Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - FIRE MARSHAL, STATE › Title 155 - STATE FIRE MARSHAL › Chapter 2 - REQUIREMENTS FOR STATEWIDE ONE-CALL NOTIFICATION CENTER › Section 155-2-002 - DEFINITIONS

Current through June 17, 2024
002.01. Board of directors shall mean the
  governing board of the association charged with the responsibility for
  overseeing the operation of the statewide one-call notification
  center.
002.02. Business day shall
  mean any day other than a Saturday, Sunday, or state or nationally observed
  legal holiday.
002.03. Center shall
  mean the statewide one-call notification center.
002.04. Damage shall mean any impact with,
  partial or complete severance, destruction, impairment, or penetration of, or
  removal or weakening of support from an underground facility, including its
  protective coating, housing, or other protective device.
002.05. Emergency condition shall mean any
  condition which constitutes a clear and present danger to life, health, or
  property or which demands immediate action to prevent or repair a major service
  outage.
002.06. Excavation shall
  mean any activity in which earth, rock, or other material in or on the ground
  is moved or otherwise displaced by means of tools, equipment, or explosives and
  shall include grading, trenching, digging, ditching, drilling, auguring,
  tunneling, scraping, and cable or pipe plowing or driving but shall not include
  (1) normal maintenance of roads if the maintenance does not change the original
  road grade and does not involve the road ditch, (2) tilling of soil and
  gardening for seeding and other agricultural purposes, (3) digging of graves or
  in landfills in planned locations, (4) maintenance or rebuilding of railroad
  track or facilities located on a railroad right-of-way by the railroad company
  or its contractors when such maintenance or rebuilding does not change the
  track grade, or (5) hand digging around the base of a pole for pole inspection
  as part of routine maintenance or replacement of a pole when the replacement
  pole is similarly sized and installed in the existing hole.
002.07. Excavator shall mean a person who
  engages in excavation in this state.
002.08. Gas or hazardous liquid underground
  pipeline facility shall mean any underground facility used or intended for use
  in the transportation of gas or the treatment of gas or used or intended for
  use in the transportation of hazardous liquids including petroleum or petroleum
  products.
002.09. Hand Digging
  shall mean any excavation involving non-mechanized tools or equipment. It shall
  include but not be limited to, digging with shovels, picks, and manual
  post-hole diggers, vacuum excavation or soft digging.
002.10. Mandatory Electronic Positive
  Response shall mean an electronic response transmitted to the center indicating
  the facility's response status to a ticket.
002.11. Marking Standards shall mean the
  methods by which a facility owner/operator indicates its line or
  facility.
002.12. Nonpermanent
  surface shall mean any ground consisting of uncovered dirt or rock or ground
  that is covered by grass or other plant life, crushed rock, gravel, or other
  similar natural substance.
002.13.
  Normal working hours shall mean the hours of 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on a business day
  in each time zone in the state.
002.14. Offsets shall mean the amount of
  distance identified by which the facility/utility is out of line.
002.15. Operator shall mean a person who
  manages or controls the functions of an underground facility but shall not
  include a person who is an owner or tenant of real property where underground
  facilities are located if the underground facilities are used exclusively to
  furnish services or commodities on the real property.
002.16. Permanent surface shall mean any
  ground that is covered by a hard, artificial, weatherproof material such as
  concrete, asphalt, or other similar substance.
002.17. Person shall mean an individual,
  partnership, limited liability company, association, municipality, state,
  county, political subdivision, utility, joint venture, or corporation and shall
  include the employer of an individual.
002.18. Statewide one-call notification
  center shall mean the association operating on a nonprofit basis, supported by
  its members, and having as its principal purpose the statewide receipt and
  dissemination to participating operators of information on a fair and uniform
  basis concerning intended excavation in an area where the operators have
  underground facilities.
002.19.
  Ticket shall mean the compilation of data received by the center in the notice
  of excavation and the facility locations provided to the center which is
  assigned a unique identifying number.
002.20. Ticket life shall mean the set time
  number of days during which excavation activities may be conducted on a
  specific type of ticket.
002.21.
  Trenchless excavation, shall mean a type of subsurface construction work that
  requires few trenches or no continuous trenches.
002.22. Underground facility shall mean any
  item of personal property buried or placed below ground for use in connection
  with the storage or conveyance of water, sewage, electronic communications,
  telephonic communications, telegraphic communications, cable television,
  electric energy, oil, gas, hazardous liquids, or other substances, including
  pipes, trunk lines, fiber optic cables, sewers, conduits, cables, valves,
  lines, wires, manholes, and attachments to such personal property.
002.23. Vendor shall mean the company or
  person selected by the board of directors to operate the one-call
  center.