For Reference: Glossary of Terms Used in NERC Reliability Standards, dated September 29, 2016 NPCC Glossary of Terms, dated January 14, 2014

Name Organization Sector(s)

Day(s) Comment

1. Guy Zito Northeast Power Coordinating Council 1 & 2

2. Gerry Dunbar Northeast Power Coordinating Council 1 & 2

3. Ruida Shu Northeast Power Coordinating Council 1 & 2 2nd Day Via Phone

4. Kal Ayoub FERC Guest 1

5. Howard Gugel NERC Guest 1

6. Herb Schrayshuen

Power Advisors, LLC - Proxy for NextEra Energy, LLC

4 1 & 2

7 Michael Jones National Grid 3 1 & 2

8. Joel Charlebois AESI, Inc. Guest 1 & 2

9. Ron Falsetti AESI, Inc. Guest 1 & 2

10.9.

Kelly Silver Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc.

1, 3, 4 & 5

1 & 2

11.10.

David Ramkalawan

Ontario Power Generation, Inc. 4 1 & 2 Via Phone

12.11.

Chris Kirby Nalcor Energy Guest 1

NPCC REGIONAL STANDARDS COMMITTEE

AGENDA FOR MEETING #16-6 December 8, 2016 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. ESTDecember 9, 2016 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EST

Hotel Omni Mont-Royal: Room Automne1050 Sherbrooke Street WestMontreal, Quebec H3A 2R6

Attire: Business Casual

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

13.12.

Chantal Mazza Hydro-Québec TransÉnergie 2 1

14.13.

Si Truc Phan Hydro-Québec TransÉnergie 2 1 & 2

15.14.

Navneet Singh IESO Guest 1 & 2

16.15.

Dave Devereaux

IESO Guest 1

17.16.

Jim Grant New York Independent System Operator

2 1 & 2

18.17.

Greg Campoli New York Independent System Operator

2 2

19.18.

Payam Farahbakhsh

Hydro One Networks 1 1

20.19.

Ben Wu Orange & Rockland Utilities, Inc. 3 1

21.20.

Quintin Lee Eversource Energy 1 1 & 2

22.21.

Laura Mcleod New Brunswick Power Corporation 1 1 & 2

23.22.

Brian Robinson Utility Services, Inc. 5 1 2nd Day Via Phone

24.23.

Salvatore Spagnolo

New York Power Authority 4 1 & 2

25.24.

Sean Bodkin Dominion Resources Services 4 2

26 Michele 1 1 Via Phone

.25

.Tondalo The United Illuminating Company

27.26.

Vijay Puran New York State Department of Public Service

Guest 1 Via Phone

28.27.

David Kigul Independent Guest 1 Via Phone

29.28.

Rita Metta Regie de l’energie Guest 2

30.29.

Laurentia Dumitrescu

Regie de l’energie Guest 2

31.30.

Al McMeekin NERC Guest 1 Via Phone

32.31.

Mat Bunch NERC Guest 1 Via Phone

33.32.

Mark Olson NERC Guest 1 Via Phone

34.33.

Lacey Ourso NERC Guest 1 Via Phone

35.34.

Laura Anderson NERC Guest 1 Via Phone

365.

Jordan Mallory NERC Guest 1 Via Phone

Introductions and Chair’s Remarks

Guy Zito welcomed everyone to Montreal Canada, he provided a brief introduction and indicated that Mike Jones has been approved as the co-vice chair of RSC at the NPCC Board Meeting in December 2016.

NPCC Antitrust Compliance GuidelinesThe NPCC Antitrust Compliance Guidelines were read by Ruida Shu.

Agenda Items:

1.0 Review of Agenda Guy Zito reviewed the agenda with the RSC and added agenda item 5.6 and indicated Kal Ayoub from FERC will dowould provide a presentation on Federal Oversight of Electric Reliability for the RSC group.

2.0 RSC Meeting Minutes Approval of Minutes—there was one minor grammar revision to the Final Meeting Minutes of 10-5-16.Jim Grant made a motion for approval.Herb Schrayshuen seconded the motion.The Meeting Minutes were approved as revised and documented.

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

Action Item: Ruida Shu/Guy Zito will send out a note to TFSP to solicit member to support the Project 2016-04 Modifications to PRC-025-1 Generator Relay Loadability - SAR Drafting Team.

3.2 Executive Tracking SummaryGerry Dunbar provided a brief update on the Executive Tracking Summary.

3.3 NERC Project Tracking SpreadsheetRuida Shu provided a brief update on the NERC Project Tracking Spreadsheet.

4.0 Open Action Items 4.1 Open Action Items List

Mike Jones indicated the NPCC Regional Feedback Mechanism process document is posted on the NPCC website.

5.0 Items Requiring RSC Discussion 5.1 NERC Weekly Standards Bulletin

Guy Zito provided an update on the NERC Weekly Standards Bulletin.5.2 Hydro Quebec GMD Studies

Louis Gibson, Luc Gerin-Lajoie and Sebastien Guillon from Hydro Quebec came in and presented the interim resultsof HQtheir GMD Studies on reproducing the 1989 event in provide an EMTP-RV based Eestimation of the GMD magnitude. Hydro Quebec hasve re-created the 1989 black out event in their simulation (Network, sequence of events, sensitivity results and network collapse. The goal is to refine the work based on non-uniform fields and time variant dependingvariation depending on the geographical location.

5.3 RSC Work Plan 2017-2018 Approval of the RSC Work Plan 2017-2018 with no additional edits.Herb Schrayshuen made a motion for approval.Mike Jones seconded the motion.The RSC Work Plan 2017-2018 were approved as documented.

5.4 RSC Scope of Work 2017-2018 Approval of the RSC Scope of Work 2017-2018 with no additional edits.

Herb Schrayshuen made a motion for approval.Jim Grant seconded the motion.The RSC Scope of Work 2017-2018 were approved as documented.

5.5 2017 ERO Enterprise Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Implementation Plan 5.6 CIP Supply Chain CIP-013-1 Presentation

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

12/8/16Call-In

Project 2016-02 Modifications to CIP Standards 12/5/16(F)

12/5/16(A)

Al McMeekin 1.00PM

Enhanced Periodic Review Standing Review Team - Standards Grading

8/1/16(I)

NA Mat Bunch 1:15PM

Project 2013-03 Geomagnetic Disturbance Mitigation Revisions to Project White Papers

6/13/16(I)

NA Mark Olson 1:20PM

Project 2016-01 Modifications to TOP and IRO Standards

10/17/16(F)

10/17/16(A)

Mark Olson 1:35PM

Project 2016-03 Cyber Security Supply Chain Management SAR

11/18/16(I)

Mark Olson 1:50PM

Project 2015-09 Establish and Communicate System Operating Limits

8/12/16(I)

NA Lacey Ourso 2:05PM

Functional Model Advisory Group 9/7/16(I)

NA Lacey Ourso 2:20PM

Project 2015-08 Emergency Operations EOP-004-4

1/6/17(F)

1/6/17(A)

Laura Anderson 2:30PM

Project 2015-10 Single Points of Failure TPL-001 6/24/16(I)

SAR Jordan Mallory 2:45PM

Project 2016-04 Modifications to PRC-025-1 10/18/16(F)

Jordan Mallory 3:00PM

Revisions to the NERC Standard Processes Manual

10/28/15(I)

NA Guy Zito 3:15PM

Comments: (I) – Informal; (F) – Formal; (N) – Nomination PeriodBallots: (I) – Initial; (A) – Additional; (F) – Final

Project 2016-02 Modifications to CIP Standards:Al McMeekin and the rest of the SDT called in at 1PM.CIP-003-7 package has been completed and ready to be posted for tomorrow December 9, 2016 for final ballot.Language has been changed from “shall” to “options” in the Guidelines and Technical Basis reference models.Implementation plan is increased to 18 months.Transient Cyber Asset (TCA) at low will be posted for an initial comment and ballot period on December 9, 2016.

Low Impact External Routable Connectivity (LERC) and Transient Cyber Asset (TCA) at low will be combined and posted it for January 2017. RSAW of Transient Cyber Asset (TCA) will be posted for an initial comment and ballot period on December 9, 2016.Virtualization sub team has put together a risk map which identifies the risks in the virtual system.Communication network will be posted for an informal comment period to collect industry comments.Definition and concepts sub team is in a hold position at the moment.

Enhanced Periodic Review Standing Review Team – Standards Grading:Mat Bunch called in at 1PM. Final score of the standards are posted on the NERC website.VAR and PER standards will be reviewed.There are several standards selectedpicked out for 2017 review.

Project 2013-03 Geomagnetic Disturbance Mitigation Revisions:Mark Olson called in at 1:20PM. The Standards Committee will act on making appointments to the SDT. The SAR is drafted and it ishas been sent to the Standards Committee for approval. The SAR is intended to address the FERC Directives.Requirement 5 is added to address “cyber security policies” for low impact BES Cyber Systems.It will be an informal posting for the draft SAR.

Project 2016-01 Modifications to TOP and IRO Standards:Very minimal changes were made since the standard passedt the additional ballot.It is currently posted for final ballot. The ballot will close on Monday December 12, 2016.

Project 2016-03 Cyber Security Supply Chain Management:The SDT reviewed the SAR comments submitted by the entities.Significant direction changes after the October 2016 technical conference. The goal is to post the draft standard in January 2017.Requirement 5 is added to address the low impact BES Cyber System.The SDT is working closely with the compliance personnel to develop a better Guidelines and Technical Basis section. Definition of supply chain has not been discussed by the SDT.Implementation Guidance is still under review and the target goal is to complete this by January 2017.

Project 2015-09 Establish and Communicate System Operating Limits:The SDT decided to seek additional support and guidance from subject matter experts. There will be a joint task force formed for next week to discuss the standard and the next step.

Functional Model Advisory Group:

Howard Gugel provided an update on the Functional Modelhistory of the Functional Model and work of the Functional Model Advisory Group.There were a lot of questions and concerns on the last revision of Function Model, specifically on the registration issues. The drafting team met in November 2016 and review the comments.To be determined: Functional Model Advisory Group tasks for the group going forward.

Project 2015-08 Emergency Operations EOP-004-4:Laura Anderson called in at 2:30PM.The standard is currently posted for 45-day additional comment period.The SDT made substantial changes based on the industry comments.It is also posted for a 10-day ballot period from December 28, 2016 to January 6, 2017.

Project 2015-010 Single Points of Failure TPL-001:Jordan Mallory called in at 2:33PM.The SDT addressed table 1 and foot note 13 in the standard. The SDT will develop an Implementation Guidance Documents and it will be an auditor approved document. The document will be endorsed by the ERO to help the entities. Compliance Guidance and Implementation Guidance documents will be vetted by the ERO.Soo Jin Kim will take over this Project going forward.

Project 2016-04 Modifications to PRC-025-1:The SDT received 14 comments on the SAR posting.Most of the comments are supportive of the Project.The plan is to go out for additional drafting team members.

6.2 Ballot History (Since last RSC Meeting)Ruida Shu reviewed the Ballot History document in the meeting.

6.3 Comment Form History (Since last RSC Meeting)Ruida Shu reviewed the Comment Form History document in the meeting.Action Item: Ruida Shu and Guy Zito will review and propose a few methods to display comment responses from NERC on all of the RSC comments.

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 FERC Approved the Retirement of PRC-002-NPCC-01 8.1.2 Automatic Underfrequency Load Shedding PRC-006-NPCC-02 status

updateRuida Shu provided a brief update on the status of PRC-006-NPCC-02.

8.1.3 PRC-006-3 Automatic Underfrequency Load Shedding Quebec Variance status updateRuida Shu indicated the second comment period on PRC-006-3 Automatic Underfrequency Load Shedding Quebec Variance will end on December 14, 2016. The plan is to put this out for a 30-day pre-ballot period following a 10-day ballot period in January 2017.

8.1.4 Geomagnetic Disturbance Mitigation TPL-007-1 Quebec VarianceSi Truc Phan indicated the work is still under development.

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

9.1 Directories:9.1.1 Directory#8 System Restoration – (status of CO11 review).

-The Task Force on Coordination of Operation (TFCO) and its CO-11 Restoration Working Group completed a comprehensive review of the document in early 2016 and posted a draft to the Open Process which contained the following revisions:

Eliminated duplicative or conflicting battery testing requirements with the recently approved PRC-005-2.

An overall reformatting of the criteria into NERC style requirements consistent with the goals of the NPCC Directory project.

Revisions to the definitions of three NPCC defined Glossary terms. The development of a new Appendix (Appendix D) which provides a

comparison table between revised Directory#8 test procedures and the equivalent tests in previous versions of the document.

-TFCO is currently preparing a third 45 day posting of Directory#8 as a result

of further clarifying changes made to the document after comment review.

9.1.2 Directory#9 and #10 Real and Reactive Capability Verification - (status of TFCO review).-TFCO and its CO7 Working Group have recommended that Directories #9 and #10 can be retired pending the completion of the staged implementation of MOD-25-2 in July 2019.-TFCO posted the retirement recommendation to the Open Process and is currently reviewing comments.

9.1.3 Directory#7 SPS and NPCC Glossary term SPS – (status of PRC-12-2)PRC-012-2 Remedial Action Schemes is currently filed with the commission.TFSP will defer is review of the Directory#7 criteria pending the outcome of the PRC-012-2.

9.1.4 A-10 Classification of BPS Elements (status of TFCP review).-Currently a draft action plan developed by the TFCP has been sent to each of the NPCC Task Forces for review and comment.-Once the Task Force comments have been considered the action plan will assigned to the CP11 and serve as a guide for the review.-The CP11 review is anticipated to commence in early 2017.

9.1.5 A-01 Criteria for Review and Approval of Documents – (status of TFCP review).

-TFCP has posted an updated version of the document to the Open Process for a second 45-day comment period.-TFCP has proposed an expedited comment period of no less than 30 days for NPCC ‘C’ Procedure documents when the lead Task Force anticipates implementation issues.-RSC to consider incorporating A-01 into the Directory Review and Revision Manual-Once the language of the A-01 has been finalized RSC to consider incorporating the A-01 into the Directory Revision and Review Manual.

9.1.6 Directory#2 Emergency Operations and Directory#5 Reserve - (status of TFCO review).

-TFCO has assigned its Working Groups the CO-1 Working Group on Control Performance (Directory#5---Reserve) and the CO-8 Working Group on System Operations Managers (Directory#2---Emergency Operations) to begin a review of a draft of each Directory. -The respective drafts contain the existing criteria reformatted into NERC style requirements. The goal of the Working Group review will be to ensure that the draft with reformatted criteria captures the spirit and purpose of the criteria as currently contained in the existing Member approved documents. The Working Groups have been instructed to avoid revising the criteria and to return any disagreements over interpretation to the TFCO. -Once TFCO has approved the Working Groups review of the reformatted criteria the Directories will be posted to the Open Process for Member comment. The posting date will be contingent on the progress of the Working Groups review.

9.1.7 Criteria Clarifications;-Directory#4 System Protection Criteria (Pending Request for Clarification—TFSP)-The TFSP rendered a response to the Request for Criteria Clarification as submitted by Eversource Energy. The TFSP Clarification was posted to the Open Process and the TFSP responded to all comments (none were received). In accordance with the NPCC Directory Development and Review Manual the TFSP Clarification was approved by the RCC on December 6th, 2016 and will be archived on the NPCC website.

9.2 RAS Implementation/Transition-Effective date of the revised definition of RAS is 4-1-2017.-The TFCP has requested the TFSS to review the current SPS list and identify 1) SPS’s that conform to the definition 2) SPS’s that do not conform to the definition 3) newly identified RAS’s that have not been subject to a regional review since they were not previously identified as an SPS.-TFSS is incorporating the TFCP request with its annual update of the SPS list and anticipates completing the TFCP request in January 2017.-The RC Members of the TFCP participated in a conference call and indicated their desire to continue to participate in the regional review process for an SPS after PRC-012-2 is effective.-TFCP and NPCC staff developed options which will serve as guidance for the transition including the disposition of the existing Glossary term - Special Protection System (SPS).

10.0 RSC Member Items of Interest 10.1 RSC Roster

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 March 9th - Meeting April 20th - CallJune 15th - Meeting July 20th - Call September 14th MeetingOctober 19th - Call December 14th - 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

Corrected link: http://www.nerc.com/comm/RISC/Related%20Files%20DL/ERO_Reliability_Risk_Priorities_RISC_Reccommendations_Board_Approved_Nov_2016.pdf

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 There have been three new Lesson Learned issued since the last RSC

meeting.13.2 Alerts

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

13.3 Second Draft of 2017 Business Plan and Budget 13.4 Standard Committee 2017 Meeting Schedule

January 18th - Call March 15th - WECC April 19th – CallJune 14th – Atlanta July 18th – Call September 7th – MROOctober 18th – Call December 6th - Atlanta

13.5 Notice of Proposed Revisions to NERC Rules of Procedure

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

January 13th – Call February 17th – Call March 15-16th MeetingApril 13th – Call May 10-12th Workshop June 21-2nd MeetingJuly 13th – Call August 17th – Call September 20-21st MeetingOctober 12th – Call November 15-17th Workshop December 8-9th Meeting

14.2 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

14.3 NPCC Board of Directors Meeting (BOD) 2017February 1st - FRCC Office, Tampa, FL

March 22nd - Call May 3rd – NPCC Office

June 1st – Call June 28th – NPCC Office August 2nd – CallSeptember 6th and 7th – Portland ME

November 1st – Call December 6th – Boston MA

15.0 Future RSC Meetings and Conference Calls

15.1 RSC 2016 Meeting DatesFebruary 17th-18th, NextEra Energy Offices, Juno Beach FLApril 19th & 20th, NPCC Offices, New York NYJune 22nd & 23rd, Saratoga NYAugust 10th & 11th, Toronto CanadaOctober 5th & 6th, Lewiston NYDecember 8th & 9th, Montreal Canada

RSC 2017 Meeting DatesMarch 8th-9th, FRCC, Tampa FLJune 7th-8th, Saratoga NYAugust 23rd-24th, Toronto/MontrealOctober 11th-12th, Lewiston NYDecember 7th, General Meeting

15.2 RSC 2016 Conference Call Schedule (calls can be schedule as needed) all Calls are planned to start at 10:00 a.m. (call: 415-655-0003 (USA) / 416-915-6530 (Canada), Guest Code 28840965)

January 8 January 22 February 5March 4 March 18 April 1April 29 May 13 May 27June 10 July 8 July 22August 5 September 2 September 16September 30 October 21 November 4November 18 December 23

The meeting is adjourned at 9:.53AM on December 9, 2016.

Respectfully Submitted,

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

Northeast Power Coordinating Council, Inc. (NPCC)

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