Mandatory Reliability Standards for the Bulk-Power System; Notice of Filing

Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to the agency docket number / agency internal file number the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Department of Energy Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Docket No. RM06-16-000] On December 1, 2006, the North American Electric Reliability Council, on behalf of its affiliate, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (collectively NERC), made an informational filing with the Commission entitled “NERC's Reliability Standards Development Plan: 2007-2009” (Work Plan). [ 1 ] NERC states that the Work Plan has been submitted to inform the Commission of NERC's program to improve the Reliability Standards that currently are the subject of the Commission's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) issued in this docket on October 20, 2006. NERC states that a portion of the Work Plan also fulfills the commitment made in its April 2006 ERO certification application to provide the Commission with a plan to address the “fill-in-the-blank” regional reliability standards. Finally, the informational filing contains a status report on the violation risk factors that NERC plans to assign to each requirement in NERC's Reliability Standards to help delineate the relative risks associated with the violation of each requirement of a Reliability Standard. The Commission stated in its October 20, 2006 NOPR that it is important that the ERO develop a detailed, comprehensive work plan to address all of the modifications that are directed pursuant to a final rule issued in this docket. The Commission believes that the Work Plan could be useful for determining such pr…