# Immediate notice of excavation damages caused by excavator

**Citation:** OAC 165:20-17-7  
**Type / status:** regulation / current  
**Agency:** Oklahoma Corporation Commission  
**Effective:** 2023-10-01  
**Published:** Not stated

(a) At the earliest practicable moment following discovery, but no later than one hour after confirmed discovery, each operator must give notice in accordance with paragraph (b) of this section of excavation damage as defined in the Oklahoma Underground Facilities Damage Prevention Act (Title 63 § 1

## Document text

(a) At the earliest practicable moment following discovery, but no later than one hour after confirmed discovery, each operator must give notice in accordance with paragraph (b) of this section of excavation damage as defined in the Oklahoma Underground Facilities Damage Prevention Act (Title 63 § 142.2). (b) Each notice required by paragraph (a) of the section must be made to the Commission's Pipeline Safety Department either by telephone to 405-521-2258 or electronically at TRPipelinesafety@occ.ok.gov and must submit the following information: (1) Names of operator and person making report and their telephone numbers. (2) The location of the excavation damage. (3) The time operator confirmed the excavation damage. (4) The number of fatalities and personal injuries, if any. 15 (5) Name, contact number, and address of party causing excavation damage, if known at the time of notification. (6) All other significant facts that are known by the operator that are relevant to the cause of the excavation damage. [Source: Added at 36 Ok Reg 550, eff. 8-1-19; Amended at 38 Ok Reg 1749, eff 10-1-21; Amended at 40 Ok Reg 1791, eff 10-1-23]

## 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: `a2a1c0ac7e197095c3cb477b6046e7c921d71e83f7ef40492dc95789ec589d99`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T10:53:57.691Z
- Exported: 2026-08-23T19:32:39.335Z
- Document slug: `ok-oac-165-20-17-7`

### Source metadata

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  "jurisdiction": "US-OK",
  "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 550, eff. 8-1-19; Amended at 38 Ok Reg 1749, eff 10-1-21; Amended at 40 Ok Reg 1791, eff 10-1-23]",
  "references": [
    {
      "citation": "63 O.S. § 142.2",
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      "url": "https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os63.pdf"
    }
  ],
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  "region": "OK"
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