S.F. No. 2723 Summary

• Adds definition of "locate" as marking the approximate horizontal location of underground facilities within a plus or minus two-foot tolerance, including marking bends, structures, and extensions.

• Updates utility quality level standards to reference CI/ASCE 38-22 instead of 38-02 guidelines for subsurface utility data collection and depiction.

• Requires notification center to establish electronic system for stakeholders to report complaints, damages, and delays, with quarterly reports to commissioner and utility operators plus annual summary reports.

• Extends notice validity period from 14 to 21 calendar days for excavation activities, or six months if excavator arranges periodic mark verification with operators.

• Mandates operators use global positioning system or equivalent technology by January 1, 2025, to develop as-built drawings of newly installed, improved, or repaired facilities.

• Requires preliminary design and preconstruction meetings between persons soliciting excavation bids and affected facility operators to communicate project scope, timeline, and coordinate utility relocation.

• Prohibits excavation contracts requiring excavators to bear utility downtime costs when not at fault; utility owners responsible for delays must pay costs up to civil penalty amounts.