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The
Standards Committee appointed a standard drafting team and the team will
begin working on the first draft of revisions to FAC-003.
Purpose/Industry
Need
This standard shall apply
to 200 kV or higher voltage transmission lines (and lower voltage
transmission lines determined to be critical to reliability by the
Regional Reliability Councils) over which NERC has oversight.
This standard is
intended to improve the reliability of the electric transmission systems
by eliminating transmission outages from vegetation located on
transmission rights-of-way (ROW) and minimizing outages from vegetation
located adjacent to ROW, maintaining
safe clearances between transmission lines and vegetation on and along
transmission rights-of-way, and establishing a system for reporting
vegetation-related outages of the transmission systems (+200 kV) to the
respective Regional Reliability Councils and NERC.
The purpose of revising this standard is to:
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Provide
an adequate level of reliability for the North American bulk power
systems - the standard is complete and the requirements are set at
an appropriate level to ensure reliability.
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Ensure
it is enforceable as a mandatory reliability standard with financial
penalties - the applicability to bulk power system owners,
operators, and users, and as appropriate particular classes of
facilities, is clearly defined; the purpose, requirements, and
measures are results-focused and unambiguous; the consequences of
violating the requirements are clear.
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Incorporate
other general improvements described in the attached Standard Review
Guidelines
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Consider
comments received from ERO regulatory authorities and stakeholders,
as noted in the attached review sheets.
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Satisfy the standards procedure requirement for
five-year review of the standards.
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