New Jersey - 2012 State Damage Prevention Program

Main Objective

Under this grant agreement, New Jersey will:

• Develop and implement methods for effective communication
• Foster support and partnership with stakeholders
• Foster and promote the use of Improving Technologies

Public Abstract

The Grantee will address the following elements:

• Element (1): Participation by operators, and other stakeholders in the development and implementation of methods for establishing and maintaining effective communications between stakeholders from receipt of an excavation notification until successful completion of the excavation as appropriate.
• Element (2): A process for fostering and ensuring the support and partnership of stakeholders including excavators, operators, locators, designers, and local government in all phases of the program.
• Element (8): A process for fostering and promoting the use, by all appropriate stakeholders, of improving technologies that may enhance communications, underground pipeline locating capability, and gathering and analyzing information about the accuracy and effectiveness of locating programs.