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Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety adopts Energy Safety Policy Division process guidelines
Summary
The Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety adopted the Energy Safety Policy Division (ESPD) process guidelines, setting format, timing and submission rules for several forthcoming work streams; staff will publish a clean version and hold a related public adoption meeting later the same day.
Deputy Director Antonio Marino of the Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety’s Electrical Infrastructure Directorate opened a public adoption meeting and said the agency would adopt the Energy Safety Policy Division process guidelines that define requirements, format, timing and other procedures used across ESPD work streams.
The guidelines will apply to specified upcoming filings, including 2024 safety culture assessments, 2025 executive compensation filings, 2025 safety certifications, and the 2026–2028 base wildfire mitigation plans. "The final Energy Safety Policy Division process guidelines are hereby adopted," Marino said during the meeting.
The guidelines consolidate shared processes such as naming conventions, submission schedules and extension requests and are organized into eight sections: introduction; schedule; extension requests; public participation; data requests from Energy Safety; data requests from stakeholders; errata; and submission requirements. Nathan (senior public utilities regulatory analyst) provided an overview of the guideline document and noted the draft was published on January 17. The agency recorded one set of written comments from GPI received February 6.
Zhenyang Xiao, senior public utilities regulatory analyst, described revisions made in response to GPI’s written comments, saying stakeholders can request designations for entire cases and that an "entity or person can request the stakeholders' designation," and that the team corrected formatting and syntax errors. The meeting opened a public-comment period with a five-minute limit per speaker; no public comments are recorded in the meeting transcript.
Staff announced next steps: a clean version of the guidelines will be published on Energy Safety’s website and on the wildfire mitigation plan (WMP) guideline docket with service to the associated service list before the close of business Monday, February 24. A separate public adoption meeting for Energy Safety’s WMP guidelines was scheduled later the same day at 1 p.m. Participants were reminded to subscribe to ESPD guideline and evaluation dockets to receive updates.
The adoption was presented as an administrative action taken under "Government code 15,475.6," cited in the meeting as the statutory authority requiring Energy Safety to adopt guidelines for exercising its powers, performing duties and meeting responsibilities. The transcript records the adoption statement but does not record a motion maker, second, or a roll-call vote.
What was decided: the Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety adopted the ESPD process guidelines as its final document and will publish a clean version and proceed with the related WMP guidelines adoption process later that day. What remains: stakeholders and interested parties must review the published clean version and the WMP guideline docket for related action and scheduling.
The meeting lasted from the first recorded remarks through adjournment and concentrated on the single agenda item of adopting and publishing the ESPD process guidelines. No additional formal votes or contested motions are recorded in the transcript.
