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– LSP: Locate Service Provider - a person authorized by the owner to
locate and mark its underground facilities.
– Map: A to-scale visual representation of geographically referenced features
on or near the Earth's surface.

– Mapping: The act or operation of making a map.

– Marks or Markings: Surface marking indicating the presence of
underground infrastructure including but not limited to highly visible paint
and/or labeled stakes or flags to indicate the approximate location of
buried facilities within the Located area.

– Ministry of Environmental & Energy (MOEE)

– National Best Practice Committee (NBPC)
– Near Miss: An event where damage did not occur, but a clear potential for
damage was identified.
– Notifications: Ticket data transmitted to underground infrastructure
owners. (New 06/2014)
– Notification Area: The geographic limits of coverage where a owner has
facilities and wishes notification of excavation activities.
– Notification Service: Also known as One Call Centre, is a non-profit
organization governed by a Board of Directors that provides a single point
of contact within a defined geographical area, receives locate requests and
notifies its potentially affected members of any proposed constructions
or excavations. (Note: The purpose of a notification service is to provide
a single point of contact so that excavators can reach multiple owners of
registered underground infrastructure).
– Owner: person, partnership, corporation, government, public agency, or
other entity within a province/territory that owns, controls, and/or operates
underground infrastructure.

– Person: Any individual or legal entity, public or private.
– Planner: person or persons responsible for planning the ground
disturbance. (Note: This can include, but is not limited to, excavators,
owners, homeowners, consultants, designers, and engineers).

– Plant: See Utility Infrastructure.
– Practicable: where possible in practice having due regard to limiting
circumstances.
– Regional Best Practice Committee (RBPC)

– Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE): A term used in CI/ASCE 38-02
Standard Guideline for the Collection and Depiction of Existing Subsurface
Utility Data that refers to an engineering process for assessing the quality
of underground utility information provided by a map, plan or record.
– Survey Infrastructure: Property boundary monuments and control
survey monuments.

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