Common use of REGIONAL HEARING OF COMPLIANCE MATTERS Clause in Contracts

REGIONAL HEARING OF COMPLIANCE MATTERS. WECC, to the extent required in the Rules of Procedure, shall establish and maintain a hearing body with authority to conduct and render decisions in compliance hearings in which a Registered Entity may contest a finding of alleged violation, proposed penalty or sanction, or a proposed mitigation plan, which shall be either WECC’s board, a committee of the board, a balanced compliance panel reporting directly to WECC’s board or an independent hearing panel. WECC’s hearing body is the Compliance Hearing Body, a committee of the WECC Board comprised solely of directors, as set forth in the WECC Compliance Hearing Body Charter. Consistent with the WECC Compliance Hearing Body Charter, hearing panels for individual matters will include directors and may include industry subject matter experts. No industry representative or member class shall control the outcome. To the extent required in the Rules of Procedure, WECC shall conduct all compliance hearings in which a Registered Entity may contest a finding of alleged violation, proposed penalty or sanction, proposed Mitigation Plan, or a proposed Remedial Action Directive, in accordance with Attachment 2, Hearing Procedures, to the NERC Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Program, subject to the following deviations, if any: None.

REGIONAL HEARING OF COMPLIANCE MATTERS. WECCNPCC, to the extent required in the Rules of Procedure, shall establish and maintain a hearing body with authority to conduct and render decisions in compliance hearings in which a Registered Entity registered entity may contest a finding of alleged violation, proposed penalty or sanction, or a proposed mitigation plan. The NPCC Compliance Committee, which shall reporting to the NPCC Board, will be either WECC’s board, responsible for impaneling a committee of the board, a balanced compliance panel reporting directly to WECC’s board or an independent hearing panel. WECC’s hearing body is the Compliance Hearing Body, when required. The Hearing Body will consist of an independent Hearing Officer and two (2) Independent Directors. The Hearing Officer, who is not a committee member of the WECC Board comprised solely of directorsCompliance Committee, as set forth in the WECC Compliance NPCC Board, or NPCC Staff, will conduct the hearing. The Hearing Body Charterwill utilize a simple majority vote to resolve issues. Consistent This voting rule, along with the WECC Compliance structure of the Hearing Body CharterBody, hearing panels for individual matters will include directors fully supports the requirement that no two stakeholder sectors may control, and no single stakeholder sector may include industry subject veto, a matter experts. No industry representative or member class shall control before the outcomeHearing Body. To the extent required in the Rules of Procedure, WECC NPCC shall conduct all compliance hearings in which a Registered Entity registered entity may contest a finding of alleged violation, proposed penalty or sanction, proposed Mitigation Plan, or a proposed Remedial Action Directive, in accordance with Attachment 2, Hearing Procedures, to the NERC Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Program, subject to the following deviations, if any: None.

REGIONAL HEARING OF COMPLIANCE MATTERS. WECCReliabilityFirst, to the extent required in the Rules of Procedure, shall establish and maintain a hearing body with authority to conduct and render decisions in compliance hearings in which a Registered Entity may contest a finding of alleged violation, proposed penalty or sanction, or a proposed mitigation plan, which shall be either WECCReliabilityFirst’s board, a committee of the board, a balanced compliance panel reporting directly to WECCReliabilityFirst’s board or an independent hearing panel. WECCReliabilityFirst’s hearing body is the Compliance Hearing Body, a committee composition of members of the WECC ReliabilityFirst Compliance Committee as established by the Board comprised solely of directors, Directors of ReliabilityFirst as set forth out in the WECC ReliabilityFirst Compliance Committee Charter. No two industry sectors may control any decision and no single segment may veto any matter brought before the Hearing Body Charter. Consistent with the WECC Compliance Hearing Body Charter, hearing panels for individual matters will include directors and may include industry subject matter experts. No industry representative either before or member class shall control the outcomeafter any recusals or disqualifications. To the extent required in the Rules of Procedure, WECC ReliabilityFirst shall conduct all compliance hearings in which a Registered Entity may contest a finding of alleged violation, proposed penalty or sanction, proposed Mitigation Plan, or a proposed Remedial Action Directive, in accordance with Attachment 2, Hearing Procedures, to the NERC Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Program, subject to the following deviations, if any: None.