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CIP exceptional circumstance

nounid 1811·updated Aug 30, 2026
verified· unreviewed

A situation that involves or threatens to involve one or more of the following, or similar, conditions that impact safety or Bulk Electric System (BES) reliability: a risk of injury or death; a natural disaster; civil unrest; an imminent or existing hardware, software, or equipment failure; a Cyber Security Incident requiring emergency assistance; a response by emergency services; the enactment of a mutual assistance agreement; or an impediment of large scale workforce availability.

MWE

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Classifications

Entity Type

Requirement0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1

Sensitivity

Regulated95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

Cui75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

plural
CIP exceptional circumstances
possessive
CIP exceptional circumstance's
pluralpossessive
CIP exceptional circumstances'

Framework definitions

NERC CIP-003-6 (Security Management Controls) v61 senseview framework →
§1
A situation that involves or threatens to involve one or more of the following, or similar, conditions that impact safety or Bulk Electric System (BES) reliability: a risk of injury or death; a natural disaster; civil unrest; an imminent or existing hardware, software, or equipment failure; a Cyber Security Incident requiring emergency assistance; a response by emergency services; the enactment of a mutual assistance agreement; or an impediment of large scale workforce availability.
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
A situation that involves or threatens to involve one or more of the following, or similar, conditions that impact safety or Bulk Electric System (BES) reliability: a risk of injury or death; a natural disaster; civil unrest; an imminent or existing hardware, software, or equipment failure; a Cyber Security Incident requiring emergency assistance; a response by emergency services; the enactment of a mutual assistance agreement; or an impediment of large scale workforce availability.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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