Public Meeting Notice  GSEP Risk Assessment Working Group Tech Session #2

The Department’s GSEP Risk Assessment Working Group will convene through is several in-person technical sessions to develop proposed risk-based prioritization principles that will guide the 2026 GSEP filings this fall. In the 2025 GSEP orders, the Department established the GSEP Risk Assessment Working Group to be led by the Department’s Pipeline Safety Division. The GSEP Risk Assessment Working Group is charged with facilitating development of a more comprehensive risk-prioritization strategy and improving the transparency and consistency of risk prioritization within GSEP filings.

The technical sessions will primarily consist of targeted technical discussions between individual gas companies and the Pipeline Safety Division, focusing on their current risk assessment models and how to prioritize the highest-risk pipe for remediation. Each technical session will focus on a gas company’s individual GSEP program.

The technical sessions will consider available advanced leak repair and relining methods and examine the extent to which those technologies are, or should be, integrated into the LDCs’ GSEP filings.

The technical sessions will take place on May 27, June 30, July 30, and August 20, 2025, beginning at 9 am.

Parties wishing to participate in any of the technical sessions should email a participant list to Patrick A. Leeman, at Patrick.A.Leeman@mass.gov no later than five days prior to the technical session. If you have any questions regarding this procedural memorandum, please contact Hearing Officer Elyssa Klein, at Elyssa.Klein@mass.gov.

For more information, please see the Notice below.