Notice2023-19992
North American Electric Reliability Corporation; Notice of Staff Review of Enforcement Programs
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September 15, 2023
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Energy DepartmentFederal Energy Regulatory Commission
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 178 (Friday, September 15, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63564-63565]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-19992]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. RC11-6-015]
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 and
accepted by delegated letter order.\2\
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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) (accepting
NERC's proposal to combine the evaluation of CEs with the annual
sampling of FFTs).
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Commission staff reviewed a sample of 34 of 223 FFTs and 31 of 946
CEs posted by NERC between October 2021 and September 2022.
Commission staff found that the FFT and CE programs are meeting
expectations, with limited exceptions. All 65 FFTs and CEs have been
adequately remediated and the root cause of each noncompliance was
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clearly identified. Commission staff also reviewed the supporting
information for these FFTs or CEs and agreed with the final risk
determinations for all 65 noncompliances, which clearly identified the
factors affecting the risk prior to mitigation (such as potential and
actual risk) and actual harm. Further, no FFTs or CEs sampled contained
any material misrepresentations by the registered entities. Commission
staff found that the Regional Entities appropriately identified 64 of
the 65 noncompliances as appropriate to be processed as FFTs and CEs.
Nevertheless, there was one identified instance where an FFT would have
been more appropriately processed as a spreadsheet notice of penalty.
Staff also noted in three instances that the posted description of the
noncompliances were incomplete or had minor errors.
Dated: September 11, 2023.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2023-19992 Filed 9-14-23; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717-01-P
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