Before work begins
- Site walk identifying slope, soft ground, overhead lines, and access constraints
- Montana 811 utility locate requested before any ground disturbance — required by law, and free
- Owner-disclosed private lines documented, since 811 marks only public utilities
- Septic components, wells, and protected features flagged and marked
- Permit and approval requirements confirmed with the governing jurisdiction
On site
- Exclusion zones maintained around operating equipment — no walk-ups
- Daily equipment inspection before operation
- Structure demolition sequenced only after utility disconnects are verified with providers
- Trench and excavation edges treated as collapse hazards
- Fire-season awareness on dry-condition work, including ignition sources from equipment
Close-out
- Debris routed through licensed disposal channels, with documentation retained where the owner needs it
- Disturbed ground reseeded within the applicable window
- Grades verified for drainage before demobilization
- Site walked with the owner or the owner's representative
Compliance
What binds the work
Regulatory obligations that govern how the work is performed here — priced in rather than discovered mid-project. Each is law, not policy.
- Underground utilities
- Montana 811 locate requested before any ground disturbance. It is required by law and it is free — there is no scenario in which skipping it is the cheaper option.
- Stormwater
- Construction stormwater discharge requires MPDES coverage under ARM 17.30.1105(1)(a), obtained through General Permit MTR100000 with a Notice of Intent and a Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan filed with DEQ. It gates the start of disturbance, so it belongs in the schedule.
- Work in or near streams
- Altering the bed or banks of a perennially-flowing stream requires a permit first — a 310 from the local conservation district for a private applicant, SPA 124 through Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks for a public one. Processing runs 30 to 90 days.
- Water quality
- Work causing short-term exceedances of state turbidity standards requires a 318 authorization from Montana DEQ, and that applies to private and public parties alike.
- Noxious weeds
- Montana law makes it unlawful to let noxious weeds propagate or go to seed, and ground-disturbing work is where they establish. Equipment moving between parcels carries seed, so cleaning between sites is part of the job rather than a courtesy.
- Energized conductors
- OSHA 1910.269(r) permits only qualified line-clearance personnel to work inside the minimum approach distance of energized conductors — 10 feet at or below 50 kV. We do not hold that qualification and do not self-perform that scope.
- Public work
- Davis-Bacon, the Service Contract Act, and Montana prevailing wage apply at their statutory thresholds on public contracts. Certified payroll is produced where the contract requires it.
Safety record
Boaz Land Management is newly established and does not yet have an experience modification rate or a multi-year OSHA recordable history. Both will be published here once a rating period has closed. We do not publish a safety figure we cannot substantiate from an underwriting or reporting record.
Why this is on a public page
Federal acquisition rules require a contracting officer to make an affirmative determination that a contractor has the necessary organization, controls, and technical skills — safety programs and quality assurance measures are named explicitly among them. Publishing the program rather than asserting a safety culture gives a buyer something to evaluate. The full compliance picture is on the public-sector capability page.