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106.03(b) 106.05(a) 106 - 13 Initial Edition 3.e.2 LEVEL 2 (Standard Certification - Reduced ). • Reduced Level of Certification issued to Bulletin 15 listed Producers who have exhibited minor/moderate material performance or quality issues. • Producer is required to work with PennDOT on submission of an improvement plan that may include, but is not limited to, any or all of the following items: a revised QC Plan, a failure analysis/ action plan to assess why failures are occurring and how to prevent these failures from occurring in the future, correlation testing between in -house and independent lab testing to assist with validating results. • Material is produced and tested in accordance with the improvement plan approved by PennDOT. • Material is shipped on certification using Form CS -4171. 3.e.3 LEVEL 3 (Lot Approval Certification). • This Level of Certification is issued to Bulletin 15 listed Producers who have exhibited major material performance or quality issues. • Producer is required to work with PennDOT on an improvement plan as defined in Level 2. • Material cannot be shipped to projects using the standard CS -4171 certification process. • Producer must arrange for independent, in- plant acceptance testing (IPAT) that will be conducted side- by-side with “in -house” Producer testing at the designated frequencies in the revised QC plan. IPAT will be at the Producer’s expense. PennDOT’s LTS must approve the Producer’s proposed IPAT provider before it begins. • Any material lot to be used on a project must be tested and approved by the IPAT as meeting the required PennDOT specification before shipment to the project. • Each material lot meeting the specification may be shipped to a project using a modified certification process as follows: submit, to both the Project Representative and LTS, Form CS - 4171 along with a signed letter from the IPAT (on their official letterhead) indicating that the material lot meets testing and specification requirements. • Correlate results from parallel “in- house” Producer testing and IPAT testing and submit to the LTS on a monthly basis.