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Drafting Team Rosters
Status
Adopted by NERC Board of Trustees on February 8, 2005.
Purpose/Industry Need
There
are several important reasons for accelerating the transition from
existing operating policies and planning standards to a single set of
reliability standards under the ANSI-accredited process:
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The
August 14 blackout has challenged NERC and the industry to demonstrate
that its reliability standards are unambiguous and measurable – now.
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The
U.S./Canada Power System Outage Task Force final report of April 5,
2004 states in Recommendation 25: “NERC should reevaluate its
existing reliability standards development process and accelerate the
adoption of enforceable standards.”
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An
April 14, 2004 order of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
states a policy objective addressing “the need to expeditiously
modify [NERC] reliability standards in order to make these standards
clear and enforceable.”
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The
continued use of multiple formats, processes and forums for developing
and maintaining reliability rules is an inefficient dilution of
industry and staff resources.
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transition to new standards and retiring of existing operating
policies and planning standards will be too complex for industry
implementation if taken one standard at a time over several years.
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