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Official Comment Form Security Guideline for the Electricity Sector: Protecting Sensitive Information Guideline - UPDATEDComment Period: March 28, 2012 – May 11, 2012
The Protecting Sensitive Information Guideline Task Force (PSIGTF) of the Critical Infrastructure Protection Committee (CIPC) has posted a draft of the document Protecting Sensitive Information Guideline for a 45-day broad industry comment period. This comment period represents the second comment period for the document, and the final opportunity for comment in the guideline development process.
The guideline has already been reviewed by CIPC as part of Step 9 of the CIPC-approved Security Guideline Process Flow diagram. The original version of the guideline, a redline document showing changes made in response to the comments received from CIPC, as well as a comment and response summary document for that version is available on the SGWG web page here.
As defined by Step 12 of the CIPC-approved Security Guideline Process Flow diagram, industry will have a 45-day opportunity to comment on this draft. The PSIGTF will consider all comments and then develop the final version of the guideline. Following this update, the CIPC will vote to approve the guideline. The process flow diagram is available electronically here.
Please use the electronic form, in Microsoft Word format, to submit comments via email to [email protected] by close of business on May 11, 2012. Instructions for use are included within the form.
If you have any questions on the subject information, please contact Bob Canada at [email protected]
Information Table 1Individual Commenter or Group Leader Contact Information
Name: Entity Name: Telephone: E-mail:
Information Table 2Select each NERC Region that you
represent:Select each Industry Segment that you represent:
ERCOT FRCC MRO NPCC RFC SERC SPP WECC NA – Not
Applicable
1 — Transmission Owners2 — RTOs, ISOs3 — Load-serving Entities4 — Transmission-dependent Utilities5 — Electric Generators6 — Electricity Brokers, Aggregators, and Marketers7 — Large Electricity End Users8 — Small Electricity End Users9 — Federal, State, and Provincial Regulatory or other Government Entities10 — Regional Reliability Organizations and Regional EntitiesNA – Not Applicable
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Information Table 3Group Comments (Complete this page if comments are from a group.)Group Name: Additional Member Name Additional Member Entity
NameRegion(s) Segment(s)
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Enter All Comments in the tables below. Red-line Changes will not be accepted. Submit this form in Microsoft Word format only.
There are two forms provided for your use to submit comments on this guideline.
The first form is used to provide general comments on the guideline. These general comments should not reference a specific section or page in the guideline, but rather, should be overall comments on the guideline or concepts in the guideline, and may include repeating comments that are applicable to a number of sections.
The second form is used to provide comments to specific sections of the guideline, such as spelling, punctuation or word usage comments, as well as to provide specific comments to concepts on the indicated page and line of the guideline. When performing the review, please use the “clean version (not any “redline” versions) of the document in order to ensure consistently in provided comments from multiple commenters.
Please provide sufficient information in your comments to allow the working group to understand the issue being commented upon, and provide suggested changes to the guideline that the working group may use to update the guideline.
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Instructions for general comments: Provide a description (or explanation) of your comments in the Comment column. Provide a proposed wording (or other) change in the proposed change column. The text in the proposed change
column will be used by the working group to update the document.
The first and last columns will be used by the working group during the comment resolution process, and should not be filled out on this comment form.
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Instructions for specific comments on the text of the document: Provide a page number and line number reference for each comment (page and line numbers are provided in the
review version of the document). When referencing page and line numbers, refer to the “clean” version of the posted document. Please DO NOT refer to page and line numbers in “redline” versions of documents.
Identify each comment as either E (editorial), i.e., spelling, punctuation, formatting; or, T (technical) i.e., content changes.
Provide a description (or explanation) of your comments in the Comment column. Provide a proposed wording (or other) change in the proposed change column. The text in the proposed change
column will be used by the working group to update the document.
The first and last columns will be used by the working group during the comment resolution process, and should not be filled out on this comment form.
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