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CISEC Exam with verified answers
Question 1: Which of these is NOT a tool that you would
need at the incident?
CORRECT ANSWER: Exercise Plan
Question 2: What does LDP stand for?
CORRECT ANSWER: Land Developing Projects -
altering landscape for projects such as agriculture or housing etc.
Question 3: What does NPDES stand for?
CORRECT ANSWER: National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System - section of the CWA (Clean Water Act) to permit stormwater discharges associated with industrial activities PER permit
Question 4: What are the CWA Penalty Types?
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CORRECT ANSWER: Administrative, Class I.
Negligent, Class II. Knowingly = greater fines
Question 5: What documents are required on site?
CORRECT ANSWER: SWPPP, CGP, Site Map,
Drawings and Key, All inspection reports, Any amendments to SWPPP
Question 6: Who is the "operator"? Also the LRP.
CORRECT ANSWER: Usually the OWNER of the site,
not the contractor, unless authorized by the owner to general contractor to have day-to-day operational control!
Question 7: When do you need permit coverage?
CORRECT ANSWER: Required from start to end of
project. "End" being the final vegetative/non-vegetative
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(concrete) stabilization occurring. For any project one acre or greater.
Question 8: What is Large Land Development?
CORRECT ANSWER: -strips off all existing vegetation
a.k.a site carving, -usually on hillsides and steep slopes, - installation of utilities that tear up large areas of land
Question 9: What are Vertical Projects?
CORRECT ANSWER: -Homebuilding, smaller residence
construction projects, -usually multiple subcontractors, - requires lots of housekeeping = mass chaos
Question 10: What are Big Box Projects?
CORRECT ANSWER: -commercial buildings, -mass
grading and mass chaos, -highly visible w/ fairly large footprint
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Question 11: What are Linear Projects?
CORRECT ANSWER: -roadways, utilities, and stream
corridors, -long narrow sites and mass chaos, -limited site access and continually changing (high activity)
Question 12: What is erosion?
CORRECT ANSWER: The process by which soil
particles get displaced by the act of wind or water.
Question 13: What are the three types of Wind Erosion?
CORRECT ANSWER: 1. Creep - causes sand dunes
<10% -large particles that roll across a terrain, 2.Saltation - bouncing particles that DISLODGE more particles, then fall back down ~50-80% - stay relatively close to ground, 3. Suspension - suspended way up into