On February 27, 2009, NERC submitted a petition to FERC seeking approval for Violation Severity Levels (VSL) associated with Reliability Standard TOP-004-2, Transmission Operations, which was submitted to the Commission on July 28, 2008 and approved in a January 22, 2009 Letter Order.  NERC explains that the TOP-004-2 VSLs were approved by the NERC Board of Trustees on February 10, 2009.  To view NERC’s filing, click here.