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ATTACHMENT E 2008-DJ-BX-OI03 2. Provide Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) required initial and refresher training for law enforcement officials and all other personnel assigned to either the seizure or closure of clandestine methamphetamine laboratories: 3. As determined by their specified duties, equip the personnel with OSHA required protective wear and other required safety equipment 4. Assign properly trained personnel to prepare a comprehensive contamination report on each seized/closed laboratory; 5. Utilize qualified disposal personnel to remove all chemicals and associated glassware, equipment, and contaminated materials and wastes from the site(s) of each seized laboratory; 6. Dispose of the chemicals, equipment, and contaminated materials and wastes at properly licensed disposal facilities or, when allowable, at properly licensed recycling facilities; 7. Monitor the transport, disposal, and recycling components of subparagraphs numbered 5. and 6. immediately above in order to ensure proper compliance; 8. Have in place and implement a written agreement with the responsible state environmental agency. This agreement must provide that the responsible state environmental agency agrees to (i) timely evaluate the environmental condition at and around the site of a closed clandestine laboratory and (ii) coordinate with the responsible party, property owner, or others to ensure that any residual contantination is remediated, if determined necessary by the state environmental agency and in accordance with existing state and federal requirements; and 9. Have in place and implement a written agreement with the responsible state or local service agencies to properly respond to any minor, as defined by state law, at the site. This agreement must ensure immediate response by qualified personnel who can (i) respond to the potential health needs of any minor at the site; (ii) take that minor into protective custody unless the minor is criminally involved in the meth lab activities or is subject to arrest for other criminal violations; (iii) ensure immediate medical testing for methamphetamine toxicity; and (iv) arrange for any follow-up medical tests, examinations, or health care made necessary as a result of methamphetamine toxicity. 8. The recipient is required to establish a trust fund account. (The trust fund mayor may not be an interest-bearing account.) The fund may not be used to pay debts incurred by other activities beyond the scope of the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program (JAG). The recipient also agrees to obligate and expend the grant funds in the trust fund (including any interest earned) during the period of the grant. Grant funds (including any interest earned) not expended by the end of the grant period must be returned to the Bureau of Justice Assistance no later than 90 days after the end of the grant period, along with the final submission of the Financial Status Report (SF-269). 9. The grantee agrees to comply with all reporting, data collection and evaluation requirements, as prescribed by the BJA in the program guidance for the Justice Assistance Grant (JAG). Compliance with these requirements will be monitored by BJA. 10. The recipient agrees that any information technology system funded or supported by OJP funds will comply with 28 C.F.R. Part 23, Criminal Intelligence Systems Operating Policies, if OJP determines this regulation to be applicable. Should OJP determine 28 C.F.R. Part 23 to be applicable, OJP may, at its discretion, perform audits of the system, as per 28 C.F.R. 23.20(g). Should any violation of 28 C.F.R. Part 23 occur, the recipient may be fined as per 42 U.S.C. 3789g(c)-(d). Recipient may not satisfy such a fine with federal funds. 11. The recipient agrees to ensure that the State Information Technology Point of Contact receives written notification regarding any information technology project funded by this grant during the obligation and expenditure period. This is to facilitate communication among local and state governmental emities regarding various information technology projects being conducted with these grant funds. In addition, the recipient agrees to maintain an administrative file documenting the meeting of this requirement. For a list of State Information Technology Points of Contact, go to http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ec/states.htm. 12. To avoid duplicating existing networks or IT systems in any initiatives funded by BJA for law enforcement information sharing systems which involve interstate connectivity between jurisdiction, such systems shall employ, to the extent possible. existing networks as the communication backbone to achieve interstate connectivity, unless the grantee can demonstrate to the satisfaction ofBJA that this requirement would not be cost effective or would impair the functionality of an existing or proposed IT system. 13. The grantee agrees to comply with the applicable requirements of 28 C.F.R. Part 38, the Department of Justice 40f5