Comment Form - Reliability Guideline: Generating Unit Operations During Complete Loss Of

Official Comment Form Reliability Guideline: Generating Unit Operations During Complete Loss of Communications

Please use this form to submit comments on the proposed Reliability Guideline: Operating Reserve Management.

Comments must be submitted by February 28, 2014. You may submit the completed Microsoft Word form by e-mail to ([email protected]) with the words “Reliability Guideline: Generator Loss of Communication” in the subject line. Only comments submitted in Microsoft Word format using this comment form will be accepted. Red-line document changes, PDF versions of this document, or email comments will NOT be accepted.

Comments may be submitted by individuals or groups.

If the comments are from an individual, please provide the contact information for the submitter in Information Table 1, and provide the requested affiliation information in Information Table 2.

If the comments are from a group, please provide the contact information for the leader of the group in Information Table 1, the requested affiliation information in Information Table 2, and a list of all group participants in Information Table 3.

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If you have any questions on the subject information, please contact Larry Kezele at [email protected]. Information Table 1 Individual Commenter or Group Leader Contact Information Name: Entity Name: Telephone: E-mail:

Information Table 2 Select each NERC Region that you Select each Industry Segment that you represent: represent: ERCOT 1 — Transmission Owners FRCC 2 — RTOs, ISOs MRO 3 — Load-serving Entities NPCC 4 — Transmission-dependent Utilities RFC SERC 5 — Electric Generators SPP 6 — Electricity Brokers, Aggregators, and Marketers WECC 7 — Large Electricity End Users NA – Not Applicable 8 — Small Electricity End Users 9 — Federal, State, and Provincial Regulatory or other Government Entities 10 — Regional Reliability Organizations and Regional Entities NA – Not Applicable

Official Comment Form – Reliability Guideline: Generating Unit Operations During Complete Loss of Communications 2 Information Table 3 Group Comments (Complete this page if comments are from a group.) Group Name: Additional Member Name Additional Member Entity Region(s) Segment(s) Name

Official Comment Form – Reliability Guideline: Generating Unit Operations During Complete Loss of Communications 3 Enter All Comments in the tables below. Red-line Changes will not be accepted. Submit this form in Microsoft Word format only.

There are two forms provided for your use to submit comments on this guideline.

The first form is used to provide general comments on the guideline. These general comments should not reference a specific section or page in the guideline, but rather, should be overall comments on the guideline or concepts in the guideline, and may include repeating comments that are applicable to a number of sections.

The second form is used to provide comments to specific sections of the guideline, such as spelling, punctuation or word usage comments, as well as to provide specific comments to concepts on the indicated page and line of the guideline. When performing the review, please use the “clean version (not any “redline” versions) of the document in order to ensure consistently in provided comments from multiple commenters.

Please provide sufficient information in your comments to allow the working group to understand the issue being commented upon, and provide suggested changes to the guideline that the working group may use to update the guideline.

Official Comment Form – Reliability Guideline: Generating Unit Operations During Complete Loss of Communications 4 Instructions for general comments:  Provide a description (or explanation) of your comments in the Comment column.  Provide a proposed wording (or other) change in the proposed change column. The text in the proposed change column will be used by the working group to update the document.

The last column will be used by the working group during the comment resolution process, and should not be filled out on this comment form.

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Comment resolution adopted by the working/task Comment Proposed Change group on each comment submitted

Official Comment Form – Reliability Guideline: Generating Unit Operations During Complete Loss of Communications 5 Instructions for specific comments on the text of the document:  Provide a page number and line number reference for each comment (page and line numbers are provided in the review version of the document). When referencing page and line numbers, refer to the “clean” version of the posted document. Please DO NOT refer to page and line numbers in “redline” versions of documents.  Identify each comment as either E (editorial), i.e., spelling, punctuation, formatting; or, T (technical) i.e., content changes.  Provide a description (or explanation) of your comments in the Comment column.  Provide a proposed wording (or other) change in the proposed change column. The text in the proposed change column will be used by the NERC Operating Committee to update the document.

The last column will be used by the working group during the comment resolution process, and should not be filled out on this comment form.

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Type of Comment Comment resolution adopted by Page Line (Editorial / Comment Proposed Change the working/task group on Number Number Technical) each comment submitted

Official Comment Form – Reliability Guideline: Generating Unit Operations During Complete Loss of Communications 6 Type of Comment Comment resolution adopted by Page Line (Editorial / Comment Proposed Change the working/task group on Number Number Technical) each comment submitted

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