Scheduling Protocols. The Parties agree that each Party will leverage technology, where feasible, to perform electronic approvals of schedules and to perform electronic checkouts. The Parties agree to follow the following scheduling protocols: Each Party, acting as the scheduling agent for their respective BAs, will conduct all checkouts with their first tier BAs or the scheduling agent acting on behalf of those first-tier BAs. A first tier BA is any BA that is directly connected to any Party’s members’ BA. The Parties will require all schedules between the Parties, other than reserve sharing or other emergency events and loss payback schedules, to be tagged via the NERC tagging standard. For reserve sharing and other emergency schedules that are not tagged, the Parties will enter manual schedules after the fact into their respective scheduling systems to facilitate checkout between the Parties. When there is a scheduling conflict, the Parties will work in unison to modify the schedule as soon as practical. If there is a scheduling conflict that is identified before the schedule has started, then both Parties will make the correction in real-time and not wait until the quarter hour. If the schedule has already started and one Party identifies an error, then the Parties will make the correction at the earliest quarter hour increment. If a scheduling conflict cannot be resolved between the Parties (but the source and sink have agreed to a MW value), then the Parties will both adjust their numbers to that same MW value. If source and sink are unable to agree to a MW value, then the previously tagged value will stand for both Parties. For BAs or associated scheduling agents that do not use the respective Parties’ electronic scheduling interfaces, the Parties will contact those entities by telephone to perform checkouts. When performing checkouts by telephone, each entity will verbally repeat the numerical NSI value to ensure accuracy. The Parties will perform the following types of checkouts:
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