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remain in effect for applications under
this section.
[Order 560, 58 FR 57737, Oct. 27, 1993, as
amended by Order 593, 62 FR 1283, Jan. 9,
1997; Order 647, 69 FR 32438, June 10, 2004]
EFFECTIVE DATE NOTE: By Order 560, 58 FR
57737, Oct. 27, 1993, § 36.1 was added. The section contains information collection and recordkeeping requirements and will not become effective until approval has been given
by the Office of Management and Budget.

PART 37—OPEN ACCESS SAMETIME INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Sec.
37.1 Applicability.
37.2 Purpose.
37.3 Definitions.
37.4 [Reserved]
37.5 Obligations of Transmission Providers
and Responsible Parties.
37.6 Information to be posted on the OASIS.
37.7 Auditing Transmission Service Information.
37.8 Obligations of OASIS users.
AUTHORITY: 16 U.S.C. 791–825r, 2601–2645; 31
U.S.C. 9701; 42 U.S.C. 7101–7352.
SOURCE: Order 889, 61 FR 21764, May 10,
1996, unless otherwise noted.

§ 37.1 Applicability.
This part applies to any public utility that owns, operates, or controls facilities used for the transmission of
electric energy in interstate commerce
and to transactions performed under
the pro forma tariff required in part 35
of this chapter.
§ 37.2 Purpose.
(a) The purpose of this part is to ensure that potential customers of open
access transmission service receive access to information that will enable
them to obtain transmission service on
a non-discriminatory basis from any
Transmission Provider. These rules
provide standards of conduct and require the Transmission Provider (or its
agent) to create and operate an Open
Access Same-time Information System
(OASIS) that gives all users of the open
access transmission system access to
the same information.
(b) The OASIS will provide information by electronic means about available transmission capability for pointto-point service and will provide a

process for requesting transmission
service. OASIS will enable Transmission Providers and Transmission
Customers to communicate promptly
requests and responses to buy and sell
available transmission capacity offered
under the Transmission Provider’s tariff.
§ 37.3

Definitions.

(a) Transmission Provider means any
public utility that owns, operates, or
controls facilities used for the transmission of electric energy in interstate
commerce.
(b) Transmission Customer means any
eligible customer (or its designated
agent) that can or does execute a
transmission service agreement or can
or does receive transmission service.
(c) Responsible party means the Transmission Provider or an agent to whom
the Transmission Provider has delegated the responsibility of meeting any
of the requirements of this part.
(d) Reseller means any Transmission
Customer who offers to sell transmission capacity it has purchased.
(e) Wholesale merchant function means
the sale for resale of electric energy in
interstate commerce.
(f) Affiliate means:
(1) For any exempt wholesale generator, as defined under section 32(a) of
the Public Utility Holding Company
Act of 1935, as amended, the same as
provided in section 214 of the Federal
Power Act; and
(2) For any other entity, the term affiliate has the same meaning as given in
§ 161.2(a) of this chapter.
[Order 889, 61 FR 21764, May 10, 1996, as
amended by Order 889–A, 62 FR 12503, Mar. 14,
1997]

§ 37.4

[Reserved]

§ 37.5 Obligations of Transmission Providers and Responsible Parties.
(a) Each Transmission Provider is required to provide for the operation of
an OASIS, either individually or jointly with other Transmission Providers,
in accordance with the requirements of
this Part. The Transmission Provider
may delegate this responsibility to a
Responsible Party such as another
Transmission Provider, an Independent

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System Operator, a Regional Transmission Group, or a Regional Reliability Council.
(b) A Responsible Party must provide
access to an OASIS providing standardized information relevant to the availability
of
transmission
capacity,
prices, and other information (as described in this part) pertaining to the
transmission system for which it is responsible.
(c) A Responsible Party may not
deny or restrict access to an OASIS
user merely because that user makes
automated computer-to-computer file
transfers or queries, or extensive requests for data.
(d) In the event that an OASIS user’s
grossly inefficient method of accessing
an OASIS node or obtaining information from the node seriously degrades
the performance of the node, a Responsible Party may limit a user’s access to
the OASIS node without prior Commission approval. The Responsible Party
must immediately contact the OASIS
user to resolve the problem. Notification of the restriction must be made to
the Commission within two business
days of the incident and include a description of the problem. A closure report describing how the problem was
resolved must be filed with the Commission within one week of the incident.
(e) In the event that an OASIS user
makes an error in a query, the Responsible Party can block the affected
query and notify the user of the nature
of the error. The OASIS user must correct the error before making any additional queries. If there is a dispute over
whether an error has occurred, the procedures in paragraph (d) of this section
apply.
(f) Transmission Providers must provide ‘‘read only’’ access to the OASIS
to Commission staff and the staffs of
State regulatory authorities, at no
cost, after such staff members have
complied with the requisite registration procedures.
[Order 889, 61 FR 21764, May 10, 1996, as
amended by Order 605, 64 FR 34124, June 25,
1999; Order 638, 65 FR 17400, Mar. 31, 2000;
Order 676, 71 FR 26212, May 4, 2006]

§ 37.6
§ 37.6 Information to be posted on the
OASIS.
(a) The information posted on the
OASIS must be in such detail and the
OASIS must have such capabilities as
to allow Transmission Customers to:
(1) Make requests for transmission
services offered by Transmission Providers, Resellers and other providers of
ancillary services, request the designation of a network resource, and request
the termination of the designation of a
network resource;
(2) View and download in standard
formats, using standard protocols, information regarding the transmission
system necessary to enable prudent
business decision making;
(3) Post, view, upload and download
information regarding available products and desired services;
(4) Clearly identify the degree to
which transmission service requests or
schedules were denied or interrupted;
(5) Obtain access, in electronic format, to information to support available transmission capability calculations and historical transmission service requests and schedules for various
audit purposes; and
(6) Make file transfers and automated
computer-to-computer file transfers
and queries as defined by the Standards
and Communications Protocols Document.
(b) Posting transfer capability. The
available transfer capability on the
Transmission Provider’s system (ATC)
and the total transfer capability (TTC)
of that system shall be calculated and
posted for each Posted Path as set out
in this section.
(1) Definitions. For purposes of this
section the terms listed below have the
following meanings:
(i) Posted path means any control
area to control area interconnection;
any path for which service is denied,
curtailed or interrupted for more than
24 hours in the past 12 months; and any
path for which a customer requests to
have ATC or TTC posted. For this last
category, the posting must continue
for 180 days and thereafter until 180
days have elapsed from the most recent
request for service over the requested
path. For purposes of this definition,
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during which service was denied, curtailed or interrupted.
(ii) Constrained posted path means any
posted path having an ATC less than or
equal to 25 percent of TTC at any time
during the preceding 168 hours or for
which ATC has been calculated to be
less than or equal to 25 percent of TTC
for any period during the current hour
or the next 168 hours.
(iii) Unconstrained posted path means
any posted path not determined to be a
constrained posted path.
(iv) The word interconnection, as used
in the definition of ‘‘posted path’’,
means all facilities connecting two adjacent systems or control areas.
(v) Available transfer capability or ATC
means the transfer capability remaining in the physical transmission network for further commercial activity
over and above already committed
uses, or such definition as contained in
Commission-approved
Reliability
Standards.
(vi) Total transfer capability or TTC
means the amount of electric power
that can be moved or transferred reliably from one area to another area of
the interconnected transmission systems by way of all transmission lines
(or paths) between those areas under
specified system conditions, or such
definition as contained in Commissionapproved Reliability Standards.
(vii) Capacity Benefit Margin or CBM
means the amount of TTC preserved by
the Transmission Provider for loadserving entities, whose loads are located on that Transmission Provider’s
system, to enable access by the loadserving entities to generation from
interconnected systems to meet generation reliability requirements, or
such definition as contained in Commission-approved Reliability Standards.
(viii) Transmission Reliability Margin
or TRM means the amount of TTC necessary to provide reasonable assurance
that the interconnected transmission
network will be secure, or such definition as contained in Commission-approved Reliability Standards.
(2) Calculation methods, availability of
information, and requests. (i) Information used to calculate any posting of
ATC and TTC must be dated and timestamped and all calculations shall be

performed according to consistently
applied methodologies referenced in
the Transmission Provider’s transmission tariff and shall be based on
Commission-approved
Reliability
Standards as well as current industry
practices, standards and criteria.
(ii) On request, the Responsible Party
must make all data used to calculate
ATC, TTC, CBM, and TRM for any constrained posted paths publicly available (including the limiting element(s)
and the cause of the limit (e.g., thermal, voltage, stability), as well as load
forecast assumptions) in electronic
form within one week of the posting.
The information is required to be provided only in the electronic format in
which it was created, along with any
necessary decoding instructions, at a
cost limited to the cost of reproducing
the material. This information is to be
retained for six months after the applicable posting period.
(iii) System planning studies, facilities studies, and specific network impact studies performed for customers
or the Transmission Provider’s own
network resources are to be made publicly available in electronic form on request and a list of such studies shall be
posted on the OASIS. A study is required to be provided only in the electronic format in which it was created,
along with any necessary decoding instructions, at a cost limited to the cost
of reproducing the material. These
studies are to be retained for five
years.
(3) Posting. The ATC, TTC, CBM, and
TRM for all Posted Paths must be posted in megawatts by specific direction
and in the manner prescribed in this
subsection.
(i) Constrained posted paths—(A) For
firm ATC and TTC.
(1) The posting shall show ATC, TTC,
CBM, and TRM for a 30-day period. For
this period postings shall be: by the
hour, for the current hour and the 168
hours next following; and thereafter,
by the day. If the Transmission Provider charges separately for on-peak
and off-peak periods in its tariff, ATC,
TTC, CBM, and TRM will be posted
daily for each period.
(2) Postings shall also be made by the
month, showing for the current month
and the 12 months next following.

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(3) If planning and specific requested
transmission studies have been done,
seasonal capability shall be posted for
the year following the current year and
for each year following to the end of
the planning horizon but not to exceed
10 years.
(B) For non-firm ATC and TTC. The
posting shall show ATC, TTC, CBM and
TRM for a 30-day period by the hour
and days prescribed under paragraph
(b)(3)(i)(A)(1) of this section and, if so
requested, by the month and year as
prescribed under paragraph (b)(3)(i)(A)
(2) and (3) of this section. The posting
of non-firm ATC and TTC shall show
CBM as zero.
(C) Updating posted information for
constrained paths.
(1) The capability posted under paragraphs (b)(3)(i)(A) and (B) of this section must be updated when transactions are reserved or service ends or
whenever the estimate for the path
changes by more than 10 percent.
(2) All updating of hourly information shall be made on the hour.
(3) When the monthly and yearly capability
posted
under
paragraphs
(b)(3)(i)(A) and (B) of this section are
updated because of a change in TTC by
more than 10 percent, the Transmission
Provider shall post a brief, but specific,
narrative explanation of the reason for
the update. This narrative should include, the specific events which gave
rise to the update (e.g., scheduling of
planned outages and occurrence of
forced transmission outages, de-ratings
of transmission facilities, scheduling of
planned generation outages and occurrence of forced generation outages,
changes in load forecast, changes in
new facilities’ in-service dates, or
other events or assumption changes)
and new values for ATC on the path (as
opposed to all points on the network).
(4) When the monthly and yearly capability
posted
under
paragraphs
(b)(3)(i)(A) and (B) of this section remain unchanged at a value of zero for
a period of six months, the Transmission Provider shall post a brief, but
specific, narrative explanation of the
reason for the unavailability of ATC.
(ii) Unconstrained posted paths.
(A) Postings of firm and nonfirm
ATC, TTC, CBM, and TRM shall be
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for the current day and the next six
days following and thereafter, by the
month for the 12 months next following. If the Transmission Provider
charges separately for on-peak and offpeak periods in its tariff, ATC, TTC,
CBM, and TRM will be posted separately for the current day and the next
six days following for each period.
These postings are to be updated whenever the ATC changes by more than 20
percent of the Path’s TTC.
(B) If planning and specific requested
transmission studies have been done,
seasonal capability shall be posted for
the year following the current year and
for each year following until the end of
the planning horizon but not to exceed
10 years.
(iii) Calculation of CBM.
(A) The Transmission Provider must
reevaluate its CBM needs at least every
year.
(B) The Transmission Provider must
post its practices for reevaluating its
CBM needs.
(iv) Daily load. The Transmission
Provider must post on a daily basis, its
load forecast, including underlying assumptions, and actual daily peak load
for the prior day.
(c) Posting Transmission Service Products and Prices. (1) Transmission Providers must post prices and a summary
of the terms and conditions associated
with all transmission products offered
to Transmission Customers.
(2) Transmission Providers must provide a downloadable file of their complete tariffs in the same electronic format as the tariff that is filed with the
Commission. Transmission Providers
also must provide a link to all of the
rules, standards and practices that relate to transmission services posted on
the Transmission Providers’ public
Web sites.
(3) Any offer of a discount for any
transmission service made by the
Transmission Provider must be announced to all potential customers
solely by posting on the OASIS.
(4) For any transaction for transmission service agreed to by the Transmission Provider and a customer, the
Transmission Provider (at the time
when ATC must be adjusted in response
to the transaction), must post on the
OASIS (and make available for

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download) information describing the
transaction (including: price; quantity;
points of receipt and delivery; length
and type of service; identification of
whether the transaction involves the
Transmission
Provider’s
wholesale
merchant function or any affiliate;
identification of what, if any, ancillary
service transactions are associated
with this transmission service transaction; and any other relevant terms
and conditions) and shall keep such information posted on the OASIS for at
least 30 days. A record of the transaction must be retained and kept available as part of the audit log required in
§ 37.7.
(5) Customers choosing to use the
OASIS to offer for resale transmission
capacity they have purchased must
post relevant information to the same
OASIS as used by the Transmission
Provider from whom the Reseller purchased the transmission capacity. This
information must be posted on the
same display page, using the same tables, as similar capability being sold by
the Transmission Provider, and the information must be contained in the
same downloadable files as the Transmission Provider’s own available capability.
(d) Posting Ancillary Service Offerings
and Prices. (1) Any ancillary service required to be provided or offered under
the pro forma tariff prescribed by part
35 of this chapter must be posted with
the price of that service.
(2) Any offer of a discount for any ancillary service made by the Transmission Provider must be announced to
all potential customers solely by posting on the OASIS.
(3) For any transaction for ancillary
service agreed to by the Transmission
Provider and a customer, the Transmission Provider (at the time when
ATC must be adjusted in response to an
associated transmission service transaction, if any), must post on the OASIS
(and make available for download) information describing the transaction
(including: date and time when the
agreement was entered into; price;
quantity; length and type of service;
identification of whether the transaction involves the Transmission Provider’s wholesale merchant function or
any affiliate; identification of what, if

any, transmission service transactions
are associated with this ancillary service transaction; and any other relevant
terms and conditions) and shall keep
such information posted on the OASIS
for at least 30 days. A record of the
transaction must be retained and kept
available as part of the audit log required in § 37.7.
(4) Any other interconnected operations service offered by the Transmission Provider may be posted, with
the price for that service.
(5) Any entity offering an ancillary
service shall have the right to post the
offering of that service on the OASIS if
the service is one required to be offered
by the Transmission Provider under
the pro forma tariff prescribed by part
35 of this chapter. Any entity may also
post any other interconnected operations service voluntarily offered by
the Transmission Provider. Postings by
customers and third parties must be on
the same page, and in the same format,
as postings of the Transmission Provider.
(e) Posting specific transmission and
ancillary service requests and responses—
(1) General rules.(i) All requests for
transmission and ancillary service offered by Transmission Providers under
the pro forma tariff, including requests
for discounts, and all requests to designate or terminate a network resource, must be made on the OASIS
and posted prior to the Transmission
Provider responding to the request, except as discussed in paragraphs
(e)(1)(ii) and (iii) of this section. The
Transmission Provider must post all
requests for transmission service, for
ancillary service, and for the designation or termination of a network resource comparably. Requests for transmission service, ancillary service, and
to designate and terminate a network
resource, as well as the responses to
such requests, must be conducted in accordance with the Transmission Provider’s tariff, the Federal Power Act,
and Commission regulations.
(ii) The requirement in paragraph
(e)(1)(i) of this section, to post requests
for transmission and ancillary service
offered by Transmission Providers
under the pro forma tariff, including requests for discounts, prior to the
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the request, does not apply to requests
for next-hour service made during
Phase I.
(iii) In the event that a discount is
being requested for ancillary services
that are not in support of basic transmission service provided by the Transmission Provider, such request need
not be posted on the OASIS.
(iv) In processing a request for transmission or ancillary service, the Responsible Party shall post the same information as required in paragraphs
(c)(4) and (d)(3) of this section, and the
following information: the date and
time when the request is made, its
place in any queue, the status of that
request, and the result (accepted, denied, withdrawn). In processing a request to designate or terminate the
designation of a network resource, the
Responsible Party shall post the date
and time when the request is made.
(v) For any request to designate or
terminate a network resource, the
Transmission Provider (at the time
when the request is received), must
post on the OASIS (and make available
for download) information describing
the request (including: name of requestor, identification of the resource,
effective time for the designation or
termination, identification of whether
the transaction involves the Transmission Provider’s wholesale merchant
function or any affiliate; and any other
relevant terms and conditions) and
shall keep such information posted on
the OASIS for at least 30 days. A
record of the transaction must be retained and kept available as part of the
audit log required in § 37.7.
(vi) The Transmission Provider shall
post a list of its current designated
network resources and all network customers’ current designated network resources on OASIS. The list of network
resources should include the name of
the resource, its geographic and electrical location, its total installed capacity, and the amount of capacity to
be designated as a network resource.
(2) Posting when a request for transmission service is denied. (i) When a request for service is denied, the Responsible Party must provide the reason for
that denial as part of any response to
the request.

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(ii) Information to support the reason
for the denial, including the operating
status of relevant facilities, must be
maintained for five years and provided,
upon request, to the potential Transmission Customer and the Commission’s Staff.
(iii) Any offer to adjust operation of
the Transmission Provider’s System to
accommodate the denied request must
be posted and made available to all
Transmission Customers at the same
time.
(3) Posting when a transaction is curtailed or interrupted. (i) When any transaction is curtailed or interrupted, the
Transmission Provider must post notice of the curtailment or interruption
on the OASIS, and the Transmission
Provider must state on the OASIS the
reason why the transaction could not
be continued or completed.
(ii) Information to support any such
curtailment or interruption, including
the operating status of the facilities involved in the constraint or interruption, must be maintained and made
available upon request, to the curtailed
or interrupted customer, the Commission’s Staff, and any other person who
requests it, for five years.
(iii) Any offer to adjust the operation
of the Transmission Provider’s system
to restore a curtailed or interrupted
transaction must be posted and made
available to all curtailed and interrupted Transmission Customers at the
same time.
(f) Posting Transmission Service Schedules Information. Information on transmission service schedules must be recorded by the entity scheduling the
transmission service and must be available on the OASIS for download. Transmission service schedules must be posted no later than seven calendar days
from the start of the transmission
service.
(g) Posting Other Transmission-Related
Communications. (1) The posting of
other communications related to transmission services must be provided for
by the Responsible Party. These communications may include ‘‘want ads’’
and ‘‘other communications’’ (such as
using the OASIS as a Transmission-related conference space or to provide

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transmission-related messaging services between OASIS users). Such postings carry no obligation to respond on
the part of any market participant.
(2) The Responsible Party is responsible for posting other transmission-related communications in conformance
with the instructions provided by the
third party on whose behalf the communication is posted. It is the responsibility of the third party requesting
such a posting to ensure the accuracy
of the information to be posted.
(3) Notices of transfers of personnel
shall be posted as described in § 358.4(c).
The posting requirements are the same
as those provided in § 37.7 for audit data
postings.
(4) Logs detailing the circumstances
and manner in which a Transmission
Provider or Responsible Party exercised its discretion under any terms of
the tariff shall be posted as described
in § 358.5(c)(4). The posting requirements are the same as those provided
in § 37.7 for audit data postings.
(h) Posting information summarizing
the time to complete transmission service
request studies. (1) For each calendar
quarter, the Responsible Party must
post the set of measures detailed in
paragraph (h)(1)(i) through paragraph
(h)(1)(vi) of this section related to the
Responsible Party’s processing of
transmission service request system
impact studies and facilities studies.
The Responsible Party must calculate
and post the measures in paragraph
(h)(1)(i) through paragraph (h)(1)(vi) of
this section for requests for short-term
firm point-to-point transmission service, requests for long-term firm pointto-point transmission service, and requests to designate a new network resource or network load. When calculating the measures in paragraph
(h)(1)(i) through paragraph (h)(1)(iv) of
this section, the Responsible Party
may aggregate requests for short-term
firm point-to-point service and requests for long-term firm point-topoint service, but must calculate and
post measures separately for transmission service requests from Affiliates and transmission service requests
from Transmission Customers who are
not Affiliates. The Responsible Party is
required to include in the calculations
of the measures in paragraph (h)(1)(i)

through paragraph (h)(1)(vi) of this section all studies the Responsible Party
conducts of transmission service requests on another Transmission Provider’s OASIS.
(i) Process time from initial service request to offer of system impact study
agreement.
(A) Number of new system impact
study agreements delivered during the
reporting quarter to entities that request transmission service,
(B) Number of new system impact
study agreements delivered during the
reporting quarter to entities that request transmission service more than
thirty (30) days after the Responsible
Party received the request for transmission service,
(C) Mean time (in days), for all requests acted on by the Responsible
Party during the reporting quarter,
from the date when the Responsible
Party received the request for transmission service to when the Responsible Party changed the transmission
service request status to indicate that
the Responsible Party could offer
transmission service or needed to perform a system impact study,
(D) Mean time (in days), for all system impact study agreements delivered
by the Responsible Party during the reporting quarter, from the date when
the Responsible Party received the request for transmission service to the
date when the Responsible Party delivered a system impact study agreement,
and
(E) Number of new system impact
study agreements executed during the
reporting quarter.
(ii) System impact study processing
time.
(A) Number of system impact studies
completed by the Responsible Party
during the reporting quarter,
(B) Number of system impact studies
completed by the Responsible Party
during the reporting quarter more than
60 days after the Responsible Party received an executed system impact
study agreement,
(C) For all system impact studies
completed more than 60 days after receipt of an executed system impact
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days study was delayed due to transmission customer’s actions (e.g., delays
in providing needed data),
(D) Mean time (in days), for all system impact studies completed by the
Responsible Party during the reporting
quarter, from the date when the Responsible Party received the executed
system impact study agreement to the
date when the Responsible Party provided the system impact study to the
entity who executed the system impact
study agreement, and
(E) Mean cost of system impact studies completed by the Responsible Party
during the reporting quarter.
(iii) Transmission service requests withdrawn from the system impact study
queue.
(A) Number of transmission service
requests withdrawn from the Responsible Party’s system impact study
queue during the reporting quarter,
(B) Number of transmission service
requests withdrawn from the Responsible Party’s system impact study
queue during the reporting quarter
more than 60 days after the Responsible Party received the executed system impact study agreement, and
(C) Mean time (in days), for all transmission service requests withdrawn
from the Responsible Party’s system
impact study queue during the reporting quarter, from the date the Responsible Party received the executed system impact study agreement to date
when request was withdrawn from the
Responsible Party’s system impact
study queue.
(iv) Process time from completed system
impact study to offer of facilities study.
(A) Number of new facilities study
agreements delivered during the reporting quarter to entities that request
transmission service,
(B) Number of new facilities study
agreements delivered during the reporting quarter to entities that request
transmission service more than thirty
(30) days after the Responsible Party
completed the system impact study,
(C) Mean time (in days), for all facilities study agreements delivered by the
Responsible Party during the reporting
quarter, from the date when the Responsible Party completed the system
impact study to the date when the Re-

§ 37.6
sponsible Party delivered a facilities
study agreement, and
(D) Number of new facilities study
agreements executed during the reporting quarter.
(v) Facilities study processing time.
(A) Number of facilities studies completed by the Responsible Party during
the reporting quarter,
(B) Number of facilities studies completed by the Responsible Party during
the reporting quarter more than 60
days after the Responsible Party received an executed facilities study
agreement,
(C) For all facilities studies completed more than 60 days after receipt
of an executed facilities study agreement, average number of days study
was delayed due to transmission customer’s actions (e.g., delays in providing needed data),
(D) Mean time (in days), for all facilities studies completed by the Responsible Party during the reporting quarter, from the date when the Responsible Party received the executed facilities study agreement to the date
when the Responsible Party provided
the facilities study to the entity who
executed the facilities study agreement,
(E) Mean cost of facilities studies
completed by the Responsible Party
during the reporting quarter, and
(F) Mean cost of upgrades recommended in facilities studies completed during the reporting quarter.
(vi) Service requests withdrawn from facilities study queue.
(A) Number of transmission service
requests withdrawn from the Responsible Party’s facilities study queue during the reporting quarter,
(B) Number of transmission service
requests withdrawn from the Responsible Party’s facilities study queue during the reporting quarter more than 60
days after the Responsible Party received the executed facilities study
agreement, and
(C) Mean time (in days), for all transmission service requests withdrawn
from the Responsible Party’s facilities
study queue during the reporting quarter, from the date the Responsible
Party received the executed facilities
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18 CFR Ch. I (4–1–14 Edition)

was withdrawn from the Responsible
Party’s facilities study queue.
(2) The Responsible Party is required
to post the measures in paragraph
(h)(1)(i) through paragraph (h)(1)(vi) of
this section for each calendar quarter
within 15 days of the end of the calendar quarter. The Responsible Party
will keep the quarterly measures posted on OASIS for three calendar years.
(3) The Responsible Party will be required to post on OASIS the measures
in paragraph (h)(3)(i) through paragraph (h)(3)(iv) of this section in the
event the Responsible Party, for two
consecutive calendar quarters, completes more than twenty (20) percent of
the studies associated with requests for
transmission service from entities that
are not Affiliates of the Responsible
Party more than sixty (60) days after
the Responsible Party delivers the appropriate study agreement. The Responsible Party will have to post the
measures in paragraph (h)(3)(i) through
paragraph (h)(3)(iv) of this section
until it processes at least ninety (90)
percent of all studies within 60 days
after it has received the appropriate
executed study agreement. For the purposes of calculating the percent of
studies completed more than sixty (60)
days after the Responsible Party delivers the appropriate study agreement,
the Responsible Party should aggregate all system impact studies and facilities studies that it completes during the reporting quarter.
(i) Mean, across all system impact
studies the Responsible Party completes during the reporting quarter, of
the employee-hours expended per system impact study the Responsible
Party completes during reporting period;
(ii) Mean, across all facilities studies
the Responsible Party completes during the reporting quarter, of the employee-hours expended per facilities
study the Responsible Party completes
during reporting period;
(iii) The number of employees the
Responsible Party has assigned to
process system impact studies;
(iv) The number of employees the Responsible Party has assigned to process
facilities studies.
(4) The Responsible Party is required
to post the measures in paragraph

(h)(3)(i) through paragraph (h)(3)(iv) of
this section for each calendar quarter
within 15 days of the end of the calendar quarter. The Responsible Party
will keep the quarterly measures posted on OASIS for five calendar years.
(i) Posting data related to grants and
denials of service. The Responsible
Party is required to post data each
month listing, by path or flowgate, the
number of transmission service requests that have been accepted and the
number of transmission service requests that have been denied during
the prior month. This posting must distinguish between the length of the
service request (e.g., short-term or
long-term requests) and between the
type of service requested (e.g., firm
point-to-point, non-firm point-to-point
or network service). The posted data
must show:
(1) The number of non-Affiliate requests for transmission service that
have been rejected,
(2) The total number of non-Affiliate
requests for transmission service that
have been made,
(3) The number of Affiliate requests
for transmission service, including requests by the transmission provider’s
merchant function to designate a network resource or to procure secondary
network service, that have been rejected, and
(4) The total number of Affiliate requests for transmission service, including requests by the transmission provider’s merchant function to designate,
or terminate the designation of, a network resource or to procure secondary
network service, that have been made.
(j) Posting redispatch data.
(1) The Transmission Provider must
allow the posting on OASIS of any
third party offer to relieve a specified
congested transmission facility.
(2) The Transmission Provider must
post on OASIS (i) its monthly average
cost of planning and reliability redispatch, for which it invoices customers,
at each internal transmission facility
or interface over which it provides redispatch service and (ii) a high and low
redispatch cost for the month for each
of these same transmission facilities.
The transmission provider must post
this data on OASIS as soon as practical
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later than when it sends invoices to
transmission customers for redispatchrelated services.
(k) Posting of historical area control
error data. The Transmission Provider
must post on OASIS historical oneminute and ten-minute area control
error data for the most recent calendar
year, and update this posting once per
year.
[Order 889, 61 FR 21764, May 10, 1996, as
amended by Order 889–A, 62 FR 12503, Mar. 14,
1997; Order 605, 64 FR 34124, June 25, 1999;
Order 2004, 68 FR 69157, Dec. 11, 2003; Order
890, 72 FR 12493, Mar. 15, 2007; Order 890–A, 73
FR 3111, Jan. 16, 2008; Order 784, 78 FR 46210,
July 30, 2013]

§ 37.7 Auditing Transmission Service
Information.
(a) All OASIS database transactions,
except other transmission-related communications
provided
for
under
§ 37.6(g)(2), must be stored, dated, and
time stamped.
(b) Audit data must remain available
for download on the OASIS for 90 days,
except ATC/TTC postings that must remain available for download on the
OASIS for 20 days. The audit data are
to be retained and made available upon
request for download for five years
from the date when they are first posted in the same electronic form as used
when they originally were posted on
the OASIS.
[Order 889, 61 FR 21764, May 10, 1996, as
amended by Order 889–A, 62 FR 12504, Mar. 14,
1997; Order 890, 72 FR 12496, Mar. 15, 2007]

§ 37.8 Obligations of OASIS users.
Each OASIS user must notify the Responsible Party one month in advance
of initiating a significant amount of
automated queries. The OASIS user
must also notify the Responsible Party
one month in advance of expected significant increases in the volume of
automated queries.
[Order 605, 64 FR 34124, June 25, 1999]

PART 38—STANDARDS FOR PUBLIC
UTILITY BUSINESS OPERATIONS
AND COMMUNICATIONS
Sec.
38.1 Incorporation by reference of North
American
Energy
Standards
Board
Wholesale Electric Quadrant standards.

§ 38.1
38.2

Communication and information sharing among public utilities and pipelines.

AUTHORITY: 16 U.S.C. 791–825r, 2601–2645; 31
U.S.C. 9701; 42 U.S.C. 7101–7352.
SOURCE: Order 676, 71 FR 26212, May 4, 2006,
unless otherwise noted.

§ 38.1 Incorporation by reference of
North American Energy Standards
Board Wholesale Electric Quadrant
standards.
(a) Any public utility that owns, operates, or controls facilities used for
the transmission of electric energy in
interstate commerce or for the sale of
electric energy at wholesale in interstate commerce and any non-public
utility that seeks voluntary compliance with jurisdictional transmission
tariff reciprocity conditions must comply with the following business practice and electronic communication
standards promulgated by the North
American Energy Standards Board
Wholesale Electric Quadrant, which are
incorporated herein by reference:
(1) Open Access Same-Time Information Systems (OASIS), Version 1.5
(WEQ–001, Version 002.1, March 11, 2009,
with minor corrections applied May 29,
2009 and September 8, 2009, with the exception of Standards 001–0.1, 001–0.9
through 001–0.13, 001–1.0, 001–9.7, 001–
14.1.3, and 001–15.1.2);
(2) Open Access Same-Time Information Systems (OASIS) Standards &
Communication Protocols, Version 1.5
(WEQ–002, Version 002.1, March 11, 2009,
with minor corrections applied May 29,
2009 and September 8, 2009);
(3) Open Access Same-Time Information Systems (OASIS) Data Dictionary,
Version 1.5 (WEQ–003, Version 002.1,
March 11, 2009, with minor corrections
applied May 29, 2009 and September 8,
2009);
(4) Coordinate Interchange (WEQ–004,
Version 002.1, March 11, 2009, with
minor corrections applied May 29, 2009
and September 8, 2009);
(5) Area Control Error (ACE) Equation Special Cases (WEQ–005, Version
002.1, March 11, 2009, with minor corrections applied May 29, 2009 and September 8, 2009);
(6) Manual Time Error Correction
(WEQ–006, Version 001, Oct. 31, 2007,
with minor corrections applied on Nov.
16, 2007);

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