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DESIGNER: A designer is an architect, engineer, or other person who prepares
or issues a drawing or blueprint for a construction or other project that requires
excavation or demolition work.
ELECTRONIC/DIGITAL MAPPING DATA: Electronic/Digital mapping data is
geospatial data that is in a format a computer system can recognize.
EMERGENCY: With reference to underground facilities, an emergency is an
unforeseen event or occurrence that involves a clear and imminent danger to
life, health, or property. It also means the interruption of essential utility
services or the blockage of transportation facilities that require immediate
action.
EMERGENCY NOTICE: An emergency notice is a communication for the need
to excavate immediately. This need may be due to a sudden or unforeseen
occurrence, or national emergency that involves a clear and imminent danger
to life, health, environment, or property. The one-call centre receives the
communication in order to alert the underground facility owner and operator
involved.
EMERGENCY RESPONSE: An emergency response is an action taken by a
facility owner or operator to an emergency notice.
EXCAVATE OR EXCAVATION: Excavate or excavation is the movement of
earth, rock, or other material below the existing grade. Such an operation may
involve the use of explosives, or mechanical or non-mechanical equipment. This
activity includes, but is not limited to, auguring, blasting, boring, digging,
ditching, dredging, drilling, driving-in, grading, plowing-in, pulling-up, ripping,
scraping, trenching, and tunnelling.
FACILITY OWNER OR OPERATOR: This refers to any entity (person, utility,
municipality, authority, political subdivision, and so on) that owns, runs, or
controls the operation of an underground facility.
FACILITY: A facility is an underground or submerged conductor, pipe, or
structure that is used to provide service, such as electric or communications. A
facility includes, but is not limited to, traffic control loops and similar
underground or submerged devices. A facility is also an underground or
submerged pipe (including any appendages and accessories) that is to carry,
provide, or gather gas, oil or oil products, sewage, storm drainage, water, or
other liquid service (including, but is not limited to, irrigation systems).
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