Document ID: FERC-2023-1190-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Staff Review of Enforcement Programs: North American Electric Reliability Corp.
Posted Date: 2023-09-15T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 178 (Friday, September 15, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63564-63565]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-19992]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. RC11-6-015]

North American Electric Reliability Corporation; Notice of Staff 
Review of Enforcement Programs

    Commission staff coordinated with the staff of the North American 
Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) to conduct the annual oversight 
of the Find, Fix, Track and Report (FFT) program, as outlined in the 
March 15, 2012 Order,\1\ and the Compliance Exception (CE) Program, as 
proposed by NERC's September 18, 2015 annual Compliance Filing and 
accepted by delegated letter order.\2\
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    \1\ North American Electric Reliability Corp., 138 FERC ] 
61,193, at P 73 (2012) (discussing Commission plans to survey a 
random sample of FFTs submitted each year to gather information on 
how the FFT program is working).
    \2\ North American Electric Reliability Corp., Docket No. RC11-
6-004, at 1 (Nov. 13, 2015) (delegated letter order) (accepting 
NERC's proposal to combine the evaluation of CEs with the annual 
sampling of FFTs).
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    Commission staff reviewed a sample of 34 of 223 FFTs and 31 of 946 
CEs posted by NERC between October 2021 and September 2022.
    Commission staff found that the FFT and CE programs are meeting 
expectations, with limited exceptions. All 65 FFTs and CEs have been 
adequately remediated and the root cause of each noncompliance was

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clearly identified. Commission staff also reviewed the supporting 
information for these FFTs or CEs and agreed with the final risk 
determinations for all 65 noncompliances, which clearly identified the 
factors affecting the risk prior to mitigation (such as potential and 
actual risk) and actual harm. Further, no FFTs or CEs sampled contained 
any material misrepresentations by the registered entities. Commission 
staff found that the Regional Entities appropriately identified 64 of 
the 65 noncompliances as appropriate to be processed as FFTs and CEs. 
Nevertheless, there was one identified instance where an FFT would have 
been more appropriately processed as a spreadsheet notice of penalty. 
Staff also noted in three instances that the posted description of the 
noncompliances were incomplete or had minor errors.

    Dated: September 11, 2023.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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