# Written report of all excavation damages

**Citation:** OAC 165:20-17-8  
**Type / status:** regulation / current  
**Agency:** Oklahoma Corporation Commission  
**Effective:** 2021-10-01  
**Published:** Not stated

(a) Each operator shall submit a semiannual damage summary report to the Commission's Pipeline Safety Department. The report shall contain the following information on all damage resulting from excavation activity: (1) Name and address of operator; (2) Name, contact number, and address of party caus

## Document text

(a) Each operator shall submit a semiannual damage summary report to the Commission's Pipeline Safety Department. The report shall contain the following information on all damage resulting from excavation activity: (1) Name and address of operator; (2) Name, contact number, and address of party causing excavation damage; (3) The type of excavator equipment; (4) The location in which the damage occurred; (5) The type of facility damaged; (6) The date of the damage(day, month and year); (7) The primary cause of the damage. (b) The semiannual damage summary reports shall be due on March 1 and September 1. For semiannual damage summary reports due on September 1, the reporting period shall be from January 1 through June 30. For semiannual damage summary reports due on March 1, the reporting period shall be from July 1 through December 31. (c) The report referenced in paragraph (b) can be submitted on a spreadsheet, single pages for each occurrence of excavation damage, or if the operator participates in the Common Ground Alliance's Damage Reporting Tool (DIRT) they may submit a copy of the report which reflects their data. (d) If no damages have occurred during the reporting period, a report is still required indicating "No Damages Occurred". (e) Reports can be submitted via TRPipelinesafety@occ.ok.gov. (f) Should any of the information required in 165:20-17-8(a) not be available, the operator shall, prior to the next semiannual report, supply the missing data. An explanation of what actions were taken to secure the information must be supplied if after a good faith effort to secure the information is performed the information remains unavailable. [Source: Added at 36 Ok Reg 550, eff. 8-1-19; Amended at 38 Ok Reg 1746, eff 10-1-21]

## 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: `9f1ddad5c8a7e2b14370c44370595b2d78c46272f33b74acda717a273327fdb3`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T10:53:57.691Z
- Exported: 2026-08-26T22:22:23.984Z
- Document slug: `ok-oac-165-20-17-8`

### 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 1746, eff 10-1-21]",
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