Wildfire Mitigation Plan Guidelines

Pursuant to Government Code section 15475.6, the Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety (Energy Safety) hereby releases for public comment the following draft guidelines on the electrical corporations’ Wildfire Mitigation Plan (WMP) submittals (Package 2). These guidelines establish requirements that will apply after adoption and beginning with the 2026-2028 Base WMP submittals.
The Draft WMP Guidelines (Package 2) includes the draft Electrical Corporation Wildfire Mitigation Maturity Model and Survey Guidelines. The guidelines establish the quantitative method to assess electrical corporation’s wildfire risk mitigation capabilities and examine how electrical corporations propose to continually improve in key areas of their WMPs.

Energy Safety Documents

• Draft WMP Guidelines Package 2 (Maturity Model and Survey Guidelines) – 2/10/25
• Draft WMP Guidelines – Package 2 (Maturity Survey) – 2/10/25
• Revised Draft WMP Guidelines – Package 1 – 1/17/25
• Draft Energy Safety Policy Division Process Guidelines – 1/17/25

Public Comment

Stakeholders and members of public are invited to provide written comments on the Draft WMP Guidelines (Package 2).
Opening comments will be accepted through March 3, 2025, 5:00 p.m. Reply comments will be accepted through March 12, 2025, 5:00 p.m.
Comments must be submitted to the Wildfire Mitigation Plan Guidelines docket (#WMP-Guidelines) and titled “[Commenter Name] Comments on the Draft WMP Guidelines – Package 2.”
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Energy Safety herein provides a comparative redline document showing the differences between the Draft WMP Guidelines and the Revised Draft WMP Guidelines as well as a clean document copy. Stakeholders are invited to provide written comments only on Energy Safety’s revisions to the Draft WMP Guidelines. Energy Safety will not consider written comments that are unrelated to these revisions.

Opening comments on the revisions will be accepted through February 6, 2025, 5:00 p.m. Reply comments will be accepted through February 18, 2025, 5:00 p.m.

Comments must be submitted to the Wildfire Mitigation Plan Guidelines docket (#WMP-Guidelines) and titled “[Commenter Name] Comments on the Revised Draft WMP Guidelines.”

Energy Safety herein provides the draft Energy Safety Policy Division Process Guidelines for public review and comment.

Opening comments will be accepted through February 6, 2025, 5:00 p.m. Reply comments will be accepted through February 18, 2025, 5:00 p.m.

Comments must be submitted to the Wildfire Mitigation Plan Guidelines docket (#WMP-Guidelines)1 and titled “[Commenter Name] [Opening/Reply] comments on the Policy Division Process Guidelines.”

Question and Answer Session

Energy Safety will host a virtual question-and-answer (Q&A) session for the Draft WMP Guidelines (Package 2) before the comment period closes. The Q&A session will be remote only. Energy Safety will release information on how to participate in the session and the Maturity Survey response submission schedule at a later date.