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TITLE 16ECONOMIC REGULATION
PART 2PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION OF TEXAS
CHAPTER 25SUBSTANTIVE RULES APPLICABLE TO ELECTRIC SERVICE PROVIDERS
SUBCHAPTER CINFRASTRUCTURE AND RELIABILITY
RULE §25.53Electric Service Emergency Operations Plans
Repealed Date:03/20/2022

  (4) In addition to the information required by paragraph (3) of this subsection, an electric cooperative that operates an electric generation facility shall include, but is not limited to, the following information in its emergency operations plan:

    (A) A plan that addresses severely cold weather and severely hot weather.

    (B) A plan that addresses any known critical failure points, including any effects of weather design limits.

    (C) A plan that addresses an emergency shortage of water.

    (D) Checklists for generating facility personnel to address emergency events.

    (E) A summary of alternative fuel and storage capacity.

    (F) A plan for alternative fuel testing if the facility has the ability to utilize alternative fuels.

    (G) Priorities for recovery of generation capacity.

  (5) Preparedness Review. An electric cooperative shall conduct one or more reviews annually of its emergency procedures with key emergency operations personnel if its emergency procedures have not been implemented in response to an actual event within the last 12 months. If the electric cooperative is in a hurricane evacuation zone, at least one of the annual reviews shall include its hurricane plan/storm recovery plan. Following the annual preparedness reviews, the electric cooperative shall assess the effectiveness of the review and modify its emergency operations plan as needed. An electric cooperative that directly serves retail customers shall notify commission staff using the method and form prescribed by commission staff, as described on the commission's website, and the appropriate TDEM District Coordinators by email or other written form, of the location, date, and time at least 30 days prior to the date of at least one review each year.

  (6) Emergency contact information. An electric cooperative shall submit emergency contact information using the method and form prescribed by commission staff, as described on the commission's website. An electric cooperative shall notify commission staff regarding a change to its emergency contact information within 30 days of the change.

  (7) Reporting requirements. Upon request by commission staff during an activation of the SOC by TDEM, an affected electric cooperative shall provide updates on the status of operations, outages, and restoration efforts. Updates shall continue until all event-related outages are restored or unless otherwise notified by commission staff. After an emergency event declared by the Governor of State of Texas or the President of the United States of America, commission staff may require an affected electric cooperative to provide an after action or lessons learned report and file it with the commission by a date specified by commission staff.

  (8) Copy available for inspection. An electric cooperative shall make available a complete copy of its emergency operations plan at its main office for inspection by commission staff upon request.

(i) Effective date. The effective date of the amendments made to this section in Project Number 39160 is March 31, 2015 for market entities and June 1, 2015 for electric cooperatives.


Source Note: The provisions of this §25.53 adopted to be effective January 24, 2008, 33 TexReg 547; amended to be effective June 26, 2014, 39 TexReg 4743

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