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January 21, 2010 VIA ELECTRONIC FILING Veronique Dubois Régie de l'énergie Tour de la Bourse 800, Place Victoria Bureau 255 Montréal , Québec H4Z 1A2 Re: North American Electric Reliability Corporation Dear Ms. Dubois: The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (“NERC”) hereby submits this Notice of Filing of the following proposed Interconnection Reliability Operating Limit (“IRO”) standards set forth as Exhibit A to this petition that were approved by the NERC Board of Trustees on October 17, 2008: IRO-008-1 — Reliability Coordinator Operational Analyses and Real-time Assessments; IRO-009-1 — Reliability Coordinator Actions to Operate Within IROLs; and IRO-010-1a 1 — Reliability Coordinator Data Specification and Collection. In developing the “new” standards proposed in this filing, the standard drafting team also addressed some of FERC’s directives in Order No. 693. 2 In doing so, the 1 The NERC Board of Trustees approved the proposed IRO-010-1 Reliability Standard on October 17, 2008. Subsequently, on August 5, 2009, the NERC Board of Trustees approved an interpretation to the proposed IRO-010-1 standard. Accordingly, NERC is herein submitting notice of both the proposed standard and the appended interpretation, and has designated the proposed standard and appended interpretation in this filing as IRO-010-1a. 2 See Mandatory Reliability Standards for the Bulk-Power System, 18 CFR Part 40, Docket No. RM06-16- 000 (March 16, 2007) (“Order No. 693”) at PP 627-630, 636-638.