8654.15.
(a) For purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings:(1) A “critical facility” means any building, structure, or complex that in the event of a disaster, whether natural or manmade, poses a threat to public safety, including, but not limited to, airports, oil refineries, and nuclear and conventional fuel powerplants.
(2) “Electrical corporation” has the same meaning as defined in Section 218 of the Public Utilities Code.
(3) “Local publicly owned electric utility” has the same meaning as defined in Section 224.3 of the Public Utilities Code.
(4) “Office” means the Office of Emergency Services.
(5) “Program” means the Community Power Resiliency Program.
8654.16.
(a) (1) The Community Power Resiliency Program is hereby established, to be administered by the office, to support local government efforts to improve resiliency in response to deenergization events by electrical corporations or local publicly owned electric utilities.(2) 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.
8654.17.
(a) The office shall allocate funds, pursuant to any future appropriation by the Legislature, to counties on a noncompetitive basis, to be divided between all counties based upon the population. Counties shall use at least 50 percent of the allocation to support community power resiliency for one or more of the following priority areas:(1) Schools.
(2) Elections offices.
(3) Food storage reserves.
(4) COVID-19 testing sites.
(5) Traffic signals and street lamps.
(b) The office shall allocate funds, pursuant to any future appropriation by the Legislature, 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. Grant recipients are encouraged to allocate funds to one or more of the following priority areas:
(1) Schools.
(2) Elections offices.
(3) Food storage reserves.
(4) COVID-19 testing sites.
(5) Traffic signals and street
lamps.
(c) The office shall allocate funds, pursuant to any future appropriation by the Legislature, to special districts on a competitive basis. Special districts shall be eligible to apply for grants of up to $300,000 if the special district has an identified critical facility or facilities, or if it provides critical infrastructure, pursuant to the deenergization guidelines adopted by the California Public Utilities Commission.
(d) The office shall allocate funds, pursuant to any future appropriation by the Legislature, 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) All entities applying for funding 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) Provide an attestation that power outages, whether resulting from power shut off events or for any other reason, will be included the next time the local or tribal government revises any portion of its emergency plan.