Anyone digging must contact OKIE811 to have facility operators locate and mark their underground lines.
2024
11/4/2024 State of Emergency
Governor Stitt issued a State of Emergency for 6 Oklahoma Counties on November 4th and to last for 30 days with an expiration on December 4th.
Counties include: Cleveland, Garvin, Lincoln, McClain, Oklahoma, and Stephens
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6/26/2024 State of Emergency UPDATE
The Governor’s State of Emergency has expired for all counties except Texas County
Texas County SOE was declared June 20 and is set to expire July 19.
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5/28/2024 State of Emergency UPDATE
The Governor’s State of Emergency has been updated to include additional counties impacted by recent storms, including those on May 25-26. Counties now included in the State of Emergency are Blaine, Carter, Cleveland, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton, Craig, Custer, Delaware, Garfield, Hughes, Jackson, Johnston, Kay, Kingfisher, Lincoln, Love, Mayes, McClain, Murray, Okfuskee, Oklahoma, Okmulgee, Osage, Ottawa, Payne, Pittsburg, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Rogers, Tillman, Wagoner, Washington, Washita, Woods, and Woodward.
SOE will remain in effect until June 25th for all counties listed.
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4/28/2024 Governor Stitt Declares State of Emergency in Twelve Counties
Governor Stitt issued a State of Emergency for 12 Oklahoma Counties on April 28th and was amended on May 7th to include 29 counties and to last for 30 days with an expiration on June 7th.
Counties include: Blaine, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Craig, Custer, Garfield, Hughes, Johnston, Kay, Kingfisher, Lincoln, Love, McClain, Murray, Okfuskee, Oklahoma, Okmulgee, Osage, Ottawa, Payne, Pittsburg, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Tillman, Wagoner, Washington, and Washita.
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2023
6/20/2023 Governor Stitt Declares State of Emergency in Ten Counties
Governor Stitt just issued a State of Emergency for 10 Oklahoma Counties. This includes Choctaw, Creek, Delaware, Harper, Mayes, Pawnee, Payne, Rogers, Tulse, and Wagoner. SOE is issued for 30 days from today.
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Governor Stitt Declares State of Emergency in Five Counties
Governor Stitt just issued a State of Emergency for 5 Oklahoma Counties. This includes Cleveland, Lincoln, McClain, Oklahoma and Pottawatomie. SOE is issued for 30 days from today.
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Click here for the Executive Order.
2022
12/21/2022 – State of Emergency Declaration – Winter Weather
Governor Kevin Stitt has declared a State of Emergency for all 77 counties of Oklahoma in advance of freezing temperatures and winter weather. Click here for more information.
This declaration is to be in effect for 7 days.
Excavation should only begin after a positive response has been received by all companies.
11/5/2022 – State of Emergency Declaration
Governor Kevin Stitt has declared a State of Emergency for Bryan, Choctaw, LeFlore and McCurtain Counties, following a deadly tornado on 11/4/2022. Click here for more information.
This declaration is to be in effect for 30 days.
Excavation should only begin after a positive response has been received by all companies.
2/7/2022 – REMINDER:
The State of Emergency (SOE) Declaration ends at 11:59 p.m. tonight. Although non-emergency locates may have been completed during the SOE, the revised Date of Notification on non-Emergency tickets will be 2/8/2022. If positive response hasn’t been received by 2/11/2022, excavators may put in subsequent notices to have lines marked.
Excavation should only begin after a positive response has been received by all companies.
The life of a ticket is still 14 calendar days from the original Excavation Date. Excavators will still need to update their ticket(s) with sufficient notice before 14 calendar days from the original Excavation Date.
2/2/2022 – STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARATION:
The Governor has declared a state of emergency effective Midnight Wednesday – Feb. 2, 2022, Midnight to Monday – Feb. 7, 2022, Midnight. Click here to learn more.
- Those submitting non-emergency locate requests will receive a message telling them that during the state of emergency, time limitations for marking facilities shall be inapplicable for the area of the emergency.
- Because it is important to ensure resources are available to deal with service restorations or other emergency issues during this time, underground lines may not be located and marked by the requested time.
- Anyone submitting non-emergency tickets during the state of emergency will still need to ensure lines are marked and positive response has been received before digging. Information will be available on the ticket to let the Excavator know of the declaration and that locate by date/times are not effective during the emergency for excavation taking place in Oklahoma.
- An IVR message will be put in place for callers to hear when they call in to submit a ticket, letting them know of the state of emergency for the affected areas.
Even though the date/time on the locate request is not effective during the state of emergency, locators may still respond to locate requests as resources are available. Please ensure lines are marked and positive response has been received before digging.
If the state of emergency declaration has expired and the excavator still does not have lines located or marked within 72 hours, not including weekends and holidays of the declaration ending, please submit a second Notice ticket to OKIE811.
During the state of emergency, the “Date of Excavation” printed on the ticket will not be valid. To calculate the adjusted “Date of Excavation” to account for the days during the emergency declaration, the following should be followed:
- Date of Notification will be the first day following the expiration of the Emergency Declaration.
- Weekends and holidays will not count towards notice time.
- 48 hours will still be required to give locators time to respond.
Example: Date of Excavation requested to be 2/4/2022, but state of emergency is from 2/2/2022 through 2/7/2022. Date of Notification becomes 2/8/2022 plus 48 hours’ notice, putting the revised Date of Excavation at 2/11/2022.
Again, it is very important that anyone submitting non-emergency tickets during the state of emergency to still ensure lines are marked and a positive response has been received before digging.
