Document ID: FERC-2013-1014-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Compliance Filings: Revision to Transmission Vegetation Management Reliability Standard
Posted Date: 2013-07-24T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 142 (Wednesday, July 24, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 44557]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-17732]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. RM12-4-001]

Revision to Transmission Vegetation Management Reliability 
Standard; Notice of Compliance Filing

    Take notice that on July 12, 2013, the North American Electric 
Reliability Corporation (NERC), pursuant to Order No. 777 \1\ submitted 
a compliance filing: (1) Providing a description of NERC's plan to 
conduct testing to develop empirical data regarding the flashover 
distances between conductors and vegetation; (2) modifying the 
Violation Risk Factor for Requirement R2; and (3) confirming NERC has 
posted guidance materials for NERC Reliability Standard FAC-003-2 to 
its Web site.
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    \1\ Revisions to Reliability Standard for Transmission 
Vegetation Management, Order No. 777, 142 FERC ] 61,208 (2013).
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    Any person desiring to intervene or to protest this filing must 
file in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of the Commission's Rules of 
Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214). Protests will be 
considered by the Commission in determining the appropriate action to 
be taken, but will not serve to make protestants parties to the 
proceeding. Any person wishing to become a party must file a notice of 
intervention or motion to intervene, as appropriate. Such notices, 
motions, or protests must be filed on or before the comment date. 
Anyone filing a motion to intervene or protest must serve a copy of 
that document on the Applicant and all the parties in this proceeding.
    The Commission encourages electronic submission of protests and 
interventions in lieu of paper using the ``eFiling'' link at http://www.ferc.gov. Persons unable to file electronically should submit an 
original and 5 copies of the protest or intervention to the Federal 
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 
20426.
    This filing is accessible on-line at http://www.ferc.gov, using the 
``eLibrary'' link and is available for review in the Commission's 
Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. There is an ``eSubscription'' 
link on the Web site that enables subscribers to receive email 
notification when a document is added to a subscribed docket(s). For 
assistance with any FERC Online service, please email 
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call (866) 208-3676 (toll free). For 
TTY, call (202) 502-8659.
    Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on August 7, 2013.

    Dated: July 17, 2013.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2013-17732 Filed 7-23-13; 8:45 am]
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