| (i) relevant operating personnel are familiar with
and have received training on the applicable contents and execution
of the EOP, and such personnel are instructed to follow the applicable
portions of the EOP except to the extent deviations are appropriate
as a result of specific circumstances during the course of an emergency;
(ii) the EOP has been reviewed and approved by the
appropriate executives;
(iii) drills have been conducted to the extent required
by subsection (f) of this section;
(iv) the EOP or an appropriate summary has been distributed
to local jurisdictions as needed;
(v) the entity maintains a business continuity plan
that addresses returning to normal operations after disruptions caused
by an incident; and
(vi) the entity's emergency management personnel who
are designated to interact with local, state, and federal emergency
management officials during emergency events have received the latest
IS-100, IS-200, IS-700, and IS-800 National Incident Management System
training.
(5) Notwithstanding the other requirements of this
subsection, ERCOT must maintain its own current EOP in its entirety,
consistent with the requirements of this section and available for
review by commission staff.
(d) Information to be included in the emergency operations
plan. An entity's EOP must address both common operational functions
that are relevant across emergency types and annexes that outline
the entity's response to specific types of emergencies, including
those listed in subsection (e) of this section. An EOP may consist
of one or multiple documents. Each entity's EOP must include the information
identified below, as applicable. If a provision in this section does
not apply to an entity, the entity must include in its EOP an explanation
of why the provision does not apply.
(1) An approval and implementation section that:
(A) introduces the EOP and outlines its applicability;
(B) lists the individuals responsible for maintaining
and implementing the EOP, and those who can change the EOP;
(C) provides a revision control summary that lists
the dates of each change made to the EOP since the initial EOP filing
pursuant to subsection (c)(1) of this section;
(D) provides a dated statement that the current EOP
supersedes previous EOPs; and
(E) states the date the EOP was most recently approved
by the entity.
(2) A communication plan.
(A) An entity with transmission or distribution service
operations must describe the procedures during an emergency for handling
complaints and for communicating with the public; the media; customers;
the commission; the Office of Public Utility Counsel (OPUC); local
and state governmental entities, officials, and emergency operations
centers, as appropriate in the circumstances for the entity; the reliability
coordinator for its power region; and critical load customers directly
served by the entity.
(B) An entity with generation operations must describe
the procedures during an emergency for communicating with the media;
the commission; OPUC; fuel suppliers; local and state governmental
entities, officials, and emergency operations centers, as appropriate
in the circumstances for the entity; and the applicable reliability
coordinator.
(C) A REP must describe the procedures for communicating
during an emergency with the public, media, customers, the commission,
and OPUC, and the procedures for handling complaints during an emergency.
(D) ERCOT must describe the procedures for communicating,
in advance of and during an emergency, with the public, the media,
the commission, OPUC, governmental entities and officials, the state
emergency operations center, and market participants.
(3) A plan to maintain pre-identified supplies for
emergency response.
(4) A plan that addresses staffing during emergency
response.
(5) A plan that addresses how an entity identifies
weather-related hazards, including tornadoes, hurricanes, extreme
cold weather, extreme hot weather, drought, and flooding, and the
process the entity follows to activate the EOP.
(6) Each relevant annex, as detailed in subsection
(e) of this section, and other annexes applicable to an entity.
(e) Annexes to be included in the emergency operations
plan.
(1) An electric utility, a transmission and distribution
utility, a municipally owned utility, and an electric cooperative
a must include in its EOP for its transmission and distribution facilities
the following annexes:
(A) A weather emergency annex that includes:
(i) operational plans for responding to a cold or hot
weather emergency, distinct from the weather preparations required
under §25.55 of this title (relating to Weather Emergency Preparedness);
and
(ii) a checklist for transmission or distribution facility
personnel to use during cold or hot weather emergency response that
includes lessons learned from past weather emergencies to ensure necessary
supplies and personnel are available through the weather emergency;
(B) A load shed annex that must include:
(i) procedures for controlled shedding of load;
(ii) priorities for restoring shed load to service;
and
(iii) a procedure for maintaining an accurate registry
of critical load customers, as defined under 16 TAC §25.5(22)
of this title (relating to Definitions), §25.52(c)(1) and (2)
of this title (relating to Reliability and Continuity of Service)
and §25.497 of this title (relating to Critical Load Industrial
Customers, Critical Load Public Safety Customers, Critical Care Residential
Customers, and Chronic Condition Residential Customers), and TWC §13.1396
(relating to Coordination of Emergency Operations), directly served,
if maintained by the entity. The registry must be updated as necessary
but, at a minimum, annually. The procedure must include the processes
for providing assistance to critical load customers in the event of
an unplanned outage, for communicating with critical load customers
during an emergency, coordinating with government and service agencies
as necessary during an emergency, and for training staff with respect
to serving critical load customers;
(C) A pandemic and epidemic annex;
(D) A wildfire annex;
(E) A hurricane annex that includes evacuation and
re-entry procedures if facilities are located within a hurricane evacuation
zone, as defined by the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM);
(F) A cyber security annex;
(G) A physical security incident annex;
(H) A transmission and distribution utility that leases
or operates facilities under PURA §39.918(b)(1) or procures,
owns, and operates facilities under PURA §39.918(b)(2) must include
an annex that details its plan for the use of those facilities; and
(I) Any additional annexes as needed or appropriate
to the entity's particular circumstances.
(2) An electric cooperative, an electric utility, or
a municipally owned utility that operate a generation resource in
Texas; and a PGC must include the following annexes for its generation
resources other than generation resources authorized under PURA §39.918:
(A) A weather emergency annex that includes:
(i) operational plans for responding to a cold or hot
weather emergency, distinct from the weather preparations required
under §25.55 of this title;
(ii) verification of the adequacy and operability of
fuel switching equipment, if installed; and
(iii) a checklist for generation resource personnel
to use during a cold or hot weather emergency response that includes
lessons learned from past weather emergencies to ensure necessary
supplies and personnel are available through the weather emergency;
(B) A water shortage annex that addresses supply shortages
of water used in the generation of electricity;
(C) A restoration of service annex that identifies
plans intended to restore to service a generation resource that failed
to start or that tripped offline due to a hazard or threat;
(D) A pandemic and epidemic annex;
(E) A hurricane annex that includes evacuation and
re-entry procedures if facilities are located within a hurricane evacuation
zone, as defined by TDEM;
(F) A cyber security annex;
(G) A physical security incident annex; and
(H) Any additional annexes as needed or appropriate
to the entity's particular circumstances.
(3) A REP must include in its EOP the following annexes:
(A) A pandemic and epidemic annex;
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