OMB Approves Grid Emergency Order Rule

On Friday the OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) announced that they had approved the final rule from the Department of Energy regarding the procedures for issuing grid security emergency orders. The notice of proposed rulemaking for this rule was published on December 7, 2016. This rule was submitted to OIRA on December 19^th, 2017 for review.

The rule was approved ‘consistent with change’. Typically, this means that OIRA required some relatively minor changes in the draft of the rule. This rule will probably appear later this week in the Federal Register.