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Committee advances bill to tighten utility locate response for designers and surveyors
Summary
Senators approved SB 340 to address delays in the state's one-call system for design and surveying professionals, introducing penalties if locate requests are not completed within a specified multiple of the current response window; sponsors invited stakeholders to a later meeting for input.
A Senate committee on Transportation and Energy approved SB 340, a bill aimed at improving responsiveness in the state's one-call utility‑locate system for designers and surveyors.
The sponsor told the committee that the excavator side of the one-call system generally functions, but the design and survey side routinely fails to produce timely locates. The sponsor said designers sometimes…
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