Reliability Standards

EOP Violation Severity Levels Revisions (Project 2008-08)

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Status
The Standards Committee is posting the first draft of a SAR to revise Violation Severity Levels in EOP standards beginning April 18, 2008. 

Purpose/Industry Need

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in its Order on Compliance Filing dated June 7, 2007, directed NERC to replace the “Levels of Non-compliance” with “Violation Severity Levels” (VSLs) in the 83 previously approved reliability standards by March 1, 2008. Project 2007-23 Violation Severity Levels was initiated to respond to FERC’s directive.

VSLs define the degree to which compliance with a requirement or sub-requirement was not achieved. As set forth in the NERC Sanction Guidelines, VSLs are considered in conjunction with Violation Risk Factors to determine the base penalty range for a violation of a reliability standard requirement or sub-requirement. Revising the VSLs for the 8 EOP standards in question will enable the ERO’s Sanctions Guidelines to be used as designed for these standards.

Revise the VSLs for the eight EOP standards that were not approved in the balloting process for Project 2007-23 in support of stakeholder comments submitted during the balloting process.

• EOP-001-0     Emergency Operations Planning

• EOP-002-1     Capacity and Energy Emergencies

• EOP-003-1     Load Shedding Plans

• EOP-004-1     Disturbance Reporting

• EOP-005-1     System Restoration Plans

• EOP-006-1     Reliability Coordination ― System Restoration

• EOP-008-0     Plans for Loss of Control Center Functionality

• EOP-009-0     Documentation of Blackstart Generating Unit Test Results