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But we also know there is go 95 and we work under that and that kind of sets our protocols for our routine patrols and inspections. In urban environments like San Francisco, we look at every pole every year. We do an inspection of that pole. We visually identify safety and reliability issues. If there are attachments on the poles, we will make sure there is poleloading calculations. Then we have our pg e pole inspection routine program. Thats an inspection we do for everybody. And then every fiv...

Now, it is hot and dry. Though it is getting a bit late in the season, folks near salinas on the evidence of a scary but muchneeded preplanned controlled burn to read a high fire prone area of grass, brush and debris that could promote the destructive runway wildfires. We are looking at doing statewide, increasing when possible, the areas that we do burns. I believe this last year, we have done approximately 15 to 20,000 acres of burns. The bulk of those are occurring on private lands. Reporter ...

For overhead line design, construction, and maintenance. Of course as you heard earlier, this was developed over years of workshops and reviews and collaboration between all of the utilities. So on this slide, im just kind of going over the attachments and what we do. At t is attached to approximately 26,000 poles in San Francisco. Now, of those, 2,000 are solely owned by at t. The majority we are coowners with pg e and you heard a little bit about that earlier. Our inspections as far as mainten...

Inspections. In urban environments like San Francisco, we look at every pole every year. We do an inspection of that pole. We visually identify safety and reliability issues. If there are attachments on the poles, we will make sure there is poleloading calculations. Then we have our pg e pole inspection routine program. Thats an inspection we do for everybody. And then every five years we do a detailed inspection of poles and all the associated equipment. For facilities located underground, we d...

Of course as you heard earlier, this was developed over years of workshops and reviews and collaboration between all of the utilities. So on this slide, im just kind of going over the attachments and what we do. At t is attached to approximately 26,000 poles in San Francisco. Now, of those, 2,000 are solely owned by at t. The majority we are coowners with pg e and you heard a little bit about that earlier. Our inspections as far as maintenance and inspections and protocols, our techs are require...

Supervisor fewer okay. So our inspection and Maintenance Plan is kind of covered here. We also follow all the regulations that are used throughout the state of california. So we stay with we comply with all the state and federal regulations, and its our interest of course to keep our customers and workers safe and to keep our services reliable. This slide shows you all of the different rules that we work under. Theres this is just a partial list of the most important and most relevant to this di...

Collaboration between all of the utilities. So on this slide, im just kind of going over the attachments and what we do. At t is attached to approximately 26,000 poles in San Francisco. Now, of those, 2,000 are solely owned by at t. The majority we are coowners with pg e and you heard a little bit about that earlier. Our inspections as far as maintenance and inspections and protocols, our techs are required to inspect the infrastructure for safety issues every single time they touch our equipmen...

Efficiency of that line depends on where its geographically located. Do you guys voluntarily underground or are you doing it when were requesting it . Is it. I couldnt rightly say because we do have more lines underground here in San Francisco than not, but we work with our regulator, the cpuc, to decide if lines go underground or not. You dont know the answer . No, i can get back to you. If you voluntarily do it, its usually when we request it on the city side. Youre not voluntarily underground...

Our meeting will come to order consistent with policies to start on time. Well be doing that. Good morning today were considering the nomination of mark esper to be secretary of defense. We thank all for being here today. We anticipate doing your opening remarks, dr. Esper, introduce any members of your family here and other support groups. It is standard we have the eight required questions to respond to audibly to get that in record. Adhere to laws governing conflict of interest. Yes, sir. Ass...

Marshall, who became a virginian, like dr. Esper. He spent the majority of his life in the armed service, the u. S. Military academy at west point. He continued through his carrier in the Army Active Guard reserve, service to the white house, service to this body. In fact, dr. Esper has seen it all as an active guard and reserve member. Work in the private sector, think tanks on National Security policy, service to house and senate committees, service to individual senators, and service to repub...