81_FR_47299 81 FR 47160 - Draft Outline for the Proposed Joint U.S.-Canadian Electric Grid Strategy

81 FR 47160 - Draft Outline for the Proposed Joint U.S.-Canadian Electric Grid Strategy

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 139 (July 20, 2016)

Page Range47160-47162
FR Document2016-17133

With this notice, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) seeks public comment on the proposed content and scope of the Joint U.S.- Canadian Electric Grid Strategy as indicated by the draft outline presented here. DOE seeks public comment including the following: (1) Suggestions for how best to describe the cyber and physical risks to electric grid systems, as well as ways to address and mitigate those risks; (2) suggestions for ensuring that the outlined strategic goals and objectives are at the appropriate level for a joint U.S.-Canadian strategy; (3) suggestions for actions under the proposed joint strategy that Federal departments and agencies should take to make the grid more secure and resilient; (4) suggestions for new ways to secure the future grid across North America, as outlined in the final section; and (5) suggestions for timelines to use when considering future planning and investment opportunities. Supplementary background information, additional details, and instructions for submitting comments can be found below.

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 DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Draft Outline for the Proposed Joint U.S.-Canadian Electric Grid 
Strategy

AGENCY: Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, 
Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of request for public comment.

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SUMMARY: With this notice, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) seeks 
public comment on the proposed content and scope of the Joint U.S.-
Canadian Electric Grid Strategy as indicated by the draft outline 
presented here.
    DOE seeks public comment including the following: (1) Suggestions 
for how best to describe the cyber and physical risks to electric grid 
systems, as well as ways to address and mitigate those risks; (2) 
suggestions for ensuring that the outlined strategic goals and 
objectives are at the appropriate level for a joint U.S.-Canadian 
strategy; (3) suggestions for actions under the proposed joint strategy 
that Federal departments and agencies should take to make the grid more 
secure and resilient; (4) suggestions for new ways to secure the future 
grid across North America, as outlined in the final section; and (5) 
suggestions for timelines to use when considering future planning and 
investment opportunities.
    Supplementary background information, additional details, and 
instructions for submitting comments can be found below.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before August 10, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Comments can be submitted by either of the following methods 
and must be identified as ``Joint Strategy.'' By email: 
[email protected]. Include ``Joint Strategy'' in subject 
line of the message. Submitters may enter text or upload files in 
response to this notice. By mail: Stewart Cedres, Office of Electricity 
Delivery & Energy Reliability, U.S. Department of Energy, Forrestal 
Building, Room 6E-092, 1000 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 
20585. Note: Delivery of the U.S. Postal Service mail to DOE may be 
delayed by several weeks due to security screening. DOE, therefore, 
encourages those wishing to comment to submit comments electronically 
by email.
    Instructions: Response to this Request for Comment is voluntary. 
Respondents need not reply to all questions or topics; however, they 
should clearly indicate the question or topic to which they are 
responding. Responses may be used by the U.S. Government for program 
planning on a non-attribution basis. DOE therefore requests that no 
business proprietary information or copyrighted information be 
submitted in response to this Request for Comment. Please note that the 
U.S. Government will not pay for response preparation, or for the use 
of any information contained in the response.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information 
should be directed to Stewart Cedres, Office of Electricity Delivery & 
Energy Reliability, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue 
SW., Washington, DC 20585, 202-586-2066, [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: During the March 2016 visit by Canadian 
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in the ``U.S.-Canada Joint Statement on 
Climate, Energy, and Arctic Leadership,'' the U.S. and Canada agreed to 
``[d]evelop a joint U.S.-Canadian strategy for strengthening the 
security and resilience of the North American electricity grid [and] 
work together to strengthen the security and resilience of the electric 
grid, including against the growing threat from cyber-attacks and 
climate change impacts.'' The Departments of Energy and Homeland 
Security are co-leading an interagency effort, including our Canadian 
colleagues, to develop this proposed joint strategy.
    As a first step, Federal interagency writing teams have developed 
an outline for the proposed joint strategy that consists of three 
overarching strategic goals and objectives in support of achieving 
those goals. The purpose of the draft outline is to give the public an 
initial view of potential goals, objectives, and actions that could be 
taken to strengthen the security and resilience of the electric grid. 
In developing the outline, the writing teams used a ``baseline'' 
document consisting of analytical work that supports both the 
development of this proposed strategy and the next iteration of the 
Quadrennial Energy Review.
    DOE will collate public comments received on the outline. The 
comments will inform the preparation of the full draft joint strategy 
and accompanying action plan, which is scheduled to be released in 
December 2016.
    Comments are sought on the proposed overarching outline that will 
frame the joint strategy. Additional suggestions will be reviewed as 
they relate to the proposed structure of the document.
    Following is a proposed high-level and draft outline intended to 
guide the scope and content of the Joint U.S.-Canadian Electric Grid 
Strategy. DOE seeks public comments on all aspects of this draft 
outline. The proposed outline is presented here in five parts: (1) 
Introduction and Context for the Joint U.S.-Canadian Electric Grid 
Strategy; (2) Goal 1: Protect Today's Grid and Enhance Preparedness; 
(3) Goal 2: Manage Contingencies and Enhance Response and Recovery; (4) 
Goal 3: Build a More Secure and Resilient Future Grid; and (5) 
Conclusion.

1. Introduction and Context for the Joint U.S.-Canadian Electric Grid 
Strategy

    The introductory and context-setting sections of the joint strategy 
will describe the context for the joint strategy.

2. Goal 1: Protect Today's Grid and Enhance Preparedness

    This section will outline opportunities to avoid, deter, and 
mitigate risks before they impact the grid. This includes information 
sharing between and among owners, operators, public, private and third-
party participants whose protection of critical assets would benefit 
from actionable threat and hazard information and would provide 
information utilization for prudent and efficient security investments. 
This section will also highlight the importance of coordinating ongoing 
law enforcement, emergency management, reliability coordination, and 
monitoring and detection activities, the practice of which will improve 
protection capabilities.
    This section will also address the method of preparedness that 
identifies can't-lose aspects of the system to mitigate the outer limit 
of tolerable impacts to the grid. This section will address major 
isolated as well as potentially cascading events that create out-and-
out system failure or balloon into major regional or multi-system 
impacts. This section will examine how to create necessary incentives 
and investments to engage the protective measures for outlier events. 
The section will close by examining the electric grid's 
interdependencies with other critical systems and functions of the 
nations' economies and societies. Given our economic and social 
reliance on electricity, the strategy will identify the importance of 
securing the grid in the

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broader context of our joint and domestic national security goals.
[cir] Objective 1. Enhance Information Sharing
    i. Enhance information sharing between government and industry.
    ii. Build organizational capacity to improve government, and 
industry information sharing and support to improve management of risk 
critical to the success of business mission and goals.
[cir] Objective 2. Develop and Coordinate Existing Forensic and Law 
Enforcement Capabilities
    i. Improve tools, processes, and coordination among relevant 
government entities and industries for monitoring, detecting, 
analyzing, reporting, defending and mitigating threats to the electric 
grid.
[cir] Objective 3. Deter Major Isolated and Cascading Events
    i. Protect critical assets from relevant adversarial, natural, and 
technological threats to prevent and mitigate power loss and system 
failure.
    ii. Develop guiding principles for automatic and manual means of 
preventing cascading blackouts (System Operations).
[cir] Objective 4. Align Standards, Incentives and Investment with 
Security Goals
    i. Align utility incentives for planning and investment with 
regulatory processes and tools for prudent cost recovery, including 
tools for security valuation.
[cir] Objective 5. Understand and Mitigate Vulnerabilities From 
Interdependencies With Other Critical Infrastructures
    i. Mitigate and reduce security risks/vulnerabilities caused by 
interdependence between grid technologies and other infrastructures, 
including telecom, water, and natural gas.
    ii. Identify and manage impacts to other critical societal 
functions (e.g., defense).

3. Goal 2: Manage Contingencies and Enhance Response and Recovery 
Efforts

    This section will address response and recovery options during and 
after an incident, examining public and private resources available, 
including through mutual assistance efforts for physical and cyber 
capabilities. This section will also highlight the complexity and 
potential issues with supply chains, which are compounded in an 
emergency. Finally, this section will highlight the importance of 
adaptation through recovery and rebuilding efforts, restoring 
capabilities through smarter, more efficient, and forward-looking 
solutions.
[cir] Objective 1. Improve Emergency Response and Continuity
    i. Enhance public and private resources for response to and 
recovery from major loss-of-power events.
[cir] Objective 2. Develop or Enhance Mutual Assistance for Physical 
and Cyber Threats
    i. Foster robust mutual assistance programs for physical grid 
assets, and develop a cybersecurity mutual assistance program.
[cir] Objective 3. Identify Dependencies and Supply Chain Needs During 
an Emergency
    i. Address effects from power outages, such as loss of services.
[cir] Objective 4. Recover and Rebuild
    i. Adapt via recovery to result in more resilient investments, 
practices and processes.

4. Goal 3: Build a More Secure and Resilient Future Grid

    The final section of the strategy will take on the challenge and 
opportunities to adapting through recovery efforts, underscoring the 
end-goal of grid resilience. The first part of the final section will 
explore post-incident actions in the context of evolving grid design, 
technologies, and a changing climate (that is, the potential impact of 
more frequent and severe natural disasters). The first part of this 
section will also address the opportunities to develop and advance the 
deployment of tools and technologies to address the security 
vulnerabilities addressed in this strategy.
    The second part of this final section will outline opportunities to 
integrate security and resilience into planning, investment, 
regulatory- and policy-decision making for joint, cross-border security 
goals. This includes enhancing modeling and risk analysis capabilities 
to characterize vulnerabilities for decision-making and investments, 
suggesting ways to align utility and market incentives, and addressing 
workforce risks and opportunities for evolving technical knowledge 
needs. Finally, this section will point to the importance of pursuing 
optimal domestic security goals to coordinate cross-border where 
possible, and noting where domestic-specific goals do not lend 
themselves to joint coordination.
[cir] Objective 1. Understand and Manage New and Evolving Risks From 
Grid Technologies and Grid Design
    i. Identify, understand, and, to the extent possible, neutralize 
emerging threats (including through supply chains).
    ii. Ensure that continued integration of grid and IT 
infrastructures accounts for the security benefits and challenges of 
that enhanced integration.
    iii. Meet national security goals in a changing climate and energy 
landscape.
    [ssquf] Improve preparedness in the context of increased natural 
disaster intensity and frequency and
    [ssquf] Integrate security considerations into energy policy 
making, as well as utility and project planning, design, and 
implementation.
[cir] Objective 2. Develop and Deploy Security and Resilience Tools and 
Technologies
    i. Ensure that the technological and institutional and 
architectural evolution of the grid enhances security and resilience.
    ii. Be resilient to, and secure against, a range of grid threats.
    iii. Coordinate with industry and operator practices to detect and 
mitigate grid anomalies quickly and effectively.
[cir] Objective 3. Integrate Security and Resilience Into Planning, 
Investment, Regulatory- and Policy-Decision Making, and Coordinate 
Cross-Border Grid Integration Between the United States and Canada
    i. Enhance modeling and risk analysis capabilities to better 
characterize grid vulnerabilities, understand impacts of loss-of-power 
events, and support risk-informed decisions, including investments.
    ii. Align utility and market participant incentives for planning 
and investment with regulatory processes and tools for prudent cost 
recovery, including tools for security valuation.
    iii. Continue to pursue optimal domestic planning, investment, 
regulatory- and policy-decision making for security and resilience, 
noting where domestic-specific approach do not lend themselves to joint 
coordination.
    iv. Address the need to reinforce existing and develop new 
workforce capabilities.

5. Conclusion

    The conclusion of the strategy will summarize major findings and 
highlight the way forward.
    DOE seeks public comments on all of the draft outline sections 
described above for the Joint U.S.-Canadian Electric Grid Strategy.


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    Authority: Presidential Policy Directive 21--Critical 
Infrastructure Security and Resilience (PPD-21), Presidential Policy 
Directive 8--National Preparedness (PPD-8), Fixing America's Surface 
Transportation (FAST) Act (Pub. L. 114-94) and Robert T. Stafford 
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance (Stafford) Act (Pub. L. 93-
288) as amended.

    Issued at Washington, DC on July 14, 2016.
Patricia A. Hoffman,
Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Electricity 
Delivery and Energy Reliability.
[FR Doc. 2016-17133 Filed 7-19-16; 8:45 am]
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                                                    Issued at Washington, DC, on July 14,                  submit comments electronically by                        Comments are sought on the proposed
                                                  2016.                                                    email.                                                overarching outline that will frame the
                                                  LaTanya R. Butler,                                         Instructions: Response to this Request              joint strategy. Additional suggestions
                                                  Deputy Committee Management Officer.                     for Comment is voluntary. Respondents                 will be reviewed as they relate to the
                                                  [FR Doc. 2016–17128 Filed 7–19–16; 8:45 am]              need not reply to all questions or topics;            proposed structure of the document.
                                                  BILLING CODE 6450–01–P                                   however, they should clearly indicate                    Following is a proposed high-level
                                                                                                           the question or topic to which they are               and draft outline intended to guide the
                                                                                                           responding. Responses may be used by                  scope and content of the Joint U.S.-
                                                  DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY                                     the U.S. Government for program                       Canadian Electric Grid Strategy. DOE
                                                                                                           planning on a non-attribution basis.                  seeks public comments on all aspects of
                                                  Draft Outline for the Proposed Joint                     DOE therefore requests that no business               this draft outline. The proposed outline
                                                  U.S.-Canadian Electric Grid Strategy                     proprietary information or copyrighted                is presented here in five parts: (1)
                                                                                                           information be submitted in response to               Introduction and Context for the Joint
                                                  AGENCY: Office of Electricity Delivery                                                                         U.S.-Canadian Electric Grid Strategy; (2)
                                                  and Energy Reliability, Department of                    this Request for Comment. Please note
                                                                                                           that the U.S. Government will not pay                 Goal 1: Protect Today’s Grid and
                                                  Energy.                                                                                                        Enhance Preparedness; (3) Goal 2:
                                                                                                           for response preparation, or for the use
                                                  ACTION: Notice of request for public                     of any information contained in the                   Manage Contingencies and Enhance
                                                  comment.                                                 response.                                             Response and Recovery; (4) Goal 3:
                                                                                                                                                                 Build a More Secure and Resilient
                                                  SUMMARY:    With this notice, the U.S.                   FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:                      Future Grid; and (5) Conclusion.
                                                  Department of Energy (DOE) seeks                         Requests for additional information
                                                  public comment on the proposed                           should be directed to Stewart Cedres,                 1. Introduction and Context for the
                                                  content and scope of the Joint U.S.-                     Office of Electricity Delivery & Energy               Joint U.S.-Canadian Electric Grid
                                                  Canadian Electric Grid Strategy as                       Reliability, U.S. Department of Energy,               Strategy
                                                  indicated by the draft outline presented                 1000 Independence Avenue SW.,                            The introductory and context-setting
                                                  here.                                                    Washington, DC 20585, 202–586–2066,                   sections of the joint strategy will
                                                     DOE seeks public comment including                    jointgridstrategy@hq.doe.gov.                         describe the context for the joint
                                                  the following: (1) Suggestions for how                                                                         strategy.
                                                                                                           SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: During the
                                                  best to describe the cyber and physical                  March 2016 visit by Canadian Prime                    2. Goal 1: Protect Today’s Grid and
                                                  risks to electric grid systems, as well as               Minister Justin Trudeau, in the ‘‘U.S.-               Enhance Preparedness
                                                  ways to address and mitigate those                       Canada Joint Statement on Climate,
                                                  risks; (2) suggestions for ensuring that                                                                          This section will outline
                                                                                                           Energy, and Arctic Leadership,’’ the                  opportunities to avoid, deter, and
                                                  the outlined strategic goals and                         U.S. and Canada agreed to ‘‘[d]evelop a
                                                  objectives are at the appropriate level                                                                        mitigate risks before they impact the
                                                                                                           joint U.S.-Canadian strategy for                      grid. This includes information sharing
                                                  for a joint U.S.-Canadian strategy; (3)                  strengthening the security and resilience
                                                  suggestions for actions under the                                                                              between and among owners, operators,
                                                                                                           of the North American electricity grid                public, private and third-party
                                                  proposed joint strategy that Federal                     [and] work together to strengthen the
                                                  departments and agencies should take to                                                                        participants whose protection of critical
                                                                                                           security and resilience of the electric               assets would benefit from actionable
                                                  make the grid more secure and resilient;                 grid, including against the growing
                                                  (4) suggestions for new ways to secure                                                                         threat and hazard information and
                                                                                                           threat from cyber-attacks and climate                 would provide information utilization
                                                  the future grid across North America, as                 change impacts.’’ The Departments of
                                                  outlined in the final section; and (5)                                                                         for prudent and efficient security
                                                                                                           Energy and Homeland Security are co-                  investments. This section will also
                                                  suggestions for timelines to use when                    leading an interagency effort, including
                                                  considering future planning and                                                                                highlight the importance of coordinating
                                                                                                           our Canadian colleagues, to develop this              ongoing law enforcement, emergency
                                                  investment opportunities.                                proposed joint strategy.
                                                     Supplementary background                                                                                    management, reliability coordination,
                                                                                                              As a first step, Federal interagency               and monitoring and detection activities,
                                                  information, additional details, and                     writing teams have developed an
                                                  instructions for submitting comments                                                                           the practice of which will improve
                                                                                                           outline for the proposed joint strategy               protection capabilities.
                                                  can be found below.                                      that consists of three overarching                       This section will also address the
                                                  DATES: Comments must be received on                      strategic goals and objectives in support             method of preparedness that identifies
                                                  or before August 10, 2016.                               of achieving those goals. The purpose of              can’t-lose aspects of the system to
                                                  ADDRESSES: Comments can be submitted                     the draft outline is to give the public an            mitigate the outer limit of tolerable
                                                  by either of the following methods and                   initial view of potential goals,                      impacts to the grid. This section will
                                                  must be identified as ‘‘Joint Strategy.’’                objectives, and actions that could be                 address major isolated as well as
                                                  By email: jointgridstrategy@hq.doe.gov.                  taken to strengthen the security and                  potentially cascading events that create
                                                  Include ‘‘Joint Strategy’’ in subject line               resilience of the electric grid. In                   out-and-out system failure or balloon
                                                  of the message. Submitters may enter                     developing the outline, the writing                   into major regional or multi-system
                                                  text or upload files in response to this                 teams used a ‘‘baseline’’ document                    impacts. This section will examine how
                                                  notice. By mail: Stewart Cedres, Office                  consisting of analytical work that                    to create necessary incentives and
                                                  of Electricity Delivery & Energy                         supports both the development of this                 investments to engage the protective
                                                  Reliability, U.S. Department of Energy,                  proposed strategy and the next iteration              measures for outlier events. The section
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                                                  Forrestal Building, Room 6E–092, 1000                    of the Quadrennial Energy Review.                     will close by examining the electric
                                                  Independence Avenue SW.,                                    DOE will collate public comments                   grid’s interdependencies with other
                                                  Washington, DC 20585. Note: Delivery                     received on the outline. The comments                 critical systems and functions of the
                                                  of the U.S. Postal Service mail to DOE                   will inform the preparation of the full               nations’ economies and societies. Given
                                                  may be delayed by several weeks due to                   draft joint strategy and accompanying                 our economic and social reliance on
                                                  security screening. DOE, therefore,                      action plan, which is scheduled to be                 electricity, the strategy will identify the
                                                  encourages those wishing to comment to                   released in December 2016.                            importance of securing the grid in the


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                                                  broader context of our joint and                         will highlight the importance of                      Æ Objective 1. Understand and Manage
                                                  domestic national security goals.                        adaptation through recovery and                       New and Evolving Risks From Grid
                                                                                                           rebuilding efforts, restoring capabilities            Technologies and Grid Design
                                                  Æ Objective 1. Enhance Information
                                                                                                           through smarter, more efficient, and                    i. Identify, understand, and, to the
                                                  Sharing
                                                                                                           forward-looking solutions.                            extent possible, neutralize emerging
                                                    i. Enhance information sharing
                                                                                                           Æ Objective 1. Improve Emergency                      threats (including through supply
                                                  between government and industry.
                                                                                                           Response and Continuity                               chains).
                                                    ii. Build organizational capacity to                                                                           ii. Ensure that continued integration
                                                  improve government, and industry                           i. Enhance public and private                       of grid and IT infrastructures accounts
                                                  information sharing and support to                       resources for response to and recovery                for the security benefits and challenges
                                                  improve management of risk critical to                   from major loss-of-power events.                      of that enhanced integration.
                                                  the success of business mission and                                                                              iii. Meet national security goals in a
                                                  goals.                                                   Æ Objective 2. Develop or Enhance
                                                                                                           Mutual Assistance for Physical and                    changing climate and energy landscape.
                                                  Æ Objective 2. Develop and Coordinate                    Cyber Threats                                           D Improve preparedness in the
                                                  Existing Forensic and Law Enforcement                                                                          context of increased natural disaster
                                                  Capabilities                                               i. Foster robust mutual assistance                  intensity and frequency and
                                                                                                           programs for physical grid assets, and                  D Integrate security considerations
                                                    i. Improve tools, processes, and                       develop a cybersecurity mutual                        into energy policy making, as well as
                                                  coordination among relevant                              assistance program.                                   utility and project planning, design, and
                                                  government entities and industries for                                                                         implementation.
                                                  monitoring, detecting, analyzing,                        Æ Objective 3. Identify Dependencies
                                                  reporting, defending and mitigating                      and Supply Chain Needs During an                      Æ Objective 2. Develop and Deploy
                                                  threats to the electric grid.                            Emergency                                             Security and Resilience Tools and
                                                                                                                                                                 Technologies
                                                  Æ Objective 3. Deter Major Isolated and                    i. Address effects from power outages,
                                                  Cascading Events                                         such as loss of services.                                i. Ensure that the technological and
                                                                                                                                                                 institutional and architectural evolution
                                                    i. Protect critical assets from relevant               Æ Objective 4. Recover and Rebuild                    of the grid enhances security and
                                                  adversarial, natural, and technological                                                                        resilience.
                                                                                                             i. Adapt via recovery to result in more
                                                  threats to prevent and mitigate power                                                                             ii. Be resilient to, and secure against,
                                                                                                           resilient investments, practices and
                                                  loss and system failure.                                                                                       a range of grid threats.
                                                                                                           processes.
                                                    ii. Develop guiding principles for                                                                              iii. Coordinate with industry and
                                                  automatic and manual means of                            4. Goal 3: Build a More Secure and                    operator practices to detect and mitigate
                                                  preventing cascading blackouts (System                   Resilient Future Grid                                 grid anomalies quickly and effectively.
                                                  Operations).
                                                                                                              The final section of the strategy will             Æ Objective 3. Integrate Security and
                                                  Æ Objective 4. Align Standards,                          take on the challenge and opportunities               Resilience Into Planning, Investment,
                                                  Incentives and Investment with Security                  to adapting through recovery efforts,                 Regulatory- and Policy-Decision
                                                  Goals                                                    underscoring the end-goal of grid                     Making, and Coordinate Cross-Border
                                                    i. Align utility incentives for planning               resilience. The first part of the final               Grid Integration Between the United
                                                  and investment with regulatory                           section will explore post-incident                    States and Canada
                                                  processes and tools for prudent cost                     actions in the context of evolving grid
                                                                                                                                                                   i. Enhance modeling and risk analysis
                                                  recovery, including tools for security                   design, technologies, and a changing
                                                                                                                                                                 capabilities to better characterize grid
                                                  valuation.                                               climate (that is, the potential impact of
                                                                                                                                                                 vulnerabilities, understand impacts of
                                                                                                           more frequent and severe natural
                                                  Æ Objective 5. Understand and Mitigate                                                                         loss-of-power events, and support risk-
                                                                                                           disasters). The first part of this section
                                                  Vulnerabilities From Interdependencies                                                                         informed decisions, including
                                                                                                           will also address the opportunities to
                                                  With Other Critical Infrastructures                                                                            investments.
                                                                                                           develop and advance the deployment of                   ii. Align utility and market participant
                                                    i. Mitigate and reduce security risks/                 tools and technologies to address the                 incentives for planning and investment
                                                  vulnerabilities caused by                                security vulnerabilities addressed in                 with regulatory processes and tools for
                                                  interdependence between grid                             this strategy.                                        prudent cost recovery, including tools
                                                  technologies and other infrastructures,                     The second part of this final section              for security valuation.
                                                  including telecom, water, and natural                    will outline opportunities to integrate                 iii. Continue to pursue optimal
                                                  gas.                                                     security and resilience into planning,                domestic planning, investment,
                                                    ii. Identify and manage impacts to                     investment, regulatory- and policy-                   regulatory- and policy-decision making
                                                  other critical societal functions (e.g.,                 decision making for joint, cross-border               for security and resilience, noting where
                                                  defense).                                                security goals. This includes enhancing               domestic-specific approach do not lend
                                                                                                           modeling and risk analysis capabilities               themselves to joint coordination.
                                                  3. Goal 2: Manage Contingencies and                      to characterize vulnerabilities for
                                                  Enhance Response and Recovery Efforts                                                                            iv. Address the need to reinforce
                                                                                                           decision-making and investments,                      existing and develop new workforce
                                                    This section will address response                     suggesting ways to align utility and                  capabilities.
                                                  and recovery options during and after                    market incentives, and addressing
                                                  an incident, examining public and                        workforce risks and opportunities for                 5. Conclusion
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                                                  private resources available, including                   evolving technical knowledge needs.                      The conclusion of the strategy will
                                                  through mutual assistance efforts for                    Finally, this section will point to the               summarize major findings and highlight
                                                  physical and cyber capabilities. This                    importance of pursuing optimal                        the way forward.
                                                  section will also highlight the                          domestic security goals to coordinate                    DOE seeks public comments on all of
                                                  complexity and potential issues with                     cross-border where possible, and noting               the draft outline sections described
                                                  supply chains, which are compounded                      where domestic-specific goals do not                  above for the Joint U.S.-Canadian
                                                  in an emergency. Finally, this section                   lend themselves to joint coordination.                Electric Grid Strategy.


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                                                    Authority: Presidential Policy Directive               establishes compliance with FUA                          Filed Date: 7/14/16.
                                                  21—Critical Infrastructure Security and                  section 201(a) as of the date it is filed
                                                  Resilience (PPD–21), Presidential Policy                                                                          Accession Number: 20160714–5089.
                                                                                                           with the Secretary. 42 U.S.C. 8311.
                                                  Directive 8—National Preparedness (PPD–8),                 The following owner of a proposed                      Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 8/4/16.
                                                  Fixing America’s Surface Transportation
                                                  (FAST) Act (Pub. L. 114–94) and Robert T.                new baseload electric generating                        Docket Numbers: ER16–2196–000.
                                                  Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency                   powerplant has filed a self-certification               Applicants: Alabama Power
                                                  Assistance (Stafford) Act (Pub. L. 93–288) as            of coal-capability with DOE pursuant to               Company.
                                                  amended.                                                 FUA section 201(d) and in accordance
                                                                                                           with DOE regulations in 10 CFR 501.60,                  Description: Tariff Cancellation: GCL
                                                    Issued at Washington, DC on July 14, 2016.                                                                   Lincoln Power SGIA Termination Filing
                                                  Patricia A. Hoffman,                                     61:
                                                                                                                                                                 to be effective 7/1/2016.
                                                  Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of                  OWNER: C4GT, LLC,
                                                  Energy, Office of Electricity Delivery and               CAPACITY: 1060 megawatts (MW)                           Filed Date: 7/14/16.
                                                  Energy Reliability.                                      PLANT LOCATION: Near Roxbury, VA                        Accession Number: 20160714–5091.
                                                  [FR Doc. 2016–17133 Filed 7–19–16; 8:45 am]                off of VA106                                          Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 8/4/16.
                                                  BILLING CODE 6450–01–P
                                                                                                           IN–SERVICE DATE: Second quarter
                                                                                                             2020                                                  Docket Numbers: ER16–2197–000.
                                                                                                             Issued in Washington, DC on July 14, 2016.            Applicants: PJM Interconnection,
                                                  DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY                                     Christopher Lawrence,                                 L.L.C.
                                                  [Certification Notice—241]                               Electricity Policy Analyst, Office of Electricity       Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing:
                                                                                                           Delivery and Energy Reliability.                      Service Agreement No. 3831, Queue
                                                  Notice of Filing of Self-Certification of                [FR Doc. 2016–17142 Filed 7–19–16; 8:45 am]           Position Z1–072 to be effective 6/14/
                                                  Coal Capability Under the Powerplant                     BILLING CODE 6450–01–P                                2016.
                                                  and Industrial Fuel Use Act                                                                                      Filed Date: 7/14/16.
                                                  AGENCY: Office of Electricity Delivery                                                                           Accession Number: 20160714–5108.
                                                                                                           DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
                                                  and Energy Reliability, DOE.                                                                                     Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 8/4/16.
                                                  ACTION: Notice of filing.                                Federal Energy Regulatory                               Take notice that the Commission
                                                                                                           Commission                                            received the following qualifying
                                                  SUMMARY:    On June 30, 2016, C4GT, LLC,
                                                  as owner and operator of a new baseload                  Combined Notice of Filings #2                         facility filings:
                                                  electric generating powerplant,                                                                                  Docket Numbers: QF16–1046–000.
                                                  submitted a coal capability self-                           Take notice that the Commission
                                                  certification to the Department of                       received the following electric rate                    Applicants: Tate & Lyle Ingredients
                                                  Energy (DOE) pursuant to the                             filings:                                              Americas LLC.
                                                  Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act                      Docket Numbers: ER12–2302–005.                       Description: Form 556 of Tate & Lyle
                                                  of 1978 (FUA), as amended, and DOE                          Applicants: Midcontinent                           Ingredients Americas LLC.
                                                  regulations. FUA and regulations                         Independent System Operator, Inc.                       Filed Date: 7/13/16.
                                                  thereunder require DOE to publish a                         Description: Compliance filing: 2016–
                                                                                                           07–14_SSR 2016 Revisions Follow-Up                      Accession Number: 20160713–5102.
                                                  notice of filing of self-certification in the
                                                  Federal Register.                                        Compliance Filing to be effective 9/24/                 Comments Due: None Applicable.
                                                  ADDRESSES: Copies of coal capability                     2012.                                                    The filings are accessible in the
                                                  self-certification filings are available for                Filed Date: 7/14/16.                               Commission’s eLibrary system by
                                                  public inspection, upon request, in the                     Accession Number: 20160714–5045.                   clicking on the links or querying the
                                                  Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy                   Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 8/4/16.                    docket number.
                                                  Reliability, Mail Code OE–20, Room                          Docket Numbers: ER13–1896–010;
                                                                                                                                                                    Any person desiring to intervene or
                                                  8G–024, Forrestal Building, 1000                         ER14–594–008.
                                                                                                              Applicants: AEP Generation                         protest in any of the above proceedings
                                                  Independence Avenue SW.,                                                                                       must file in accordance with Rules 211
                                                  Washington, DC 20585.                                    Resources Inc., Ohio Power Company.
                                                                                                              Description: Notice of change in status            and 214 of the Commission’s
                                                  FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:                                                                               Regulations (18 CFR 385.211 and
                                                                                                           of AEP Generation Resources Inc. and
                                                  Christopher Lawrence at (202) 586–                                                                             385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern
                                                                                                           Ohio Power Company, et al.
                                                  5260.                                                                                                          time on the specified comment date.
                                                                                                              Filed Date: 5/27/16.
                                                  SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title II of                      Accession Number: 20160527–5263.                   Protests may be considered, but
                                                  FUA, as amended (42 U.S.C. 8301 et                          Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 8/4/16.                    intervention is necessary to become a
                                                  seq.), provides that no new base load                       Docket Numbers: ER16–2193–000.                     party to the proceeding.
                                                  electric powerplant may be constructed                      Applicants: PacifiCorp.                               eFiling is encouraged. More detailed
                                                  or operated without the capability to use                   Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing:                 information relating to filing
                                                  coal or another alternate fuel as a                      Georgia-Pacific Construction                          requirements, interventions, protests,
                                                  primary energy source. Pursuant to FUA                   Agreement—Camas to be effective 9/13/                 service, and qualifying facilities filings
                                                  in order to meet the requirement of coal                 2016.                                                 can be found at: http://www.ferc.gov/
                                                  capability, the owner or operator of such                   Filed Date: 7/14/16.                               docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For
                                                  a facility proposing to use natural gas or                  Accession Number: 20160714–5072.
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                                                                                                                                                                 other information, call (866) 208–3676
                                                  petroleum as its primary energy source                      Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 8/4/16.                    (toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659.
                                                  shall certify to the Secretary of Energy                    Docket Numbers: ER16–2195–000.                       Dated: July 14, 2016.
                                                  (Secretary) prior to construction, or                       Applicants: Pacific Gas and Electric               Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
                                                  prior to operation as a base load electric               Company.
                                                  powerplant, that such powerplant has                                                                           Deputy Secretary.
                                                                                                              Description: Notice of Termination of
                                                  the capability to use coal or another                    Service Agreement Nos. 13 and 14 of                   [FR Doc. 2016–17105 Filed 7–19–16; 8:45 am]
                                                  alternate fuel. Such certification                       Pacific Gas and Electric Company.                     BILLING CODE 6717–01–P




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CollectionFederal Register
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of request for public comment.
DatesComments must be received on or before August 10, 2016.
ContactRequests for additional information should be directed to Stewart Cedres, Office of Electricity Delivery & Energy Reliability, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585, 202-586-2066, [email protected]
FR Citation81 FR 47160 

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