Maine - 2010 State Damage Prevention Program

Overview

Main Objective

The Maine Public Utilities Commission will implement two initiatives that will enhance Maine's already progressive Damage Prevention program:

1. Facilitate a process with stakeholders designed to result in improved clarity, accuracy and effectiveness of program publications and communications, particularly with regard to notification requirements;
2. Improve field data collection, enforcement documentation, and trend data analysis through the purchase of advanced field data collection technology (hardware and software) and an online data analysis center.

Public Abstract

Under the terms of this grant agreement, the Grantee will address the following elements listed in 49 USC §60134 through the actions it has specified in its Application.
Element (2): A process for fostering and ensuring the support and partnership of stakeholders, including excavators, operators, locators, designers, and local government in all phases of the program.
Element (8): A process for fostering and promoting the use, by all appropriate stakeholders, of improving technologies that may enhance communications, underground pipeline locating capability, and gathering and analyzing information about the accuracy and effectiveness of locating programs. Element (9): A process for review and analysis of the effectiveness of each program element, including a means for implementing improvements identified by such program reviews.

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