§ 37-12-307 — Architectural or engineering design drawings notice

(a) Any person preparing or designing architectural or
engineering design drawings that call for excavation shall make
reasonable efforts to determine at no expense to the operator
the nature, location, and depth if known, of underground
facilities. If the location of an operator's underground
facilities within the proposed excavation area are restricted as
classified by the federal or state government, a contacted
operator shall disclose to the person the potential presence of
the underground facilities in the proposed excavation area and
any known disclosable information about the nature and location
of the underground facilities, as well as the contact
information, if known, of the federal or state government
official who may be able to provide further information. Any
person preparing or designing architectural or engineering
design drawings that call for excavation shall make the
information and location under this subsection a part of the
plan by which the excavators operate.
(b) Any person preparing or designing architectural or
engineering design drawings that call for excavation for a
government entity in a public right-of-way with a project cost
greater than seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000.00)
may schedule one (1) or more predesign meetings. The person
shall notify the notification center at least thirty (30)
calendar days before the first predesign meeting and provide the
person's contact information, the name of the government entity,
the scheduled predesign meeting dates, the location of the
proposed excavation area and the project's scope of work. The
notification center shall provide this information to operators
with underground facilities in the proposed excavation area.
Any operator or the operator's agent receiving notice pursuant
to this subsection shall do any one (1) of the following:
(i) Attend the predesign meeting and provide
information on the location of the operator's underground
facilities within the proposed excavation area;
(ii) Notify the person that the operator has already
or will, within fourteen (14) business days of receipt of the
notice, mark the location of the operator's underground
facilities within the proposed excavation area in accordance
with the standards set forth in W.S. 37-12-302(d);
(iii) Contact the person for conceptual drawings and
then mark the location of the operator's underground facilities
on the drawings. The operator shall return the marked drawings
to the person within thirty (30) calendar days of receipt of the
drawings.