Common use of Rights and Responsibilities of Participating TOs Clause in Contracts

Rights and Responsibilities of Participating TOs. Each Participating TO shall retain its benefits of ownership and its rights and responsibilities in relation to the transmission lines and associated facilities and Entitlements placed under the CAISO’s Operational Control except as otherwise provided in this Agreement. Participating TOs shall be responsible for operating and maintaining those lines and facilities in accordance with this Agreement, the Applicable Reliability Criteria, the Operating Procedures, and other criteria, CAISO Protocols, procedures, and directions of the CAISO issued or given in accordance with this Agreement. Rights and responsibilities that have not been transferred to the CAISO as operating obligations under Section 4.1.1 of this Agreement remain with the Participating TO. This Agreement shall have no effect on the remedies for breach or non-performance available to parties to existing interconnection, integration, exchange, operating, joint ownership, and joint participation agreements. Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision in this Agreement, the Parties recognize that a Participating TO under this Agreement may have entered into a Reliability Standards Agreement ("RSA"), or similar agreement, with the CAISO that allocates responsibility and delegates tasks for compliance with NERC or WECC Reliability Standard requirements, or how those requirements will be implemented. In the event that the CAISO and a Participating TO have a dispute regarding a Participating TO's satisfaction of or compliance with any obligations or responsibilities under this Agreement, and either Party asserts that it has executed an RSA or similar agreement with the other Party that sets forth inconsistent or conflicting obligations or responsibilities, then the CAISO and that Participating TO shall engage in good faith negotiations to resolve the alleged inconsistent or conflicting obligations or responsibilities.