2. Presentation Overview
Background on Alberta Common Ground Alliance
Legislation Initiatives
How does this affect APWA?
Overview on Alberta One-Call
Questions

3. Alberta Common Ground Alliance Overview
Voice of buried infrastructure damage prevention in Alberta
Committee Focused
Best Practices
Training Standards
Damage Information Reporting Tool (DIRT)
Marketing and Education
Advocacy
Member Canadian Common Ground Alliance
Thank you for the invitation to speak to you today
I want to give you a bit of background on the Alberta Common Ground Alliance and then discuss some legislative initiatives that may impact your profession
Im the executive director of the Alberta Common Ground Alliance. We represent damage prevention stakeholders.
Alberta’s underground infrastructure. The network that supports our way of life. The network that brings us the news, the weather, heat, light, banking and 911 services. Despite all our efforts damages occur.

4. Stakeholders Damage prevention ELECTRICAL TRANSMISSION
ENGINEERING/LAND SURVEYING
EQUIPMENT/MATERIAL SERVICES SUPPLY
EXCAVATORS/ROAD BUILDERS AND HEAVY CONSTRUCTION
GAS DISTRIBUTION
Locators
OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION
OIL AND GAS TRANSMISSION
notification centre services (one call)
PUBLIC WORKS/MUNICIPAL
REGULATORS
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
TRAINING ORGANIZATIONS
This is a list of our stakeholder membership categories
As you can see it’s a diverse group

5. MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS
Input into damage prevention process and best practices
Improve municipality best practices
Access to training professionals
Input into training standards
Annual DIG SAFE training conference
Networking opportunities with interested stakeholders
Advocacy for legislation improvements

6. Federal Legislation
Federal Underground Infrastructure Safety Enhancement Act
Led by the Canadian Common Ground Alliance and Senator Grant Mitchell
4 Primary Elements in Legislation
Register with Notification Centre
Request locates of underground assets
Funding
Enforcement
As members of the ABCGA it’s important for you to be aware of initiatives that may affect your members.
One of these initiatives is the Federal Damage Prevention Legislaiton that has been tabled by Senator Grant Mitchell
I’m here to give you an overview of the legislation. I’m not an expert on what will happen with the proposed wording.
I know the Professional Surveyors Canada have provided input into this legislation and it is being considered as they prepare the final draft
The key message of this legislation is damage prevention.
In many ways this legislation is being developed because facility owners have not respected property rights and damages to buried assets continue to rise

7. Registration with notification centre
The owner or operator of any underground infrastructure must register with the notification centre of each province in which the infrastructure is located — or with the notification centre that provides services to that province and pay the registration fees fixed by that notification centre or by the legislation of the province

8. Communication of information
The owner or operator of any registered underground infrastructure must provide the following information to each notification centre that serves a province in which the underground infrastructure is located: (a) a description of the geographical location of the underground infrastructure, such as the digital geospatial data or legal description of the location; (b) the name of any city, town or village in which the underground infrastructure is located in that province; and (c) any other information that the notification centre considers necessary to exercise its functions

9. Location and identification of underground infrastructure
Before a person or entity undertakes work for a project that results in a ground disturbance that may affect an underground infrastructure, the person or entity must notify the notification centre that serves a Province in which the underground infrastructure is located of that project, and make a request to the notification centre for information on the location and type of underground infrastructure that could be damaged by that project.

10. Communication of info to notification centre
Before undertaking the ground disturbance project, the person or entity must also provide the notification centre with the following information: (a) the type of project they are planning to undertake; (b) the exact location of the anticipated ground disturbance; (c) any other information that the notification centre considers necessary to exercise its functions

11. Enforcement
(a) for a first offence, to a fine of not more than $10,000
(b) for a subsequent offence, to a fine of not more than $25,000
Enforcement may also include creative penalties supporting public awareness and education efforts designed to prevent damage.

12. Provincial Legislation
ABCGA legislation task force
Reviewing federal legislation/Ontario Legislation
Best practices in United States/other countries
Support from 4 provincial parties – recognized at Legislature DIG SAFE month
We have developed a provincial task force to look at provincial legislation
My role is to make sure all stakeholders have a voice at the table as we pursue this initiative

13. What does this mean for APWA?
Municipalities with buried infrastructure in federal lands will be required to register their buried infrastructure with Alberta One Call ( AOC)
Registration could mean registering municipal boundaries
Better quality data to AOC will result in less notifications from AOC.

14. Request a Locate Prior to Ground Disturbance
Login
Mobile App
Help
or Call
For the damage prevention process is effective, it must include:
the establishment of a One-call service;
Mandatory registration of all buried utilities with the One-call service (submission of data to the One-call service)
Simplified access (Call, Click, Tap the App / mobile access)
Public awareness & Education Program
24hrs/day - 7 days/wk

15. AOC Processes Locate Request
Alberta One Call Notifies MEMBERS OF DIGGING PROJECT
assigns a ticket number to locate request; and
notifies owners of buried facilities within the vicinity of the dig site.
When the operators of buried facilities receive the locate request from Alberta One-Call, they assess the information on the ticket and determine whether or not the proposed ground disturbance will be in conflict with their buried facilities.

16. Buried Facility Owner Responsibility
Locating and Marking buried utilities
Within two full working days, buried facility operators are expected to:
contact the excavator to arrange a mutually acceptable time to meet on site; or
identify and mark the location of their buried facilities; or
provide clearance to proceed with your project without a locate.
Within two full working days, buried facility operators are expected to:
contact the excavator to arrange a mutually acceptable time to meet on site;
identify and mark the location of their buried facilities;
provide clearance to proceed with your project without a locate.

17. Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 yOUR RESPONSIBILITY
24hrs/day - 7 days/wk or
Call Alberta One-Call toll-free:
Monday through Friday (except holidays) during regular business hours
Operators of buried facilities require at least two full working days notice prior to any intended ground disturbance.
Step 2
Alberta One-Call RESPONSIBILITY
nOTIFYING OUR MEMBERS OF YOUR DIGGING PROJECT
Alberta One-Call will:
assign a ticket number to your locate request; and
notify the owners of the buried facilities within the vicinity of the dig site.
When the operators of buried facilities receive the locate request from Alberta One-Call, they assess the information on the ticket and determine whether or not the proposed ground disturbance will be in conflict with their buried facilities.
Step 3
buried FACILITY OWNER RESPONSIBILITY
Locating and Marking buried utilities
Within two full working days, buried facility operators are expected to:
identify and mark the location of their buried facilities; or
provide clearance to proceed with your project without a locate; or
contact you to arrange a mutually acceptable time to meet on site.
IMPORTANT:
If you are advised that you may proceed to dig without a locate, request confirmation in writing for your protection.
We are contacted. We notify our members of your digging project. Our members locate their buried facilities if they are in the vicinity of your digging project.

18. Municipalities registered with AOC
Total
Counties 40
Municipal Districts 15
Cities 14
Towns 79
Villages 47
Summer Villages 3
198
Total AOC Registered Members
837
24% of AOC Members

19. Alberta One-Call Revenue Structure
Three Tiers
Tickets / Notifications
Cost
Tier 1
$6.00/Tkt
Tier 2
101 – 10,000
$3.00/Tkt
Tier 3
10,
$2.40/Tkt

20. Estimated Annual Cost by Population Centre
Category examples
Notifications
Approx. cost
Cities – large (Calgary)
60,789
$145, (tier 3)
Cities – medium (Red Deer)
7,855
$23, (tier 2)
Towns - large (Carstairs)
404
$1, (tier 2)
Village – (Donalda) 61
$ (tier 1)
Calgary population (2011) – million
Red Deer population (2011) – 100,807

21. Damages in Alberta
Beyond repairs, most damages generate societal costs:
Environmental contamination
Emergency response
Loss of service, business, data
Evacuation
Over 2,500 known damages to underground infrastructure were reported in The CCGA Societal Cost Formula estimates these damages cost Albertans over $300,000,000.
According to the CCGA Societal Cost Formula, damages across Canada are costing Canadians over $1,000,000,000 every year.

22. ALBERTA COMMON GROUND ALLIANCE

23. QUESTIONS

24. CONTACT INFORMATION
Michelle Tetreault
Executive Director
ABCGA