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 equipment. So if you are running around San Francisco, you see our trucks everywhere. So we are constantly doing these evaluations. They actually call it a tzone inspection that they need to do, where they look up the pole and then they look both directions as far as the ooi can see just to notice if there are any irregularities or anything that needs to be repaired and they are empowered to repair that on site or file a report immediately. Go 95 also lays out a timeline that you heard earlier for routi
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 undergrounding . We voluntarily underground our transmission lines. Do you want to take that one . Im the rule 28 program manager. The rule 28 is set up so that requests from cities and counties can come into pg e and other utilities to convert overhead lines to underground and the tariff permits the allocation of work credits. Cities and counties accrue these work credits very much like Airline Miles and redeem these credits for future undergrounding credits when they have a sufficient number of work cred
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Operations budget for the state department and the u. S. Agency for International Development. Committee members asked about the high number of personnel vacancies within the department and hiring from a diverse pool of candidates. This is about an hour and a half. The subcommittee will come to order. We meet today to discuss the state department and u. S. I. D. Fy 2020 operations budget. Without objection, all members may have five days to submit statements, questions, extraneous materials for the record, subject to the length limitations in the rules. Ill now make my opening statement, and then turn it over to the Ranking Member for his opening statement. Ive noticed that the republicans are a little bit faster getting over here after votes. I want to thank the Ranking Member mr. Zeldin members of the subcommittee and our witnesses for joining us for todays hearing for the fiscal year 2020 operations budget, also want to thank the witnesses for being accommodating knowing that our vo
Officials tell you what they believe you need to know. So they undermine your popularity. Part of russian president Vladimir Putins callin program. You can watch that online at cspan. Org. Search putin. We take you back to the allday forum on u. S. south korea relations hosted by the center for strategic and International Studies. They are getting back underway. Live coverage here on cspan3. Thank you for all the jobs that you have done over the past decade now. Probably seems like its going quickly. But for us journalists, i am a reporter at the Washington Post. Victor and the korea chair have been a valuable, valuable resource both, obviously, in the past few years, but before that. I was bugging victor and others in the program quite often. Maybe many times you didnt necessarily want to be bugged. But for terrific analysis and to help sort of walk me through whats happening. I wanted to take time out to thank the korea chair for that and congratulate you for such a successful ten ye