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–Technical Standards & Safety Act (TSSA)
–Test Holes: Exposure of a facility by safe excavation practices used to
ascertain the precise horizontal and vertical position of underground lines
or facilities.
–Ticket: All data required from an excavator to transmit a valid notification
to the owner.
–Tolerance Zone: The space in which a facility is located, and in which
special care is to be taken.
– Underground: Beneath the ground surface or submerged, including
where exposed by temporary excavation.
– Utility: a private, publicly, or cooperatively owned entity whose purpose
is to deliver a commodity or service such as communications, television/
internet, power, electricity, light, heat, gas, oil, water, steam, and waste
collection.
– Utility Infrastructure: a cable, line, pipe, conduit, or structure used to
gather, store, or convey products or services. (Note: may also be referred
to as "facility" or "plant".)
– Vacuum Excavation: A means of soil extraction through vacuum where
water or air jet devices are commonly used for breaking the ground.
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