Reporting to the MRO Board, the Dispute Resolution Committee shall provide oversight and supervision of the dispute resolution processes and procedures instituted pursuant to the MRO Bylaws.

The Dispute Resolution Committee shall:

• Maintain a pool of persons qualified by temperament and experience, and within technical or legal expertise in matters likely to be the subject of Disputes, to serve as mediators and arbitrators under the Midwest Reliability Organization bylaws.
• Determine the fees and reimbursements that shall be paid to mediators and arbitrators for or in conjunction with their services.
• Select mediators for disputes.
• Determine whether mediation is warranted in a particular dispute.
• Provide to disputing parties all lists of arbitrators qualified by temperament and experience, and with appropriate technical or legal expertise, to resolve particular Disputes, such lists to include only neutral persons who have no official, financial, or personal conflict of interest with respect to the issues in controversy.
• Compile and make available to Members, arbitrators and other interested parties suggested procedures for the arbitration of Disputes in accordance with Article 19 of the Midwest Reliability Organization bylaws.
• Maintain and make available to Members, mediators, arbitrators, and other interested parties the written decisions.
• Establish such procedures and schedules, in addition to those specified herein, as it shall deem appropriate to further the prompt, efficient, fair and equitable resolution of disputes.
• Provide oversight and supervision of the dispute resolution processes and procedures instituted pursuant to the Midwest Reliability Organization bylaws.