[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 241 (Friday, December 15, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 75528]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-21387]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. RM06-16-000]


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

December 8, 2006.
    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.
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    \1\ The Commission certified NERC Corporation as the Electric 
Reliability Organization (ERO) pursuant to Section 215 of the 
Federal Power Act in an order issued July 20, 2006, in Docket No. 
RR06-1-000.
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    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 prioritization and would therefore 
be informative for the final rule. The Commission also believes that 
industry comment on the Work Plan would assist in developing an 
appropriate prioritization plan.
    The Commission therefore seeks public comment on the Work Plan, 
with comments due by the January 3, 2007 to coincide with the date for 
filing comments on the October 20, 2006 NOPR.
    This filing is accessible on-line at http://www.ferc.gov, using the 
``eLibrary'' link and is available for review in the Commission's 
Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. There is an ``eSubscription'' 
link on the Web site that enables subscribers to receive e-mail 
notification when a document is added to a subscribed docket(s). For 
assistance with any FERC Online service, please e-mail 
[email protected], or call (866) 208-3676 (toll free). For 
TTY, call (202) 502-8659.

Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6-21387 Filed 12-14-06; 8:45 am]
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