8654.15.
(a) The Community Power Resiliency Program is hereby established, to be administered by the office, to support local government efforts to improve energy resiliency in response to deenergization events by electrical corporations or local publicly owned electric
utilities and to mitigate the loss of electricity occurring from any other event. power outage events.(b) The office shall also provide competitive and noncompetitive grant funding through the program to local governments, special districts, and tribes to plan and deploy energy resiliency projects that maintain energy services during a deenergization event or other power outage. service during power outage events.
8654.16.
(a) The office shall allocate funds, pursuant to any future appropriation by the Legislature, to Legislature for the purposes of this article, as follows:(1) To counties on a noncompetitive basis, to be divided between all counties based upon the population. Counties shall use grant funds to improve local power resilience to ensure that local operations and critical facilities and infrastructure can continue to operate during a deenergization event or other power outage.
power outage events.
(b)The office shall allocate funds, pursuant to any future appropriation by the Legislature, to
(2) To cities on a competitive basis. Cities shall be eligible for grants of up to three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000). The office shall give preference points to cities that did not receive a grant award from the 2019 Community Power Resiliency appropriation or the 2020 Community Power Resiliency appropriation.
(c) The office shall allocate funds, pursuant to any future appropriation by the Legislature, to
(3) To special districts on a competitive basis. Special districts shall be eligible to apply for grants of up to three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) to improve the energy resiliency of a critical facility or infrastructure operated by the special district.
(d) The office shall allocate funds, pursuant to any future appropriation by the Legislature, to
(4) To California federally
recognized tribes on a competitive basis. Tribes are eligible to apply for grants of up to two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) without specification of prioritization of funding. The office shall give preference points to tribes that did not receive a grant award from the 2019 Community Power Resiliency appropriation or the 2020
Community Power Resiliency appropriation.
(e)
(b) Before being eligible to receive funding, all entities who are required to have an emergency plan shall do either of the following:
(1) Describe the portion of their emergency plan that includes power outages, whether resulting from power shutoff events or for any other reason.
(2) Confirm that power outages, whether resulting from power shutoff events or for any other reason, will be included the
next time the local or tribal government revises any portion of its emergency plan.
(f)
(c) The office shall provide an annual report to the Assembly Committee on Emergency Management and the Senate Committee on Governmental Organization detailing,
Legislature, including, at a minimum, all of the following:
(1) The number of applications received under this program to date.
(2) The total amount requested by eligible entities to date.
(3) How the eligible entities invested grants under this program.
(4) The effectiveness and performance metrics used in carrying out this program.
(g)(1) The
(d) The office shall monitor, track, and report to the Legislature specific projects, per established protocols, to ensure timely and effective utilization of allocated funds and staff resources for the purpose of building resiliency to public safety power shutoff events or other power outages. in response to power outage events.
(2)
(e) The office shall submit the report
reports to the Legislature required by this chapter article in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.