A lid-lift hole assembly for a utility vault lid that provides a removable cover for an underground utility vault, the assembly comprising a liner for an open-ended lid-lift hole passing through the lid, a separate receptacle for positioning on the lid below the liner, and a plurality of fasteners to fasten the liner to the receptacle, in which: the receptacle comprises a generally rectangular shell having a bottom wall with upright opposite side walls and opposite end walls around the bottom wall, forming an upwardly facing hollow open space within the receptacle, characterised in that the liner has a peripheral rim adapted for positioning on an upper surface of the utility vault lid around the lid-lift hole in the utility vault lid, the liner having opposite side walls and opposite end walls forming an open top and an open bottom of a hollow space extending through the liner, for forming an open-ended generally rectangular-shaped liner for positioning in the lid-lift hole that extends through the lid, the opposite end walls of the liner contain fastener holes for receiving fasteners, the opposite side walls of the receptacle contain thru-holes for receiving fasteners, the thru-holes on the opposite side walls of the receptacle are adapted for alignment with the fastener holes in the opposite end walls of the liner, the side walls of the receptacle are adapted to contact the opposite side walls of the liner when the thru-holes on the receptacle are aligned with the fastener holes on the liner, and the receptacle has a larger axial dimension than the liner so that overlapping end walls and side walls of the receptacle extend beyond the side walls of the liner and are adapted for contact with the lid along a juncture between the receptacle's overlapping end walls and side walls and an underside of the lid, and the fasteners are adapted to extend through the thru-holes and into the fastener holes and can be tightened to fasten the end walls of the liner and the side walls of the receptacle to apply pressure to the juncture between the overlapping end walls and side walls of the receptacle and the underside of the lid to lock the liner in the lid-lift hole while the receptacle forms a box-like enclosure releasably held in a fixed position on the lid beneath an open passage through the hollow space from the liner into the receptacle. the receptacle comprises a generally rectangular shell having a bottom wall with upright opposite side walls and opposite end walls around the bottom wall, forming an upwardly facing hollow open space within the receptacle, characterised in that the liner has a peripheral rim adapted for positioning on an upper surface of the utility vault lid around the lid-lift hole in the utility vault lid, the liner having opposite side walls and opposite end walls forming an open top and an open bottom of a hollow space extending through the liner, for forming an open-ended generally rectangular-shaped liner for positioning in the lid-lift hole that extends through the lid, the opposite end walls of the liner contain fastener holes for receiving fasteners, the opposite side walls of the receptacle contain thru-holes for receiving fasteners, the thru-holes on the opposite side walls of the receptacle are adapted for alignment with the fastener holes in the opposite end walls of the liner, the side walls of the receptacle are adapted to contact the opposite side walls of the liner when the thru-holes on the receptacle are aligned with the fastener holes on the liner, and the receptacle has a larger axial dimension than the liner so that overlapping end walls and side walls of the receptacle extend beyond the side walls of the liner and are adapted for contact with the lid along a juncture between the receptacle's overlapping end walls and side walls and an underside of the lid, and the fasteners are adapted to extend through the thru-holes and into the fastener holes and can be tightened to fasten the end walls of the liner and the side walls of the receptacle to apply pressure to the juncture between the overlapping end walls and side walls of the receptacle and the underside of the lid to lock the liner in the lid-lift hole while the receptacle forms a box-like enclosure releasably held in a fixed position on the lid beneath an open passage through the hollow space from the liner into the receptacle.