Project 2010-07.1 Vegetation Management

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Status
A final ballot for FAC-003-4 Transmission Vegetation Management is open through 8 p.m. Eastern, Monday, February 8, 2016. The voting results for the standard will be posted and announced after the ballots close. If approved, the standard will be submitted to the Board of Trustees for adoption and then filed with the appropriate regulatory authorities.

Background
In FERC Order No. 777, the Commission directed NERC to “conduct or contract testing to obtain empirical data and submit a report to the Commission providing the results of the testing.”  NERC retained the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) to conduct testing to support appropriate Minimum Vegetation Clearance Distances (MVCDs) specified in NERC Reliability Standard FAC-003-3. The MVCDs in the Standard are calculated based on application of the Gallet equation which incorporates a gap factor. The preliminary test result findings determined that the gap factor applied in the Gallet equation requires adjustment. The resulting adjustment will increase MVCDs for all alternating current system voltages covered by Table 2 of the Standard.

Standard(s) Affected: FAC-003-3 Transmission Vegetation Management

Purpose/Industry Need
The purpose of the revised standard is to address the findings of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) report, which was a part of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Order No. 777 directive.  The revised standard uses an updated gap factor of 1.0 in the Gallet equation to develop minimum vegetation clearance distances to decrease vegetation related events.

Draft Actions Dates Results Consideration of Comments
Final Draft
 
 
Implementation Clean
Clean | Redline to Last Posted
 

Final Ballot

Info

Vote

01/29/16 – 02/08/16

​Summary

Ballot Results

 Draft 1
 
FAC-003-4
 
 
Supporting Materials
 
 
Standard Authorization Request (SAR)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
*This draft RSAW has no substantive changes from the RSAW for FAC-003-3. 
 
Initial Ballot

Vote

*A non-binding poll for the associated Violation Risk Factors (VRFs) and Violation Severity Levels (VSLs) will not be conducted due to the fact that only non-substantive changes were made to the requirements, and no changes made to the VRFs and VSLs.

12/07/15 – 12/16/15 Summary

Ballot Results
 
Comment Period

Submit Comments

 

10/30/15 – 12/16/15 Comments Received Consideration of Comments

 

Join Ballot Pool

 

10/30/15 – 11/30/15

 
Send RSAW feedback to:

RSAWfeedback@nerc.net

 

11/13/15 – 12/16/15
Standards Committee accepted the Standard Authorization Request on October 29, 2015

Standard Authorization Request

Supporting Materials

Unofficial Comment Form (Word)

Comment Period

Info

Submit Comments

08/24/15 - 09/28/15 Comments Received Consideration of Comments

Drafting Team Nominations

Supporting Materials

Unofficial Nomination Form (Word)

​Nomination Period

Info​​


​08/24/15 - 09/08/15