Washington State Department of Ecology 6/18/2018

State of Washington Department of Ecology Page 15 of 20 Agreement No: SPPREG-2019-EverFD-00045 Project Title: City of Everett Spill Response Capacity Building Recipient Name: Everett city of-Fire Department the ECOLOGY Program issuing the grant or loan. If a QAPP is required,the RECIPIENT shall: • Use ECOLOGY's QAPP Template/Checklist provided by the ECOLOGY,unless ECOLOGY Quality Assurance (QA)officer or the Program QA coordinator instructs otherwise. • Follow ECOLOGY's Guidelines for Preparing Quality Assurance Project Plans for Environmental Studies,July 2004(Ecology Publication No.04-03-030). • Submit the QAPP to ECOLOGY for review and approval before the start of the work. b) RECIPIENT shall submit environmental data that was collected on a project to ECOLOGY using the Environmental Information Management system(EIM),unless the ECOLOGY Program instructs otherwise.The RECIPIENT must confirm with ECOLOGY that complete and correct data was successfully loaded into EIM, find instructions at:http://www.ecy.wa.gov/eim. c) RECIPIENT shall follow ECOLOGY's data standards when Geographic Information System(GIS)data is collected and processed.Guidelines for Creating and Accessing GIS Data are available at: https://ecology.wa.gov/Research-Data/Data-resources/Geographic-Information-Systems-GIS/Standards.RECIPIENT, when requested by ECOLOGY,shall provide copies to ECOLOGY of all final GIS data layers,imagery,related tables, raw data collection files,map products,and all metadata and project documentation. 12. GOVERNING LAW This Agreement will be governed by the laws of the State of Washington,and the venue of any action brought hereunder will be in the Superior Court of Thurston County. 13. INDEMNIFICATION ECOLOGY will in no way be held responsible for payment of salaries,consultant's fees,and other costs related to the project described herein,except as provided in the Scope of Work. To the extent that the Constitution and laws of the State of Washington permit,each party will indemnify and hold the other harmless from and against any liability for any or all injuries to persons or property arising from the negligent act or omission of that party or that party's agents or employees arising out of this Agreement. 14. INDEPENDENT STATUS The employees,volunteers,or agents of each party who are engaged in the performance of this Agreement will continue to be employees,volunteers,or agents of that party and will not for any purpose be employees,volunteers,or agents of the other party. 15. KICKBACKS RECIPIENT is prohibited from inducing by any means any person employed or otherwise involved in this Agreement to give up any part of the compensation to which he/she is otherwise entitled to or receive any fee,commission,or gift in return for award of a subcontract hereunder. 16. MINORITY AND WOMEN'S BUSINESS ENTERPRISES(MWBE) RECIPIENT is encouraged to solicit and recruit,to the extent possible,certified minority-owned(MBE)and women-owned(WBE)businesses in purchases and contracts initiated under this Agreement. Contract awards or rejections cannot be made based on MWBE participation;however,the RECIPIENT is encouraged to take the following actions,when possible, in any procurement under this Agreement: a) Include qualified minority and women's businesses on solicitation lists whenever they are potential sources of goods or services. b) Divide the total requirements,when economically feasible,into smaller tasks or quantities,to permit maximum participation by qualified minority and women's businesses. c) Establish delivery schedules,where work requirements permit,which will encourage participation of qualified Version 10/30/2015