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Underground Safety Board outlines 2025 work plan, seeks input on potholing and GIS rules
Summary
At its Sept. 8 education and outreach meeting in Sacramento, the California Underground Safety Board presented its 2025 work plan and invited public comment on draft potholing standards and GIS mapping regulations while describing planned audits and pilot programs to improve ticket compliance.
The California Underground Safety Board on Sept. 8 in Sacramento released its 2025 work plan and asked stakeholders to provide feedback on draft standards for potholing and geospatial information system (GIS) rules that would implement the state's GIS mapping law.
The work plan, presented at the board's Education and Outreach meeting, lays out investigations, policy and training priorities the board staff intends to pursue this year to reduce excavation risks across the state.
Why it matters: the board enforces the Dig Safe Act of 2016 by investigating excavation accidents, developing safety standards and coordinating statewide education and outreach. Changes to standards, GIS requirements and enforcement practices affect excavators, utility operators, locators, local agencies and the public who rely on safe excavation practices.
Acting Executive Officer Britney Branaman, acting executive officer for the California Underground Safety Board, told attendees that the board will continue…
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