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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 104 / Wednesday, June 2, 2021 / Rules and Regulations 51.In keeping with the prior practice that the Commission adopted in Order No. 676H, we are requiring public utilities and those entities with reciprocity tariffs to modify their open access transmission tariffs OATT to include the WEQ standards that we are incorporating by reference. In order to comply with this final rule, public utilities and entities with reciprocity tariffs must make a compliance filing through eTariff no later than 90 days from the date the final rule is published in the Federal Register, using an indeterminant effective date 12/31/
9998 for the tariff records. The Commission will establish an effective date for the tariff changes in the orders on the compliance filings no earlier than five months from the date the final rule is published in the Federal Register.72
Should any public utility that has previously been granted a waiver of the regulations believe that its circumstances warrant a continued waiver, the public utility may file a request for a waiver wherein the public utility can detail the circumstances that it believes warrant a waiver.73 In its request for continued waiver, the public utility must include the date, docket number of the orders previously granting the waivers, and an explanation for why the waivers was initially granted by the Commission.
Any waiver requests must be filed at the same time with the public utilitys compliance filing or in a separate FPA
section 205 filing.

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IV. Notice of Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards 52. Office of Management and Budget Circular A119 section 11 Feb. 10, 1998 provides that when a federal agency issues or revises a regulation containing a standard, the agency should publish a statement in the final rule stating whether the adopted 71 These include all of the WEQ Version 003.3
Standards except for the Business Practice Standards that address the cybersecurity and parallel flow visualization, as discussed in the body of this final rule.
72 As we explained in Order No. 676H, 148
FERC 61,205 at n.26, to the extent a public utilitys OASIS obligations are administered by an independent system operator ISO or regional transmission operator RTO and are not covered in the public utilitys OATT, the public utility will not need to modify its OATT to include the OASIS
standards. Such a public utility will, however, be required to comply with these standards unless granted a waiver by the Commission. The business practice standards that we incorporate by reference into our regulations in this final rule govern the terms and conditions that public utilities must include in their OATTs and the transactions that entities enter with public utilities under these OATTs must be in accordance with the incorporated standards.
73 Order No. 676E, 129 FERC 61,162 at P 107.

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standard is a voluntary consensus standard or a government-unique standard. In this final rule, the Commission is incorporating by reference voluntary consensus standards adopted by NAESBs WEQ.
V. Incorporation by Reference 53. The Office of the Federal Register requires agencies incorporating material by reference in final rules to discuss, in the preamble of the final rule, the ways that the materials it incorporates by reference are reasonably available to interested parties and how interested parties can obtain the materials.74 The regulations also require agencies to summarize, in the preamble of the final rule, the material it incorporates by reference. The standards we are incorporating by reference in this final rule 75 can be summarized as follows:
54. The WEQ000 Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Definition of Terms Business Practice Standards provide a single location for all abbreviations, acronyms, and defined terms referenced in the WEQ Business Practice Standards. These standards provide common nomenclature for terms within the wholesale electric industry, thereby reducing confusion and opportunities for misinterpretation or misunderstandings among industry participants.
55. The WEQ001 OASIS Business Practice Standards define the general and specific transaction processing requirements and related business processes required for OASIS. The standards detail requirements related to standard terminology for transmission and ancillary services, attribute values defining transmission service class and type, ancillary and other services definitions, OASIS registration procedures, procurement of ancillary and other services, path naming, next hour market service, identical transmission service requests, redirects, resales, transfers, OASIS postings, procedures for addressing ATC or AFC
methodology questions, rollover rights, conditional curtailment option reservations, auditing usage of Capacity Benefit Margin, coordination of requests for service across multiple transmission systems, consolidation, preemption and right-of-first refusal process, and NITS
requests.
56. The WEQ002 OASIS Standards and Communication Protocols Business Practice Standards define the technical 74 1 CFR 51.5. See Incorporation by Reference, 79
FR 66267 Nov. 7, 2014.
75 WEQ000 Version 003.1 and WEQ006 Version 003.1 were previously approved for incorporation by reference and continue to be referenced without change.

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standards for OASIS. These standards detail network architecture requirements, information access requirements, OASIS and point-to-point interface requirements, implementation, and NITS interface requirements.
57. The WEQ003 OASIS Data Dictionary Business Practice Standards define the data element specifications for OASIS.
58. The WEQ004 Coordinate Interchange Business Practice Standards define the commercial processes necessary to facilitate interchange transactions via Request for Interchange and specify the arrangements and data to be communicated by the entity responsible for authorizing the implementation of such transactions the entities responsible for balancing load and generation.
59. The WEQ005 Area Control Error ACE Equation Special Cases Business Practice Standards define commercial based requirements regarding the obligations of a balancing authority to manage the difference between scheduled and actual electrical generation within its control area. Each balancing authority manages its ACE in accordance with the NERC Reliability Standards. These standards detail requirements for jointly owned utilities, supplemental regulation service, and load or generation transfer by telemetry.
60. The WEQ007 Inadvertent Interchange Payback Business Practice Standards define the methods in which inadvertent energy is paid back, mitigating the potential for financial gain through the misuse of paybacks for inadvertent interchange. Inadvertent interchange is interchange that occurs when a balancing authority cannot fully balance generation and load within its area. The standards allow for the repayment of any imbalances through bilateral in-kind payback, unilateral inkind payback, or other methods as agreed to.
61. The WEQ008 Transmission Loading ReliefEastern Interconnection Business Practice Standards define the business practices for cutting transmission service during a TLR
event. These standards detail requirements for the use of interconnection-wide TLR procedures, interchange transaction priorities for use with interconnection-wide TLR
procedures, and the Eastern Interconnection procedure for physical curtailment of interchange transactions.
62. The WEQ011 Gas/Electric Coordination Business Practice Standards define communication protocols intended to improve coordination between the gas and electric industries in daily operational
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