Comment Submitted by: Edgar P. Martin for C. E. Williams Sons, Inc.

Please address the situation when entering new construction underground manholes and structures, that are not connected to existing service lines, that there is no need to consider this a confined space. Employees are routinely entering these types of structures and a contractor would have to hire personnel solely to monitor this type of entry. Language should address this situation that in order to be considered an active confined space, the entered area must be connected to active lines. This would be alot of unecessary paperwork to be filled out and records kept. This could be logged per jobsite per day or something along those lines. Edgar P. Martin, C.E. Williams Sons, Inc.