Excavation permits and rules in North Dakota

Anyone digging in North Dakota has to notify North Dakota One Call before work starts. Dial 811 to reach it. The notice period under N.D. Cent. Code 49-23-01 to 49-23-07: 48 hours, excluding weekends and holidays; the locate period is the forty-eight hour period beginning at 12:01 a.m. of the day after the location request was submitted, excluding any Saturday, Sunday, or holiday.^{1, 2}

North Dakota licenses contractors through the North Dakota Secretary of State (registrar). Who needs a license: When the cost, value, or price per job exceeds the sum of four thousand dollars. A single state contractor license under N.D. Cent. Code 43-07 covers any person in the business of construction, including drainage ditches, sewers, water or gas mains and pipelines.³

A stormwater permit is needed at 1 acre, including less than 1 acre that is part of a larger common plan of development or sale. Coverage is under the NDPDES Construction Stormwater General Permit NDR11-0000.^{4, 5}