(14)
(Railroad
Related Work
Only) The estimates
and general layout plans for
at.grade
crossing improvements should be
foMarded
to
the
Rail Safety
and
Project Engineer, Room
204,
lllinois Department
of
Transportation, 2300 South
Dirksen
Parkway, Springfield,
lllinois,
62764.
Approval
ofthe
estimates
and general layout plans should be obtained prior to the commencement
of
railroad
related
work.
All railroad related
work
is also subject
to
approval
be
lhe
lllinois Commerce Commission
(lCC).
Final inspection for
railroad
related
work
should be coordinated through appropriate IDOT District Bureau
of
Local Roads and Streets offlce.
Plans
and preemption times for
signal
related work that
will
be interconnected with trafflc signals shall be submitted to
the
ICC
for
review and approval
p
or
to the
commencement
ofwork.
Signal related
work
involving interconnects with state maintained trafflc
signals
should also be coordinated with
the
IDOT'S
District Bureau of Operations.
The LPA
is responsible
lor
the payment of
the
railroad related expenses in accordance with
the
LPA,/railroad agreement prior to
requesting
reimbursement
from
IDOT.
Requests
lor
reimbursement should be
sentto
the appropriate IDOT District Bureau
ofLocal
Roads and Streets office.
Engineer's
Payment Estimates
shall
be in accordance with
the
Division of Cost
on
page one.
(15)
And
certifies to the best
of
its
knowledge and belief
its
officialsl
(a)
are not presently debarred,
suspended,
proposed for debarment, declared ineligible or voluntarily excluded from covered
transactions
by any Federal
department
or agency;
(b)
have
not
within
a
three-year
period
preceding this Agreement been
convicted
of
or had
a
civiljudgment
rendered against them
for commission
offraud
or a criminal
offense
in connection
with
obtaining, attempting
to
obtain, or performing a public (Federal,
State or
Iocal)
transaction or
contract
under a public transaction; violation
of
Federal or State antitrust statutes or commission
of
embezzlement, theft, forgery, bribery, falsiflcation or destruction of records, making false statements receiving stolen propefty;
(c)
are not presently indicted for or
otheMise
criminally or civilly charged by
a
governmental entity (Federal, State, local) with
commission of any
of
the offenses enumerated in item
(b) of
this
certification;
and
(d)
have
notwithin
a
three-year
period
preceding the Agreement had one or more public transactions (Federal, State, local)
terminated for cause or default.
(16)
To
include the certifications, listed in
item
15
above, and all other certifications required by State statutes, in every contract,
including
procurement of materials
and
leases of equipment.
(17\
(State Contracts)
That execution
ofthis
agreement constitutes
the LPA'5
concurrence
in
the
award
oithe
construction
contracl
to
the
responsible low bidder
as
determined
by
the STATE.
(18)
That for
agreements exceeding
$100,000
in
federalfunds,
execution
of
this
Agreement constitutes
the
LPA'S certification that:
(a)
No Federal appropriated funds have been
paidorwill
be paid,
byoron
behalf
of
the undersigned,
to
any person
for
influencing
or attempting
to
influence an officer or employee
of
any agency,
a
Member
of
Congress, an officer or employee of Congress or
any employee
of
a
Member of
Congress
in connection with the awarding of any Federal contract,
the
making of any
cooperative agreement, and
the
extension, continuation, renewal, amendment or modiflcation of any Federal contract,
grant,
loan or cooperative agreement;
(b)
lf any funds
otherthan
Federal appropriated funds have been paid
orwill
be paid to any person
for
influencing or attempting to
influence an offlcer or employee
of
any agency, aMember of
Congress,
an officer or employee of Congress or an employee of
a
l\4ember
of
Congress, in connection with
this
Federal contract, grant, loan or cooperative agreement,
the
undersigned shall
complete and submit Standard Form-LLL, "Disclosure Form
to Report
Lobbying", in accordance
with
its instructions;
(c)
The
LPA
shall require that
the
language
ofthis
certiflcation be included in the award documents for all subawards at all ties
(including subcontracts, subgrants and contracts under grants, loans and cooperative agreements) and that all subrecipients
shall certify and disclose accordingly.
(19)
To
regulate parking and traffic in accordance with
the
approved project report.
(20)
To
regulate encroachments on public right-of-way in accordance with
current
lllinois Compiled Statutes.
(21\
To
regulate the discharge
of
sanitary sewage into any storm water drainage system constructed with
this
improvement
in
accordance with current lllinois
Compiled
Staiutes.
(22)
To
complete this phase
of
the project within
three
(3) years from
the
date
this
agreement is approved
by
the STATE
if
this portion
of
the
project described
in
the
Project Description does not exceed
$1
,000,000 (flve years
if
the
project costs exceed
$1
,OOO,OOO).
(23)
To
comply with the federal
Financial lntegrity
Review and Evaluation (FIRE) program,
which
requires States and subrecipients
lo
justify
continued federal funding on
inactive projects.
23 CFR
630.106(aX5)
defines an inactive project as a project
which
no
expenditures
have been charged
against
Federal funds
for
the
pasl
twelve
('12)
months.
To
keep projects active, invoicing must
occut
aminimurn of one time
within
any given
twelve
(12) month
period.
However, to
ensure
adequate processing time, the
Jlrst
invoice shall be submitted
io
the STATE within six (6) months
of
the federal authorization
date.
Subsequent invoices will be submitted in inlervals
not
to
exceed six (6) months.
(24)
The
LPA
will
submit supporting documentation with each request
for
reimbursement from the
STATE.
Supporting documentation
is
deflned
as
veriflcation of payment, certified time sheets or
summa
es,
vendor
invoices,
vendor
receipls, cost plus
flx
fee
invoice,
progress
report, and personnel
and
direct cost summaries.and other
documentation
supporting the requested reimbursement
amount
(Form BLRS 05621 should
be
used for consultant invoicing
purposes). LPA
invoice requests to
the
STATE
will
be
submitted with sequential invoice
numbers
by project.
Ptinled
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