RRC-CIP-008-1, -009-1, -010-1, & -012-1 VRF/VSL Tables Working Group Meeting

July 15, 2025 9:00am AKDT - 4:00pm AKDT

Attend VRF/VSL Working Group Meeting

Please fill out the following form to attend the Working Group meeting to related to the development of violation risk factors (VRFs) and violation severity levels (VSLs) for each requirement in each standard. If you are unable to use the form, please contact us for meeting access information and a member of the RRC Team will be in contact to fulfill your request.

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Comment on VRF/VSL Table

The following form may be used to submit comments to the Manager of the above-named development. Comments may also be submitted by email to info@akrrc.org or by mail to 125 West Evergreen Ave, Suite 201, Palmer, Alaska 99645.

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This meeting will cover the violation risk factors (VRFs) and violation severity levels (VSLs) tables for the requirements in the Incident Reporting and Response Planning (RRC-CIP-008), Recovery Plans for BES Cyber Systems (RRC-CIP-009), Configuration Change Management and Vulnerability Assessments (RRC-CIP-010), and Communications between Control Centers (RRC-CIP-012) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) standards.

VRF/VSL Tables Working Group

David Burlingame

Position

Manager

Affiliation

Principal, Electric Power Systems Inc.
David Hilt

Affiliation

Founder, Grid Reliability Consulting, LLC
Haider Naveed

Affiliation

Senior NERC Compliance Specialist, Electric Power Engineers
Todd Ponto

Affiliation

Director of OT and NERC Compliance, ScottMadden

Meeting Materials

VRF/VSL Tables Meeting Materials

Materials for (VRFs) and violation severity levels (VSLs) Working Group meetings.
- Meeting Materials

Attend VRF/VSL Working Group Meeting

Comment on VRF/VSL Table

Public Petition

Petition to Join Working Group

Appeal Denied Petition

VRF/VSL Tables Working Group

David Burlingame

David Hilt

Haider Naveed

Todd Ponto

VRF/VSL Tables Meeting Materials