Document ID: FERC-2021-1063-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Staff Review of Enforcement Programs North American Electric Reliability Corp.
Posted Date: 2021-08-30T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 165 (Monday, August 30, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48422-48423]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-18613]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. RC11-6-012]

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 order) (accepting NERC's 
proposal to combine the evaluation of CEs with the annual sampling 
of FFTs).
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    Commission and NERC staff reviewed a sample of 63 noncompliances--
29 of 215 total FFT noncompliances and 34 of 1,103 total CE 
noncompliances posted by NERC between October 2019 and September 2020.
    Commission staff found that the FFT and CE programs are meeting 
expectations. The Regional Entities appropriately included all 63 of 
the sampled noncompliances in the FFT and CE programs, and all 63 FFTs 
and CEs were adequately remediated and the root cause of each 
noncompliance was clearly identified. Commission staff also reviewed 
the supporting information for these FFT and CE noncompliances and 
agreed with the final risk determinations, 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 CE noncompliances sampled did not contain any material

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misrepresentations by the registered entities.

    Dated: August 24, 2021.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2021-18613 Filed 8-27-21; 8:45 am]
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