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10 critical validations you must demand from your firing range lead reclamation contractor to protect you and your range:

10 CRITICAL VALIDATIONS YOU MUST DEMAND FROM YOUR FIRING RANGE LEAD RECLAMATION CONTRACTOR TO PROTECT YOU AND YOUR RANGE:

Prior to entering into a firing range services contract, you must determine what is required to ensure a satisfactory outcome and to protect your range, managing all of the potential liabilities short and long term. We encourage you to ask all contractors bidding your work each of the questions below and request the documentation to prove compliance. This is essential to fully protecting yourself and your range.

1. Contract type

Does the contractor provide you with:
a) Performance protection to guaranty their service? If they are not delivering on their promises, can they be fired? Shouldn’t a qualified contractor stand by its work? We think so! We provide “Firm Fixed” pricing. Others leave the door open for large change orders.
b) Comprehensive contract with FULL owner-indemnification to protect and defend against all contractor activities to address the sizable potential liability and exposure to the range.
c) The contract must require full compliance to all local, state and federal laws and regulations.

Others: offer a contract that locks you in for the entire year (or more!) with no chance of the range to back out for poor contractor performance or lack of timely scheduling.
How would it feel as the range owner/manager to be locked in and stuck for the next 12 months?
MT2: provides a standard one-time contract or annual contract based on performance.
If we don’t perform to your satisfaction, provide us a notification and we work with you to fix it.
If you are still not fully satisfied, we terminate the agreement. Period! MT2 stands behind our work!

2. Reclaimed Lead Payout and Waste Costs

a) Shouldn’t your range demand the absolute highest value for your range lead as well as the lowest waste processing cost? (filters)

Others: offer a basic contract that would give you less than 50% of the LME value for your lead.
You should not have to pay more because they have chosen to work with unnecessary layers of expense! Shouldn’t you pay attention to the value you receive for your recycled lead and the cost to properly dispose of your waste?
MT2: provides you with a contract that typically pays you between 60% – 80% of LME for your lead! Plus, we offer to treat your lead wastes to dispose of as non-hazardous.
This MAKES you money + SAVES you money!

b) Distribution of Lead/Brass Recycle $$: Do you want a contractor that holds proceeds from your recycled metals for a month, or do you want prompt payment of those proceeds? Don’t you want your money now?

Others: On top of paying below LME market value per pound they either offer use of proceeds at Retail prices in their own store or pay out cash one month later.
MT2: While MT2 pays top dollar and highest percent of LME we also offer use of proceeds at the leading shooting range supply store where you can purchase items from their 1,600+ catalog of premium accessories from filters to firearms at discounted pricing below retail. Or we will send you a check for your lead credit proceeds within ten days!

3. Regulatory Compliance Validation:

Contractor must provide listing of any and all previous regulatory or OSHA fines and/or violations and provide a detailed written Work Plan and Health and Safety Plan approved by a CIH or CSP.
PROOF: Require written documentation validating any regulatory/OSHA fines or violations. Request upfront to review their Work and Health and Safety Plans for completeness, checking for a CIH/CSP approval.

4. Waste (filters etc.) Management and Disposal Protection: Range Owner Protection

Unfortunately there have been many contractors convicted of violating waste laws!
Contractor must provide documentation on planned project work and waste management activities to ensure compliance with state and federal RCRA waste disposal requirements including prior completed manifests documenting legal waste disposal. Must provide certification and DOT Manifests for all transport, & disposal, Do NOT take the contractor’s word for it or let them put the waste in their truck. Get it in writing.
Others: attempt to offer you a contract in the name of an unknown shell company that will hold the potential waste violations! Why would they do that? The waste generator (the range) is responsible for proper and lawful disposal of the range’s waste-no matter what! Who is there to protect you when the contractor unlawfully transports/disposes of your waste and the EPA and state come looking for answers or to issue fines?
MT2: contracts are in 1 name: MT2! They are backed by our well-established company resources in the industry since 2000. We then provide a $10 Million Lead/Pollution Liability insurance policy that protects the range owner/manager; not just today but for many years to come. MT2 has legally handled over 10 million tons of lead waste to date!! YES! 10 MILLION TONS!!
PROOF: Review qualifications of who is actually handling/disposing of your waste, require Table of Contents from Work Plan & Waste Management Plan and several previous completed waste manifests for hazardous waste disposal. Request Lead Liability Insurance to protect you.

5. Insurance Validation:

Require comprehensive insurance coverage providing independent financial protection to the range should an issue arise. Coverages must include General Liability (site and structures), Workers Comp, and Pollution Liability addressing all lead work activities.
Recommended minimum is $5,000,000 General AND Pollution Liability. Pollution Liability is the only available coverage for lead on the range or for hazardous materials.
PROOF: Require a current Certificate of Insurance in the name of the range and its Managers/Owners validating the levels of coverage. MT2 is the only Firing Range Contractor who protects our clients with $10 MILLION dollars in Lead Pollution Liability insurance and FULL range-owner indemnification protecting the range owners and managers against claims or improper actions today and for many years to come!

6. Financial Validation:

Contractor must be able to document, with audited financials, sufficient company assets:
a) to finish your project, not just take your lead and b) allow it to sustain defending you against a claim or actual violation without going bankrupt, leaving your range unprotected and exposed. (Suggested minimum $1,000,000)
PROOF: Require a notarized CPA audit letter confirming company assets.
When performing renovations & construction, contractor must be required to provide a payment-performance bond.
PROOF: Require a bond letter validating coverage, MT2 is bondable up to $20,000,000

7. Safety & Health Compliance Validation:

Comprehensive written work and safety/health plans specific to the range. Make sure the contractor and workers are up to date with state & federal OSHA compliance. Must provide current training and OSHA worker certificates for each worker (must be within past 12 months).
PROOF: Require written plan review and 1) Current OSHA worker certificates for each worker. 2) Review Table of Contents for HASP to confirm comprehensive training and procedures. 3) Current respirator fit test 4) Documentation validating no prior OSHA fines or violations.

8. Nationwide Coverage/Specialty Systems Capacity Validation:

The company you choose must be of sufficient business size with regional presence and sufficient operating capacity utilizing specialized equipment to handle your specific needs without delays or performance issues. Unfortunately, not all Range Contractors “are created equally” and numerous Range Managers/Owners have discovered the differences the hard way. Nationwide coverage with Regional Offices ensures that your project is the Companies top priority and not someone else’s range 1,000 miles away. Regional presence ensures that the Company is properly licensed in your area, that workers are trained and knowledgeable to your local laws and geographical specific conditions thereby minimizing delays and misunderstandings. The Contractor should have its own trained workforce and not rely on any temporary inexperienced workers. The multiple contractor crews should operate professionally, consistent with how you professionally operate your range and be fully equipped regionally to address potential issues minimizing impact to your schedule. Regional crews reduce costs that get passed onto you. The crews need to be equipped with specialty equipment and techniques for processing and containing lead contamination. Firing Range work performed to professional and safe standards is a highly specialized function with specific health and safety and numerous regulatory and legal requirements. The best Professional Contractors help you to mitigate your potential liabilities, non-specialized firms alternatively increase your exposure to legal actions and fines and to the dangers of improperly managed lead. Do not trust a contractor who claims that standard processes, technologies and approaches are all that is needed. There are hundreds of Range Owners all over the USA left holding the expensive legal liabilities resulting from hiring a general abatement company. So, the best alternative that provides the lowest cost and protects you and your range is the combined best of both worlds “a specialized regional professional contractor”. MT2 has 10 Regional offices with dedicated professional work crews across the country utilizing the most specialized advanced equipment and methods available to provide guaranteed successful outcomes and mitigated future risks in all 50 states.

PROOF: Require documentation listing the Contractors Regional locations and prior proof that they have worked in your Local/Regional area, including proper business licenses as required. Require a description of the specialty equipment and techniques the Company deploys specific to Gun Range work and a specific listing of where this equipment has been used including other Range references to allow you to verify the claims. Get in writing if the Contractor will utilize any temporary or non-company personnel to work at your range. You have the right to know.

9. Project History Validation:

Don’t be fooled like other ranges who contact MT2 mid-way through their project after hiring their local friend or contractor with little experience. They found out too late that there are special processes, planning, knowledge, techniques and equipment needed to properly and efficiently complete your project.
MT2 is asked to pick up half-completed projects when less experienced contractors could not complete it. This ends up costing the range up to double. Don’t waste your time or money only considering the lowest bid price – you must factor in demonstrated track record and Best Value!
Minimum recommended contractor experience is 5 years (preferably 10 years) of continuous identical operating history similar to your project with a minimum 20 ranges successfully completed, including in your State/Region, each year for 5 years in a row.
PROOF: Require reference letters from prior projects, local and regional similar project references.

10. Jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none

Some contractors serve ranges occasionally but are in reality a general contractor with little direct experience or equipment. Others have expertise as equipment manufacturers and add in a service in order to sell you more equipment and products. Don’t you want (and deserve!) an expert to service your range?

Others: will attempt to sell you a variety of equipment and products while at your range.
MT2: provides you a single-service focus: to deliver the highest professional level of service at the best value and leave you to operate your range. For nearly 20 years, servicing over 3,000 ranges, makes us the #1 largest Nationwide go to firing range services company.

{Prior to entering into a firing range services contract, we encourage you to ask all contractors bidding your work each of the MT2 recommended BEST VALUE VALIDATIONS™ and request the documentation to support each. This is essential to fully protecting yourself and your range.

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MT2 is a leader in range safety. We provide consultation and assessment for all environmental and OSHA safety issues. MT2 has never received OSHA or EPA violations. In fact, not only does MT2 comply with regulations, we also helped establish industry standards for environmental and safety methods. MT2’s zero-tolerance for regulatory violations gives range owners the peace of mind that their project will be successfully completed on a guaranteed schedule.

MT2 is BBB Accredited and is a recent recipient of the Inc 5000 List of America’s Fastest Growing Companies. No one can complete an Environmental or firing range lead reclamation project quicker and safer than MT2.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE – INDOOR & OUTDOOR FIRING RANGE LEAD RECLAMATION

Since 2000, MT2 has been the Nation’s leading provider of environmental firing range services having provided professional, high-integrity solutions to over 3,000 public and private indoor and outdoor firing ranges for military, law enforcement and municipalities nationwide in all 50 States since 2000. MT2’s proven record of services include: complete firing range maintenance & improvements, lead remediation services, lead reclamation, OSHA & environmental consulting, operational maintenance and range closure.

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Rest assured: MT2 is committed to stand with you to defend your firing range from the liability of lead hazards.

Getting the lead out since 2000! Our extensive field experience, outstanding safety record, and advanced ECOBOND® technology has positioned MT2 as a national leader in providing Firing Range Services, Remediation, and overall Construction Services. This has been proven in all 50 states on over 3,000 projects involving over 10,000,000 tons of hazardous and environmentally impacted soil, waste, and debris.