Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 345 - Excavation Near Underground Utility Facilities › Section 16-345-1 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
As used in sections 16-345-1 to
				16-345-9,
				inclusive, of the regulations of Connecticut state agencies:
(1) "Excavator" means a person, public
			 utility or public agency, directly performing or engaged in the act of
			 excavation or demolition;
(2)
			 "Public agency" has the same meaning as provided in section
			 16-345 of
			 the Connecticut General Statutes;
(3) "Public utility" has the same meaning as
			 provided in section
			 16-345 of
			 the Connecticut General Statutes;
(4) "Central clearinghouse" has the same
			 meaning as provided in section
			 16-345 of
			 the Connecticut General Statutes;
(5) "Excavation" has the same meaning as
			 provided in section
			 16-345 of
			 the Connecticut General Statutes;
(6) "Demolition" has the same meaning as
			 provided in section
			 16-345 of
			 the Connecticut General Statutes;
(7) "Damage" has the same meaning as provided
			 in section
			 16-345 of
			 the Connecticut General Statutes;
(8) "Approximate location" has the same
			 meaning as provided in section
			 16-345 of
			 the Connecticut General Statutes;
(9) "Authority" means the Public Utilities
			 Regulatory Authority or its successor;
(10) "Designated area" means the area of
			 proposed excavation or demolition designated in accordance with subsection (e)
			 of section
			 16-345-4
			 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies;
(11) "Area of continual excavation" means a
			 location where excavation is part of the normal business of that location,
			 including, but not limited to, cemeteries, quarries, and farms;
(12) "Facilities" means any wire, cable,
			 pipe, vault, storage tank, transformer, or other similar property or equipment
			 owned by public utilities for furnishing electric, gas, telephone, telegraph,
			 communications, pipeline (whether for hire or not), sewage (including storm
			 sewers, sanitary sewers and drainage systems, or parts thereof), water,
			 community television antenna, steam, traffic signal, fire signal or similar
			 service, regardless of whether such property or equipment is located on land
			 owned by a person or public agency or whether it is located within an easement
			 or right of way, but excluding such property or equipment owned by the owner of
			 a private residence for utility service solely for such residence;
(13) "Registered" when used in connection
			 with a public utility's facilities, includes such facilities known to the
			 central clearinghouse to the extent that the central clearinghouse has
			 sufficient information to provide notification service as required by section
			 16-349
			 of the Connecticut General Statutes;
(14) "Emergency excavation" means an
			 excavation or demolition without explosives that is necessary to correct an
			 emergency involving danger to life, health, or property, the interruption of
			 operation of a major industrial plant, or to assure the continuity of public
			 utility service;
(15) "Emergency
			 blasting" means the use of explosives to correct an emergency involving an
			 immediate and substantial danger of death or serious personal injury;
(16) "Soft digging" means a nonmechanical and
			 nondestructive process used to excavate and evacuate soils at a controlled
			 rate, using high pressure water or air jet to break up the soil, often in
			 conjunction with a high power vacuum unit to extract the soil without damaging
			 the facilities;
(17) "Person" has
			 the same meaning as provided in section
			 16-345 of
			 the Connecticut General Statutes;
(18) "Responsible party" is a person, public
			 agency or public utility that has direct knowledge and oversight of an
			 excavation or demolition that will be performed on its behalf;
(19) "Contact" means the striking, scraping
			 or denting, however slight, of any underground utility facility, including any
			 underground utility facility protective coating, housing or other protective
			 device;
(20) "Notify the central
			 clearinghouse" means to provide the information required by section
			 16-345-4
			 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies to the central clearinghouse
			 about a proposed excavation or demolition by calling the designated telephone
			 number, utilizing the designated website, or otherwise providing notice to the
			 central clearinghouse in a manner established by the central clearinghouse;
			 and
(21) "Ticket" means a
			 notification provided by the excavator to the central clearinghouse.