# Positive notification of size and material

**Citation:** OAC 165:20-17-6  
**Type / status:** regulation / current  
**Agency:** Oklahoma Corporation Commission  
**Effective:** 2019-08-01  
**Published:** Not stated

In addition to the provisions of Title 63, O.S. § 142.6, each operator served with a notice in accordance with subsection A of Title 63, O.S. § 142.6, shall notify the excavator of the size and material of an active underground facility.

## Document text

In addition to the provisions of Title 63, O.S. § 142.6, each operator served with a notice in accordance with subsection A of Title 63, O.S. § 142.6, shall notify the excavator of the size and material of an active underground facility. [Source: Added at 36 Ok Reg 545, eff. 8-1-19]

## Provenance

- Official: Yes
- Source: <https://www.oklahoma.gov/content/dam/ok/en/occ/documents/ajls/jls-courts/rules/2026/Chapter%2020.%20Gas%20and%20Hazardous%20Liquid%20Pipeline%20Safety%20-%20eff%2008-01-26.pdf>
- Source ID: `ok-occ-oac-165-20`
- SHA-256: `ab1cb84cc61cdf13d0140f9564f52333d2c92988b7ed62ed8a7b8cbd8a106e3c`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T10:53:57.691Z
- Exported: 2026-08-26T12:33:12.658Z
- Document slug: `ok-oac-165-20-17-6`

### Source metadata

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  "chapter": "OAC 165:20",
  "subject": "damage-prevention-adjacent",
  "exactScope": "This corpus contains every current section in the Oklahoma Corporation Commission's dedicated OAC 165:20 Gas and Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety compilation: 47 current sections. It inventories 19 revoked and two reserved sections without making them searchable.",
  "excludedScope": "It does not claim all Oklahoma pipeline law. Statutes outside the direct authority check, federal text, Commission orders and dockets, pending rules, forms, tariffs, utility service and rates, oil-and-gas conservation, environmental permits, siting, rights-of-way, local law, and incorporated material are excluded. OAC 165:20-5-41, 7-3, and Subchapter 17 damage-prevention obligations remain included because they are current sections of the bounded chapter, but are classified in metadata as adjacent to operational pipeline safety.",
  "applicabilityCaveat": "Oklahoma and PHMSA identify the Commission's certified role as inspection and enforcement for intrastate gas and hazardous-liquid pipelines; PHMSA retains interstate enforcement. OAC 165:20 separately limits gas, hazardous-liquid, underground natural gas storage, drug-testing, enforcement, construction, and damage-prevention provisions. Inclusion does not establish that a provision applies to a particular operator, commodity, gathering line, storage facility, or interstate facility.",
  "incorporationCaveat": "OAC 165:20-5-21, 6-1, 7-1, and 11-1 adopt federal Parts 191, 192, 195, and 199 with all amendments and appendices, a dynamic formulation whose legal operation must be verified. Effective August 1, 2026, sections 5-41 and 7-3 also omit the former January 1, 2020 date from their adoption of the Oklahoma damage-prevention statute. The connector records the current wording but does not infer the timing or legal effect of future source amendments.",
  "publicationCaveat": "The OCC compilation is expressly unofficial; only the Oklahoma Secretary of State supplies official OAC copies. The OCC current-rules page identifies Chapter 20 effective August 1, 2026 as its current convenience copy, and that compilation identifies Oklahoma Register Volume 43, Number 21 and RM2025-000005 changes. Users must verify official SOS text and any later effective action.",
  "rights": "Official Oklahoma and federal government materials are archived with attribution and byte-level hashes. Public availability does not resolve rights in seals, site presentation, forms, linked documents, incorporated federal compilations, or third-party standards; downstream redistribution requires separate review.",
  "rightsReviewRequired": true,
  "sourceNote": "[Source: Added at 36 Ok Reg 545, eff. 8-1-19]",
  "references": [
    {
      "citation": "63 O.S. § 142.6",
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      "url": "https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os63.pdf"
    }
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