Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia › Department 515 - RULES OF GEORGIA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION › Chapter 515-9 - SAFE INSTALLATION AND OPERATION OF NATURAL GAS TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS › Subject 515-9-4 - ENFORCEMENT PROCEDURES UNDER THE GEORGIA UNDERGROUND FACILITY PROTECTION ACT › Rule 515-9-4-.02 - Definitions

Current through Rules and Regulations filed through June 27, 2024
Terms used in these rules have the following meaning:
(a) "Act" means the Georgia Underground
				Facility Protection Act (O.C.G.A. §
									25-9-1 et seq.).
(b) "Advisory committee" means the committee
				appointed by the Governor pursuant to O.C.G.A.
				25-9-13(g)(1).
(c) "Business days" means Monday through
				Friday, excluding the following holidays: New Year's Day, Birthday of Dr.
				Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day,
				Thanksgiving Day and the following Friday, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day.
				Any such holiday that falls on a Saturday shall be observed on the preceding
				Friday. Any such holiday that falls on a Sunday shall be observed on the
				following Monday. If Christmas Eve falls on a Friday, it shall be observed on
				the preceding Thursday. If Christmas Eve falls on a Sunday, it shall be
				observed on the following Tuesday.
(d) "Business hours" means the time from 7:00
				A.M. to 4:30 P.M. local time on business days.
(e) "Commission" means the Georgia Public
				Service Commission.
(f) "Effective
				date" means the calendar day on which blasting or excavating is anticipated to
				begin as indicated by the excavator in the locate request.
(g) "Facility owner or operator" means any
				person or entity that owns, operates or controls the operation of an
				underground facility.
(h) "Person"
				means an individual, firm, joint venture, partnership, association,
				municipality, state or other governmental unit, authority, department, agency,
				or a corporation and shall include any trustee, receiver, assignees, employee,
				agent or personal representative thereof.
(i) "Underground facility" means an
				underground or submerged fiber, conductor, pipe, 199 or structure used or
				installed for use in providing traffic control, traffic management, 200
				electric service, or communications service, or in carrying, providing, or
				gathering gas, 201 oil or oil products, sewage, wastewater, storm drainage, or
				water or other liquids. All 202 underground facilities shall be considered to
				extend up to the connection to the customer's 203 facilities. Such terms shall
				not include sewer laterals or publicly or privately owned 204 railroad
				facilities.
(j) "Utilities
				Protection Center" or "UPC" means the corporation or other organization formed
				by facility owners or operators to provide a joint telephone number
				notification service for the purpose of receiving advance notification from
				persons planning to blast or excavate and distributing such notifications to
				its affected facility owner or operator members.
(k) O.C.G.A. §
									25-9-3(21)
				defines "Large Project" as an excavation that involves more work to locate
				underground facilities than can reasonably be completed within the requirements
				of subsection (a) of O.C.G.A. Section
				25-9-7. This requires a facility
				owner or operator to locate and mark its facilities prior to 7:00 A.M. on the
				effective date. For simplicity of administration by the Commission, a "large
				project" shall include at a minimum, any single mechanized excavation or
				blasting, as those terms are defined by O.C.G.A. §
									25-9-3(15) and §
									25-9-3(4), at a
				contiguous geographical site or area that exceeds or will exceed one linear
				mile or that reasonably requires or will require more than ninety (90) days to
				complete. Nothing in this rule shall prohibit any person from requesting a
				large project ticket for any other project.
O.C.G.A. §
											46-2-30.