[23734] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Call before you dig
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Sun Apr 18 19:59:04 1999
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 19:10:24 -0400
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.Nether.net>
To: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Mail-Followup-To: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <990417161011.36f5e@SDG.DRA.COM>; from Sean Donelan on Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 04:10:11PM -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 04:10:11PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> woody@zocalo.NET (Bill Woodcock) writes:
> >Okay, so basically the deal was that there were a zillion (like 200)
> >different "call before you dig" hotlines for different areas, and you had
> >to track down the correct one, and there weren't a lot of penalties for
> >not having one for an area, et cetera. Then in 1997, there was a federal
> >house bill to unify it all, it carried over to 1998, and then actually
> >passed around May or June sometime, as part of the Omnibus Federal
> >Transportation act. The upshot of that is that there's one 888 number for
> >the whole country now, and states lose a portion of their federal highway
> >funds if they don't get the utilities which their PUCs regulate to
> >participate in the program.
>
> Its still a bit early to tell if the One-Call legislation made any
> difference. Only two quarters of information has been reported, and
> one quarter was down, and the following quarter was up. However, there
> are still a lot of cases where the excavator did call, but the utility
> either didn't mark, marked the wrong place, or didn't mark all the lines.
I've found this to be the case. I know folks who do a fair amount
of construction work arount the kalamazoo, MI area, and they have problems
with the utilities labeling everything to avoid underground power
lines, etc..
> National Call Before You Dig = 888-258-0808
- Jared
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