The Office of the State Fire Marshal (OSFM) Code Development and Analysis Program staff regularly reviews Title 19 – California Code of Regulations for relevancy, necessity, conflict, duplication, and overlap. They also implement legislative mandates to develop regulations relating to fire and life safety involving the various occupancy classifications under the authority of the California State Fire Marshal. This encompasses the actual administrative processing of regulations from concept to promulgation in the California Code of Regulations.

Regulations are processed in accordance with the Administrative Procedures Act (APA). This Act promotes public participation in the development of regulations. The Code Development and Analysis Program staff work in conjunction with the State Office of Administrative Law (OAL). They also coordinate regulatory development activities with fire service organizations, State Fire Marshal advisory committees, and numerous professional and advocacy organizations.

Title 19 - Prior Rulemaking Activities

Documents Relied Upon for this rulemaking file:

1. DigAlert bylaws, revised July 2018, Exhibit https://www.digalert.org/pdfs/2018-07_bylaws.pdf

2. Initial Statement of Reasons for Z-2018-0612-05, Dig Safe Board, May 2018. (PDF)

3. Enacted State Budget, Details, Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2020-21/pdf/Enacted/GovernorsBudget/3000/3540.pdf

4. Fee calculation spreadsheet, using members, locate request transmissions, and fees assessed for the 2020 billing year, as provided by USA North 811 and DigAlert. (Excel)

5. Fee change tables, 2019 to 2020. (PDF)

6. Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2019: 43-3031 Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks. https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes433031.htm

7. Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2019: 15-1245 Database Administrators and Architects. https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151245.htm

8. Staff Report: “Update on Fee Implementation and Collection,” June 8-9, 2020. https://digsafe.fire.ca.gov/media/2386/item-4-fee-implementation-accessible.pdf

9.Staff Report: “Discussion of Dig Safe Board Regulatory Fee Implementation,” July 13-14, 2020. https://digsafe.fire.ca.gov/media/2431/item-6-discussion-of-fee-implementation.pdf

10. Staff Report: “Dig Safe Board Regulatory Fee – Draft Regulation Language,” August 10, 2020. https://digsafe.fire.ca.gov/media/2471/august-10-2020-item-5-dig-safe-board-regulatory-fee.pdf

11. Staff Report: “Dig Safe Board Fee Regulation,” September 14, 2020. https://digsafe.fire.ca.gov/media/2497/sept-14-2020-item-16-fee-regulation.pdf

12. USA North 811 bylaws, amended July 29, 2015, p. 9 https://usanorth811.org/images/pdfs/Articles_Bylaws_20150729.pdf

13. USA North 811 meeting packet, October 28, 2020, pp. 10-11 (PDF)

Documents Relied Upon:

  1. Budget Change Proposal 3540-051-BCP-2020-GB, https://esd.dof.ca.gov/Documents/bcp/2021/FY2021_ORG3540_BCP3349.pdf, accessed May 26, 2020.
  2. CalHR, “Civil Service Pay Scale – Alpha by Class Title,” https://www.calhr.ca.gov/Pay%20Scales%20Library/PS_Sec_15.pdf, accessed May 26, 2020.            
  3. California Public Utilities Commission, “Water Division,” https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/water/, accessed on May 26, 2020.             
  4. California Public Utilities Commission, “California High Cost Fund-A Program and Reports,” https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/General.aspx?id=991, accessed on May 26, 2020.
  5. Glassdoor, “Engineering Manager Salaries in California.” glassdoor.com. Accessed May 26, 2020. (PDF)
  6. U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy, “Small Business Profile: California,” https://cdn.advocacy.sba.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/25101636/California-2017.pdf, accessed on May 26, 2020.             

Documents Relied Upon:

  1. “Staff Report: Discussion on Area of Continual Excavation Ticket Renewal Requirement (Government Code section 4216.10(e)),” Agenda Item 10, February 12, 2019. 
  2. Lundell, R.A., “Pneumatic Clay Diggers Speed Sewer Tunnel Work, ”Compressed Air Magazine (1922), vol 27, no 6, accessed April 23, 2020.

Documents Relied Upon:

  1. Letter from Alan K. Mayberry to Attorney General Kamala Harris, December 22, 2015
  2. Online surveys created by the Board, which 1) operators and 2) all other stakeholders were invited to take (03/14/2019 to 04/30/2019) and the results of those two surveys.
  3. AB 1914 Bill Analysis, Assembly Floor, August 30, 2018
  4. “Staff report: AB 1914 – Initial Discussion on Scope of Implementation,” Agenda Item 7, November 8, 2018, https://digsafe.fire.ca.gov/media/2045/item-7-initial-discussion-on-ab-1914-regulations.pdf, accessed on August 29, 2019.
  5. “Staff report: Discussion on Implementation of AB 1914,” Agenda Item 4, April 15, 2019, https://digsafe.fire.ca.gov/media/2050/item-4-implementation-of-ab-1914.pdf, accessed on August 29, 2019.
  6. “Staff report: Discussion on Area of Continual Excavation Ticket Renewal Requirement (Government Code section 4216.10(e)),” Agenda Item 6, April 16, 2019, https://digsafe.fire.ca.gov/media/2046/item-6-area-of-continual-excavation-renewal-ticket-requirement.pdf, accessed on August 29, 2019.
  7. “Staff report: Draft Regulations on Area of Continual Excavation Ticket Renewal Requirement and AB 1914 Implementation,” Agenda Item 5 & 6, May 13 – 14, 2019https://digsafe.fire.ca.gov/media/2103/item-5-6-staff-report-on-draft-regulations-on-ace-renewal-and-ab-1914.pdf, accessed on August 29, 2019.
  8. Local Maintaining Agencies List, Department of Water Resources https://water.ca.gov/LegacyFiles/floodmgmt/hafoo/fpiib/fpinss/annual_reports/lma-short-names.pdf, accessed on August 29, 2019.
  9. Construction Industry Salary Information from indeed.com
  10. Contractors State Licensing Board Master License Data, https://www.cslb.ca.gov/onlineservices/dataportal/ContractorList, accessed on July 29, 2019.
  11. Dig Safe Board Policy L-02
  12. USA North 811 2018 Annual Newsletter
  13. Email from James Wingate of USA North 811 to Staff, August 5, 2019
  14. Email from Ann Diamond of DigAlert to Staff, on July 26, 2019 and August 4, 2019
  15. Hearing before the California State Senate Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development, July 2, 2018, 17:30 to 20:30 and 24:00 to 26:00
  16. U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy, 2018 Small Business Profile
  17. Staff Analysis of Contractor Small Business Statistics