NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document
NOV ? I Ii ovember 21, 2000
5sandra Sumowicz, Esq.
Corona, New York
113666-5107 Director, Mayor's Office of Environmental Coordination
100 Gold Street, 2nd Floor
New York, New York 10038
Joel A. Miele Sr., P.E.
Commissioner Re: Membership and Participation of the City of
New York in the One Call Users' Council, Inc.
Dear Ms. mowicz:
Mark D. Hoffer
General Counsel
As I promised in our recent conversation, I am writing to enlist
Bureau of Legal
Affairs your assistance in coordinating and facilitating the City's participation
Tel (718) 595-6555 in the One Call Users' Council, Inc. ("One Call"). Article 36 of the New
Fax (718) 595-6543 York State General Business Law and 16 NYCRR Part 753 require
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Operators of underground facilities within the State of New York to
participate in and be responsible for administration of a One Call
notification system to receive and disseminate information concerning
proposed excavations and to designate their underground facilities by
staking and marking when notified of proposed excavation work.
Over the past months, Commissioner Joel A. Miele, Sr., P.E.
has received correspondence from both the State Department of
Public Service and One Call reminding DEP of the statutory
requirements and soliciting the City's participation in the One Call
system currently operating in this area. Commissioner Miele has
acknowledged the important public safety aspects of participation in
the One Call System and has directed DEP staff to do what is
necessary to ensure our participation at the earliest possible date.
We have been in contact with One Call and have been informed
that City of New York as a municipality would by statute be exempt
from paying a proportionate share of the cost of operating the One
Call system. This membership however, would entitle the City to
receive the One Call notifications (which would enable the marking
out of City facilities) at only one location which we would designate.
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If the City determined that it required additional notifications (i.e. to
more than one agency) it would have to pay a full charge for each.
We have been informed that the Department of Transportation (DOT),
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