The NERC Board of Trustees, in 2001, approved a new process to develop the standards that support the reliability of the bulk electric system in North America. The Reliability Standards Development Procedure redefines the process that was used to develop existing NERC planning standards and operating policies. Clarifications were made to the manual in 2002 and 2003 to incorporate a weighted segment voting model and to address questions raised by the American National Standards Institute. ANSI accredited NERC's standards development process in March 2003.

Reliability Standards Development Procedure
File Type	Size	Date	Description
Acrobat	440 KB	06/14/07	Reliability Standards Development Procedure Version 6.1 - Approved by the Board of Trustees on March 12, 2007
Acrobat	464 KB	11/02/06	Reliability Standards Development Procedure Version 6.0 - Adopted by the Board of Trustees on November 1, 2006
Acrobat	469 KB	08/02/06	Reliability Standards Development Procedure [Archive] Version 5.0 - Adopted by the Board of Trustees on August 2, 2006
Acrobat	443 KB	08/02/05	NERC Reliability Standards Process Manual  [Archive] Version 4.0 - Adopted by the Board of Trustees on August 2, 2005                 ANSI Reaccredits NERC 's Reliability Standards Development Process
Acrobat	168 KB	02/24/05	NERC Reliability Standards Process Manual  [Archive] Version 3.0 - Adopted by the Board of Trustees on February 8, 2005
Acrobat	742 KB	03/25/03	NERC Reliability Standards Process Manual Version 2.1 - Approved by Board of Trustees on March 11, 2003