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Question H-3: DOE Asks Whether Industry Should Execute the Bulk-Power Order
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Question H-3: DOE Asks Whether Industry Should Execute the Bulk-Power Order

DOE's Request for Information on Executive Order 14421 includes one question, H-3, asking whether industry standards bodies and third-party labs can execute the order instead of the federal government. The electric sector ran something close to this before, under the Electric Reliability Organization. This post looks at what changes when the statute is IEEPA, not the Federal Power Act, and what a working precedent outside the sector suggests.

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