Colorado - Utility Notification Center of Colorado - 2008 State Damage Prevention Grant

Overview

Main Objective

Under this grant award UNCC will assist Colorado in accomplishing the following: (a) establish collaborative stakeholder efforts; (b) implement more effective stakeholder communications about the specific root causes; and (c) target appropriate 811 awareness programs as well as education and training to specific stakeholder groups at local levels in the following seven ways:

1. by creating a statewide Damage Prevention Action Team (DPAT) to communicate and foster the EDPI 9-Element initiatives, to disseminate damage prevention findings, to help support the efforts of local Damage Prevention Councils (DPCs), and to coordinate state damage prevention advocacy;
2. by establishing or working with local DPCs supported by representative industry stakeholders; including owners and operators, locators, excavators, the One-Call center, associations, safety and regulatory agencies, and public officials, etc.;
3. by collecting, analyzing and reporting timely and comprehensive damage prevention findings; including One-Call activity, facility damage data, and useful demographic information; to each local DPC through a central communication process and web portal;
4. by empowering local DPCs to respond to this information and take appropriate action to investigate and remediate primary root causes of damage through stakeholder awareness, education and training;
5. by delivering CGA's 811 public awareness outreach information to state and local public officials and encouraging active participation in damage prevention efforts;
6. by developing and delivering comprehensive stakeholder education and training programs in subsequent years that address the primary root causes of facility damage; and
7. by providing an ongoing and timely county "Damage Prevention Report Card" that provides regular feedback to the local DPCs and all stakeholders on the success of actions and remedial efforts.

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