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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 104 / Wednesday, June 2, 2021 / Rules and Regulations reference NAESBs latest version of the WEQ006 Manual Time Error Correction Business Practice Standards.
B. Summary of NAESB WEQ Version 003.3
9. On March 30, 2020, NAESB filed the WEQ Version 003.3 Standards.11
The WEQ Version 003.3 Standards build upon the standards included in the WEQ Version 003.2 Standards. After consideration of the March 30 Filing, the Commission issued the WEQ
Version 003.3 NOPR on July 16, 2020, wherein the Commission proposed to incorporate the WEQ Version 003.3
Standards, with certain enumerated exceptions.12
10. NAESBs WEQ Version 003.3
Standards include newly created standards as well as modifications to existing standards developed through the NAESB Business Practice Standards development or minor correction processes.13 The WEQ Version 003.3
Standards also include additions and revisions to the NAESB WEQ023
Modeling Business Practice Standards, which the Commission addresses herein.
11. The WEQ Version 003.3 Standards include revisions related to the surety assessment on cybersecurity performed by Sandia. NAESB responded to a U.S.
Department of Energy DOE request that NAESB act on an expedited basis to ensure the WEQ cybersecurity standards developed in response to the surety assessment were included in the WEQ
Version 003.3 Standards.14 NAESB
reports that the changes strengthen the practices and cybersecurity protections established within the standards by aligning security requirements with other cybersecurity guidelines, mitigating potential vulnerabilities, and incorporating more secure communication and encryption methodologies.
12. In support of directives contained in Order No. 890,15 NAESB also revised the OASIS suite of standards. The WEQ

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NAESB WEQ Version 003.3 Report filed March 30, 2020.
12 Standards for Bus. Practices & Commcn Protocols for Pub. Utils., 85 FR 55201 Sept. 4, 2020 172 FERC 61,047 2020 WEQ Version 003.3 NOPR.
13 See NAESB WEQ Version 003.3 Report, Transmittal at 12.
14 Id. at 34.
15 Preventing Undue Discrimination & Preference in Transmission Serv., Order No. 890, 72 FR 12266
Mar. 15, 2007, 118 FERC 61,119, order on rehg, Order No. 890A, 73 FR 2984 Jan. 16, 2008, 121
FERC 61,297 2007, order on rehg, Order No.
890B, 123 FERC 61,299 2008, order on rehg, Order No. 890C, 74 FERC 12540 Mar. 25 2009, 126 FERC 61,228, order on clarification, Order No. 890D, 74 FR 61511 Nov. 25, 2009, 129 FERC
61,126 2009.

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Version 003.3 Standards include additions and revisions to support new OASIS functionality that will allow for the posting of third party offers of planning redispatch services WEQ
00113.2 as well as providing additional information regarding the curtailment of firm transmission service WEQ00128 prescribed in the OASIS
suite of standards.16 In response to Order No. 676I, NAESB also revised the standards as necessary to conform with the Commissions Dynegy policy, and stated that any standards from these efforts will be incorporated into future versions of the WEQ Business Practice Standards.17
13. The WEQ Version 003.3 Standards also include changes that were made to support consistency with the North American Electric Reliability Corporation NERC Reliability Standards, including NERCs retirement of the NERC Interchange Scheduling and Coordination Reliability Standards and retirement of the NERC Modeling, Data, and Analysis Reliability Standards. NAESB coordinated with NERC to make modifications and revisions pertaining to electronic tagging e-Tagging,18 and to the calculation of ATC and AFC.19
14. The WEQ Version 003.3 Standards also include additions, revisions, and reservations made to the WEQ008
Transmission Load Relief TLR
Eastern Interconnection Business Practice Standards, which NAESB
advises completes the standards development effort for the Parallel Flow Visualization PFV enhanced congestion management process PFV
Standards.20 The PFV Standards are the culmination of a multi-year coordination effort between NAESB, NERC, and the Eastern Interconnect Data Sharing Network EIDSN, Inc.,21
16 NAESB WEQ Version 003.3 Report, Transmittal at 4. WEQ00113.2 adds new Third Party Offers for Planning Redispatch Services Business Practice Standards to allow for posting of third-party offers of planning redispatch services. WEQ00128 adds new Curtailment Posting Requirements Business Practice Standards for the posting of additional information on OASIS regarding firm transmission curtailments.
17 In Dynegy Power Marketing, Inc, 99 FERC
61,054 2002 Dynegy, the Commission established its policy on a customers right to keep its contractual rights to point-to-point firm transmission service on the original path it has reserved while the customers request for a redirect is pending.
18 With respect to e-Tagging, NAESB also modified the WEQ004 Coordinate Interchange Business Practice Standards Commercial Timing Tables to clarify commercial timing requirements.
19 NAESB WEQ Version 003.3 Report, Transmittal at 4.
20 Id.
21 Comprised of North American Reliability Coordinators, Transmission Operators,
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and the standards are designed to improve upon the congestion management procedures for the Eastern Interconnection through the use of realtime data in calculations for transmission loading relief obligations.
15. Moreover, as part of the standards development process, NAESB made five additional revisions to the OASIS suite of standards that were not made in response to Commission orders.22 First, NAESB modified the OASIS suite of standards to improve OASIS query functionalities. Second, NAESB
modified the OASIS suite of standards for new OASIS functionality to fully document all encumbrances to unconditional firm transmission service, such as untagged pseudo-ties. Third, NAESB modified the OASIS suite of standards to expand notice functionality and establish standards for providing dynamic notification to transmission customers of the renewal deadline for rollover rights for point-to-point transmission service. Fourth, NAESB
modified WEQ001 OASIS Business Practice Standards for use of Next Hour Market Service and the 0NX
transmission product codes. Fifth, NAESB modified the OASIS suite of standards to modify Network Integration Transmission Service NITS
requirements. Finally, NAESB revised the OASIS suite of standards to make three minor corrections.23
16. The WEQ Version 003.3 Standards include the WEQ023 Modeling Business Practice Standards that provide technical details concerning the calculation of ATC for wholesale electric transmission services. The WEQ023 Modeling Business Practice Standards address aspects of certain of the NERC MOD A Reliability Standards relating to modeling, data and analysis that are included in the NERCs proposed retirement of its MOD A
Reliability Standards.
II. Discussion A. Overview 17. NAESBs WEQ Version 003.3
Standards, which we are incorporating by reference in this final rule, include modifications, reservations, and/or Transmission Owners, and Balancing Authorities, EIDSN, Inc. manages the Electric Information Network EInet, a data-sharing network for its members to promote the reliable and efficient operation of the Eastern and Quebec Interconnections. See EIDSN, Inc., Our Mission, at https eidsn.org/.
22 NAESB WEQ Version 003.3 Report, Transmittal at 5.
23 Minor corrections were made to the WEQ001
OASIS Business Practice Standards and the WEQ
003 OASIS Data Dictionary Business Practice Standards.

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