Per-004-2

Standard PER-004-2 — Reliability Coordination — Staffing

A. Introduction
1.

Title:

Reliability Coordination — Staffing

2.

Number:

PER-004-2

3.

Purpose:
Reliability Coordinators must have sufficient, competent staff to perform the
Reliability Coordinator functions.

4.

Applicability
4.1. Reliability Coordinators.

5.

Effective Date:



Retire Requirement 2 when PER-005-1 Requirement 3 becomes effective.
Retire Requirements 3 and 4 when PER-005-1 Requirements 1 and 2 become
effective.
B. Requirements
R1.

Each Reliability Coordinator shall be staffed with adequately trained and NERCcertified Reliability Coordinator operators, 24 hours per day, seven days per week.

R2.

Reliability Coordinator operating personnel shall place particular attention on SOLs
and IROLs and inter-tie facility limits. The Reliability Coordinator shall ensure
protocols are in place to allow Reliability Coordinator operating personnel to have the
best available information at all times.

C. Measures
None

D. Compliance
1.

Compliance Monitoring Process
1.1. Compliance Monitoring Responsibility

Regional Reliability Organizations shall be responsible for compliance
monitoring.
1.2. Compliance Monitoring and Reset Time Frame

One or more of the following methods will be used to assess compliance:
- Self-certification (Conducted annually with submission according to
schedule.)
- Spot Check Audits (Conducted anytime with up to 30 days notice given to
prepare.)
- Periodic Audit (Conducted once every three years according to schedule.)
- Triggered Investigations (Notification of an investigation must be made
within 60 days of an event or complaint of noncompliance. The entity will
have up to 30 days to prepare for the investigation. An entity may request an

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extension of the preparation period and the extension will be considered by
the Compliance Monitor on a case-by-case basis.)
The Performance-Reset Period shall be 12 months from the last finding of noncompliance.
1.3. Data Retention

Each Reliability Coordinator shall keep evidence of compliance for the previous
two calendar years plus the current year.
If an entity is found non-compliant the entity shall keep information related to the
noncompliance until found compliant or for two years plus the current year,
whichever is longer.
Evidence used as part of a triggered investigation shall be retained by the entity
being investigated for one year from the date that the investigation is closed, as
determined by the Compliance Monitor,
The Compliance Monitor shall keep the last periodic audit report and all requested
and submitted subsequent compliance records.
1.4. Additional Compliance Information

None.
Levels of Non-Compliance for a Reliability Coordinator (Replaced with VSLs)

2.

2.1.

E. Regional Differences
None identified.
Version History
Version

Date

Action

Change Tracking

0

April 1, 2005

Effective Date

New

0

August 8, 2005

Removed “Proposed” from Effective
Date

Errata

1

November 1,
2006

Adopted by Board of Trustees

Revised

Retire R2 and M1 when PER-005-1
Requirement 3 becomes effective.

Revised

2

Retire R3, R4 and M2 when PER-005 R1
and R2 become effective.

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