1. Tier One Standards Update Steve Rueckert Director – Standards and Compliance Joint Guidance Committee Meeting January 23-24, 2007 Salt Lake City, Utah

2. Timeline OC e-mail ballot Sent to NERC on December 22 Requested NERC posting for stakeholder review WECC BOD approval on January 5, 2007 NERC identified concerns and indicated they would not post or forward to their BOT WECC and NERC held a conference call the first week of January NERC must post for review

3. Timeline NERC posted on January 10 45 day stakeholder comment period Comments due February 26 Will not be included on NERC February 12 BOT agenda NERC may call a special BOT meeting to approve if requested

4. NERC Issues Sanction Table Not consistent with NERC Penalties and Sanction Guidelines or Commission direction No violation risk factors No violation severity factors Eight pages of standard specific concerns

5. Next Steps WECC develop responses to stakeholder comments as they come in Urge WECC region to submit positive comments during the comment period NERC will submit concerns as comments and/or provide information to BOT NEED TO DEVELOP RESPONSE TO NERC ISSUES