Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 045 - Transportation, Dept. of › Sub-Agency 0007 - Utility Accommodations › Chapter 3 - DEFINITIONS AND TERMS › Section 3-2 - Definitions

Current through July 13, 2024
As used in this regulation, the definitions listed below
				  shall have the following meaning:
BACKFILL: The method and/or materials for replacing
				  excavated material in a trench or pit.
BACKSLOPE: That portion of the roadway template from the
				  bottom of the drainage ditch to a point of intercept near the right-of-way
				  line.
BORE/BORING: The excavation of an underground circular
				  cavity for the insertion of a pipe or other type of conduit.
CARRIER PIPE: The pipe carrying a liquid, gas or slurry
				  commodity.
CASING: A protective pipe enclosing a carrier pipe.
CATHODIC PROTECTION: A method of controlling corrosion on
				  buried metal structures through use of electric current and sacrificial anodes.
CLEAR ZONE: An obstruction free vehicle recovery area
				  adjacent to the road traveled lane. The limits of this area are determined in
				  accordance with the applicable AASHTO and FHWA publications.
COATING: Protective wrapping or mastic cover applied to
				  buried pipe for protection against external corrosion.
COMMISSION: The Wyoming State Highway Commission
CONDUCTOR: Wire carrying electric current.
CONDUIT: A casing or encasement for an electrical conductor
				  or telephone line.
CONTROL OF ACCESS: The regulation covering ingress and
				  egress to a highway and/or its related right-of-way.
COVER: The depth of bury of a facility below natural ground
				  or roadway template.
CROSSING: The utility crossing of the highway R/W, including
				  a parallel encroachment not to exceed 500 feet on other than Interstate
				  Highways.
DEPARTMENT: The Wyoming Highway Department
DISTRICT: Wyoming Highway Department District Office
EASEMENT: A non possessing interest held by one person or
				  company in the land of another whereby the first person is accorded partial use
				  of such land for a specific purpose.
ENCASEMENT: Providing a protective casing.
ENCROACHMENT: Parallel installation within highway
				  right-of-way (Longitudinal) that may include crossings of the roadway template.
ENGINEER: An employee of the Department who has the
				  responsibility for supervision of utility facility installation within the
				  Department's right-of-way.
EXHIBIT: A detailed drawing showing the proposed horizontal
				  and vertical alignment of utility facilities within Department right-of-way,
				  which is attached to and a part of an Occupancy agreement, or
				  Relocation/Adjustment agreement.
HEAVY WALL THICKNESS PIPE: Pipe meeting the industry standard
				  for this specific designation.
FRONTAGE ROAD: A roadway, located parallel to an access
				  controlled highway which provides for ingress and egress to adjacent property
				  and businesses.
FULL ACCESS CONTROL: Federal and state highways where direct
				  access to and from adjoining property has been eliminated and access is only
				  allowed at designated interchanges.
GROUND BED: A component part of a cathodic protection
				  system.
GOVERNMENT FACILITIES: Any facility that serves only
				  governmental functions is considered to be in the public interest and is not
				  classified as a private facility.
HIGHWAY: Any public way used for vehicular traffic,
				  including the associated right-of-way, under the jurisdiction of the Wyoming
				  Highway Commission.
INSLOPE: That portion of the roadway embankment between the
				  edge of the pavement and the bottom of the drainage ditch or its intersection
				  with natural ground.
INSPECTOR: An employee of the Department who has the
				  responsibility for supervision of facility installation within the Department's
				  right-of-way.
JACKING: Pushing a pipe horizontally under a roadway by
				  mechanical means, with or without boring.
JETTING: Pushing a pipe through a roadway embankment using
				  water under pressure to create a cavity ahead of the pipe. (This operation is
				  not allowed on Wyoming highways.)
JOINT USE: The use of pole lines, trenches, duct systems or
				  other facilities by two or more utilities. Also the concept of allowing utility
				  facilities to occupy transportation rights-of-way.
LICENSEE: The applicant for a license to cross or encroach on
				  highway R/W.
LICENSE/LICENSE AGREEMENT: The document used to apply for
				  permission to occupy highway right-of-way which, upon approval by the
				  Department, becomes the permit to do so.
MARKER POLES: A pole placed over or near a buried facility in
				  order to denote the facility's alignment.
MEDIAN: The divider strip between traveled ways carrying
				  traffic in opposite directions.
OCCUPANCY: The presence of utility lines on, over or under
				  the highway right-of-way.
OPERATING POLICY: The policies established by the Department
				  in order to control and assure uniform procedures are followed.
PAVEMENT CUT: The removal of an area of pavement for the
				  purpose of placing or maintaining a utility facility.
PERMIT: See License/License Agreement.
PRESSURE: The internal force acting radially against the
				  wall of a carrier pipe expressed in pounds per square inch gage (psig).
PRIVATE UTILITY LINES: Those facilities for transmitting,
				  distributing or producing commodities or services by a private individual or
				  individuals for private consumption or consumption by a group of private
				  individuals and not serving the general public.
PUBLIC UTILITY LINES: Those facilities for the purpose of
				  transmitting, distributing or producing communications, cable television,
				  power, electricity, light, heat, gas, oil, crude products, water, steam, waste,
				  storm water not connected with highway drainage, slurry of all types, police or
				  fire signal systems, street lighting systems, any other similar commodity which
				  directly or indirectly serves the public, whether operated by municipalities,
				  counties, cooperatives, private corporations, as well as the various types of
				  districts and Joint Powers Boards organized under applicable state law.
REST AREA: A roadside area for motorist stopping and
				  resting.
RESTORATION: The repair of an area within the highway
				  right-of-way, including fences and drainage facilities, disturbed by
				  construction and/ or maintenance activity of a utility.
RIGHT-OF-WAY or HIGHWAY RIGHT-OF-WAY and abbreviated as R/W:
				  All of the property acquired by the Department for the construction, operation,
				  and maintenance of highways and related facilities whether or not a highway has
				  been constructed thereon.
ROADWAY TEMPLATE: The area of the constructed or proposed
				  road embankment from road center line across the traveled lane(s) and shoulder,
				  then down to a drainage ditch and then up to an intercept with natural ground,
				  in a cut section; or from the shoulder down to an intercept with natural
				  ground, in a fill section.
RURAL AREA: As related to utility accommodation, the term
				  Rural Area refers to any other segment of the State Highway System not defined
				  under Urban Area.
SHOULDER: A portion of the paved roadway adjacent to the
				  traveled lanes.
TRAVELED WAY: That portion of the roadway designated for
				  vehicular traffic, exclusive of the shoulders.
TRENCH: The relatively narrow open excavation for the
				  placement of underground utility facilities.
URBAN AREA: As related to utility accommodation, the term
				  Urban Area is any area where residences or businesses are clustered (not
				  necessarily within a city limits), where frequent approaches, utility lines and
				  drainage facilities are likely to be encountered, and where the potential
				  exists for future widening of the road to a multilane facility.
UTILITY/ UTILITIES: This term denotes all private and public
				  entities, associations, boards, districts, or companies conveying heat, power,
				  natural gas, electricity, communications, cable television, water, sanitary and
				  storm sewer, for public use or consumption. Also included are all companies
				  operating pipelines for transmission and collection of natural gas or other
				  gases, oil and petroleum products, and slurry lines of any sort.
UTILITY LICENSE: See License and License Agreements.
VENT: A pipe used to allow venting into the atmosphere any
				  gases or vapors from an underground casing.
WET BORING: To bore using water under pressure at the cutting
				  auger to soften the earth and to sluice out the excavated
				  material.