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Board adopts start of rulemaking to tighten area-notification reporting and membership termination notices

5436770 · July 22, 2025
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Summary

The board voted to initiate formal rulemaking to require operators to provide reasons when reducing an area-of-notification shapefile, to require regional notification centers to share change statements with the board every 14 days, and to notify the board within 14 business days after an operator terminates membership.

The California Underground Safety Board voted July 15 to begin formal rulemaking proposing two regulatory changes: clearer obligations for operators who reduce their area-of-notification (shapefiles) and a requirement for regional notification centers (RNCs) to notify the board when an operator’s membership terminates. What the proposed rules do: The draft separates geospatial data obligations from member-termination procedures. Operators seeking to reduce an area of notification would be required to provide one of four…

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