Utah Admin. Code R930-7-3 - Definitions
As used in this Rule R930-7:
(1) "Abandoned facility" is a utility
facility that is not in use, no longer actively providing a service, and is
physically disconnected from the operating facility that is still in use and
still actively providing a service. Abandoned facilities remain the property of
the utility company.
(2) "Access
control" is the regulation of public access to and from properties abutting the
highway facilities. The two basic types of access control are:
(a) "No access (NA)" means access to
through-traffic lanes is not allowed except at interchanges. Crossings at grade
and direct driveway connections are prohibited.
(b) "Limited access (LA)" means access to
selected public roads may be provided. There may be some crossings at grade and
some private driveway connections.
(3) "Administrative citation" is a letter
from UDOT to a utility company citing one or more non-compliance items and
proper redress requirements such as action on the appropriate bond, revocation
of the permit, and revocation of a SULA.
(4) "AASHTO" is the American Association of
State Highway and Transportation Officials.
(5) "Backfill" means the replacement of soil
removed during construction. It may also denote material placed over or around
structures and utilities.
(6)
"Bedding" means the composition and shaping of soil or other suitable material
to support a pipe, conduit, casing, or utility tunnel.
(7) "Boring" means the operation by which
carriers or casings are pushed or jacked under highways or public transit
facilities without disturbing the highway structure or prism. Bores are carved
progressively ahead of the leading edge of the advancing pipe as soil is mucked
back through the pipe.
(8) "Buffer
Zone" means the area composed of material such as sand, flowable fill, concrete
surrounding a Utility facility where no compaction or encroachment is
allowed.
(9) "Carrier" means a pipe
directly enclosing a transmitted fluid (liquid, gas, or slurry).
(10) "Casing" is a larger pipe, conduit, or
duct enclosing a carrier.
(11)
"Clear Zone" means the total roadside border area, starting at the edge of the
traveled way, available for safe use by errant vehicles. This area may consist
of a shoulder, a recoverable slope, a non-recoverable slope, and a clear
run-out area. The desired width is dependent upon traffic volumes, speeds, and
roadside geometry.
(12) "Coating"
is material applied to or wrapped around a pipe.
(13) "Conduit" is an enclosed tubular casing
for the protection of wires and cables.
(14) "Department Project" shall have the same
definition as in Section
72-6-116.
(15) "Depth of bury (cover)" means the depth
from ground, sidewalk, or roadway surface to top of pipe, conduit, casing,
cable, utility tunnel, or similar facility.
(16) "Deviation" means a granted permission
to depart from the standards and requirements of this rule.
(17) "Emergency work" is utility company work
required to prevent loss of life or significant damage to property.
(18) "Encasement" is a structural element
surrounding a carrier or casing.
(19) "Encroachment" means entry within the
right of way.
(20) "Encroachment
permit" is a document that specifies the requirements and conditions for
performing authorized work within the right of way.
(21) "Environmentally protected areas" are
areas that include wetlands, flood plains, stream channels, rivers, threatened
or endangered species, archaeological sites, and historic sites.
(22) "Expressway" is a divided arterial
highway for through traffic with partial control of access and generally with
grade separations at major intersections.
(23) "Federal-aid highways" are highways
eligible to receive Federal-aid.
(24) "FHWA" is the Federal Highway
Administration.
(25) "Flexible
carrier pipe" is a plastic, fiberglass, or metallic pipe having a large
diameter to wall thickness ratio and which can be deformed without undue
stress.
(26) "Flowable fill" is low
strength flowable concrete as defined in UDOT Standard Specification
03575.
(27) "Freeway" is an
expressway with full control of access.
(28) "Frontage road" is a local street or
road auxiliary to and located on the side of an arterial highway for service to
abutting property and adjacent areas and for control of access.
(29) "Grade" is the rate or percent of change
in slope, either ascending or descending, measured along the centerline of a
roadway or access.
(30) "Grounded"
means electrically connected to earth or to some extended conducting body that
serves instead of the earth, whether the connection is intentional or
accidental.
(31) "Grout" is a
cement mortar or slurry of fine sand or clay.
(32) "Highway, street, or road" are general
terms denoting a public way for the transportation of people, materials, and
goods, but primarily for vehicular travel, including the entire area within the
right of way.
(33) "Horizontal
directional drilling" (HDD), also known as directional boring and directional
drilling, is a method of installing underground pipes and conduits from the
surface along a prescribed bore path. The process is used for installing
telecommunications and power cable conduits, water lines, sewer lines, gas
lines, oil lines, product pipelines, and casings used for environmental
remediation. It is used for crossing waterways, roadways, congested areas,
environmentally protected areas, and any area where other methods are not
feasible.
(34) "Interstate highway
system" (Interstate) is the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate
and Defense Highways as defined in the Federal-aid Highway Act of 1956 and any
supplemental acts or amendments.
(35) "Manhole" or "utility access hole" is an
opening in an underground system that workers or others may enter for making
installations, removals, inspections, repairs, connections, and
tests.
(36) "Median" is the portion
of a divided highway separating the traveled ways for traffic in opposite
directions.
(37) "MUTCD (Utah
MUTCD)" means the version of Utah Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices
referenced in Rule R920-1.
(38)
"Pavement structure" is the combination of sub-base, base course, and surface
course placed on a sub-grade to support the traffic load.
(39) "Permit" means encroachment
permit.
(40) "Pipe" is a tubular
product made as a production item for the transmission of liquid or gaseous
substances. Cylinders formed from plate material in the fabrication of
auxiliary equipment are not pipe as defined here.
(41) "Pipeline" is a continuous carrier used
primarily for the transportation of liquids, gases, or solids from one point to
another using either gravity or pressure flow.
(42) "Plowing" means the direct burial of
utility lines by a mechanism that breaks the ground, places the utility line,
and closes the break in the ground in a single operation.
(43) "Practicable" means reasonably capable
of being accomplished or feasible as determined by UDOT.
(44) "Public transit facility" has the same
definition as provided in Section
72-1-102.
(45) "Relocate" means the adjustment of
utility facilities when found by UDOT to be necessary for construction or
maintenance of a department project. It includes removing and reinstalling the
facility, including necessary temporary facilities, acquiring the necessary
right of way on the new location, moving, rearranging, or changing the type of
existing facilities, and taking any necessary safety and protective measures.
It also means constructing a replacement facility that is both functionally
equivalent to the existing facility and necessary for the continuous operation
of the utility service, the project economy, or the sequence of department
project construction.
(46) "Right
of way" has the same definition as provided in Section 72-1-102.
(47) "Roadside" is a general term denoting
the area between the outer edge of the roadway shoulder and the right of way
limits.
(48) "Roadway" is the
portion of a highway, including shoulders, for vehicular use. A divided highway
has two or more roadways.
(49)
"Small Wireless Facility" means as defined in Section
54-21-101.
(50) "Slope" is the relative steepness of the
terrain expressed as a ratio or percentage. Slopes may be categorized as
positive or negative and as parallel or cross slopes in relation to the
direction of traffic.
(51) "State
Highways" are those highways designated as State Highways in Title 72, Chapter
4, Designation of State Highways.
(52) "Structure" means any device used to
convey vehicles, pedestrians, animals, waterways, or other materials over
highways, streams, canyons, or other obstacles. It also includes buildings,
signs, and UDOT facilities with foundations.
(53) "Statewide Utility License Agreement" or
"SULA" is a document by which UDOT licenses the use and occupancy, with
conditions, of rights of way for utility facilities.
(54) "Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE)"
is the management of certain risks associated with utility mapping at
appropriate quality levels, utility coordination, utility relocation,
communication of utility data, utility relocation cost estimates,
implementation of utility accommodation policies, and utility design. SUE tools
include traditional records, site surveys, and new technologies such as surface
geophysical methods and non-destructive vacuum excavation, to provide quality
levels of information. The SUE process for collecting and depicting information
on existing subsurface utility facilities is described in ASCE Standard 38-02,
Standard Guideline for the Collection and Depiction of Existing Subsurface
Utility Data.
(55) "Trenched" means
installed in a narrow open excavation.
(56) "Trenchless (Untrenched)" means
installed without breaking the ground or pavement surface by a construction
method such as directional drilling, boring, tunneling, jacking, or
auguring.
(57) "UDOT" is the Utah
Department of Transportation and where referenced to be contacted, submitted
to, approved by, accepted by or otherwise engaged, means an authorized
representative.
(58) "Utility" and
"utility facility" are used interchangeably and have the same definition as
"utility" as provided in Section
72-6-116.
(59) "Utility appurtenances" include to
pedestals, manholes, vents, drains, rigid markers, meter pits, sprinkler pits,
valve pits, and regulator pits.
(60) "Utility company" has the same
definition as Section 72-6-116.
(61) "Vent" is an appurtenance designed to
discharge gaseous contaminants from a casing.
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