2019 ANNUAL SUMMARY After many years of working toward strengthening Alabama’s Underground Damage Prevention Legislation, on June 6, 2019, Governor Kay Ivey signed the Senate Bill 315, which updated the Alabama Underground Damage Prevention Law. The purpose of the Underground Damage Prevention Law is to safeguard against injury and loss of life due to excavation or demolition and to protect underground facilities from costly damage and the interruption of utility or other services to the general public. In order to more effectively achieve the purpose of this act, Senate Bill 315 was enacted to strengthen membership requirements in the state’s One-Call Notification System and strengthen enforcement of and penalties for violations of the Underground Damage Prevention Act. The following are the highlights of changes that went into effect with the passage of this bill. Membership: • This bill requires all underground utility owners to become a member of the state wide One-Call Notification System for receiving excavation and demolition notifications, and removes option for utility owner to operate their own in-house notification system. There is a seven-year sunset on the membership requirement. • Increases Public Service Commission regulatory oversight of the One-Call Notification System through additional annual reporting requirements. Alabama 811 is currently certified by the PSC and serves as the One-Call Notification System. • Provides for phased-in membership of new members over a two-year period based on their size. • Grants relief to excavators for damages to underground facility should the owner of the underground facility failed to join the One-Call Notification System. Enforcement: • Creates the Underground Damage Prevention Authority, made up of stakeholders, which reviews violations and renders penalties and fines for violations of the act. • Establishes and defines a tiered set of civil penalties and fines for violations of the act. • Establishes an Underground Damage Prevention Fund funded by penalties recovered for violations of the act. Fund expenditures shall be at the discretion of the Authority to carry out its duties and excess funds shall be used to support public awareness, training and education related to Underground Damage Prevention. Other improvements: • Limits the liability of an excavator for damages caused to underground facility if excavator has complied with act, if the facility owner received locate notification yet failed to mark their facilities in compliance with the act, and damage was a direct result of the failure to locate. • Grants relief from physical marking of facilities, with conditions, if a member facility owner does not have accurate information regarding exact location of their facilities. • Requires facility owner to provide a positive response to One-Call Notification System once they have determined the facility owner is not impacted at the excavation site or has marked the facility. (Requirement would take effect 12 months after law is enacted.) • Extends life of locate request from 10 to 20 working days for excavation and from 20 to 30 days for blasting. • Extends length of time a facility owner has to mark their facility at an excavation site to two full working days, not counting the day the notification is made. With these changes going into effect on January 1, 2020, much work was completed behind the scenes during 2019 to educate both existing and potential facility owner members and the excavating community on the changes that were to come. Programing changes and updates to the locate request software, GeoCall, were completed for the in-house team, the web port and the mobile application users. As we move into 2020, we will be closely watching what impact these changes make to the locate request volume, more timely response time to these locate requests and hopefully reduction in damages. As always, we thank our membership and the excavating community for making safety a top priority and always contacting 811 before all excavation project. Annette R. Reburn Executive Director ALABAMA 811 MEMBERSHIP LIST AT&T/D Boaz Water and Sewer Board AT&T/T Boston, Housing Authority of Air Products & Chemicals BP Products North America Alabama Department of Transportation Breitburn Operating Alabama Department of Transportation SW Brent Utilities Board, City of Region Brewton, City of Alabama Power Company Bridgeport Utilities Alabama Wastewater Systems, LLC Bright House Networks Alabaster, City of Brindlee Mountain Telephone Company Alabaster Water Board Brookside, Town of AlaTenn Pipeline Company Buckeye Partners LP Albertville Municipal Utilities Board Buhl, Elrod & Holman Water Authority Alexander City, City of Butler, Town of Utilities Board American Midstream Cable Alabama Corporation American Midstream (Alabama Intrastate), Inc. Cable One American Traffic Solutions Cable Options American Water Calera Gas, LLC Andalusia Utilities Board Calera Water & Gas Board Anniston Army Depot Camellia Communications Anniston Water Works and Sewer Board Camp Hill, Town of Arapaho Communications, LP Canadian National Railway Ardmore Telephone Carbon Hill Housing Authority Ashford, City of Carbon Hill Utilities Board Ashton Place Apartments Carroll’s Creek Water Authority Athens Utilities, City of Cave Spring, City of Auburn Water Works Board, City of Center Point Terminal Chickasaw LLC Bakerhill Water Authority Central Alabama Electric Cooperative Baldwin County Commission Central Talladega County Water District Baldwin County EMC Central Water Works Baldwin County Sewer Service Centre Water Works and Sewer Board Bay Gas Storage Company, Inc. Centreville Water Bayou La Batre Utilities CenturyLink Bear Communications CenturyTel of Alabama Bear Creek/Hackleburg Housing Authority Charter Communications of Alabama Beauregard Water Authority Charter Communications – Lanett Belforest Water System Cherokee Electric Cooperative Berry, Town of Cherokee Water and Gas Department Berry Housing Authority Childersburg Water, Sewer & Gas Board Bessemer Water Children’s of Alabama Beulah Utilities District Chilton Water Authority Bioflow – Russell Lands, Inc. CITGO Petroleum Corporation Birmingham Water Works Clarke-Mobile Counties Gas District Black Belt Energy Clay County Water Authority Black Box Network Services, Inc. – Gov. Cleburne County Water Authority Solutions Coffee County Water Authority Black Warrior Electric Coker Water Authority, Inc. Black Warrior Methane Corporation Colbert County Rural Water System Blount County Water Authority Colonial Pipeline Boaz Gas Board Columbia Square Apartments ALABAMA 811 MEMBERSHIP LIST Columbiana, City of Enterprise Public Works, City of Columbiana Water Board Enterprise Water Works Board Comcast Cable Communications (Dothan) Enviro-Systems, LLC Comcast Cablevision of Gadsden Escambia Operating Company, LLC Comcast Cablevision (Huntsville) Eufaula Water Works & Sewer Board Comcast Cablevision (Mobile) Eva Sewer Dept, Town of Comcast Cablevision of the Shoals Exxon Mobil Corporation Comcast Cablevision (Tuscaloosa) Fairhope Utilities Cooperative District for Northeast Alabama Gas Falkville, Town of Coosa Bend Apartments Farmers Telephone Co-Op, Inc. Coosa Valley Electric Cooperative Fayette Gas Board Coosa Valley Water Supply Fayetteville Water Authority Cordova Water and Gas Five Point Sewer District Covington Electric Cooperative, Inc. Flint Electric Membership Corporation Cowarts, Town of Flomaton, Town of Crown Castle Florala Gas Department Cullman County Water Department Florence, City of Cullman Electric Cooperative Florence Housing Authority Cullman-Jefferson Counties Gas District Florida Gas Transmission Company Cullman Power Board Fort Payne Water Works Cullman Water Department, City of Freebird Gas Storage Dadeville Housing Authority Freemanville Water System, Inc. Dadeville Water Supply & Gas Board Frontier Communications of Alabama Dale County Water Authority Frontier Communications of Lamar Co. Daphne Utilities Board, City of Frontier Communications of the South DCP Midstream, LLC Fultondale Gas Board Decatur Housing Authority Garden City, Town of Decatur Utilities Genesis Crude Oil, L.P. DeKalb-Cherokee Counties Gas District Geneva County Gas District Demopolis CATV Company Georgiana Housing Authority Demopolis Water Works and Sewer Board Gilbertown, Utilities Board of Diverse Power Gordo, Town of Dixie Electric Cooperative Grand Bay Water Works Board, Inc. Dixie Pipeline Company Graysville Utilities Dora Utilities Great Southern Wood Dothan Utilities Greenhill Water & Fire Protection Authority Douglas Pipeline GC&E Systems Group, Inc. Douglas Water Authority GTC, Inc. Drummond Company, Inc. Guin Housing Authority DukeNet Communications, LLC Gulf Shores, Utilities Board of the City of East Alabama Water District Gulf South Pipeline East Central Baldwin Water Authority GulfSafe East Central Gas District Gulfstream Natural Gas System, LLC East Cullman Water System Gulf Telephone Company East Lowndes Water Association Guntersville Electric Board Elmore County Water and Sewer Guntersville Water Board Englewood Hulls Water System Haleyville Housing Authority EnLink Midstream Hamilton Blvd, LLC / Crowder Gulf Enterprise Products Tri-State Hamilton Housing Authority ALABAMA 811 MEMBERSHIP LIST Hamilton Water & Sewer Dept., City of Livingston, City of Utility Board Hanceville Housing Authority Loachapoka Water Authority Hanceville Water & Sewer Board, City of Loxley, Town of Harbor Communications, LLC Lynn Water Works Harpersville Water Board M2 Connections,