Electric Critical Infrastructure Protection

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15 December 2006

[Federal Register: December 15, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 241)]

[Notices]               

[Page 75535-75536]

From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY



Federal Energy Regulatory Commission



[Docket No. RM06-22-000]



 

Mandatory Reliability Standards for Critical Infrastructure 

Protection; Notice of Comment Period



December 11, 2006.

    On August 28, 2006, the North American Electric Reliability 

Council, on behalf of its wholly-owned subsidiary, the North American 

Electric Reliability Corporation (collectively NERC), filed eight 

proposed Reliability Standards concerning Critical Infrastructure 

Protection (CIP) for Commission approval, pursuant to its role as the 

Electric Reliability Organization (ERO) under section 215 of the 

Federal Power Act (FPA). On September 18, 2006, the Commission issued a 

notice announcing that it established a new rulemaking proceeding, 

Docket No. RM06-22-000, to address the proposed CIP Reliability 

Standards.\1\

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    \1\ In addition, the Notice explained that nineteen other new 

and revised proposed Reliability Standards submitted by NERC in the 

same August 28, 2006 filing would be addressed in Docket No. RM06-

16-000.

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    Concurrent with today's notice, the Commission is releasing a staff 

preliminary assessment of the eight proposed CIP Reliability Standards. 

This assessment is a preliminary technical analysis by staff and does 

not offer legal conclusions or recommend any particular action to be 

taken by the Commission. The Commission will issue a Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking (NOPR) with its proposal on each Reliability Standard after 

receiving comments on the staff preliminary assessment. Interested 

persons will also have an opportunity to file comments on the NOPR.

    NERC should respond to this preliminary assessment by February 12, 

2007. We also invite other interested persons to file comments on the 

staff preliminary assessment by the comment date. Comments should 

respond to issues discussed in the preliminary assessment in the order 

in which they appear, and take care to identify which issue, 

Reliability Standard, or specific provision of a Reliability Standard 

is being addressed. Commenters may also address related issues not 

raised in the staff preliminary assessment to assist the Commission to 

make more informed decisions regarding the proposed CIP Reliability 

Standards.

    The Commission encourages electronic submission of comments using 

the ``eFiling'' link at http://www.ferc.gov. Persons unable to file 



electronically should submit an original and 14 copies of their 

comments to the Secretary of the Commission, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.

    The staff preliminary assessment is accessible online 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 e-mail notification when a document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC Online



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service, please e-mail FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call (866) 208-

3676 (toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502-8659.

    Comment Date: 5 p.m. eastern time on February 12, 2007.



Magalie R. Salas,

Secretary.

 [FR Doc. E6-21412 Filed 12-14-06; 8:45 am]



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