1. December 7-8, 2006WECC Board1 Unique and Essential Mandatory BAL-STD-002-0 Operating Reserves IRO-STD-006-0 Qualified Path Unscheduled Flow Relief PRC-STD-001-1Certification of Protective Relay Applications and Settings PRC-STD-003-1 Protective Relay and Remedial Action Scheme Misoperation PRC-STD-005-1Transmission Maintenance TOP-STD-007-0 Operating Transfer Capability VAR-STD-002-1a Automatic Voltage Regulators VAR-STD-002-1b Power System Stabilizers

2. December 7-8, 2006WECC Board2 Elements Continuity of priority and compliance Unique and essential RMS text (some improvements could have been made but tried to stick with RMS language) All these have a 1 year sunset. All are in the standards process.

3. December 7-8, 2006WECC Board3 Other stuff The Operating Reserves standard will be likely replaced by a new standard. ORS or FRR Another standard is underway on Automatic Time Error Correction. (Issue of FERC approved NAESB standard specifying a special algorithm.) Other….

4. December 7-8, 2006WECC Board4 The vote (thus far….) Voting ClassYesNoAb Transmission Providers1570 Transmission Customers1320 State and Provincial 000 Totals2890

5. December 7-8, 2006WECC Board5 The nos Believe that there is no need for the WECC to create regional Standards. They believe all reliability Standards should be developed and approved by the NERC process. NERC Contingency Reserve restoration period is up to 105 minutes. The WECC restoration period is up to 60 minutes

6. December 7-8, 2006WECC Board6 Onward! A final tally of the OC vote will be made available to the BOD within the next several days. BOD vote via conference call on January 5, 2007 On to NERC and FERC

7. December 7-8, 2006WECC Board7 Questions? Guidance?