NPCC REGIONAL STANDARDS COMMITTEE

AGENDA FOR MEETING #15-2

April22, 2015 10:00 a.m. –5:00 p.m.EST

April 23, 2015 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. EST

Dominion Resources Services, Inc. Office

120 Tredegar St

Richmond, Virginia USA

Attire: Business Casual

Dial-In: 415-655-0003 (USA) / 416-915-6530 (Canada)Guest Code: 28840965

For Reference:

Glossary of Terms Used in NERC Reliability Standards, dated March 3, 2015

NPCC Glossary of Terms, dated January 18, 2012

Introductions and Chair’s Remarks

NPCC Antitrust Compliance Guidelines

Agenda Items:

1.0Review of Agenda

2.0RSC Meeting Minutes

2.1Approval of Minutes: Final Meeting Minutes 2-18-15

3.0Drafting Team Members and Executive Tracking Summary

3.1NPCC Members on NERC Drafting Teams

3.2Executive Tracking Summary

3.3NERC Project Tracking Spreadsheet

4.0Open Action Items

4.1Open Action Items List

5.0Items Requiring RSC Discussion / Approval

5.1NERC Weekly Standards Bulletin

5.2NPCC RCC Meeting Minutes

5.3NERC Bulk Electric System Update

5.4Primary RSC Members can’t serve as Alternates in other sectors

5.5Renegotiation of Regional Delegation Agreements

5.6Validation Testing of Minimum Vegetation Clearance Distances

5.7NYPA Comments on CIP-002-5.1 Lessons Learned

5.8Review of the Documents on RSC NPCC Website

6.0NERC Reliability Standards

6.1Currently Posted Projects

Project / Comment Period End Date / Ballot Period
End Date / Standards Developer / 4/22/15
Call-In
Project 2014-04 Physical Security / Stephen Crutchfield / 1:15PM
Project 2007-06 System Protection Coordination / 5/15/15
(F) / 5/15/15
(A) / Al McMeekin / 1:30PM
​Project 2015-02 Emergency Operations Periodic Review / 5/11/15
(I) / Laura Anderson / 1:45PM
Comments: (I) – Informal; (F) – Formal
Ballots: (I) – Initial; (A) – Additional; (F) – Final

6.2Ballot History (Since last RSC Meeting)

6.3Comment Form History (Since last RSC Meeting)

7.0NERC Drafting Team Nominations

7.1Currently Posted Drafting Team Vacancies

7.1.1None at this time

7.2Closed Drafting Team Nominations (Since last RSC Meeting)

7.2.1None at this time

7.3Solicitation For Informal Development Teams

7.3.1None at this time

8.0NPCC Regional Reliability Standards*

8.1Current Activities: RSAR for Disturbance Monitoring Standard PRC-002-NPCC-01

8.2Activities on Hold: Regional Standard BAL-002-NPCC-01: Regional Reserve Sharing

9.0NPCC Non-Standards*

9.1Directories:

9.1.1Directory #1 Design and Operation of the Bulk Power System (Status of CO7/CP11 Review).

Current Status and follow –up on Mr. Dunbar’s 1/26/15 email message to the RSC (List of ERO Standards in each Directory).

9.1.2Directory#3 Maintenance Criteria BPS – (Retirement Approved on 10/15/2014 effective April 1st, 2015).

9.1.3Directory#7 SPS (Status of NERC RAS)

9.1.4Directory#9 and #10 Generator Verification (status of TFCO Review)

9.1.5Directory#4 System Protection Criteria (status of TFSP Review)

10.0RSC Member Items of Interest

10.1RSC Roster*

11.0Standards Activity Post NERC BOT Approval*
(Since last RSC Meeting)

11.1NERC Filings to FERC

11.2FERC Orders / Rules

11.3Federal Register

11.4FERC Sunshine Act Meeting Notice

11.5FERC Open Meeting Summaries

12.0NERC Meetings

12.1Standards Committee (SC)

January 21st- Call / February 18th - Call / March 11th - Meeting
April 15th - Call / May 20th - Call / June 10th - Meeting
July 15th - Call / August 19th - Call / September 23rd Meeting
October 21st - Call / November 18th - Call / December 9th- Meeting

12.2Standards Committee Process Subcommittee (SCPS)

12.3Standards Committee Project Management and Oversight Subcommittee (PMOS)

12.4Member Representatives Committee (MRC) Meeting

12.5Board of Trustees (BOT) Meeting

12.6Reliability Issues Steering Committee (RISC)

13.0NERC Compliance Tools (Since last RSC Meeting)

13.1Compliance Analysis Reports (CARs)

13.1.1There have not been any CARs posted since the last RSC meeting

14.0NERC Items of Interest (Since last RSC Meeting)

14.1Lessons Learned

14.1.1Two newLessons Learned have been issued since the last RSC meeting.

14.2Alerts

14.2.1There has been no newNERC Alertreleased since the last RSC meeting.

14.3Five Year ERO Performance Assessment

15.0Other Items of Interest

15.12015 Regional Entity Business Plans and Budgets

15.2NPCC Compliance Committee (CC)

January 14th – Call / February 18th – Call / March 17-18th Meeting
April 15th – Call / May 13th – Call / May 19-21stWorkshop
June 16-17th Meeting / July 15th – Call / August 19th – Call
September 22-23rd Meeting / October 14th – Call / November 10-12th Workshop
December 3-4th Meeting

15.3NPCC Board of Directors Meeting (BOD)

February 3rd-4th Meeting / March 25th – Call / April 29th Meeting
June 4th – Call / June 25th Meeting / August 5th - Call
September 8th-9th Meeting / October 28th – Call / December 2nd Meeting

16.0Future RSC Meetings and Conference Calls

16.1RSC 2015 Meeting Dates

February 18th-19th, 2015 NextEra Energy Offices, Juno Beach FL
April 22th & 23th, 2015 Dominion Offices, Richmond VA
June 23rd & 24th, SaratogaNY
October 7th8th, Montreal Quebec
December 3rd & 4th, Albany NY

16.2RSC 2015Conference Call Schedule (calls can be scheduled as needed)
all Calls are planned to start at 10:00 a.m. (call: 415-655-0003 (USA) / 416-915-6530 (Canada), Guest Code 29086775)

January 16 / January 30 / February 13
March 6 / March 20 / April 2
May 1 / May 15 / May 29
June 12 / July 10 / July 23
August 14 / August 28 / September 11
September 25 / October 23 / November 6
November 20 / December 18

Respectfully Submitted,

Guy V. Zito, Chair RSC

Assistant Vice President-Standards

Northeast Power Coordinating Council, Inc.

Northeast Power Coordinating Council, Inc. (NPCC)

Antitrust Compliance Guidelines

It is NPCC’s policy and practice to obey the antitrust laws and to avoid all conduct that unreasonably restrains competition. The antitrust laws make it important that meeting participants avoid discussion of topics that could result in charges of anti-competitive behavior, including: restraint of trade and conspiracies to monopolize, unfair or deceptive business acts or practices, price discrimination, division of markets, allocation of production, imposition of boycotts, exclusive dealing arrangements, and any other activity that unreasonably restrains competition.

It is the responsibility of every NPCC participant and employee who may in any way affect NPCC’s compliance with the antitrust laws to carry out this commitment.

Participants in NPCC activities (including those participating in its committees, task forces and subgroups) should refrain from discussing the following throughout any meeting or during any breaks (including NPCC meetings, conference calls and informal discussions):

  • Industry-related topics considered sensitive or market intelligence in nature that are outside of their committee’s scope or assignment, or the published agenda for the meeting;
  • Their company’s prices for products or services, or prices charged by their competitors;
  • Costs, discounts, terms of sale, profit margins or anything else that might affect prices;
  • The resale prices their customers should charge for products they sell them;
  • Allocating markets, customers, territories or products with their competitors;
  • Limiting production;
  • Whether or not to deal with any company; and
  • Any competitively sensitive information concerning their company or a competitor.

Any decisions or actions by NPCC as a result of such meetings will only be taken in the interest of promoting and maintaining the reliability and adequacy of the bulk power system.

Any NPCC meeting participant or employee who is uncertain about the legal ramifications of a particular course of conduct or who has doubts or concerns about whether NPCC’s antitrust compliance policy is implicated in any situation should call NPCC’s Secretary, RutaSkučas, Esq. at 1-202-470-6428.