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Power Act,1 Rule 207 of the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission’s
(Commission) Rules of Practice and
Procedure, 18 CFR 385.207(a)(2) (2018),
Order No. 679,2 and the Commission’s
November 15, 2012 policy statement on
transmission incentives,3 the New York
Power Authority (NYPA or Petitioner),
filed a petition for declaratory order
seeking incentive rate treatments for
NYPA’s investment in competitively
selected New York Independent System
Operator, Inc. transmission projects
needed to relieve severe and chronic
congestion between upstate and
downstate New York (AC Transmission
Needs Projects or AC Projects), as more
fully explained in the petition.
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U.S.C. 824s (2012).
Transmission Investment through
Pricing Reform, Order No. 679, 71 FR 43,294 (July
31, 2006) FERC Stats. & Regs. 31,222 (2006) (Order
No. 679), order on reh’g, Order No. 679–A, 72 FR
1152 (Jan. 10, 2007), FERC Stats & Regs. 31,236
(2006) (‘‘Order No. 679–A’’), reh’g denied, 119
FERC ¶ 61,062 (2007).
3 Promoting Transmission Investment through
Pricing Reform, 141 FERC ¶ 61,129 (2012)
(Incentives Policy Statement).
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Kimberly D. Bose,
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. RC11–6–009]
North American Electric Reliability
Corporation; Notice of Staff Review of
Enforcement Programs
Commission staff coordinated with
the staff of the North American Electric
Reliability Corporation (NERC) to
conduct the annual oversight of the
Find, Fix, Track and Report (FFT)
program, as outlined in the March 15,
2012 Order,1 and the Compliance
Exception (CE) Program, as proposed by
NERC’s September 18, 2015 annual
Compliance Filing.2 The Commission
supported NERC’s plan to coordinate
with Commission staff to review the
same sample of possible violations,
thereby reducing the burden on the
Regional Entities of providing evidence
for two different samples. Furthermore,
NERC and Commission staff agreed to
exclude the Florida Reliability
Coordinating Council Regional Entity
(FRCC) from the survey, reducing the
burden on FRCC as it focuses efforts on
a planned and approved termination of
its responsibilities as a Regional Entity.
Commission staff reviewed a sample of
27 FFT possible violations out of 47 FFT
possible violations posted by NERC
between October 2017 and September
2018 and a sample of 37 CE instances
of noncompliance out of 898 CE
instances of noncompliance posted by
NERC between October 2017 and
September 2018.
Commission staff believes that the
FFT and CE programs are meeting
expectations, with limited exceptions.
Sampling for the 2018 program year
indicated that the Regional Entities
appropriately included 63 of the 64
sampled possible violations in the FFT
and CE programs, with only one
exception, and that 62 of the 64 sampled
FFTs and CEs have been adequately
remediated, with the remaining two
FFTs to be adequately remediated once
the ongoing mitigation is completed in
the coming months. Commission staff’s
sample analysis indicated a decreasing
number of documentation concerns,
particularly with regard to the clear
identification of root cause in the FFT
and/or CE postings. Specifically, the
identification of root cause in FFTs and
CEs has improved significantly over the
past five years, moving from 38 percent
missing an identification of root cause
to all now being included in this year’s
sampling. Commission staff
subsequently reviewed the supporting
information for these FFTs or CEs and
agreed with the final risk
determinations for 62 of 64 samples.
Commission staff also noted a
significant improvement in the clear
identification of factors affecting the risk
prior to mitigation (such as potential
and actual risk), and actual harm, which
was identified in all samples. In
addition, Commission staff noted that
the FFTs and CEs sampled did not
contain any material misrepresentations
by the registered entities.
Dated: August 12, 2019.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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1 North
American Electric Reliability Corp., 138
FERC 61,193, at P 73 (2012) (discussing
Commission plans to survey a random sample of
FFTs submitted each year to gather information on
how the FFT program is working).
2 North American Electric Reliability Corp.,
Docket No. RC11–6–004, at 1 (Nov. 13, 2015)
(delegated letter order) (stating NERC’s intention to
combine the evaluation of Compliance Exceptions
with the annual sampling of FFTs to further
streamline oversight of the FFT and compliance
exception programs).
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. RC11-6-009]
North American Electric Reliability Corporation; Notice of Staff
Review of Enforcement Programs
Commission staff coordinated with the staff of the North American
Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) to conduct the annual oversight
of the Find, Fix, Track and Report (FFT) program, as outlined in the
March 15, 2012 Order,\1\ and the Compliance Exception (CE) Program, as
proposed by NERC's September 18, 2015 annual Compliance Filing.\2\ The
Commission supported NERC's plan to coordinate with Commission staff to
review the same sample of possible violations, thereby reducing the
burden on the Regional Entities of providing evidence for two different
samples. Furthermore, NERC and Commission staff agreed to exclude the
Florida Reliability Coordinating Council Regional Entity (FRCC) from
the survey, reducing the burden on FRCC as it focuses efforts on a
planned and approved termination of its responsibilities as a Regional
Entity. Commission staff reviewed a sample of 27 FFT possible
violations out of 47 FFT possible violations posted by NERC between
October 2017 and September 2018 and a sample of 37 CE instances of
noncompliance out of 898 CE instances of noncompliance posted by NERC
between October 2017 and September 2018.
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\1\ North American Electric Reliability Corp., 138 FERC 61,193,
at P 73 (2012) (discussing Commission plans to survey a random
sample of FFTs submitted each year to gather information on how the
FFT program is working).
\2\ North American Electric Reliability Corp., Docket No. RC11-
6-004, at 1 (Nov. 13, 2015) (delegated letter order) (stating NERC's
intention to combine the evaluation of Compliance Exceptions with
the annual sampling of FFTs to further streamline oversight of the
FFT and compliance exception programs).
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Commission staff believes that the FFT and CE programs are meeting
expectations, with limited exceptions. Sampling for the 2018 program
year indicated that the Regional Entities appropriately included 63 of
the 64 sampled possible violations in the FFT and CE programs, with
only one exception, and that 62 of the 64 sampled FFTs and CEs have
been adequately remediated, with the remaining two FFTs to be
adequately remediated once the ongoing mitigation is completed in the
coming months. Commission staff's sample analysis indicated a
decreasing number of documentation concerns, particularly with regard
to the clear identification of root cause in the FFT and/or CE
postings. Specifically, the identification of root cause in FFTs and
CEs has improved significantly over the past five years, moving from 38
percent missing an identification of root cause to all now being
included in this year's sampling. Commission staff subsequently
reviewed the supporting information for these FFTs or CEs and agreed
with the final risk determinations for 62 of 64 samples. Commission
staff also noted a significant improvement in the clear identification
of factors affecting the risk prior to mitigation (such as potential
and actual risk), and actual harm, which was identified in all samples.
In addition, Commission staff noted that the FFTs and CEs sampled did
not contain any material misrepresentations by the registered entities.
Dated: August 12, 2019.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-17723 Filed 8-16-19; 8:45 am]
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