1. NERC Reliability Standards Development Plan
Name of Presenter
Title of Presenter
Location of Meeting
Date of Meeting, 2008
Introductory statement …..

2. Overview
Three-year plan for NERC reliability standard development program
Communicates vision
Guides and coordinates reliability standards development
Prioritizes project development
Original plan created in late-2006
Current plan was finalized in October 2007
Revision for plan underway
Overview
The NERC Reliability Standards Development Plan is a three-year plan used by NERC to identify and prioritize the reliability standard development projects in the immediate three-year horizon.
It is a Dynamic (non-static/ever changing) tool used to:
Communicate the vision of NERC standards group
Guide and coordinate reliability standards development
Prioritize project development
The original plan was created in late-2006 by NERC staff.
The current plan built from the by NERC staff with input from the industry and NERC standing committees (PC/OC/CIPC/SC) and was completed in October 2007.
NERC staff is seeking wide-industry input to develop the version of the work plan.
The work plan is moving from a plan that was designed to "clean up" Version 0 standards in Order to meet the directives in FERC Order 693, to a plan that is looking forward to fill reliability-related gaps identified by NERC and its stakeholders.

3. Content Contributions
Blackout report
Comments
Version 0 standards
Other standards and standards-related projects
Missing compliance elements and risk factor teams
Regulatory orders and assessments
Ongoing industry comments/suggestions
Content Contributions
The work plan was developed to address issues raised in or by:
U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force Final Report on the August 14, 2003 Blackout in the United States and Canada: Causes and Recommendations - April 2004
FERC
FERC Staff Preliminary Assessment of the North American Electric Reliability Council’s Proposed Mandatory Reliability Standards – May 2006
FERC NOPR – October 2006
FERC Order 693 – March 2007
Comments received by NERC from
Version 0 standards
Other standards and standards-related projects
Missing compliance elements and risk factor teams
Industry input outside of standards development comment periods
NERC continues to collect suggestions and comments form industry participants and captures such suggestions and comments in a “Standards Issues Database”. These comments and suggestions are shared with the appropriate drafting teams during the standards development process.

4. Work Plan Objectives
Perform a top-to-bottom review and improvement of entire standard
Revise reliability objective, title, and purpose statement to be concise and clear
Revise applicability sections
Add specifications for entities, facilities, and responsibilities
Integrate functional model changes
Remove regional reliability organization term
Improve requirements and measures
"What functional entity shall do what, under what conditions, for what outcome“
Eliminate duplication of requirements
Refine compliance elements (violation severity levels, risk factors, time horizons, etc.)
Work Plan Objectives
When a project is initiated, it is expected that the standard drafting team assigned to the project will perform a top-to-bottom review and improvement of the standards associated with the project, including, but not limited to:
Revise reliability objective, title, and purpose statement to be concise and clear
Revise applicability sections
Add specifications for entities, facilities, and responsibilities
Integrate functional model changes
Remove regional reliability organization term
Improve requirements and measures
"What functional entity shall do what, under what conditions, for what outcome“
Each revised requirements will have a specific reliability-related objective and describe "what" rather than "how" to the extent practical
Eliminate duplication of requirements
Refine compliance elements (violation severity levels, risk factors, time horizons, etc.)
The revised standards will not look like the Version 0 standards. The revised standards will have more concise, clear, objective requirements.

5. Organization – Three Volumes
Volume I provides program overview
Volume II outlines plans for continent-wide standards
35 total continent-wide projects involving over 120 standards
8 projects initiated in 2006
14 projects initiated in 2007
3 projects proposed in 2008
9 projects proposed for 2009
1 project proposed for 2010
Volume III outlines plans for regional standards
52 total regional standards in regional projects
19 regional standards
Plus 32 regional standards to support 4 continent-wide standards
Organization of the current Work Plan
The current work plan is organized into three Volumes:
Volume I provides program overview including all the issues identified on the previous slide. For anyone interested in the standards development program I highly recommend the reading of this volume. It is only slightly more then 20 pages long and provides the basis for the focus and priorities for the program for the immediate three-year horizon.
Volume II outlines the currently known plans for development of continent-wide standards
The current plan contains 35 total continent-wide projects involving over 120 standards
8 projects initiated in 2006
14 projects initiated in 2007
3 projects proposed in 2008
9 projects proposed for 2009
1 project proposed for 2010
Volume III outlines plans for regional standards development
52 total regional standards in regional projects
19 regional standards
Plus 32 regional standards to support 4 continent-wide standards

6. 2008-2010 Plan 6 Individual Project Schedules
This slide just provides a quick reference to the volume of work facing the NERC standards development effort. It is basically a picture in time of what the then priorities of group were. As was stated early on in the presentation, this plan is an ever changing plan and evolves based on the work known at the time.
Changes will be made to priorities as new SARs and requests for interpretations are received. Someone may propose a new project that is of higher reliability-related importance, and that means another project may be delayed. Also, requests for interpretations take require resources from the standards group to reply too. While these requests on an individual basis do not consume as many resources as a regular standard revision, they still require forming a team, discussing, drafting, editing, balloting, responding to comments, etc.  6

7. Updates for Plan
Revision of current plan to create plan
Seeking input on:
Gaps
Priorities
Opportunities for Further Improvement
New Initiatives
Seeking input from:
NERC Technical Committees
Industry Organizations
Regulatory Authorities
NERC Programs and SMEs
Stakeholders
Updates for Version of the Work Plan
As stated earlier, NERC has initiated the revision to the
NERC is seeking input primarily on:
Gaps
Priorities
Opportunities for Further Improvement
New Initiatives
NERC is seeking input from:
NERC Committees – via direct meeting with staff liaisons and then the committees themselves
Industry Organizations – by sending requests to use input form (and will hold a meeting with an individual organization if requested)
Regulatory Authorities – via direct meetings and by sending requests to use input form
NERC Programs / SMEs – via direct outreach
Stakeholders – via standards workshops and by sending general announcement request and to use input form

8. Timeline for Plan
Presented to NERC SC/PC/OC/CIPC at June 2008 meetings
Solicit industry input thru mid-July 2008
Presented at NERC Standards Workshop in April 2008
Issue in June to NERC Roster seeking input
Establish webpage for accepting comments/suggestions
Complete draft Work Plan: in late-July 2008
Hold webcast in early August 2008
Discuss draft revisions to plan
Seek additional input
Finalize plan early September 2008
Request Standards Committee approval September 22, 2008
Request BOT approval October 28, 2008
File with regulatory authorities by year-end
Work Plan Revision Timeline
This same presentation was provided to the NERC standing committees at their June 2008 meetings:
Planning Committee
Operating Committee
Critical Infrastructure and Protection Committee
Standards Committee
NERC is soliciting industry input thru mid-July 2008
Presented at NERC Standards Workshop in April 2008
Issue in June to NERC Roster seeking input
Will establish webpage for accepting comments/suggestions
Complete draft Work Plan: in late-July 2008
Hold webcast in early August 2008
Discuss draft revisions to plan
Seek additional input
Finalize plan early September 2008
Request Standards Committee approval September 22, 2008
Request BOT approval October 28, 2008
File with regulatory authorities by year-end

9. Closing comments and request for questions.
Name of Presenter
Title of Presenter
Presenter contact info ( and/or phone)
Closing comments and request for questions.