Common use of Exhibit A: NPCC Regional Boundary Clause in Contracts

Exhibit A: NPCC Regional Boundary. 288. The geographic region in which NPCC will perform its duties and functions under the NPCC Delegation Agreement will include, as noted above, New York State, the six New England states, and Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritime Provinces in Canada. The region covers approximately one million square miles. NERC, in support of this proposed regional boundary, states that the six Regional Entities within the Eastern Interconnection, including NPCC, have worked together to develop their respective Exhibit A proposals. This is especially important for a region that is less than interconnection-wide, where failure of one of the region’s bulk-power system components may have an adverse impact on the neighboring regions’ bulk-power systems. NERC asserts that these Regional Entities are satisfied that they have properly identified their boundaries so as to avoid both gaps and overlaps, and know which owners, operators and users of the bulk-power system located along the boundaries are in which regions.