2013-17732. 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.

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.

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Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on August 7, 2013.

Dated: July 17, 2013.

Kimberly D. Bose,

Secretary.

Footnotes

1.  Revisions to Reliability Standard for Transmission Vegetation Management, Order No. 777, 142 FERC ¶ 61,208 (2013).