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with all Massachusetts Electrical Code (527 CMR § 12.00) compliant disconnects and overcurrent <br />devices. Off -grid solar energy systems shall be exempt from this requirement. <br />10. Documentation of the major system components to be used, including the electric generating <br />components, battery or other electric storage systems, transmission systems, mounting system, <br />inverter, etc. <br />11. Preliminary Operation & Maintenance Plan for the solar energy system, which shall include measures <br />for maintaining safe access to the installation, storm water management, vegetation controls, and <br />general procedures for operational maintenance of the installation <br />12. Abandonment & Decommissioning Plan - Any ground -mounted solar energy system which has <br />reached the end of its useful life or has been abandoned (i.e., when it fails to operate for more than one <br />year without the written consent of the Planning Board) shall be removed. The owner or operator shall <br />physically remove the installation within 150 days of abandonment or the proposed date of <br />decommissioning. The owner or operator shall notify the Planning Board by certified mail of the <br />proposed date of discontinued operations and plans for removal. The Abandonment & <br />Decommissioning Plan shall include a detailed description of how all of the following will be <br />addressed: <br />a. Physical removal of all structures; equipment, building, security barriers and transmission lines <br />from the site, including any materials used to limit vegetation. <br />b. Disposal of all solid and hazardous waste in accordance with local, state, and federal waste disposal <br />regulations. <br />c. Stabilization or re -vegetation of the site as necessary to minimize erosion. The Planning Board <br />may allow landscaping or below -grade foundations left in situ in order to minimize erosion and <br />disturbance of the site. <br />d. Description of financial surety for decommissioning - Proponents of ground -mounted solar energy <br />systems shall provide a form of surety, either through escrow account, bond or other form of surety <br />approved by the Planning Board to cover the cost of removal in the event the Town must remove <br />the installation and remediate the landscape, in an amount and form determined to be commercially <br />reasonable by the Planning Board, but in no event to exceed more than 125 percent of the cost of <br />removal and compliance with the additional requirements set forth herein, as determined by the <br />project proponent and the Town. Such surety will not be required for municipal or state-owned <br />facilities. The project proponent shall submit a fully inclusive estimate of the costs associated with <br />removal, prepared by a qualified engineer. The amount shall include a mechanism for calculating <br />increased removal costs due to inflation. <br />e. It shall be a condition of any special permit that all legal documents required to enable the Town <br />to exercise its rights and responsibilities under the plan to decommission the site, enter the property <br />and physically remove the installation shall be provided prior to the issuance of a building permit. <br />13. Proof of liability insurance <br />14. A storm water management plan prepared by a Massachusetts licensed Registered Professional <br />Engineer <br />15. A Site Plan, with stamp and signature of the Massachusetts licensed Registered Professional Engineer <br />that prepared the plan, including the following: <br />a. verything required under this bylaw and Site Plan Approval <br />b. Existing Conditions Plan, showing property lines, map and lot from the Assessor's records, and <br />physical features, including roads and topography, for the entire project site, signed and sealed by <br />a Massachusetts licensed Registered Land Surveyor <br />c. Proposed changes to the landscape of the site, grading, vegetation clearing and planting, exterior <br />lighting, screening vegetation, fencing or structures including their height, and placement of <br />system components, including solar arrays and related structures and equipment <br />d. An estimate of earthwork operations including the volume of cut and fill and the amount of soil <br />material to be imported or exported from the site <br />