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Calendar No. 617 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5026 
[Report No. 111–331] 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JUNE 10, 2010 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources 
SEPTEMBER 27, 2010 
Reported by Mr. BINGAMAN, with an amendment 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
AN ACT 
To amend the Federal Power Act to protect the bulk-power 
system and electric infrastructure critical to the defense 
of the United States against cybersecurity and other 
threats and vulnerabilities. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Grid Reliability and 
Infrastructure Defense Act’’ or the ‘‘GRID Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO THE FEDERAL POWER ACT. 
(a) CRITICAL ELECTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE SECU-
RITY.—Part II of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 824 
et seq.) is amended by adding after section 215 the fol-
lowing new section: 
‘‘SEC. 215A. CRITICAL ELECTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE SECU-
RITY. 
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section: 
‘‘(1) BULK-POWER
SYSTEM;
ELECTRIC
RELI-
ABILITY
ORGANIZATION;
REGIONAL
ENTITY.—The 
terms ‘bulk-power system’, ‘Electric Reliability Or-
ganization’, and ‘regional entity’ have the meanings 
given such terms in paragraphs (1), (2), and (7) of 
section 215(a), respectively. 
‘‘(2)
DEFENSE
CRITICAL
ELECTRIC
INFRA-
STRUCTURE.—The term ‘defense critical electric in-
frastructure’ means any infrastructure located in the 
United States (including the territories) used for the 
generation, transmission, or distribution of electric 
energy that— 
‘‘(A) is not part of the bulk-power system; 
and 
‘‘(B) serves a facility designated by the 
President pursuant to subsection (d)(1), but is 
not owned or operated by the owner or operator 
of such facility. 
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‘‘(3)
DEFENSE
CRITICAL
ELECTRIC
INFRA-
STRUCTURE
VULNERABILITY.—The
term
‘defense 
critical electric infrastructure vulnerability’ means a 
weakness in defense critical electric infrastructure 
that, in the event of a malicious act using electronic 
communication or an electromagnetic pulse, would 
pose a substantial risk of disruption of those elec-
tronic devices or communications networks, includ-
ing hardware, software, and data, that are essential 
to the reliability of defense critical electric infra-
structure. 
‘‘(4)
ELECTROMAGNETIC
PULSE.—The
term 
‘electromagnetic pulse’ means 1 or more pulses of 
electromagnetic energy emitted by a device capable 
of disabling, disrupting, or destroying electronic 
equipment by means of such a pulse. 
‘‘(5) GEOMAGNETIC
STORM.—The term ‘geo-
magnetic storm’ means a temporary disturbance of 
the Earth’s magnetic field resulting from solar activ-
ity. 
‘‘(6) GRID SECURITY THREAT.—The term ‘grid 
security threat’ means a substantial likelihood of— 
‘‘(A)(i) a malicious act using electronic 
communication or an electromagnetic pulse, or 
a geomagnetic storm event, that could disrupt 
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the operation of those electronic devices or com-
munications networks, including hardware, soft-
ware, and data, that are essential to the reli-
ability of the bulk-power system or of defense 
critical electric infrastructure; and 
‘‘(ii) disruption of the operation of such 
devices or networks, with significant adverse ef-
fects on the reliability of the bulk-power system 
or of defense critical electric infrastructure, as 
a result of such act or event; or 
‘‘(B)(i) a direct physical attack on the 
bulk-power system or on defense critical electric 
infrastructure; and 
‘‘(ii) significant adverse effects on the reli-
ability of the bulk-power system or of defense 
critical electric infrastructure as a result of 
such physical attack. 
‘‘(7)
GRID
SECURITY
VULNERABILITY.—The 
term ‘grid security vulnerability’ means a weakness 
that, in the event of a malicious act using electronic 
communication or an electromagnetic pulse, would 
pose a substantial risk of disruption to the operation 
of those electronic devices or communications net-
works, including hardware, software, and data, that 
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