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conducting apre-bid conference and answer all questions of prospective or potential bidders and City's staff and make all necessary clarifications and interpretations of the construction contract documents. 1.6.12 Have no authority to issue a Notice to Proceed to any Contractor. Construction Administration 1.6.13 Provide administration of the construction contract as set forth in the construction documents unless otherwise provided in this Agreement and incorporated in the construction contract documents. The Engineer is responsible for overseeing all construction operations, including ensuring that all environmental permits, issues, coordination, mitigation, and commitments are adequately addressed, of assessing potential environmental effects of contract revisions, and of obtaining environmental permits, issues coordination, mitigation, and commitments that may be required by contract revisions. The Engineer will ensure that all contract revisions comply with the latest version of all Federal and State administrative criteria and manuals. The Engineer will not authorize any contract revision without the prior written approval of the City if it will affect prior environmental approvals, significantly revise the scope of the Project or change the cost. 1.6.14 Be a representative but not an agent of the City during the construction phase, and advise and consult with the City and provide progress reports and advice to the City in writing; forward the City's instructions to the Contractor unless (1) Engineer is unavailable by telephonic communication or otherwise to issue instructions necessary for the proper progress and acceptance of work; (2) jeopardy to life and/or property exists; and/or (3) lack of instructions and/or unavailability of Engineer will result in, in City's opinion, harm to City, in which case instructions may be forwarded directly to the Contractor by the City; have authority to act on behalf of the City only to the extent provided herein and in the construction contract documents unless otherwise modified by written instrument in accordance with Section 12.1. Any instructions issued directly by City to Contractor will be promptly communicated to the Engineer if the Engineer was unavailable at the time of issuance of instructions. 1.6.15 Assist the City in conducting apre-construction conference with the Contractor, members of City's staff, representatives of affected utility providers, and federal and state agencies having jurisdiction over the Project (including City inspectors) in order to establish construction schedules and to identify key representatives of the parties and lines of communication. 1.6.16 Assist the City in ensuring that all applicable permits and approvals have been obtained from the appropriate agencies prior to construction. 1.6.17 Make on-site inspections of the Project at least weekly to ensure familiarity with the progress and quality of the work, to determine if the work is proceeding in acceptable KBR-Comanche Water Transmission Main (24") Agreement 10