FARMINGDALE — Selectmen this week reviewed a proposed Underground Utility Accommodation Ordinance, which would put in place standards for utilities along public ways, including a proposed natural gas line.

Selectman David Sirois, who serves as liaison to the Planning Board, told selectmen the Planning Board wants to make a few changes on the extensive ordinance, which would set standards to which all installations of utilities on or beneath the surface of a public way must adhere. The changes also would require utility companies to get a permit from the town.

Selectmen started drafting an ordinance several months ago after Kennebec Valley Gas Company proposed installing a natural gas line from Richmond to Madison that would pass through Farmingdale.

Among the changes the Planning Board wants to make:

* stating in a street excavation permit that a company must pay for services from an engineer for inspection purposes, if needed, and

* requiring companies to wait 60 days, instead of 30, to put the finish coat of pavement on the road.

Selectman Rickey McKenna said the Planning Board should install language to cover road damage that occurs when running a utility across the road. Selectmen suggested remediation should be done 10 feet on both sides of the cut.

The ordinance is expected to go to a special town meeting — along with a consumer fireworks ordinance and a sign ordinance — before the end of the year.

In other business this week, selectmen renewed the liquor license of the Fat Toad Pub at 655 Maine Ave.

Joyce Grondin is a Kennebec Journal correspondent who lives in Augusta.