1. North America Energy Standards Board Craig L. Williams, Specialist Ld.Sr. ISAS Meeting January 13, 2016 Phoenix, AZ W ESTERN E LECTRICITY C OORDINATING C OUNCIL

2. NAESB Gas-Electric Harmonization September 17, 2015 Order on Rehearing for FERC Order No. 809. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission asked that NAESB consider developing standards related to faster, computerized scheduling when shippers and confirming parties submit electronic nominations and confirmations, including a streamlined process, if necessary. 2 W ESTERN E LECTRICITY C OORDINATING C OUNCIL

3. NAESB FERC Forms Subcommittee The April 16, 2015 Order Instituting Proceeding to Develop Electronic Filing Protocols for Commission Forms in Docket No. AD15-11-000 notified the industry of the FERC’s intent to replace the existing electronic filing format of FERC Forms 1, 1-F, 2, 2-A, 3-Q electric, 3-Q gas, 6, 6-Q, FERC-60 and FERC- 714 with an Extensible Mark-Up Language (XML) file format. 3 W ESTERN E LECTRICITY C OORDINATING C OUNCIL

4. NAESB – NERC – IDC Coordination NAESB maintains standing agenda items including: – Parallel Flow Visualization (PFV) – NAESB Electric Industry Registry (EIR) – Cybersecurity – NERC Time Error Correction Standards Another topic of interest is the NERC Functional Model which has recently been modified to retire the Load Serving Entity (LSE), Purchasing-Selling Entity (PSE) and Interchange Authority (IA) functions from the NERC Compliance Registry. 4 W ESTERN E LECTRICITY C OORDINATING C OUNCIL

5. NAESB OASIS Subcommittee The OASIS Subcommittee developed a recommendation for long term preemption and competition under 2015 WEQ Annual Plan Item 2.a.i.2. recommendation The subcommittee voted out the recommendation during its December 3, 2015 conference call. A 45-day formal industry comment period will end on January 19, 2016. 5 W ESTERN E LECTRICITY C OORDINATING C OUNCIL

6. NAESB Legal Entity Identifier September 17, 2015 FERC Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) Collection of Connected Entity Data from Regional Transmission Organizations and Independent System Operators Docket No. RM15-23-000.6 In the NOPR, the FERC proposes to require each RTO and ISO to electronically provide the FERC with data from market participants that would identify the market participant by means of a common alpha-numeric identifier, the LEI. Comments due January 22, 2016 6 W ESTERN E LECTRICITY C OORDINATING C OUNCIL

7. Next Monthly Update Call The next Monthly Update conference call is scheduled for January 20, 2016 from 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Central. http://www.naesb.org/monthly_update.asp 7 W ESTERN E LECTRICITY C OORDINATING C OUNCIL