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Violation Severity Levels (Project 2007-23)

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Status
For Board of Trustees approved nine sets of VSLs on February 28, 2008. 

Purpose/Industry Need 
The FERC, in the Order on Compliance Filing dated June 7, 2007 (Docket #RR06-1-007), directed NERC to replace the "Levels of Non-compliance" (in the 83 standards it approved) with "Violation Severity Levels."

NERC, as the ERO, is required to comply with FERC directives.  By replacing the existing ‘Levels of Non-compliance’ with ‘Violation Severity Levels’ the ERO’s Sanctions Guidelines can be used as designed.  The Sanctions Guidelines use ‘Violation Severity Levels’ as an element in determining the size of a sanction.

Proposed Standard Supporting
Materials
Comment 
Period
Comments
Received

Response
to Comments

Announcement

Nine sets of VSLs
For Board of Trustees Approval
February 28, 2008

VSLs for Balancing

VSLs for Critical Infrastructure, Communications, Voltage & Reactive

VSLs for Emergency Operations

VSLs for Facilities and Modeling

VSLs for Interchange, Personnel and Nuclear

VSLs for Interconnected Reliability Operations

VSLs for Protection and Control

VSLs for Transmission Operations

VSLs for Transmission Planning
       

Announcement

Nine sets of VSLs
Posted for 10-day Recirculation 
Ballot Window

VSLs for Balancing

VSLs for Critical Infrastructure, Communications, Voltage & Reactive

VSLs for Emergency Operations

VSLs for Facilities and Modeling

VSLs for Interchange, Personnel and Nuclear

VSLs for Interconnected Reliability Operations

VSLs for Protection and Control

VSLs for Transmission Operations

VSLs for Transmission Planning
  02/08/08 - 02/19/08
(closed)

10-day Recirculation Ballot Window

 

Announcement

Final Ballot Summary

Announcement

Nine sets of VSLs
Posted for Ballot Window

VSLs for Balancing

VSLs for Critical Infrastructure, Communications, Voltage & Reactive

VSLs for Emergency Operations

VSLs for Facilities and Modeling

VSLs for Interchange, Personnel and Nuclear

VSLs for Interconnected Reliability Operations

VSLs for Protection and Control

VSLs for Transmission Operations

VSLs for Transmission Planning
Violation Severity Level Development Guidelines

 

Mandatory Standards Requirements with Violation Severity Levels

01/21/08 – 1/28/08
(closed)

Ballot Window

 

 

Announcement

Initial Ballot Results

Consideration of Ballot Comments

BAL

CIP, COM, VAR

EOP

FAC, MOD

INT, PER, NUC

IRO

PRC

TOP

TPL

Announcement

VSLs for Interchange, Personnel, and Nuclear - Revised to correct VSLs for R1 and R2 in Nuclear Standard

Clean | Redline to last posted

  01/17/08 - 01/21/08
(closed)
   

Announcement

Nine sets of VSLs
Posted for 30-day Pre-ballot Review

VSLs for Balancing

VSLs for Critical Infrastructure, Communications, Voltage & Reactive

VSLs for Emergency Operations

VSLs for Facilities and Modeling

VSLs for Interchange, Personnel and Nuclear

VSLs for Interconnected Reliability Operations

VSLs for Protection and Control

VSLs for Transmission Operations

VSLs for Transmission Planning
Violation Severity Level Development Guidelines

 

Mandatory Standards Requirements with Violation Severity Levels

12/21/07 – 1/21/08
(closed)

30-day Pre-ballot Review

 

   

Announcement

NUC-001-1 with VSLs
Posted for 14-day Comment Period

Mandatory Standards Requirements for NUC-001-1 with Violation Severity Levels

NUC-001-1
Clean
| Redline to last approved

  11/13/07 - 11/26/07
(closed)

Comment Form

Comments

Consideration of Comments

Announcement

Mandatory Standards Requirements with Violation Severity Levels 
Posted for 45-day Comment Period

Violation Severity Levels Development Criteria Guidelines 10/10/07 - 11/26/07
(closed)

Comment Form

Comments

Consideration of Comments

Announcement

SAR for Replacing Levels of Noncompliance with Violation Severity Levels 
Posted for 30-day Comment Period
July 17 through August 15, 2007

Draft SAR Version 1

  07/17/07 - 08/15/07
(Closed)

Comment Form

Comments

Consideration of Comments

Announcement

Nomination Form

07/17/07 - 07/30/07
(Closed)

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