1. Spring Member Meeting May 30, 2016 10:30 am – 1:00 pm Hall A Room 1, Prairieland Park Saskatoon, SK

2. 1. Approval of Agenda 2. SCGA President’s Report 3. Approval of Minutes – Dec. 01, 2015 4. Resolutions of the SCGA 5. SCGA 2016 Business Plan Update 6. Sask 1 st Call Online Request Demonstration 7. Mandatory One Call Legislation 8. Discussion 9. Close of Meeting and Lunch 2

3. President's Report

4. Todd Hundseth Bill Fraser Steve Loney Donavon Nelson Board of Directors Dean Reeve President, SCGA Dean Reeve President, SCGA Rick Sorenson Secretary / Treasurer, SCGA Rick Sorenson Secretary / Treasurer, SCGA Daryl Posehn Executive Director, SCGA Daryl Posehn Executive Director, SCGA 4 Luis Wilson Vice President, SCGA Luis Wilson Vice President, SCGA James Cameron Shantel Lipp Jay Meyer

5. National CCGA Activities Legislative Developments National DIRT Report Damage Prevention Best Practices – Version II “Dig Safe” Month 4 th Annual Damage Prevention Symposium 5 Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel October 18-20, 2016

6. SCGA Activities Dig Safe – Public Awareness Committee Mandatory One Call Legislation SCGA Best Practices Committee Executive Director Succession / Search 6

7. Minutes of December 01, 2015 Meeting 7

8. a) SCGA Board It is resolved that Jay Meyer, Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities be appointed to the SCGA Board of Directors. 8

9. 9 Key Strategies

10. 10 Key Strategies Adopted National Dig Safe Brand Promote awareness April, Safe Digging Month Contractor Breakfasts Over 4,000 attended SCGA video National committee and work with Mark’s Best Practices Forums to come this fall Strengthen Saskatchewan DIRT reporting #1 Damage Prevention Awareness

11. 11 Key Strategies Best Practices enhancements –Version II Promote with industry stakeholders—Best Practice Forums Leadership efforts within Saskatchewan #2 Best Practices

12. 12 Work with Government and stakeholders to promote legislation Monitor and participate in Senate process #3 Mandatory One Call

13. 13 Grow organization and encourage full participation—almost 70 members now Well governed organization Transition resourcing model Regularly meet with Members, coordinate activities and represent member interests— Saskatoon meeting Deliver on 2016 Business Plan Responsive to Membership #4 Sustainable

14. Barb Tchozewski Manager, Sask 1 st Call 14

15. Who? Why? What? Where? When? 15

16. Call every utility owner for locates Hope you remembered everyone Very inefficient service for all 16

17. Sask 1 st Call Started in 2003, Voluntary membership representing over 70 companies and thousands of km of underground infrastructure Members include: power, telephone and gas transmission / distribution field oil and gas gathering facilities small municipalities

18. 18 Saskatchewan has become a very busy place

19. 19 Sask 1 st Call Cost recovery from its members (a non-profit organization) Keeps a mapping database of all members’ infrastructure Provides the screening and notification service Members Provide updated maps to Sask 1 st Call Locate facilities when a ticket is issued to them Work with excavators when working around their facilities Ground Disturbers/Excavators Free service for those that call Sask 1 st Call

20. 20 Sask 1 st Call – not all infrastructure is part of the process For example, the challenge for a municipality building a road. Call Sask 1 st Call with locate request Line locates provided by Sask 1 st Call members What about other buried infrastructure? What does municipality do? Risks and potential consequences!

21. 21 Task Force to look at establishing Mandatory One Call Legislation in Saskatchewan The SCGA and its membership have developed a “White Paper” on our position. It is available on our website. www.scga.ca

22. 22 Every person or entity that owns or operates underground infrastructure that is within, crosses, or is in the vicinity of a public right of way must be a member of a One Call System This includes utilities, transmission and telecommunication companies, municipalities, provincial, territorial and federal agencies and private or public institutions that operate their own infrastructure Does not include private landowners who may operate buried infrastructure which does not cross a public right of way Anyone digging or disturbing the ground must call for a locate!

23. 23 Clear and consistent ground disturbance processes Unified and effective approach that is easy to navigate ie One Call for Excavators Enhanced awareness by all stakeholders Cost benefit of millions of dollars Reduced safety and environmental risks Results in accurate data/mapping of all underground infrastructure

24. One Call Center Owners locate underground facilities and provides record of locate Screens identified project area with facility mapping of all underground infrastructure in the region and creates a ticket Excavator completes safe ground disturbance and cleans up area All Project owners identifies project area and contacts One Call Center Notification(s) to Facility Owner(s)

25. 25 Direct Costs: Repair or replacement of infrastructure Losses of services, product and revenue Equipment damage and repair Worker downtime and project delays Insurance liability and property damage costs Indirect Costs: Customer costs due to loss of service Investigation reporting; internal and external Environmental mitigation costs Corporate and Industry reputation Societal Costs: Emergency response costs and effect on service Evacuation and traffic congestion Health costs; injuries, fatalities Saskatchewan direct costs estimated to be $10 M / yr

26. 26 Ontario has led the way with legislation in 2012 Almost all of the United States has One Call legislation Provinces have various stages of “One Call” (Alberta & B.C. Energy sector) Canadian Senate Bill (S-233) drafted for federally regulated infrastructure and federal lands.

27. “Act respecting underground infrastructure safety” All infrastructure that is federally regulated or crosses federal lands must register with the notification centre in each region that it is located in. Describes process, regulations, penalties in about 10 pages. Final draft and reading in 2016 session 27

28. Sask 1 st Call does have a large membership representing most: utilities transmission companies and some oil and gas companies; municipalities Oil and Gas Sector Municipalities Others 28

29. Significant infrastructure with diverse ownership Operating and abandoned facilities Risks of an incident are high Integration Ministry of Economy plans for flow and gathering lines Impact about 250 companies 29

30. Capital Costs Initial mapping of facilities $5,000 to $20,000 Initial set up on Sask 1 st Call $250 to $1,000 Operating Costs Maintenance of maps Number of notifications received 50 to 3,000/yr $3.75/notification for Sask 1 st Call Facility Owner locates $50-$700 30

31. In 2015, within boundaries there were Regina and Saskatoon over 21,000 tickets Moose Jaw and Prince Albert over 4,500 tickets Remaining 12 cities about 900 Towns about 200 How would city/town participate? Initial Mapping and response cost Propose a transition plan and perhaps modified process 31

32. Capital Costs Initial mapping of facilities $5,000 to $20,000 Initial set up on Sask 1 st Call $250 to $1,000 Part of a larger asset management challenge 32

33. One Call Center Owners locate underground facilities and provides record of locate Screens identified project area with facility mapping of all underground infrastructure in the region and creates a ticket Excavator completes safe ground disturbance and cleans up area All Project owners identifies project area and contacts One Call Center Notification(s) to Facility Owner(s) Facility Owner could clear ticket (no locates) based on knowledge of work area and existence of deeper facilities

34. Operating Costs Maintenance of maps Number of notifications received 50 to 20,000/yr $3.75/notification for Sask 1 st Call Facility Owner locates $50-$500 Modified Process could reduce costs and continue to manage the risk 34

35. Not as much infrastructure, could use modified process Probably more an excavator than a facility owner Benefits would exceed costs 35

36. Cable companies Rural water utilities Other infrastructure 36

37. Sask 1 st Call is a not-for-profit organization Adding more facility owners would increase costs slightly Additional notifications would be the result and ticket prices should remain stable Actual number of tickets is driven by the number of requests, more use by excavators should not increase costs 37

38. Legislation would require regulations and enforcement Options include: Leverage existing regulations and processes Authorize and expand Sask 1 st Call to enforce Create new entity to regulate Federal legislation provides a good template 38

39. Leverage existing: Saskatchewan Pipelines Act Municipalities Acts: Urban, Rural and Northern Federal Regulations including NEB, Telecommunications and Transportations Acts Saskatchewan Occupational Health and Safety Act 39

40. 40 Propose a multi-year, risk based transition plan with input from stakeholders: Mapping effort and costs identified for owners/Sask 1 st Call Operational costs and processes for facility owners Awareness process for ground disturbers/public Propose regulations and identify options for enforcement Create a broad stakeholder committee to review proposal, quantify total costs and impacts, and develop legislation. Implementation plan staged for various groups based on risk and ability to deliver. Plan to reintroduce to government this fall with a detailed plan that transitions our current Sask 1 st Call into a One Call!

41. 41 Are we going in the right direction? What are we missing? How can you best support this plan?

42. Thank you very much! Lunch Sponsor Provided by: 42

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