Vermont - 2010 State Damage Prevention Program

Overview

Main Objective

Vermont Department of Public Service will develop four damage prevention strategy documents: a communications plan, a quality assurance plan, an education plan, and a technology plan. The grantee will integrate these four plans with current initiatives to form a comprehensive statewide underground damage prevention strategy which addresses the nine elements and provides a mechanism for regular assessment of success metrics.

Public Abstract

Under the terms of this grant agreement, the Grantee will address the following elements: Element (1): Participation by operators, excavators, and other stakeholders in the development and implementation of methods for establishing and maintaining effective communications between stakeholders from receipt of an excavation notification until successful completion of the excavation, as appropriate. Element (3): A process for reviewing the adequacy of a pipeline operator's internal performance measures regarding persons performing locating services and quality assurance programs. Element (4): Participation by operators, excavators, and other stakeholders in the development and implementation of effective employee training programs to ensure that operators, the one call center, the enforcing agency, and the excavators have partnered to design and implement training for the employees of operators, excavators, and locators. 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.

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