Document ID: FERC-2022-0829-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Staff Review of Enforcement Programs: North American Electric Reliability Corp.
Posted Date: 2022-07-06T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 128 (Wednesday, July 6, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40231-40232]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-14331]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. RC11-6-013]

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

    Commission staff coordinated with the staff of the North American 
Electric

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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 29 FFT noncompliances out of 
191 FFT noncompliances posted by NERC between October 2020 and 
September 2021 and a sample of 32 CE noncompliances out of 1,050 CE 
noncompliances posted by NERC between October 2020 and September 2021.
    Commission staff found that the FFT and CE programs are meeting 
expectations, with limited exceptions. Specifically, Commission staff 
identified one instance where the CE would be more appropriate as an 
FFT with a moderate risk. Staff also noted in two instances of FFT that 
the originally posted description of the noncompliances were 
incomplete. The Regional Entities appropriately included 60 of the 61 
samples in the FFT and CE programs, and all 61 FFTs and CEs have been 
adequately remediated and the root cause of each noncompliance was 
clearly identified. Commission staff also reviewed the supporting 
information for these FFTs or CEs and agreed with the final risk 
determinations for 60 of the 61 noncompliances, which clearly 
identified the factors affecting the risk prior to mitigation (such as 
potential and actual risk) and actual harm.
    Finally, Commission staff noted that the FFTs and CEs sampled did 
not contain any material misrepresentations by the registered entities.

    Dated: June 29, 2022.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2022-14331 Filed 7-5-22; 8:45 am]
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