Avian and Wildlife Protection Standard
Entergy Corporation
Safety, Health & Environment
Effective Date: October 7, 2011

Avian and Wildlife Protection StandardI.

STANDARD SUMMARY
This Standard provides Entergy’s basic philosophy and expectations regarding
avian protection, protection of threatened and endangered species, andconservation of legally-protected wildlife.
Primary impacts are associated with Entergy’s Utility Operations and Energy
Delivery Groups and avian species; however, the standard (except forsubsection IV(A)) applies to all of Entergy’s businesses and all species.
Please refer to the detailed Standard below and referenced documents forfurther information.

II.

Purpose and Applicability

The purpose of this standard is to define Entergy’s basic philosophy and expectations
regarding avian protection, protection of threatened and endangered species andconservation of legally-protected wildlife. This standard (except for subsection IV(A)) is
applicable to all Entergy business functions; however, primary applicability is to theelectrical power transmission and distribution assets in Utility Operations and Energy
Delivery.
III.

Details

Hundreds of species of birds and other wildlife, including many which are not“endangered” and are commonly-encountered species, are protected by the conservation
laws of the United States. For the purposes of this standard, Entergy’s primary area ofconcern is avian interactions with its electrical power transmission and distribution assets
managed by Utility Operations and Energy Delivery. Avian interactions (including, forexample, bird strikes, electrocutions, and nesting) with Entergy’s new and existing
facilities may result in avian mortalities, in violation of avian protection laws, and inpower outages. This standard is intended to promote compliance with avian protection
laws and other species conservation laws and to reduce electrical system impacts while
maintaining or improving service reliability.
IV.

Roles & Responsibilities
A. Utility Operations and Energy Delivery

Utility Operations and Energy Delivery management and employees are responsible formanaging bird interactions with Entergy power lines (and other energy delivery

Avian and Wildlife Protection Standard
Entergy Corporation
Safety, Health & Environment
Effective Date: October 7, 2011

equipment) that are not on the site of generating facilities and are committed to reducing
the detrimental effects of these interactions.
To fulfill this commitment, Entergy Utility Operations and Energy Delivery will develop
and implement an Avian Protection Plan. The Avian Protection Plan will incorporate, asappropriate, mortality reduction measures developed jointly by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service and member utilities of the Avian Power Line Interaction Committee. Thesemeasures include, but are not limited to, the following:o Proper documentation of bird mortalities and nesting problems;o Provision of information, resources, and training to improve ouremployees’ knowledge and awareness of the Avian Protection Plan;o Retrofitting or modifying power poles/lines where a protected bird has
been killed, in accordance with Avian Protection Plan standards;o Constructing new Utility Operations and Energy Delivery facilities inaccordance to Entergy’s Avian Protection Plan standards, as required; ando Participating with public and private organizations in programs andresearch, as appropriate opportunities arise, to reduce detrimental effectsof bird interactions with power lines.
Entergy’s commitment to this standard and implementation of the protection plan will
maintain or improve service reliability, reduce restoration costs (through reducedoutages), enhance compliance with applicable laws and regulations, and enhanceprotection of avian species throughout our service territory.
B. Other Operational Entergy Business Units
All of Entergy’s business functions will evaluate their impact on all wildlife as requiredby local, state, and federal law and will take measures, as required by law, to minimize
and/or eliminate this impact. For business functions operating under a Safety, Health andEnvironmental Management System (SHEMS), biodiversity and wildlife impacts must be
addressed as a part of the risk assessment requirement of the system discussed in Section
2.3 of the SH&E Functional Procedure.