OAR 860-024-0060
Definitions for Public Safety Power Shutoff

(1) “CAP” refers to the Common Alerting Protocol and the methods of delivering emergency messages from one source to all properly coded stations simultaneously, via internet connections to the CAP server. Oregon uses the server provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
(2) “Critical Facilities” refers to facilities and infrastructure that are essential to the public safety and that require additional assistance and advance planning to ensure resiliency during a Public Safety Power Shutoff. Critical Facilities may include the following: Communication infrastructure (e.g. wireless towers and support infrastructure, communication carrier infrastructure including selective routers, central offices, head ends, cellular switches, and remote terminals); Emergency Services (e.g. police stations, fire stations, emergency operations centers, public safety answering points (PSAPs)); Government Facilities (e.g. schools, jails, and prisons); Healthcare and Public Health (e.g. public health departments, and medical facilities including hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, nursing homes, blood banks, health care facilities, dialysis centers, and hospice facilities); Key Grid Interdependencies (e.g. public and private utility facilities vital to maintaining or restoring normal service, including, but not limited to, interconnected publicly-owned utilities and electric cooperatives); Fueling Systems (e.g. fuel pumping and dispensing for vehicles or into containers for generators, electric vehicle charging stations); Water and Wastewater Systems (e.g. facilities associated with the provision of drinking water or processing of wastewater including facilities used to pump, divert, transport, store, treat, and deliver water or wastewater); and Chemical (e.g. facilities associated with the provision of manufacturing, maintaining, or distributing hazardous materials and chemicals).
(3) “Electric Utility” means an investor-owned electric utility subject to Oregon Public Utility Commission jurisdiction.
(4) “Emergency Response Provider” includes federal, state, and local governmental and nongovernmental public safety, fire, law enforcement, emergency response, emergency medical services providers (including hospital emergency facilities), and related personnel, agencies, and authorities.
(5) “ESF-12” refers to Emergency Support Function-12 and indicates the Commission’s role in supporting the State Office of Emergency Management for energy utilities issues during an emergency.
(6) “First Responder” refers to those individuals who, in the early stages of an incident, are responsible for the protection and preservation of life, property, evidence, and the environment, including emergency response providers.
(7) “Public Safety Partners” refers to emergency responders at the local, state, and federal level, water, wastewater and communication service providers, energy providers (electricity, natural gas, fuels), County Emergency Managers, and members of the Oregon Emergency Response System Council (OERS).
(8) “Public Safety Power Shutoff” is a proactive de-energization of a portion of an Electric Utility’s electrical network, based on the forecasting of and measurement of extreme wildfire weather conditions.
(9) “Vulnerable Populations” consists of individuals who have developmental or intellectual disabilities, physical disabilities, chronic conditions, injuries, limited English proficiency or who are non-English speaking, older adults, children, people living in congregate care or institutionalized settings, or those who are low income, experiencing homelessness, unhoused, or unsheltered, or transportation disadvantaged, including, but not limited to, those who are dependent on public transit. Vulnerable Populations also includes individuals who have elected to identify to an electric utility as a person whose safety may be materially impacted by a Public Safety Power Shutoff.

Source: Rule 860-024-0060 — Definitions for Public Safety Power Shutoff, https://secure.­sos.­state.­or.­us/oard/view.­action?ruleNumber=860-024-0060.

860–024–0000
Applicability of Division 24 860–024–0001
Definitions for Safety Standards 860–024–0005
Maps and Records 860–024–0007
Location of Underground Facilities 860–024–0010
Construction, Operation, and Maintenance of Electrical Supply and Communication Lines 860–024–0011
Inspections of Electric Supply and Communication Facilities 860–024–0012
Prioritization of Repairs by Operators of Electric Supply Facilities and Operators of Communication Facilities 860–024–0015
Ground Return 860–024–0016
Minimum Vegetation Clearance Requirements 860–024–0017
Vegetation Pruning Standards 860–024–0020
Gas Pipeline Safety 860–024–0021
Liquefied Natural Gas Safety 860–024–0025
Steam Heat — Construction, Operation, and Maintenance of Steam and Hot Water Transmission and Distribution Systems 860–024–0050
Incident Reports 860–024–0060
Definitions for Public Safety Power Shutoff 860–024–0070
Requirement to Notify for Public Safety Power Shutoff 860–024–0080
Procedure for Notification for Public Safety Power Shutoff 860–024–0090
Required Information in Notifications in Advance of and Directly Preceding a De-Energization Event for Public Safety Power Shutoff 860–024–0100
Points of Contact for Public Safety Power Shutoff 860–024–0110
Methods for Communicating De-Energization Event with the Public for Public Safety Power Shutoff 860–024–0120
Coordination with Public Safety Partners Before and During a De-Energization Event for Public Safety Power Shutoff 860–024–0130
Coordination with Emergency Response Centers and Incident Command Systems for Public Safety Power Shutoff 860–024–0140
Request to Delay De-Energization for Public Safety Power Shutoff 860–024–0150
De-Energization of Transmission Lines for Public Safety Power Shutoff 860–024–0160
Reporting Requirements for Public Safety Power Shutoff
Last Updated

Jun. 8, 2021

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