[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 23 (Wednesday, February 4, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6066-6067]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-02112]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. RD14-12-000]
Proposed Agency Information Collection
AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Comment request.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D), the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (Commission or FERC) is submitting the FERC-725D information
collection in Docket No. RD14-12-000 to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review of the information collection requirements. Any
interested person may file comments directly with OMB and should
address a copy of those comments to the Commission as explained below.
The Commission issued a Notice in the Federal Register (79 FR 68426,
11/17/2014) requesting public comments. FERC received no comments in
response to that notice and is making the notation in its submission to
OMB.
DATES: Comments on the collection of information are due by March 6,
2015.
ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB should be sent via email to the
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs: [email protected],
Attention: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Desk Officer and should
be identified by FERC-725D (OMB Control Number 1902-0247), The OMB Desk
Officer may also be reached via telephone at 202-395-0710.
A copy of the comments should also be sent to the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, identified by the Docket No. RD14-12-000, by
either of the following methods:
eFiling at Commission's Web site: http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp.
Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier: Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, Secretary of the Commission, 888 First Street NE.,
Washington, DC 20426.
Instructions: All submissions must be formatted and filed in
accordance with submission guidelines at: http://www.ferc.gov/help/submission-guide.asp. For user assistance, contact FERC Online Support
by email at [email protected], or by phone at: (866) 208-3676
(toll-free), or (202) 502-8659 for TTY.
Docket: Users interested in receiving automatic notification of
activity in this docket or in viewing/downloading comments and
issuances in this docket may do so at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/docs-filing.asp.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ellen Brown may be reached by email at
[email protected], telephone at (202) 502-8663, and fax at (202)
273-0873.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The information collection changes in Docket
No. RD14-12-000 relate to the Reliability Standards FAC-001-2 (Facility
Interconnection Requirements) and FAC-002-2 (Facility Interconnection
Studies), developed by the North American Electric Reliability
Corporation (NERC), and submitted to the Commission for approval. The
Commission received NERC's petition to approve the proposed Reliability
Standards on August 22, 2014.
NERC summarizes the FAC group of standards as follows:
The Facility Design, Connections, and Maintenance (``FAC'')
Reliability Standards address topics such as facility
interconnection requirements, facility ratings, system operating
limits, and transfer capabilities.\1\
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\1\ NERC Petition at 3.
In its petition, NERC also summarizes the proposed Reliability
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Standards' applicability and requirements:
Proposed Reliability Standard FAC-001-2 requires that
Transmission Owners and applicable Generator Owners document and
make Facility interconnection requirements available so that
entities seeking to interconnect have the necessary information.
Proposed Reliability Standard FAC-002-2 ensures that the reliability
impact of interconnecting new or materially modified Facilities is
studied. Collectively, proposed Reliability Standards FAC-001-2 and
FAC-002-2 ensure that there is appropriate coordination and
communication regarding the interconnection of Facilities, which
improves the reliability of the Bulk-Power System.\2\
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\2\ Id. at 3.
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Finally, NERC also states that the proposed Reliability Standards
improve reliability, clarify requirement language
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and eliminate redundant or unnecessary requirements.\3\
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\3\ Id. at 4.
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Burden Statement: Commission staff analyzed the proposed and
currently enforced Reliability Standards and has concluded that
proposed Reliability Standards merely clarify or eliminate redundancies
and thus, the information collection requirements have not changed.
Accordingly, the net overall burden and respondent universe \4\ remain
unchanged, when compared to the burden of the existing standards being
replaced.\5\
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\4\ The affected entities for FAC-001-2 are Transmission Owners
(TO) and applicable Generator Owners (GO). The affected entities for
FAC-002-2 are Transmission Planners (TP), Planning Coordinators
(PC), Generator Owners (GO), Transmission Owners (TO), Distribution
Providers (DP), and Load-Serving Entities (LSE). Note that Planning
Coordinator (PC) is the new name for Planning Authority--a term
still used in NERC's Compliance Registry.
\5\ The burden for the preceding versions of the standards being
replaced was included in: (a) FERC-725M (OMB Control No. 1902-0263)
for FAC-001-1, and (b) FERC-725A (OMB Control No. 1902-0244) for
FAC-002-1. The corresponding burden will be transferred from FERC-
725M and FERC-725A to FERC-725D.
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The Commission intends to submit a request for approval to OMB
under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) related to the proposed
Reliability Standards. For PRA purposes, the information collection
requirements in proposed Reliability Standards FAC-001-2 and FAC-002-2
are identified as FERC-725D and OMB Control Number 1902-0247.
The annual reporting burden for the implementation of Reliability
Standards FAC-001-2 and FAC-002-2 is estimated as follows.
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\6\ The number of respondents is based on the NERC Compliance
Registry as of September 24, 2014. Although 2,163 entities are
registered as TO, DP, LSE, or GO, we expect at the most 216 entities
(ten percent) will seek to interconnect and go through the study
phase that may require coordination in any given year.
\7\ The estimates for cost per hour are derived as follows:
$72.92/hour, the average of the salary plus
benefits for a manager ($84.96/hour) and an electrical engineer
($60.87/hour), from Bureau of Labor and Statistics at http://bls.gov/oes/current/naics3_221000.htm, as of 9/4/2014
$29.01/hour, based on a Commission staff study of
record retention burden cost.
FERC-725D, modifications in RD14-12
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Annual number
Number and type of of responses Total number Average burden Total annual Total annual
respondent \6\ per of responses per response burden (hours) cost \7\
respondent (hours)
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(1)......................... (2) (1)*(2)=(3) (4) (3)*(4)=(5) ($)
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FAC-001-2
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Documentation & updates................... GO 5........................ 1 5 16 80 $5,833.60
TO 332...................... 1 332 16 5,312 387,351.04
Record Retention.......................... GO 5........................ 1 5 1 5 145.05
TO 332...................... 1 332 1 332 9,631.32
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FAC-002-2
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Study..................................... PC, TP 183.................. 1 183 32 5,856 427,019.52
Record Retention.......................... PC, TP 183.................. 1 183 1 183 5,308.83
Coordination.............................. TO, DP, LSE, GO 216......... 1 216 16 3456 252,011.52
Record Retention.......................... TO, DP, LSE, GO 216......... 1 216 1 216 6,266.16
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Total................................. ............................ .............. .............. .............. .............. 1,093,567.04
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Dated: January 28, 2015.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2015-02112 Filed 2-3-15; 8:45 am]
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