For Reference: Glossary of Terms Used in NERC Reliability Standards, dated September 29, 2015 NPCC Glossary of Terms, dated January 18, 2012

Attendees:Name Organization Sector

(s)Day(s) Comment

1. Kal Ayoub FERC Guest 1 & 2

2. Howard Gugel NERC Guest 1 & 2

3. Guy Zito Northeast Power Coordinating Council 1 & 2

4. Lee Pedowicz Northeast Power Coordinating Council 1 & 2

5. Gerry Dunbar Northeast Power Coordinating Council 1 & 2

6. Ruida Shu Northeast Power Coordinating Council 1 & 2

7 Herb Schrayshuen

Power Advisors, LLC - Proxy for NextEra Energy, LLC

4 1 & 2

8. Jim Grant New York Independent System Operator

2 1 & 2

9. Rob Vance New Brunswick Power Corporation 1 & 2 1 & 2

10. Kelly Dash Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc.

1, 3, 4 & 5

1 & 2

11. Dermot Smyth Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc.

3 1 & 2 Via Phone

12. Randi Heise Dominion Resources Services Guest 1 & 2 Via Phone

13. Salvatore New York Power Authority 5 1 Via Phone

NPCC REGIONAL STANDARDS COMMITTEE

AGENDA FOR MEETING #15-4 October 7, 2015 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. ESTOctober 8, 2015 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. EST

Hydro-Quebec TransEnergie Complexe Desjardins150 Rue Ste-Catherine O

Meeting Room Fiabilite 19th Floor, East Tower (Corner of Rene-Levesque/Jeanne-Mance)Montreal Quebec, Canada H2X 3Y2

Attire: Business Casual

Dial-In: 415-655-0003 (USA) / 416-915-6530 (Canada) Guest Code: 28840965

Spagnolo

14. Kathleen Goodman

ISO-NE 2 1

15. Si Truc Phan Hydro-Québec TransÉnergie 2 1 & 2

16. Chantal Mazza Hydro-Québec TransÉnergie 2 1 & 2

17. Sylvain Clermont

Hydro-Québec TransÉnergie 1 1

18. Brian Robinson Utility Services 5 1 & 2 Via Phone

19. Brian Shanahan National Grid 1 1 & 2

20. Michael Jones National Grid 3 1 & 2

21. Payam Farahbakhsh

Hydro One Networks 1 1 & 2

22. Helen Lainis Independent Electricity System Operator

2 1 & 2

23. Ron Falsetti AESI Guest 1 & 2

24. Don Weaver New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board

Guest 1 & 2

25. Don Nelson Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities

Guest 1 & 2 Via Phone

26. Michele Tondalo

The United Illuminating Company Guest 1 & 2 Via Phone

27. Al McMeekin NERC Guest 1 Via Phone

28. Mark Olson NERC Guest 1 Via Phone

29. Darrel Richardson

NERC Guest 1 Via Phone

30. Sean Bodkin NERC Guest 1 Via Phone

31. Scott Barfield-McGinnis

NERC Guest 1 Via Phone

32. Barbara Nutter NERC Guest 1 Via Phone

Introductions and Chair’s RemarksGuy Zito Called the meeting to order at 10:00AM on Wednesday October 7, 2015.Guy Zito discussed Cost Risk Reduction Analysis with the committee and ongoing activities for this efforts.The Cost Effective Analysis Process is being revised to Cost Risk Reduction Analysis which includes quantifying costs, costs associated with risk reduction, monetary and societal costs if you don’t mitigate the risk.

The goal is to integrate the cost-risk analysis process into the standards development process.The process will be posted for comments and is likely to be piloted to see if it produces value. Guy Zito indicated that he was working on the process with Fred Plett, an NPCC Board of Director member who was leading the effort

NPCC Antitrust Compliance GuidelinesThe NPCC Antitrust Compliance Guidelines were read by Lee Pedowicz.

Agenda Items:

1.0 Review of Agenda Guy Zito coordinated the inclusion of two additional presentations (TPL-007-1-GMD and Remedial Action Schemes-RAS) by HQ personnel.

2.0 RSC Meeting Minutes Approval of Minutes—there were no revisions to the Final Meeting Minutes 6-23-15.Herb Schrayshuen made a motion for approval.Helen Lainis seconded the motion.The Meeting Minutes were approved (all in favor) as documented.

3.0 Drafting Team Members and Executive Tracking Summary 3.1 NPCC Members on NERC Drafting Teams

Ruida Shu updated the RSC Members on NERC Drafting Teams spreadsheet.3.2 Executive Tracking Summary

Ruida Shu provided updates on Executive Tracking Summary which is posted on the NPCC Website.

3.3 NERC Project Tracking SpreadsheetGuy Zito provided a brief updated on the NERC Project Tracking Spreadsheet.Herb Schrayshuen mentioned that FERC has issued an extension on TPL-007-1 comments to October 22nd, 2015.

4.0 Open Action Items 4.1 Open Action Items List

Guy Zito requested to remove Items 4.3-4.5 on the list.Guy Zito added an item to determine tentative RSC meeting dates and locations for 2016.Lee Pedowicz will coordinate June 2016 meeting at Saratoga Springs with CC to ensure no overlap.

5.0 Items Requiring RSC Discussion 5.1 NERC Weekly Standards Bulletin

Guy Zito mentioned this was an item for information only.5.2 NOPR on Revised Critical Infrastructure Protection Reliability Standards

Guy Zito discussed the NOPR on CIP with members of RSC.The commission proposes to approve seven critical infrastructure protection (CIP) Reliability Standards. Outstanding issues that will likely result in a Directive include

“supply chain”. A presentation was given which was developed by TFIST Chairman. The RSC was not in full agreement with the interpretation of the term “supply chain”. (See 5.6 below)

5.3 Clean Power Plan Guy Zito provided a brief update on the Clean Power Plan.EPA determined that greenhouse gas pollution threatens American’s health and welfare by leading to long-lasting changes in our climate that can have a range of negative effects on human health and environment. CO2 is the most critical and it is about three-quarters of global greenhouse gas emissions and 82 percent of US greenhouse gas emissions. Herb Schrayshuen made the following comments on the CPP:NERC has formed a CPP Advisory Committee under the Planning Committee to vet assumptions and help guide NERC staff’s work towards a CPP Phase 2 study which will focus on the reliability impact of the final CPP rule. NERC currently plans for the CPP Phase 2 study to be released in March 2016. NERC is also planning to produce an interim guidance report outlining considerations for state environmental agencies to consider on the various issues related to reliability as they develop their state compliance plans. The guidance document is presently being planned for a January 2016 release date.

5.4 Draft Outline of CEA Comments on FERC NOPR TPL-007 Draft Outline of CEA Comments on FERC NOPR TPL-007 was presented to the members of RSC and CEA comments on FERC NOPR TPL-007 were filed as read. Louis Gibson (as role of TP) and Sebastien Guillon (SME) presented Hydro-Quebec assessment on TPL-007-1.

5.5 Project 2015-07 Internal Communications Capabilities This topic is covered by NERC Standard Developer Sean Bodkin. RSC members questioned the use and meaning of the term “capability” and expressed concern that this means 100% ability all the time. Numerous concerns were raised that cell phones may go through “dead zones” and that capability could mean having something but not using it, such as having a radio system but not utilizing it. Comments will be sent in to reflect this and SDT members are working on answering NPCC’s concerns.

5.6 FERC Proposal for Cyber Supply Chain Requirements and NIST SP800-161 Guy Zito provided a presentation on FERC Proposal for Cyber Supply Chain Requirements and NIST SP800-161.There are three major concerns by the industry.1. Should NERC develop a Cyber Supply Chain standard?2. What are the anticipated requirements to include in the Cyber Supply Chain

standard?3. What is a reasonable time frame to develop a standard?Howard Gugel provided a brief discussion on NERC’s response to the FERC Proposal.“NERC has requested the Commission to provide two years for standard development to allow sufficient time for NERC to consider these issues and engage in educational and outreach efforts, such as holding technical conferences and establish a task force, to provide a better understanding of the nature of supply chain

risks and the extent to and manner in which a mandatory Reliability Standard can effectively protect against those risks.” This is the response by NERC to the Commission.

5.7 FERC--Availability of Certain North American Electric Reliability Corporation Databases to the CommissionOn September 17th, 2015 the commission asked to have access to TADs, GADs, and Misoperations data. Canadian entities provide, data on a voluntary basis for TADs and GADs are the data is not complete. The data is not mandatory for Canada and FERC specified in the NOPR that they would not require any access to international data.Helen Lainis from IESO questioned if the commission will take the “US” only data and propose standards based on the “US” data only where they are an international organization.

6.0 NERC Reliability Standards http://www.nerc.com/pa/Stand/Pages/Standards-Under-Development.aspx

6.1 Currently Posted ProjectsProject Comment

Period End Date

Ballot Period

End Date

Standards Developer

10/7/15Call-In

Project 2010-05.3 Phase 3 of Protection Systems: Remedial Action Schemes (RAS)

10/5/15(F)

10/5/15(I)

Al McMeekin 1:00PM

Project 2010-14.1 Phase 1 of Balancing Authority Reliability-based Controls: Reserves

10/8/15(F)

Darrel Richardson NA

Project 2009-02 Real-time Reliability Monitoring and Analysis Capabilities

11/9/15(F)

11/9/15(I)

Mark Olson 1:30PM

Project 2010-14.2.2 Phase 2 of Balancing Authority Reliability-based Controls

11/12/15(F)

11/12/15(I)

Darrel Richardson 1:45PM

Project 2015-07 Internal Communications Capabilities COM-001-3

11/16/15(F)

11/16/15(I)

Sean Bodkin 2:00PM

Project 2007-06.2 Phase 2 of System Protection Coordination

11/19/15(F) (A)

Scott Barfield-McGinnis

2:15PM

New Standards Balloting and Commenting System Barbara Nutter 2:30PMComments: (I) – Informal; (F) – Formal

Ballots: (I) – Initial; (A) – Additional; (F) – Final

Project 2010-05.3: Al McMeekin called in at 1:00PM to provide an update on Project 2010-05.3.Ballot period just ended on Monday October 5th, 2015Next SDT team is on the week of October 26th, 2015 at Montreal, Canada. Al McMeekin’s goal is to get the standard post it around middle of November so the standard can be brought to the board on February 2016.

Project 2010-14.1: General consensus from the RSC is that it is not wise to shed load to maintain reserve.Members of RSC have submitted comments on this Project but it seems the SDT did not make any changes to comply with the comments.

Project 2010-05.3: Mark Olson called in at 1:30PM to provide an update on Project 2009-02.The SDT discussed various TOP and IRO standards to ensure there is no overlappingto both standards.The SDT also reviewed members of NPCC’s comments on the necessity for the standard.

Project 2010-14.2.2:Darrel Richardson called in at 1:44PM to provide an update on Project 2010-14.2.2.The SDT tried to determine if this standard is necessary. A survey has been conducted and majority industry response were that this standard is not necessary. The standard is posted for comment until November 12th, 2015.The focus should be on the whitepaper.

Project 2015-07:Sean Bodkin called in at 1:53PM to provide an update on Project 2015-07.Due to the differences in risk factors the SDT decided to split up the requirement into two so Distribution Provider and Transmission Operator will be separated. Distribution Provider risk factor is medium.Transmission Operator risk factor is high. A question is raised by a RSC Member regarding the necessities for this standard since there is already a COM standard for communication.NERC responses were that the original standard focused on the external communication between entities to entities. The new standard is trying to address the internal communication within entity. Two issues raised by a NPCC Member:1. Communication between field personnel using radio or cell phones are not always

reliable due to dead spots in the area. NERC staff responded that the standard is only trying to capture the internal communication based on their capabilities.

2. Geographically separated control centers is the second issue since there is no specific distance determined for the separated control centers. NERC staff responded that any separation is valid and will provide additional more explanation in the posting documents.

Project 2007-06.2:Scott Barfield McGinnis called in at 2:13PM to discuss Project 2007-06.2.Project 2007-06.2 is posted on October 6th, 2015 for comment and ballot.The SDT received most of the comments from GOPs. The SDT used real time operations time horizon for GOPs and added RAS into the standard so there are no gaps.The SDT did not include RC into TOP-009-1 due to the recent work of IRO group of standards.A suggestion is made on R3 to use the word “control” instead of “affect” in the standard for GOP.

New Standards Balloting and Commenting System:Barbara Nutter called in at 2:29PM to provide an update on the changes to the new SBS system.Additional reference sources are provided in the system.Archive link is a useful way for you to find your voting history.NERC will be implementing a “One Stop Shop” location for all the useful links.A new enhancement is the ability to edit through survey until comment period ends.Another new enhancement is the ability to be able to bring up the most current survey for voters.The Goal is to have these enhancements to complete these by the end of the year.

Sylvain Clermont provided a brief update on the activities of MRC.

6.2 Ballot History (Since last RSC Meeting)Ruida Shu reviewed the Ballot History and pointed out that all the technical justification provided by Guy Zito in his Ballot Recommendation are now also posted on the NPCC website.

6.3 Comment Form History (Since last RSC Meeting)Ruida Shu reviewed the Comment Form History document in the meeting.

7.0 NERC Drafting Team Nominations 7.1 Currently Posted Drafting Team Vacancies

7.1.1 None at this time7.2 Closed Drafting Team Nominations (Since last RSC Meeting)

7.2.1 None at this time7.3 Solicitation For Informal Development Teams

7.3.1 None at this time

8.0 NPCC Regional Reliability Standards https://www.npcc.org/Standards/default.aspx

8.1 Current Activities: 8.1.1 Disturbance Monitoring Standard PRC-002-NPCC-01 status update.

Drafting Team recommends that PRC-002-NPCC-01 be retired; a new directory developed requiring RSC approval.Lee Pedowicz provided a brief update on the status of the SDT on Disturbance Monitoring. Lee Pedowicz presented the recommendation by the SDT to the RSC on Disturbance Monitoring which is to retire PRC-002-NPCC-01 and develop a new Directory. Brian Robinson made the motion for approval.Jim Grant seconded the motion.The decision to develop a new Directory for Disturbance Monitoring is approved (all in favor).

8.1.2 Automatic Underfrequency Load Shedding PRC-006-NPCC-1 status. RSC to consider approval of additional Drafting Team members.

Si-Truc Phan made the motion for approval.Rob Vance seconded the motion.Automatic Underfrequency Load Shedding PRC-006-NPCC-1 standard drafting team was approved (all in favor) as read.Herb Schrayshuen made the motion to amend the SDT.Payam Farahbakhsh seconded the motion.The Automatic Underfrequency Load Shedding PRC-006-NPCC-1 standard drafting team was amended (all in favor) as read. (Added Dean Latulipe from National Grid to the Roster)

8.1.3 Hydro-Quebec Variance for PRC-006-2 Automatic Underfrequency Load Shedding status. Action Item: Guy Zito will get in touch with Barbara Nutter to get a word version of the PRC-006-NPCC-1 standard.

8.2 Activities on Hold: Regional Standard BAL-002-NPCC-01: Regional Reserve SharingGuy Zito has requested this topic to be removed from Agenda going forward.

9.0 NPCC Non-Standards https://www.npcc.org/Standards/SitePages/NonStandardsList.aspx

9.1 Directories:9.1.1 Directory #1 Design and Operation of the Bulk Power System and Directory

#4 System Protection Criteria---Criteria approved via ballot of the Full Member Committed ---9/30/2015.Gerry Dunbar thanked the Members for their respective organizations participation.

9.1.2 Directory#8 System Restoration (status of CO11 Review and Criteria Clarification) Mr. Dunbar reported that the TFCO Restoration Working Group (CO11) has been reviewing D#8:

Reviewing battery testing criteria for redundancy with PRC -005-2.(CO11 anticipates returning revised Directory#8 to the TFCO in the 4th Qtr. of 2015 in order for TFCO to post recommended changes).

TFCO and CO11 also reviewing Criteria Clarification request from OPG. (CO11 Clarification was posted to the Open Process and CO11 has recommended responses to comments received in the Open Process to the TFCO. Anticipate presenting completed clarification to the RCC for approval in December).

9.1.3 Directory#9 and #10 Capability Verification (status of CO7 review).Mr. Dunbar provided an update on D#9 and D#10: TFCO Working Group CO7 currently reviewing the criteria in D#9 and D#10 with MOD-25-2 which becomes enforceable on 7-1-2016. MOD-25-2 has a staged implementation over 5 years and will not be fully enforceable until 2019. CO7 Working Group will provide a recommendation to the TFCO in early 2016, which will be posted, approved by the RCC and ultimately balloted by the Full Member committee.

9.1.4 Directory#7 SPS (status pending RAS PRC -012-2)

Mr. Dunbar reported that NPCC is monitoring the development of PRC -012-2 along with the pending regulatory approval of the NERC BOT approved revised definition of RAS prior to recommending any changes to the criteria within D#7.

9.2 Directory Information item: 9.2.1 Revision to Existing Language in each NPCC Directory for the listing of

ERO Standards: Mr. Dunbar reported that subsequent to the recent RSC decision to retain the list of ERO standards within each Directory, NPCC will revise the introduction to the section of each Directory containing the ERO standards (see below) and also transfer the subject list within each Directory to an Appendix.

(Existing)“The NERC ERO Reliability Standards containing requirements that are associated with this Directory include but may not be limited to:”

(Revised)“The NERC ERO Reliability Standards containing requirements associated with this Directory, but not necessarily enforceable in all NPCC areas, include but may not be limited to:”Also the list of ERO standards in each Directory will be moved into a separate Appendix within each document.

10.0 RSC Member Items of Interest 10.1 RSC Roster

Action Item: Remove Diane Barney from the RSC roster and get the updated title for Greg Campoli from Jim Grant.

11.0 Standards Activity Post NERC BOT Approval (Since last RSC Meeting)

11.1 NERC Filings to FERChttp://www.nerc.com/FilingsOrders/Pages/default.aspx

11.2 FERC Orders / Ruleshttp://www.nerc.com/FilingsOrders/Pages/default.aspx

11.3 Federal Registerhttps://www.federalregister.gov/

11.4 FERC Sunshine Act Meeting Notice 11.5 FERC Open Meeting Summaries

12.0 NERC Meetings 12.1 Standards Committee (SC)

http://www.nerc.com/comm/SC/Pages/default.aspxJanuary 21st - Call February 18th - Call March 11th - MeetingApril 15th - Call May 20th - Call June 10th - MeetingJuly 15th - Call August 19th - Call September 23rd MeetingOctober 21st - Call November 18th - Call December 9th - Meeting

12.2 Standards Committee Process Subcommittee (SCPS)http://www.nerc.com/comm/SC/Pages/Standards%20Committee%20Process%20Subcommittee%20SCPS/Standards-Committee-Process-Subcommittee-SCPS.aspx

12.3 Standards Committee Project Management and Oversight Subcommittee (PMOS)http://www.nerc.com/comm/SC/Pages/ProjectManagementandOversightSubcommittee(PMOS).aspx

12.4 Member Representatives Committee (MRC) Meetinghttp://www.nerc.com/gov/bot/MRC/Pages/AgendaHighlightsandMinutes2013.aspx

12.5 Board of Trustees (BOT) Meetinghttp://www.nerc.com/gov/bot/Pages/Agenda-Highlights-and-Minutes-.aspx

12.6 Reliability Issues Steering Committee (RISC)http://www.nerc.com/comm/RISC/Pages/AgendasHighlightsandMinutes.aspx

13.0 NERC Items of Interest (Since last RSC Meeting)13.1 Lessons Learned

http://www.nerc.com/pa/rrm/ea/Pages/Lessons-Learned.aspx13.1.1 Four new Lessons Learned have been issued since the last RSC meeting.

13.2 Alertshttp://www.nerc.com/pa/rrm/bpsa/Pages/Alerts.aspxThere have been no NERC Alerts released since the last RSC meeting.

13.3 Revisions to the NERC Standard Processes Manual – Section 6 Guy Zito provided an update on the revisions to the NERC Standard Processes Manual – Section 6. Main focus will be changing the field testing portion of the Standard Processes Manual.

13.4 Hydro-Quebec assessment on TPL-007-1Louis Gibson (as role of TP) and Sebastien Guillon (SME) presented Hydro-Quebec assessment on TPL-007-1.KP9 solar storm went by HQ on October 7th, 2015. Si-Truc Phan presented their data and graphs on the GMD storm.

14.0 Other Items of Interest 14.1 NPCC Compliance Committee (CC)

January 14th – Call February 18th – Call March 17-18th MeetingApril 15th – Call May 13th – Call May 19-21st WorkshopJune 16-17th Meeting July 15th – Call August 19th – CallSeptember 22-23rd Meeting October 14th – Call November 10-12th WorkshopDecember 3-4th Meeting

14.2 NPCC Board of Directors Meeting (BOD) 2015February 3rd-4th Meeting March 25th – Call April 29th MeetingJune 4th – Call June 25th Meeting August 5th - CallSeptember 8th-9th Meeting October 28th – Call December 2nd Meeting

14.3 NPCC Board of Directors Meeting (BOD) 2016February 2nd –Control Center TourFebruary 3rd - IESO Offices

March 23rd – Call April 27th – NPCC Offices

June 2nd – Call June 29th – NPCC Offices August 3rd - CallSeptember 7th –NPCC Long Range Strategy SessionSeptember 8th – NPCC Offices

October 25th – Call December 7th – Montreal, Quebec

14.4 2016-2017 NERC Standards Committee Team Elections

15.0 Future RSC Meetings and Conference Calls 15.1 RSC 2015 Meeting Dates

February 18th-19th, 2015 NextEra Energy Offices, Juno Beach FLApril 22th & 23th, 2015 Dominion Offices, Richmond VAJune 23rd & 24th, Saratoga NYOctober 7th & 8th, Montreal QuebecDecember 3rd & 4th, Albany NY

February 17-18, 2016 RSC Meeting in NextEra.

15.2 RSC 2015 Conference Call Schedule (calls can be scheduled as needed)all Calls are planned to start at 10:00 a.m. (call: 415-655-0003 (USA) / 416-915-6530 (Canada), Guest Code 29086775)

January 16 January 30 February 13March 6 March 20 April 2May 1 May 15 May 29June 12 July 10 July 23August 14 August 28 September 11September 25 October 23 November 6November 20 December 18

15.3 2016 Conference Call and Meeting schedules. The schedule is to be developed.

The meeting adjourned at 11:07AM Thursday October 8th, 2015.

Respectfully Submitted,

Guy V. Zito, Chair RSCAssistant Vice President-StandardsNortheast Power Coordinating Council, Inc.

Northeast Power Coordinating Council, Inc. (NPCC)

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Industry-related topics considered sensitive or market intelligence in nature that are outside of their committee’s scope or assignment, or the published agenda for the meeting;

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