Nomination Period Opens For

Nomination Period Opens for

Standards Committee’s Process Subcommittee

2-year Term

The Standards Committee is seeking industry volunteers to serve on its Process Subcommittee. The Process Subcommittee is responsible for maintaining the reference documents used to support the standards processes.

All candidates should be prepared to participate in the subcommittee’s meetings as well as in delivery of the subcommittee’s work products. Some meetings are conducted in a “face-to-face” forum and some are conducted via conference call. (Face-to-face meetings for the remainder of 2012 are tentatively scheduled for April 10 in Tampa, FL; July 10 in Denver; October 9 in Miami.) Volunteers who are selected are expected to serve a two-year term.

More details on the work of the Process Subcommittee can be found in the Standards Committee Subcommittee Organization and Procedures document.

If you have any questions, please contact Laura Hussey by email at or by telephone at 404-446-2579.

If you are interested in joining the SCPS, please complete the nomination form posted on the Process Subcommittee page (http://www.nerc.com/filez/scps.html) and return by email to Monica Benson () by March 15, 2012.

Applicant: Kate Smith

Katherine E. Smith

Senior Counsel
National Grid
1 MetroTech Center, 14th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Office: 718-403-3320
Cell: 516-404-1325
Fax: 718-403-2809

I represent the following NERC Reliability Region(s) (check all that apply): / I represent the following Industry Segment (check one):
ERCOT
FRCC
MRO
NPCC
RFC
SERC
SPP
WECC
NA – Not Applicable / 1 — Transmission Owners
2 — RTOs, ISOs
3 — Load-serving Entities
4 — Transmission-dependent Utilities
5 — Electric Generators
6 — Electricity Brokers, Aggregators, and Marketers
7 — Large Electricity End Users
8 — Small Electricity End Users
9 — Federal, State, and Provincial Regulatory or other Government Entities
10 — Regional Reliability Organizations and Regional Entities
Identify All Function(s)[1] in which you have expertise or responsibilities:
Balancing Authority
Compliance Monitor
Distribution Provider
Generator Operator
Generator Owner
Interchange Authority
Load-serving Entity
Market Operator / Planning Coordinator
Transmission Operator
Transmission Owner
Transmission Planner
Transmission Service Provider
Purchasing-selling Entity
Resource Planner
Reliability Coordinator
Provide the names and contact information for two references who could attest to your writing qualifications and your ability to work well in a group.
Name: / Nabil Hitti / Office Telephone: / (781)-907-2657
Organization: / National Grid USA / Email: /
Name: / Lillian S. Harris / Office Telephone: / (484) 219-7954
Organization: / UGI Utilities / Email: /

Please briefly describe your experience and qualifications to serve on the Process Subcommittee.

Note: In making its selections for the Process Subcommittee, the Standards Committee will give preference to those volunteers who have experience with NERC’s standards development processes as well as experience in developing procedures, manuals, or other reference documents.

I am an in-house attorney at National Grid with 8 years of experience as an energy regulatory attorney and significant experience related to the NERC Reliability Standards.

For the past two years, I have worked as part of National Grid’s “FERC Regulatory” in-house legal practice group. My primary responsibility within this group has been to advise National Grid’s multiple NERC-registered entities (across the above-indicated functions) regarding:

·  Implementation and compliance with the currently-effective NERC Reliability Standards;

·  National Grid’s internal compliance plan and compliance documentation and policies;

·  Enforcement matters related to self-reports and audit findings of potential non-compliance;

·  NERC and FERC investigations related to compliance with the NERC Reliability Standards;

·  Audit documentation and RSAW preparation;

·  Company comments on NERC standards and rules in development;

·  Company comments on NERC formal and informal standards interpretation processes;

·  Company comments on FERC Technical Conferences on Electric Reliability.

Prior to my current position at National Grid, I practiced as an energy and regulatory lawyer for 6 years at a private law firm in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (Hawke McKeon & Sniscak, LLP). My areas of practice focused on representing utility clients in Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) matters, utility clients and other regulated entities in matters before State regulatory agencies including the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, and in judicial appeals of decisions by FERC and other Federal and State regulatory agencies. Many of the cases and matters I handled during my time practicing at the firm involved statutory interpretation and/or interpretation of state agency regulations. Through this experience, I gained competency in issue-spotting statutory and regulatory interpretation issues.

My skills and training as an attorney coupled with my significant, practical experience involving the existing NERC Standards and processes will allow me to lend a valuable component to the Process Subcommittee. In particular, I should be able to issue-spot aspects of the standards or processes that could present enforcement or interpretation problems; help to ensure that processes and standards include sufficient due process protections; and help to ensure that language is as clear and focused as possible from a non-technical point-of-view.

Bar Admissions and Education:

·  Bar Admissions in the States of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania

·  Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University: J.D., 2003

·  The Pennsylvania State University: B.S. Accounting; Minor History, 1999

Standard’s Committee’s Process Subcommittee Nomination Period

[1] These functions are defined in the NERC Functional Model, which is downloadable from the NERC Web site.