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§ 37.7

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(3) The number of Affiliate requests
for transmission service, including requests by the transmission provider’s
merchant function to designate a network resource or to procure secondary
network service, that have been rejected, and
(4) The total number of Affiliate requests for transmission service, including requests by the transmission provider’s merchant function to designate,
or terminate the designation of, a network resource or to procure secondary
network service, that have been made.
(j) Posting redispatch data.
(1) The Transmission Provider must
allow the posting on OASIS of any
third party offer to relieve a specified
congested transmission facility.
(2) The Transmission Provider must
post on OASIS (i) its monthly average
cost of planning and reliability redispatch, for which it invoices customers,
at each internal transmission facility
or interface over which it provides redispatch service and (ii) a high and low
redispatch cost for the month for each
of these same transmission facilities.
The transmission provider must post
this data on OASIS as soon as practical
after the end of each month, but no
later than when it sends invoices to
transmission customers for redispatchrelated services.
[Order 889, 61 FR 21764, May 10, 1996, as
amended by Order 889–A, 62 FR 12503, Mar. 14,
1997; Order 605, 64 FR 34124, June 25, 1999;
Order 2004, 68 FR 69157, Dec. 11, 2003; Order
890, 72 FR 12493, Mar. 15, 2007; Order 890–A, 73
FR 3111, Jan. 16, 2008]

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§ 37.7 Auditing Transmission Service
Information.
(a) All OASIS database transactions,
except other transmission-related communications
provided
for
under
§ 37.6(g)(2), must be stored, dated, and
time stamped.
(b) Audit data must remain available
for download on the OASIS for 90 days,
except ATC/TTC postings that must remain available for download on the
OASIS for 20 days. The audit data are
to be retained and made available upon
request for download for five years
from the date when they are first posted in the same electronic form as used

when they originally were posted on
the OASIS.
[Order 889, 61 FR 21764, May 10, 1996, as
amended by Order 889–A, 62 FR 12504, Mar. 14,
1997; Order 890, 72 FR 12496, Mar. 15, 2007]

§ 37.8

Obligations of OASIS users.

Each OASIS user must notify the Responsible Party one month in advance
of initiating a significant amount of
automated queries. The OASIS user
must also notify the Responsible Party
one month in advance of expected significant increases in the volume of
automated queries.
[Order 605, 64 FR 34124, June 25, 1999]

PART
38—BUSINESS
PRACTICE
STANDARDS AND COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS FOR PUBLIC
UTILITIES
Sec.
38.1 Applicability.
38.2 Incorporation by reference of North
American
Energy
Standards
Board
Wholesale Electric Quadrant standards.
AUTHORITY: 16 U.S.C. 791–825r, 2601–2645; 31
U.S.C. 9701; 42 U.S.C. 7101–7352.
SOURCE: Order 676, 71 FR 26212, May 4, 2006,
unless otherwise noted.

§ 38.1

Applicability.

This part applies to any public utility that owns, operates, or controls facilities used for the transmission of
electric energy in interstate commerce
or for the sale of electric energy at
wholesale in interstate commerce and
to any non-public utility that seeks
voluntary compliance with jurisdictional transmission tariff reciprocity
conditions.
[Order 698, 72 FR 38767, July 16, 2007]

§ 38.2 Incorporation by reference of
North American Energy Standards
Board Wholesale Electric Quadrant
standards.
(a) All entities to which § 38.1 is applicable must comply with the following business practice and electronic
communication standards promulgated
by the North American Energy Standards Board Wholesale Electric Quadrant, which are incorporated herein by
reference:

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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
(1) Open Access Same-Time Information Systems (OASIS), Version 1.5
(WEQ–001, Version 002.1, March 11, 2009,
with minor corrections applied May 29,
2009 and September 8, 2009, with the exception of Standards 001–0.1, 001–0.9
through 001–0.13, 001–1.0, 001–9.7, 001–
14.1.3, and 001–15.1.2);
(2) Open Access Same-Time Information Systems (OASIS) Standards &
Communication Protocols, Version 1.5
(WEQ–002, Version 002.1, March 11, 2009,
with minor corrections applied May 29,
2009 and September 8, 2009);
(3) Open Access Same-Time Information Systems (OASIS) Data Dictionary,
Version 1.5 (WEQ–003, Version 002.1,
March 11, 2009, with minor corrections
applied May 29, 2009 and September 8,
2009);
(4) Coordinate Interchange (WEQ–004,
Version 002.1, March 11, 2009, with
minor corrections applied May 29, 2009
and September 8, 2009);
(5) Area Control Error (ACE) Equation Special Cases (WEQ–005, Version
002.1, March 11, 2009, with minor corrections applied May 29, 2009 and September 8, 2009);
(6) Manual Time Error Correction
(WEQ–006, Version 001, Oct. 31, 2007,
with minor corrections applied on Nov.
16, 2007);
(7) Inadvertent Interchange Payback
(WEQ–007, Version 002.1, March 11, 2009,
with minor corrections applied May 29,
2009 and September 8, 2009);
(8) Transmission Loading Relief—
Eastern
Interconnection
(WEQ–008,
Version 002.1, March 11, 2009, with
minor corrections applied May 29, 2009
and September 8, 2009);
(9) Gas/Electric Coordination (WEQ–
011, Version 002.1, March 11, 2009, with
minor corrections applied May 29, 2009
and September 8, 2009);
(10) Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
(WEQ–012, Version 002.1, March 11, 2009,
with minor corrections applied on May
29, 2009 and September 8, 2009);
(11) Open Access Same-Time Information Systems (OASIS) Implementation
Guide, Version 1.5 (WEQ–013, Version
002.1, March 11, 2009, with minor corrections applied on May 29, 2009 and September 8, 2009); and
(12) Business Practices for Measurement and Verification of Wholesale
Electricity Demand Response (WEQ–

Pt. 39
015, 2008 Annual Plan Item 5(a), March
16, 2009).
(b) This incorporation by reference
was approved by the Director of the
Federal Register in accordance with 5
U.S.C. 552(a) and 1 CFR part 51. Copies
of these standards may be obtained
from the North American Energy
Standards Board, 801 Travis Street,
Suite 1675, Houston, TX 77002, Tel: (713)
356–0060. NAESB’s Web site is at http://
www.naesb.org/. Copies may be inspected at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Public Reference
and Files Maintenance Branch, 888
First Street, NE., Washington, DC
20426,
Tel:
(202)
502–8371,
http://
www.ferc.gov, or at the National Archives and Records Administration
(NARA). For information on the availability of this material at NARA, call
202–741–6030,
or
go
to:
http://
www.archives.gov/federallregister/
codeloflfederallregulations/
ibrllocations.html.
[Order 676, 71 FR 26212, May 4, 2006 as amended by Order 676–B, 72 FR 21099, Apr. 30, 2007;
Order 698, 72 FR 38767, July 16, 2007; Order
676–C, 73 FR 43860, July 29, 2008; Order 676–E,
74 FR 63306, Dec. 3, 2009; Order 676–F, 75 FR
20908, Apr. 22, 2010]

PART 39—RULES CONCERNING
CERTIFICATION OF THE ELECTRIC
RELIABILITY
ORGANIZATION;
AND PROCEDURES FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT, APPROVAL, AND
ENFORCEMENT OF ELECTRIC RELIABILITY STANDARDS
Sec.
39.1 Definitions.
39.2 Jurisdiction and applicability.
39.3 Electric Reliability Organization certification.
39.4 Funding of the Electric Reliability Organization.
39.5 Reliability Standards.
39.6 Conflict of a Reliability Standard with
a Commission order.
39.7 Enforcement of Reliability Standards.
39.8 Delegation to a Regional Entity.
39.9 Enforcement of Commission rules and
orders.
39.10 Changes to an Electric Reliability Organization Rule or Regional Entity Rule.
39.11 Reliability reports.
39.12 Review of state action.
39.13 Regional Advisory Bodies.
AUTHORITY: 16 U.S.C. 824o.

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