77 Bedford County Board of Commissioners Pennsylyania 811 Safe Digging Month 272 April 2025 WHEREAS, the month of April 2025 recognized as "Pennsylvania 811 Safe Digging Month", , and the initiative sponsored by Pennsylvania 811, a utility notification information center with 53 years of continuous service to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and WHEREAS, Pennsylvania 811 received a million excavation notifications in 2024, over 3,000 construction projects in Coordinate PA, and transmitted approximately 6 million notifications to their member facility owners and operators allowing essential utility and construction crews to provide vital underground services and repair of critical infrastructure to communities throughout Pennsylvania, and WHEREAS, when contacting 811, at least three business days before digging, a homeowner or a contractor is connected to a unique service that notifies the appropriate underground utility operators in the municipality in which the work will be performed, and WHEREAS, by notifying 811 oftheir intent to dig, the homeowner or contractor is knowingly helping to protect the underground utilities, themselves, the work crew, and their neighbors from any unsafe digging practices within their community, and WHEREAS, upon receiving the notification from Pennsylvania 811, the facility owners and operators disperse to the said work site to mark the approximate location of their underground utility lines with flags, paint, or both, to establish an eighteen-inch tolerance zone ofthe outside wall or edge of their line or facility, and NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that Bedford County Commissioners are in support oft the Pennsylvania Underground Utility Line Protection Law, PA Act 287 of 1974, as amended, we do hereby proclaim April 2025 as "Pennsylvania 811 Safe Digging Month", > and encourage all Pennsylvanians to visit the Pennsylvania 811 website at www.paonecall.org for information about digging safely. BEDFORD COUNTY COMMISSIONERS - Mike Stiles, Commissioney Chair - 1 Lu JR Winck, Commissioner Vice-Chair Dlae bane AN Baughma Debra Brown, Chief Clerk DebBaughman, Commissioner Secretary