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(e) Emergency contact information. Each market entity shall
submit emergency contact information in a form prescribed by com-
mission staff by May 1 of each year. Notification to commission staff
regarding changes to its emergency contact information shall be made
within 30 days. This information will be used to contact market entities
prior to and during an emergency event.
(f) Reporting requirements. Upon request by the commission
or commission staff during a SOC declared emergency event, affected
market entities shall use their best efforts to provide outage and restora-
tion information to the commission staff pursuant to a schedule pro-
vided by staff.
(g) Copy available for inspection. A complete copy of the
emergency operations plan shall be made available at the main office
of each market entity for inspection by the commission or commission
staff upon request.
(h) Procedures for filing comprehensive summaries. Each
electric utility, TDU, and PGC may file its comprehensive summary
confidentially, pursuant to 22.71(d) of this title (relating to Filing of
Pleadings, Documents and Other Materials) and is provided enhanced
protection under Texas Government Code Chapter 421 (relating to
Homeland Security). Access to the filings will be limited to the
commission and commission staff.
(i) Review of filed comprehensive summaries. Each market
entity shall comply with the filing requirements set forth in subsection
(b) of this section. Each comprehensive summary will be reviewed
to ensure that it addresses, at a summary level, the minimum require-
ments, as described in subsection (c) of this section.
() Electric cooperatives.
(1) Application. This subsection is applicable to electric
cooperatives, as defined in the Public Utility Regulatory Act 11.003,
that operates, maintains or controls in this state a facility to provide
retail electric utility service or transmission service.
(2) Reporting Requirements. Each electric cooperative
shall file with the commission a comprehensive summary of its emer-
gency operations plan by May 1, 2008. The comprehensive summary
shall also include an affidavit from the electric cooperative's senior
operations officer indicating that all relevant operating personnel
within the electric cooperative are familiar with the contents of the
emergency operations plan and are committed to following the plans
and the provisions contained therein in the event of a system-wide or
local emergency that arises from natural or manmade disasters. To the
extent significant changes are made to an emergency operations plan,
and the comprehensive summary of the affected portion of the plan
is no longer adequately addressed under the current comprehensive
summary, a revision to the comprehensive summary shall be filed no
later than 30 days after such changes take effect.
(3) Information to be included in the emergency operations
plan. Each electric cooperative's emergency operations plan shall in-
clude, but is not limited to, the following:
(A) A registry of critical load customers, as defined in
25.497(a) of this title, directly served. This registry shall be updated
as necessary but, at a minimum, annually. The description filed with
the commission shall include the location of the registry, the process for
maintaining an accurate registry, the process for providing assistance to
critical load customers in the event of an unplanned outage, the process
for communicating with the critical load customers, and a process for
training staff with respect to serving critical load customers;
(B) A communications plan that describes the proce-
dures for contacting the media, customers, and critical load customersdirectly served as soon as reasonably possible either before or at the
onset of an emergency affecting electric service. The communications
plan should also address its telephone system and complaint-handling
procedures during an emergency;
(C) Curtailment priorities, procedures for shedding
load, rotating black-outs, and planned interruptions;
(D) Priorities for restoration of service;
(E) A plan to ensure continuous and adequate service
during a pandemic;
(F) A hurricane plan, including evacuation and re-entry
procedures (if facilities are located within a hurricane evacuation zone);
(G) A summary of power plant weatherization plans
and procedures;
(H) A summary of alternative fuel and storage capacity;
and
(I) Priorities for recovery of generation capacity.
(4) Preparedness Review. Each electric cooperative shall
conduct an annual review of its emergency procedures with key emer-
gency operations personnel if its emergency procedures have not been
implemented in response to an actual event within the last 12 months.
If the electric cooperative is in a hurricane evacuation zone, this review
shall also address its hurricane plan/storm recovery plan. The commis-
sion shall be notified 30 days prior to the date of the review.
(5) Emergency contact information. Each electric cooper-
ative shall submit emergency contact information to the commission
by May 1 of each year.
(6) Reporting requirements. Upon request by the com-
mission or commission staff during a SOC declared emergency event,
electric cooperatives shall use their best efforts to provide outage and
restoration information to the commission staff pursuant to a schedule
provided by staff.
(7) Copy available for inspection. A complete copy of the
emergency operations plan shall be made available at the main office
of each electric cooperative for inspection by the commission or com-
mission staff upon request.
(8) Procedures for filing comprehensive summaries. Each
electric cooperative may designate all or portions of its comprehensive
summary "Confidential," pursuant to 22.71(d) of this title, and the
confidentiality of such information shall be maintained, as set forth in
22.71(d) of this title.
(9) Review of filed comprehensive summaries. Each elec-
tric cooperative shall comply with the filing requirements set forth in
paragraph (2) of this subsection. Each comprehensive summary will be
reviewed to ensure that it addresses, at a summary level, the minimum
requirements, as described in paragraph (3) of this subsection.
This agency hereby certifies that the proposal has been reviewed
by legal counsel and found to be within the agency's legal author-
ity to adopt
Filed with the Office of the Secretary of State on September 13,
2007.
TRD-200704227PROPOSED RULES September 28, 2007 32 TexReg 6711
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