in 1918 in response to overhunting of bird species as feather demand was high for production of this fashion accessory.
What are women's hats?
800
Established in 1976, this US Federal law governs the way in which the public lands administered by the BLM are managed with three factors to be upheld: 1. Land must be managed to protect the integrity of natural and cultural resources; 2. Land that is deemed in danger or vital require protection; and 3. Establishes environmental significance.
What is the Federal Land Policy and Management Act or FLPMA?
800
Water hammer caused a vacuum event and collapse on approximately 1,690 feet of this penstock in 1984. The penstock was then pressure inflated to become partially restored back to its original shape before full replacement years later.
What is the Haiwee penstock?
1000
This division is a component of the US Department of Labor and provides training for crews involved in mining or deep trenching for critical safety procedures.
What is MSHA (Mine Safety and Health Administration)?
1000
This is the maximum noise level for construction equipment in a residential zone of the City during a weekday.
What is 75 dB(A)?
1000
This form of consultation with the US Fish and Wildlife Service requires a non-federal party to develop a Habitat Conservation Plan for obtaining an incidental take permit.
What is Section 10 consultation?
1000
This is the Native American word for Owens Valley, meaning 'land of the flowing water'
What is Payahuunadü?