Orders

ORDER NUMBER

R-3-16

IN THE MATTER OF

the Utilities Commission Act, RSBC 1996, Chapter 473

and

Teck Metals Limited

Application for Acceptance of Mitigation Plans (Version 2) required for

Compliance with Mandatory Reliability Standards:

EOP-005-1 Requirement 1 - Violation ID:  BCUC2014000517

EOP-005-1 Requirement 6 - Violation ID:  BCUC2014000541

BEFORE:

D. M. Morton, Commissioner

on January 28, 2016

ORDER

WHEREAS:

A.      Section 125.2 of the Utilities Commission Act (UCA) assigns exclusive jurisdiction to the British Columbia Utilities Commission (Commission) to determine whether a “reliability standard,” as defined in the UCA, is in the public interest and should be adopted in British Columbia. By Order G-123-09, the Commission approved the Compliance Monitoring Program (CMP) for monitoring and enforcement of adopted reliability standards and appointed the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) as its Administrator for registration and monitoring compliance as per section 8 of the UCA. WECC’s role as Administrator for the BC Mandatory Reliability Standards (MRS) Program was renewed in the first amended Administration Agreement, dated August 21, 2014. The CMP was revised and updated by Commission Order R-34-15, dated June 3, 2015;

B.      Pursuant to section 5 of the CMP, an entity subject to approved Mandatory Reliability Standards found in Confirmed Violation of a reliability standard must prepare a Mitigation Plan (MP) to correct the Confirmed Violation or prepare a description of how the Confirmed Violation has been mitigated. An MP with respect to a Confirmed Violation must be submitted to the Administrator within ten days following confirmation by the Commission;

C.      An MP with respect to an Alleged Violation may be submitted at any time and the Commission encourages entities to mitigate all perceived instances of noncompliance upon detection;

D.      On August 7, 2015, Teck Metals Limited (Teck) submitted MPs (Version 1) to address the Alleged Violations noted above with the proposed completion dates of December 31, 2015, and on October 23, 2015, WECC rejected these MPs;

E.       On December 1, 2015, Teck submitted MPs (Version 2) to address these Alleged Violations with the proposed completion dates of December 31, 2015;

F.       By Commission Order R-56-15, dated December 10, 2015, the Commission confirmed the Alleged Violations noted above;

G.     By email notifications dated January 22, 2016, WECC recommended acceptance of the following MPs to bring Teck into compliance with the Reliability Standards identified below:

H.      The Commission reviewed WECC’s recommendations and considers acceptance is warranted.

NOW THEREFORE pursuant to section 125.2(10) of the Utilities Commission Act and in accordance with the Compliance Monitoring Program, the British Columbia Utilities Commission accepts the Mitigation Plans with the completion dates as identified above.

DATED at the City of Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, this            29th               day of January 2016.

BY ORDER

Original Signed By:

D. M. Morton

Commissioner