Draft Meeting Agenda — Revised
Standards Committee
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 | 8 a.m.–5 p.m.
Thursday, January 15, 2009 | 8 a.m.–noon
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1. Administrative Items — S. Henry
a. Introductions and Quorum (Attachment 1a)
b. NERC Antitrust Compliance Guidelines (Attachment 1b)
c. Election of officers and at-large Executive Committee members [Elect]
d. Meeting Agenda
e. Waiver of 10-day rule [Approve]
2. Consent Agenda (Approve)
a. December 16–17, 2008 Minutes [Approve] (Attachment 2a)
3. Drafting Teams — D. Taylor
a. Review outstanding drafting team vacancies (Attachment 3a)
4. Standards Activities Status Report — D. Taylor
a. Status of 2007–2009 Projects (Attachments 4ai, Attachment 4aii)
i)
Project 2008-19 — Interpretation of CIP-006-1 for Progress Energy — Update on
status of interpretation
ii) Project 2006-07 — ATC/TTC/AFC and CBM/TRM Revisions — Update on response
to BOT directive relative to VRFs
5. Standards Actions — M. Long
a. SAR for Protection System Reliability — Authorize posting the SAR; determine if a
SAR drafting team is needed and if needed direct staff to solicit SAR drafting team
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nominations [Approve] (Attachment 5ai clean, 5ai redline, 5aii clean, 5aii
redline, 5aiii)
b. SAR for Revisions to FAC-008-1 and FAC-009-1 and proposed standard — Authorize
posting the SAR and standard simultaneously; appoint the requesters to serve as the
standard drafting team [Approve] (Attachment 5bi, 5bii)
6. Subcommittee Activities
a. Officers — S. Henry
Standards Committee Charter (Attachment 6ai)
ii) Subcommittee Scope Document (Attachment 6aii)
iii) Status of 2008 Goals and Review of 2009 Goals (Attachment 6aiii)
iv) Status of BOT CGHR Activities — L. Campbell
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b. Process Subcommittee — L. Campbell and B. Li
Review of Subcommittee Membership
ii) Additional Revisions to Procedures for Election of Members of the Standards
Committee [Endorse] (Attachment 6bii)
iii) Response to comments on process for handling interpretations [Approve]
(Attachment 6biii)
iv) Proposed revisions to draft process for handling interpretations [Approve]
(Attachment 6biv)
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c. Communications and Planning Subcommittee — R. Parsons
i) Review of Membership
7. Coordination Activities
a. Coordination with FERC and Other Regulatory Authorities — G. Adamski
i)
Policy Statement on Addressing FERC Directives (Attachment 7ai)
ii) Policy on Roles and Responsibilities (Attachment 7aii)
b. Coordination with Regional Managers — T. Gallagher
8. Process Issues
a. Status of filling Vacant Segment 6 Standards Committee Position — L. Koller
b. Update on TOP/GOP survey — G. Adamski
9. Executive Committee Actions — M. Long
a. Items expected to come before the Standards Committee’s Executive Committee before
the Standards Committee’s February 12, 2008 conference call meeting.
i) SAR and proposed modifications to NUC-001 — Authorize posting the SAR and
standard for comment; appoint volunteers from original NUC-001 SDT to serve as
the drafting team
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ii) Draft Report on 4th Quarter Balloting Results — Approve
iii) Project 2008-12 — Revisions to Coordinate Interchange Standards — Appoint a
standard drafting team
10. Action Items
a. Review of open action items (Attachment 10)
11. Adjourn
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1. Administrative Items
a. Introductions — Standards Committee Chair Scott Henry will lead the introduction of
committee members and determine if there is a quorum. Mr. Henry will thank the
outgoing Standards Committee members, and welcome those who were newly elected to
the committee. The current Standards Committee roster is provided in Attachment 1a.
b. NERC Antitrust Compliance Guidelines — Maureen Long will review the NERC
Antitrust Compliance Guidelines provided in Attachment 1b. It is NERC’s policy and
practice to obey the antitrust laws and to avoid all conduct that unreasonably restrains
competition. This policy requires the avoidance of any conduct that violates, or that
might appear to violate, the antitrust laws. Among other things, the antitrust laws forbid
any agreement between or among competitors regarding prices, availability of service,
product design, terms of sale, division of markets, allocation of customers or any other
activity that unreasonably restrains competition. It is the responsibility of every NERC
participant and employee who may in any way affect NERC’s compliance with the
antitrust laws to carry out this commitment.
c. Election of Officers and At-Large Executive Committee Members — S. Henry
The Standards Committee Charter requires that the Standards Committee elect its chair
and vice chair from among its members during the first regularly scheduled meeting of
each year. The Standards Committee’s nominating committee provided the following
slate of nominees:
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Chair: Scott Henry
Vice Chair: Allen Mosher
The Executive Committee Structure and Responsibilities document requires that the
Standards Committee’s elect its three at-large members no later than the end of the
second regularly scheduled Standards Committee meeting. The Standards Committee’s
nominating committee provided the following slate of nominees:
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Diane Barney
Steve Rueckert
Jim Stanton
d. Meeting Agenda — S. Henry
Scott Henry will review the meeting agenda and ask if there are any additions, deletions,
or modifications to the agenda.
e. Waiver of 10-day rule — If there are items submitted to the Standards Committee for
action with less than 10 days notice, those items cannot be added to the agenda without
the unanimous consent of the members present. If any items fall into this category Scott
Henry will ask the Standards Committee to vote on waiving the 10-day rule.
2. Consent Agenda
a. Approve the Consent Agenda
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The consent agenda allows the Standards Committee to approve routine items that would
normally not need discussion. Any Standards Committee member may ask the chair to
remove an item from the consent agenda for formal discussion.
The chair will ask the committee to approve or appoint the following from the consent
agenda:
a. December 16–17, 2008 Standards Committee Minutes
3. Drafting Teams — D. Taylor
Review Outstanding Drafting Team Vacancies
David Taylor will review the vacant drafting team positions and solicit the Standards
Committee’s assistance in identifying qualified candidates.
4. Standards Activities Status Report — D. Taylor
a. Status of 2007–2009 Projects
David Taylor will provide an update on the status of standards projects and will provide
an update on upcoming postings and an update on the status of the following activities:
Project 2008-19 — Interpretation of CIP-006-1 for Progress Energy — Update on
status of interpretation
ii) Project 2006-07 — ATC/TTC/AFC and CBM/TRM Revisions — Update on response
to BOT directive relative to VRFs
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5. Standards Actions — M. Long
a. SAR for Protection System Reliability — Authorize posting the SAR; determine if a
SAR drafting team is needed and if needed direct staff to solicit SAR drafting team
nominations
Background: The System Protection and Control Task Force (SPCTF) submitted a SAR
for the development of a standard with a set of requirements that addresses system
performance during equipment failures within protection systems. The proposed
standard would require a detailed review and analysis process to determine system
performance during certain defined protection system failures. The SPCTF developed a
technical justification for the proposed requirements, and drafted a proposed set of
requirements. The SPCTF identified three major disturbances that involved the failure
one or more elements of a protection system.
During the December 2008 Standards Committee meeting, the Standards Committee
reviewed the SAR and the supporting documents and remanded the SAR and asked the
requesters to add more details in the scope; to revise the technical paper so that specific
references to requirement numbers were replaced with the phrase, the “proposed
requirement”; add more clarity to the term “system”; and eliminate any redundancies
with the TPL standard revision effort.
The SPCTF made the proposed modifications to the SAR and technical paper.
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Request: Authorize posting the SAR and technical paper for comment.
Recommendation: The standards staff supports this request.
b. SAR for Revisions to FAC-008-1 and FAC-009-1 and Proposed Standard —
Authorize Posting the SAR and Standard Simultaneously; Appoint the requesters to
serve as the Standard Drafting Team
Background: The Facility Ratings Standard Drafting Team developed a standard that
merged FAC-008-1 and FAC-009-1 into a single standard, FAC-008-2. The standard
was balloted in the fall of 2008 and achieved a quorum and a high enough weighted
segment approval to pass, but there were negative ballots submitted with comments.
There were two central themes to the negative comments — one theme focused on
whether Generator Owners should be required to document the methodology used to rate
their facilities; the other theme focused on whether the standard should include
“Requirement R7,” a requirement that had been added solely to meet a Commission
directive, but without any obvious link to reliability. During the recirculation ballot
sufficient balloters changed their affirmative votes to negative votes to cause the ballot to
fail. Members of the Facility Ratings Standard Drafting Team developed a new SAR and
standard that proposes making the same modifications to FAC-008-1 and FAC-009-1 that
were made previously, but with the exception that the new standard does not include
“Requirement R7.”
Request: Authorize posting the SAR and proposed standard for comment; appoint the
requesters to serve as the standard drafting team.
Recommendation: The standards staff supports this request.
6. Subcommittee Activities
a. Officers — S. Henry
i) Standards Committee Charter
The Chair, Scott Henry will lead a review of the Standards Committee’s charter, with
a focus on the six areas of responsibility:
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Manage Standards Development
Manage the Standards Process
Review the Effectiveness of the Balloting Process
Coordinate with Compliance Program
Coordinate with NAESB
Coordinate with NERC Board of Trustees, Regulators and Industry Groups,
and Stakeholders
The Standards Committee has two subcommittees and an Executive Committee to
assist in meeting the above responsibilities.
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ii) Subcommittee Scope Document
The Standards Committee Subcommittee Organization and Procedures document
identifies the responsibilities of the Standards Committee’s two subcommittees and
provides a framework for the scope of work assigned to each of the subcommittees.
These subcommittees meet outside the regularly scheduled Standards Committee
meetings and bring their work to the full Standards Committee for review.
iii) Status of 2008 Goals and Review of 2009 Goals
Chair, Scott Henry will lead a review of the Standards Program’s 2008 Goals and the
Standards Committee’s contributions towards those goals. The committee will then
review the goals for 2009 with an opportunity to identify areas where the committee
should identify assign specific tasks to one of its existing or possibly a new
subcommittee, task force, or liaison.
iv) Status of BOT CGHR Activities — L. Campbell
Linda Campbell, a past chair of the Standards Committee and a member of a task
force assembled by the NERC Corporate Governance and Human Resources
Subcommittee (CGHR) to look at the standards process, will report on the January 6,
2009 BOT CGHR task force’s most recent actions. The committee will discuss
whether there is a need for the Standards Committee to take any action in response to
the CGHR’s January 6, 2009 conference call.
b. Report from Process Subcommittee — L. Campbell and B. Li
i) Review of Subcommittee Membership
The members of the subcommittee are:
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Diane Barney
Terry Bilke
Patrick Brown
Linda Campbell (co-chair)
Alice Druffel (observer)
Bob Harshbarger
David Kiguel
Ben Li (co-chair)
Steve Myers (observer)
Robert Millard
Steve Rueckert
Jason Shaver
Jim Stanton
ii) Additional Revisions to Procedures for Election of Members of the Standards
Committee
The most recent use of the subject procedure highlighted the need for two additional
changes to the procedure. The first change clarifies that the nomination process is
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used for filling not only a normal vacancy for a two-year term, but also vacancies for
one-year terms. The second change clearly states that if there are two vacant
positions (a vacancy for a one-year term and a vacancy for a two-year term) within a
single industry segment, the nominee with the greatest number of votes will be
assigned to the two-year term.
Request: Approve the proposed revisions to the Procedures for Election of
Members of the Standards Committee.
iii) Response to Comments on Process for Handling Interpretations
iv) Proposed Revisions to Draft Process for Handling Interpretations
The Process Subcommittee has responded to all the comments submitted on the draft
process for handling interpretations and made some conforming changes to the draft
process.
Request: Approve posting the response to comments and the proposed revisions to
the draft process.
c. Report from Communications and Planning Subcommittee — R. Parsons
The members of the subcommittee are:
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Larry Brusseau
Tom Davlin
Michael Gildea
Doug Hohlbaugh
Patrick W. Huntley
Ron Parsons (chair)
Raj Rana
David Schiada
7. Coordination Activities
a. Coordination with FERC and Other Regulatory Authorities — G. Adamski
Gerry Adamski will provide an update on recent regulatory activities.
i)
Policy Statement on Addressing FERC Directives — G. Adamski
Gerry Adamski will provide an update on the policy statement written by David Cook
in response to the Standards Committee’s request for clarification on the options
available to drafting teams when addressing FERC directives.
b. Coordination with Regional Managers — T. Gallagher
Tim Gallagher will provide an update on any recent standards activities that involve the
Regional Managers.
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8. Process Issues
a. Status of filling Vacant Segment 6 Standards Committee Position — L. Koller
Lauren Koller will update the Standards Committee on the results of filling the position
vacated when newly elected Shannon Black changed company affiliation.
b. Update on TOP/GOP Survey — G. Adamski
If available, Gerry Adamski will provide an update on the results of the subject survey.
9. Executive Committee Actions — M. Long
a. Items expected to come before the Standards Committee’s Executive Committee
before February12, 2009
The Standards Committee will be asked to pre-authorize the Standards Committee’s
Executive Committee to act on items ready for action before the Standards Committee’s
February 12, 2009 meeting:
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SAR and proposed modifications to NUC-001 — Authorize posting the SAR and
standard for comment; appoint volunteers from original NUC-001 SDT to serve as
the drafting team
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Draft Report on 4th Quarter Balloting Results — Approve
10. Review of Open Action Items — S. Henry
Scott Henry will review the open action items.
11. Adjourn
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