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Page 8 of 8 5. The ROAD AUTHORITY shall require its contractor or contractors, upon completion of the work, to remove all machinery, equipment, temporary buildings, false work, debris and rubbish from COMPANY right-of-way, to provide proper drainage away from COMPANY track, and to leave the tracks and right-of-way in a neat condition, satisfactory to the COMPANY’S Chief Engineer or his representative. 6. Any contract between the ROAD AUTHORITY and its contractor or subcontractor to perform the work herein provided to be done by the ROAD AUTHORITY shall require that the contractor or sub-contractor protect SOO LINE RAILROAD COMPANY, and any other railroad occupying or using COMPANY right-of-way or lines of railroad with the permission of the COMPANY, against all loss and damage arising from the activities of the contractor or any of its subcontractors or agents, and shall further provide that the contractor shall furnish the COMPANY a Railroad Protective Liability Insurance policy providing for protection of the COMPANY, in accordance with the Federal-Aid Policy Guide, Title 23, Part 140, Subpart 1 and any supplements to or revisions unless otherwise noted. The limits of the policy shall be not less than $2,000,000 combined single limit per occurrence for bodily injury, death, property damage and physical damage to property, with an aggregate limit of not less than $6,000,000 per policy period. The insurance policy shall be delivered to and approved by the COMPANY prior to entry upon or use of its property to commence work upon, over, under, across or adjacent to COMPANY tracks by the contractor. 7. Subsequent to the award of any contract, and before any work is started on this project, a conference shall be held between the representatives of the ROAD AUTHORITY, the COMPANY, and the interested contractor at a time and place designed by the ROAD AUTHORITY for the purpose of coordinating the work to be performed by the several parties and at such time a schedule of operation will be adopted. 8. The COMPANY will credit the ROAD AUTHORITY for the salvage value of all track, communication and signal line material used on a temporary basis during the construction of the project and accepted by the COMPANY for return to its stock. The ROAD AUTHORITY shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity to inspect materials recovered by the COMPANY prior to disposal by sale of scrap. 9. When the roadway is to be closed to vehicular traffic while the railroad work is being performed, the ROAD AUTHORITY at its expense shall furnish, erect, maintain and remove the traffic control devices necessary to detour highway traffic after the COMPANY gives two weeks’ advance notice to the ROAD AUTHORITY’S engineer. When the COMPANY is to perform its work while maintaining highway traffic, the ROAD AUTHORITY shall furnish or cause to be furnished, at its expense, the signs, barricades and traffic control devices for erection by the COMPANY after two weeks’ advance notice is given to the ROAD AUTHORITY’S engineer. The COMPANY, at the expense of the ROAD AUTHORITY, shall erect, maintain, relocate and remove the signs, barricades, and other traffic control devices, including the furnishing of flagmen, as required to maintain highway traffic throughout the time the railroad work is being performed.