[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 84 (Wednesday, May 1, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18527-18528]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-08792]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. AD19-12-000]


Security Investments for Energy Infrastructure Technical 
Conference; Notice Inviting Post-Technical Conference Comments

    On Thursday, March 28, 2019, the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission and the United States Department of Energy convened a 
Commissioner- and DOE senior official-led technical conference to 
discuss current cyber and physical security practices used to protect 
energy infrastructure and to explore how Federal and State authorities 
can provide incentives and cost recovery for security investments in 
energy infrastructure, particularly for the electric and natural gas 
sectors.
    Specifically, the technical conference was aimed at better 
understanding (1) the types of cyber and physical security threats to 
energy infrastructure, particularly electric transmission, generation, 
and natural gas pipelines; (2) the need for security investments that 
go beyond those measures already required by mandatory reliability 
standards, including in infrastructure not subject to those standards 
(e.g., natural gas pipelines); (3) how the costs

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of such investments are or could be recovered; and (4) whether 
additional incentives for making such investments are needed, and if 
so, how those incentives should be designed.
    All interested persons are invited to file post-technical 
conference comments on the topics discussed during the technical 
conference, including the questions listed in the Supplemental Notices 
issued in this proceeding on March 1, 2019 and March 21, 2019. 
Commenters need not respond to all questions asked. Commenters should 
organize responses consistent with the numbering of the questions in 
the Supplemental Notices and identify to what extent their responses 
are generally applicable. Commission staff may post additional follow-
up questions related to those panels if deemed necessary. In addition, 
commenters are encouraged, when possible, to provide specific examples 
and data in support of their answers. Comments must be submitted on or 
before 30 days from the date of this notice and should not exceed 30 
pages.
    For further information about this Notice, please contact: Carolyn 
R. Templeton, Office of Energy Infrastructure Security, Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426, (202) 
502-8785, [email protected].

    Dated: April 25, 2019.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-08792 Filed 4-30-19; 8:45 am]
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