EP 1130-2-540
15 Nov 96
CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION
1-1. Purpose. This pamphlet establishes guidance for the management of environmental stewardship-
related operations and maintenance activities at USACE civil works water resource projects and
supplements ER 1130-2-540, Environmental Stewardship Operations and Maintenance Policies.
1-2. Applicability. This pamphlet applies to all USACE commands having responsibility for civil
works functions.
1-3. References. See Appendix A.
1-4. Glossary.
a. Associated Records. Original records (or copies thereof) that are prepared or
assembled and document efforts to locate, evaluate, record, study, preserve or recover materials
from a prehistoric or historic resource. Some records such as field notes, artifact inventories and
oral histories may be originals that are prepared as a result of the field work, analysis and report
preparation. Other records such as deeds, survey plats, historical maps and diaries may be copies
of original public or archival documents that are assembled and studied for historical research.
Classes of associated records (and illustrative examples) that may be in a collection include, but
are not limited to:
(1) Records relating to the identification, evaluation, documentation, study, preservation
or recovery of a resource (such as site forms, field notes, drawings, maps, photographs, slides,
negatives, films, video and audio cassette tapes, oral histories, artifact inventories, laboratory
reports, computer cards and tapes, computer disks and diskettes, printouts of computerized data,
manuscripts, reports, and accession catalog, and inventory records);
(2) Records relating to the identification of a resource using remote sensing methods and
equipment (such as satellite and aerial photography and imagery, side scan sonar, magnetometer,
subbottom profilers, radar and fathometers);
(3) Public records essential to understanding the resource (such as deeds, survey plats,
military and census records, birth, marriage and death certificates, immigration and naturalization
papers, tax forms and reports);
(4) Archival records essential to understanding the resource (such as historical maps,
drawings and photographs, manuscripts, architectural and landscape plans, correspondence,
diaries, ledgers, catalogs and receipts); and
(5) Administrative records relating to the survey, excavation or other study of the
resource (such as scopes of work, requests for proposals, research proposals, contracts, antiquity
permits, reports, documents relating to compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic
Preservation Act (16 USC 470f) and National Register of Historic Places nomination and
associated forms.
b. Bug Bombs and Space Sprays and Other Premixed Sprays. This includes all general
use insecticides which are packaged by the manufacturer in aerosol and pump containers of small
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