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5/ Roger cox
Pvesldzrlt
aers NW In:
hat r. an "Enlcxgcncy" lal.e emergenere.. The t'-rr.t r..ue r.- some .ay there ought to be ervrl
loeate reoue.t a. dehned lo.. of eredrbrlrty. It’~ klnd of llkc the penaltre. a..-oerated wrth lal.e
rn we.-t vrrgrnra law? lrttle boy eryrng wolr. Atter a whrle, emergenere.. Enfuxccmcnt r. eertarnly
For a loeate reque.t to be nobody bcllcvca hrm. But more than a po..rbrlrty Already, there are .tate.
ela..-rt’-red a. an emergeney, the two (2) that, sllurbcutllllg the .y.tem .how.- a loolong to rmplement hue. to tho.-e
[olluwlng eondrtron. mu.t be met tremendou. luck or re.peet fax the other who .-hort errt the .y.tem
.(;k h ld-- 1 vllb- rt‘d
(1) A mndlllun eon.-trtutmg a elear ‘ ‘ ° ° "‘ W “’ ‘“ ‘ ““"“ ‘ other. .-trll belreve there need. to be a
by .rreh habrt.. A lack of re.-peet tor
and pre.ent danger to llfc, health or brgger pu.-h ror edueatron and fact‘
eaeh other wrll alway. end m a poor
property by rea.on or e.eaprng loxlc, totaee dr.eu..ron. to find eommon
worlong relatron.hrp. Tlml eo.t.- real
eorro.-rve or explo.rre produet, orl or ground between the ereavator. who
dollar. rn produetrvrtv and rmpaet. the
orl—ga. or natural ga. hydroearbon — eall the.e rn, the loeator. who are
< bottom lrne.
produet, cxpmud wrre. or other breale. rmpaeted and the utrlrty owner.
or deleet. rn an rrnderground laerlrty; or And rt al.o ereate. a problem lor the them.-elr~e..
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(2) A EDTIKIIKIUH(l\flll’Dqh\lrCill'l1l‘l’ICd|fllC “m” M‘ “ “’ "“‘, “"3 '’‘‘°’ Ym told thatemergeney reque.t. (valrd
eut the .y.tem. Here . how. The
eorreetron to a.-.ure the .atety ot the and rnvalrd) malee up appmxlmatclv
loeator. are worklng a route of treleet.-, . —
general publre and operator per.onnel. luv. ot the total volume ot loeate treket.
but when they get an emergeney
on a darlv ba.r. and that there r. a
Reeentlv, whrle tallerng to a rru.trated mqum, they ryplrally have a short mm ' .
— ,, pattern to lal.e emergeney reque.t..
loeator, he cxclalmcd, Poor plannrng to re.pond. lseeau.-e they are pulled
, , Mrreh of the tune, ralve emergenere.
on .onrebodv el.e . part .-horrldn t away from the rorrtrne or normal loeate
— g _ are predretably trom the .ame entrty or
eon.trtrrte an emergeney on my reoue.t, rt ean well be two to four hour. , _ , V
,, regron. lt . ,u.t mo.tly the way they re
pan’ wrthout oue.tron, eallrng rn an out of therr day (dependrng on how
learned to do bu.me...

emergeney loeate that elearly doe. not far they mu.t drrve). That put. them

nreet the mqulrcmcnts ot an emergeney mrther behrnd therr .-ehedrrle. for the l further belreve that mo.t everybody
ereate. problem. [or all .-talteholder.. one. who try to do rt rrght. walee. up every day and rntend.- to do
lt r.- obvrou. that rt ereate. a problem for so you ean .ee the rru.tratron of the “ 8'-‘W1 1°” ”'-“‘ ‘ "“““V° ”“‘>' "”'“‘“ ‘°

_ V ereate problem. tor everybody around
the loeator, both the rrtrlrty loeator and Excavator who now ha. w orker. and ,
them. lt that . true, then maybe we do
the eontraet loeator. Lo.-rng valuable equrpment wartrng [or parnt or flag~
_ _ need to find way. to talk to another
trrne re.pondrng to ral..e emergenere. on the ground. Al thr. pornt, rt r. ea.y b up ‘ H h V K 1
- r ~ r b lru.trrted at the loeator 1nd “ °“‘ ‘ "“P““ W‘ “ “‘ ° °" “C ‘

prrt. the loeator er en funhu behrnd to eeome . e ,. mm M,‘ Wm mmhm [0 WM um
therr .-ehedule.- that are already full .ometrme. nghtly .o However, when mbl;_m * *
A. one eontraet loeatrng manager a loeator get. prrlled off therr regular P

.tated, "0br~rorr.-ly, rt .trarn. the .y.tem rorrte ol routrne treket reoue.t.- by pr.-t And rt we hnd .-omeone who ru.-t
beearr.-e we all have lrmrted re.-ouree.-. a eouple ui lal.e emergeney reoue.t.-, rt doe.n't want to get along wrth anybody,
Further, the loeatrng eompany ha. lru.trate. a lot of plxlplc. l a.-.ure you one who doe.n't eare about the
eorrtraetual and le al oblr atron.- to rt.- that mo.t of the loeator. I've talked drrheultre. the r ereate tor ever vbodv

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elrent or eour.e well re.pond to the to over the pa.t twenty year. are a. el.e, lct’~ worle together to enloree a
emergeney eall, even rr rt turn. out to be lru.trated a.- r.- the ereavator wartrng behavroral ehange

a non—emergeney and we .-horrld, but/Ill lor the marle.. TM“ WM they mu mm“ wmdmg
ereate. a real problem lor everybodv. _ 7 _ ,—

< — what r. the .olutron. l. there law. . rt . the only way you ean get
lt al.o ereate. a problem for the .ometlrrng that ean be done to mdlltc .ome people to .low down Q
L‘x:avr1lox who routrnely eall. m the.e the number ul lal.e emergenere. berng
ealled m?
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