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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
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Commission
[Docket Nos. IC10–6–001 and IC10–6Q–001]
Commission Information Collection
Activities (FERC Form Nos. 6 and 6–
Q); Comment Request; Submitted for
OMB Review
April 19, 2010.
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AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: In compliance with the
requirements of section 3507 of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44
U.S.C. 3507, the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (Commission or
FERC) has submitted the information
collections described below 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
(75FR5061, 2/1/2010) requesting public
comments. FERC received one comment
on the FERC Form No. 6 and FERC
Form No. 6Q and has made this notation
in its submissions to OMB.
DATES: Comments on the collections of
information are due by May 26, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Address comments on the
collections of information to the Office
of Management and Budget, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Attention: Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission Desk Officer. Comments to
OMB should be filed electronically, c/o
oira_submission@omb.eop.gov and
include OMB Control Numbers 1902–
0022 (for FERC Form No. 6) and 1902–
0206 (for FERC Form No. 6Q) as points
of reference. For comments that pertain
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to only one of the collections, specify
the appropriate collection and OMB
Control Number. The Desk Officer may
be reached by telephone at 202–395–
4638.
A copy of the comments should also
be sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission and should refer to Docket
Nos. IC10–6–001 and IC10–6Q–001. (If
comments apply to only one of the
collections, indicate the corresponding
docket and collection number.)
Comments may be filed either
electronically or in paper format. Those
persons filing electronically do not need
to make a paper filing. Documents filed
electronically via the Internet must be
prepared in an acceptable filing format
and in compliance with the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission
submission guidelines. Complete filing
instructions and acceptable filing
formats are available at https://
www.ferc.gov/help/submission-guide/
electronic-media.asp. To file the
document electronically, access the
Commission’s Web site and click on
Documents & Filing, E-Filing (https://
www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp),
and then follow the instructions for
each screen. First time users will have
to establish a user name and password.
The Commission will send an automatic
acknowledgement to the sender’s e-mail
address upon receipt of comments.
For paper filings, the comments
should be submitted to the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission,
Secretary of the Commission, 888 First
Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426, and
should refer to Docket Nos. IC10–6–001
and IC10–6Q–001 (or the appropriate
docket number, if the comments pertain
only to one of the collections).
Users interested in receiving
automatic notification of activity in
FERC Docket Number IC10–6 may do so
through eSubscription at https://
www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/
esubscription.asp. However, due to a
system issue, Docket Number IC10–6Q
is not available at this time for
eSubscription. All comments may be
viewed, printed or downloaded
remotely via the Internet through
FERC’s homepage using the ‘‘eLibrary’’
link. For user assistance, contact
ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov or toll-free
at (866) 208–3676 or for TTY, contact
(202) 502–8659.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ellen Brown may be reached by
telephone at (202) 502–8663, by fax at
(202) 273–0873, and by e-mail at
DataClearance@FERC.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For the
purpose of publishing this notice and
seeking public comment, FERC requests
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comments on the following information
collections:
• FERC Form No. 6 (‘‘FERC–6’’),
‘‘Annual Report of Oil Pipeline
Companies,’’ implemented in 18 CFR
Sections 357.1, 357.2, and 385.2011;
OMB Control No. 1902–0022, and
• FERC Form No. 6–Q (‘‘FERC–6Q’’ or
‘‘FERC–6–Q’’), ‘‘Quarterly Financial
Report of Oil Pipeline Companies,’’
implemented in 18 CFR Section 357.4;
OMB Control No. 1902–0206.
The associated regulations,
information collections, burdens, and
OMB clearance numbers will continue
to remain separate and distinct.
Under the Interstate Commerce Act
(ICA) (49 U.S.C. 1, 20, 54 Stat. 916), the
Commission is authorized and
empowered to make investigations and
to collect and record data to the extent
FERC may consider to be necessary or
useful for the purpose of carrying out
the provisions of the ICA. FERC must
ensure just and reasonable rates for
transportation of crude oil and
petroleum products by pipelines in
interstate commerce.
The information collected by FERC
Form Nos. 6 and 6–Q are used by the
Commission to carry out its
responsibilities in implementing the
statutory provisions of the ICA,
including the authority to prescribe
rules and regulations concerning
accounts, records and memoranda, as
necessary or appropriate. Financial
accounting and reporting provides
needed information concerning a
company’s past performance and its
future prospects. Without reliable
financial statements prepared in
accordance with the Commission’s
Uniform System of Accounts and
related regulations, the Commission
would be unable to accurately
determine the costs that relate to a
particular time period, service or line of
business.
FERC uses data from the FERC Form
Nos. 6 and 6–Q to assist in: (1)
Implementation of its financial audits
and programs, (2) continuous review of
the financial condition of regulated
companies, (3) assessment of energy
markets, (4) rate proceedings and
economic analyses, and (5) research for
use in litigation.
Financial information reported on the
annual FERC Form 6 and quarterly
FERC Form 6–Q provides FERC, as well
as customers, investors and others, an
important tool to help identify emerging
trends and issues affecting jurisdictional
entities within the energy industry. It
also provides timely disclosures of the
impacts that new accounting standards,
or changes in existing standards, have
on jurisdictional entities, as well as the
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economic effects of significant
transactions, events, and circumstances.
The reporting of this information by
jurisdictional entities assists the
Commission in its analysis of
profitability, efficiency, risk and in its
overall monitoring.
A summary of the comment received
(from the 60-day Notice) and FERC’s
response follow.
Comment: The Commission received
comments from only one commenter,
the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA),
U.S. Department of Commerce. BEA
endorsed the continued use of the
information contained in the FERC
Form Nos. 6 and 6Q, stating that:
‘‘BEA uses FERC tabulations FERC
forms 6 and 6Q indirectly. They are
used to estimate the U.S. Census
Bureau’s Construction Value Put-In
Place (VPIP) for oil pipeline utilities.
Census VPIP serves as a major source
data input to the National Income and
Product Account (NIPA) for structures
investment estimates. NIPA estimates
for electric, gas, and pipeline structures
rely upon the VPIP source data * * *.
The FERC Form 6 is used indirectly as
well to derive annual pipeline
transportation output in the Industry
Accounts program. Data obtained by the
Industry Accounts from the Association
of Oil Pipelines ‘‘Shifts in Petroleum
Transportation’’ report is based, in part,
on this survey. BEA currently uses this
FERC information indirectly through the
VPIP program and the trade association,
and it is considered an indispensable
data source to the NIPA estimates and
Industry Accounts estimates.’’
FERC’s response: The Commission is
appreciative of BEA’s continued support
for the Commission’s information
collection programs.
ACTION: The Commission is
requesting a three-year extension of the
current FERC Form No. 6 and FERC
Form No. 6Q requirements, with no
changes.
Burden Statement: The estimated
annual public reporting burdens and the
associated public costs follow.1 2
Projected
number of
respondents
Projected
average
burden hours
per
response
Total annual
burden hours 1
(1)
FERC data collection
Number of
annual
responses per
respondent
(2)
(3)
(1) × (2) × (3)
form) 2
FERC–6 (Complete
..............................................................................
FERC–6 (Pages 1, 301, and 700 only) 2 .........................................................
FERC–6 (Pages 1 and 700 only) 2 ..................................................................
FERC–6Q ........................................................................................................
142
1
23
142
1
1
1
3
186
15
10
150
26,412
15
230
63,900
The total annual cost to
respondents 1 2 3 is estimated as follows.
Total annual
burden hours
Estimated
hourly cost 3
($)
Estimated total
annual cost to
respondents
($)1
(1)
FERC data collection
(2)
(2) × (1)
FERC–6 (Complete form) 2 ..........................................................................................................
FERC–6 (Pages 1, 301, and 700 only) 2 .....................................................................................
FERC–6 (Pages 1 and 700 only) 2 ..............................................................................................
FERC–6Q ....................................................................................................................................
26,412
15
230
63,900
$66.29
66.29
66.29
66.29
$1,750,851
994
15,247
4,235,931
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The reporting burden includes the
total time, effort, or financial resources
expended to generate, maintain, retain,
disclose, or provide the information
including: (1) Reviewing instructions;
(2) developing, acquiring, installing, and
utilizing technology and systems for the
purposes of collecting, validating,
verifying, processing, maintaining,
disclosing and providing information;
(3) adjusting the existing ways to
comply with any previously applicable
instructions and requirements; (4)
training personnel to respond to a
collection of information; (5) searching
data sources; (6) completing and
reviewing the collection of information;
and (7) transmitting, or otherwise
disclosing the information.
The estimate of cost for respondents
is based upon salaries for professional
and clerical support, as well as direct
and indirect overhead costs. Direct costs
include all costs directly attributable to
providing this information, such as
administrative costs and the cost for
information technology. Indirect or
overhead costs are costs incurred by an
organization in support of its mission.
These costs apply to activities which
benefit the whole organization rather
than any one particular function or
activity.
Comments are invited on: (1) Whether
the proposed collections of information
are necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
Commission, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
1 These figures may not be exact, due to rounding
and/or truncating.
2 Order 620 in Docket No. RM99–10 (issued 12/
13/2000, available at https://elibrary.ferc.gov/idmws/
common/opennat.asp?fileID=8370177) established
filing thresholds. The filing thresholds for filing all
or part of the FERC–6 are based on the filer’s annual
jurisdictional operating revenues, for each of the
three previous calendar years:
• File complete Form 6: Revenues $500,000 or
more
• File only Pages 1, 301, and 700: Revenues more
than $350,000 but less than $500,000
• File only Pages 1 and 700: Revenues of
$350,000 or less.
See the instructions at https://www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/forms/form-6/form-6.pdf for more
information.
The estimated annual totals for all filers
completing all or part of the FERC–6 are: 166 filers
and 26,657 hours, for a cost of $1,767,092.
3 Using 2,080 hours/year, the estimated cost for 1
full-time employee is $137,874/year. The estimated
hourly cost is $66.29 (or $137,874/2,080).
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(2) the accuracy of the agency’s
estimates of the burden of the proposed
collections of information, including the
validity of the methodology and
assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance
the quality, utility and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (4)
ways to minimize the burden of the
collections of information on those who
are to respond, including the use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submission of responses.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket Nos. IC10-6-001 and IC10-6Q-001]
Commission Information Collection Activities (FERC Form Nos. 6
and 6-Q); Comment Request; Submitted for OMB Review
April 19, 2010.
AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirements of section 3507 of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3507, the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (Commission or FERC) has submitted the
information collections described below 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 (75FR5061, 2/1/
2010) requesting public comments. FERC received one comment on the FERC
Form No. 6 and FERC Form No. 6Q and has made this notation in its
submissions to OMB.
DATES: Comments on the collections of information are due by May 26,
2010.
ADDRESSES: Address comments on the collections of information to the
Office of Management and Budget, Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Attention: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Desk Officer.
Comments to OMB should be filed electronically, c/o oira_submission@omb.eop.gov and include OMB Control Numbers 1902-0022 (for
FERC Form No. 6) and 1902-0206 (for FERC Form No. 6Q) as points of
reference. For comments that pertain to only one of the collections,
specify the appropriate collection and OMB Control Number. The Desk
Officer may be reached by telephone at 202-395-4638.
A copy of the comments should also be sent to the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission and should refer to Docket Nos. IC10-6-001 and
IC10-6Q-001. (If comments apply to only one of the collections,
indicate the corresponding docket and collection number.) Comments may
be filed either electronically or in paper format. Those persons filing
electronically do not need to make a paper filing. Documents filed
electronically via the Internet must be prepared in an acceptable
filing format and in compliance with the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission submission guidelines. Complete filing instructions and
acceptable filing formats are available at https://www.ferc.gov/help/submission-guide/electronic-media.asp. To file the document
electronically, access the Commission's Web site and click on Documents
& Filing, E[dash]Filing (https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp),
and then follow the instructions for each screen. First time users will
have to establish a user name and password. The Commission will send an
automatic acknowledgement to the sender's e-mail address upon receipt
of comments.
For paper filings, the comments should be submitted to the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, Secretary of the Commission, 888 First
Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426, and should refer to Docket Nos.
IC10-6-001 and IC10-6Q-001 (or the appropriate docket number, if the
comments pertain only to one of the collections).
Users interested in receiving automatic notification of activity in
FERC Docket Number IC10-6 may do so through eSubscription at https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/esubscription.asp. However, due to a system
issue, Docket Number IC10-6Q is not available at this time for
eSubscription. All comments may be viewed, printed or downloaded
remotely via the Internet through FERC's homepage using the
``eLibrary'' link. For user assistance, contact
ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov or toll-free at (866) 208-3676 or for TTY,
contact (202) 502-8659.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ellen Brown may be reached by
telephone at (202) 502-8663, by fax at (202) 273-0873, and by e-mail at
DataClearance@FERC.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For the purpose of publishing this notice
and seeking public comment, FERC requests comments on the following
information collections:
FERC Form No. 6 (``FERC-6''), ``Annual Report of Oil
Pipeline Companies,'' implemented in 18 CFR Sections 357.1, 357.2, and
385.2011; OMB Control No. 1902-0022, and
FERC Form No. 6-Q (``FERC-6Q'' or ``FERC-6-Q''),
``Quarterly Financial Report of Oil Pipeline Companies,'' implemented
in 18 CFR Section 357.4; OMB Control No. 1902-0206.
The associated regulations, information collections, burdens, and
OMB clearance numbers will continue to remain separate and distinct.
Under the Interstate Commerce Act (ICA) (49 U.S.C. 1, 20, 54 Stat.
916), the Commission is authorized and empowered to make investigations
and to collect and record data to the extent FERC may consider to be
necessary or useful for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of
the ICA. FERC must ensure just and reasonable rates for transportation
of crude oil and petroleum products by pipelines in interstate
commerce.
The information collected by FERC Form Nos. 6 and 6-Q are used by
the Commission to carry out its responsibilities in implementing the
statutory provisions of the ICA, including the authority to prescribe
rules and regulations concerning accounts, records and memoranda, as
necessary or appropriate. Financial accounting and reporting provides
needed information concerning a company's past performance and its
future prospects. Without reliable financial statements prepared in
accordance with the Commission's Uniform System of Accounts and related
regulations, the Commission would be unable to accurately determine the
costs that relate to a particular time period, service or line of
business.
FERC uses data from the FERC Form Nos. 6 and 6-Q to assist in: (1)
Implementation of its financial audits and programs, (2) continuous
review of the financial condition of regulated companies, (3)
assessment of energy markets, (4) rate proceedings and economic
analyses, and (5) research for use in litigation.
Financial information reported on the annual FERC Form 6 and
quarterly FERC Form 6-Q provides FERC, as well as customers, investors
and others, an important tool to help identify emerging trends and
issues affecting jurisdictional entities within the energy industry. It
also provides timely disclosures of the impacts that new accounting
standards, or changes in existing standards, have on jurisdictional
entities, as well as the
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economic effects of significant transactions, events, and
circumstances. The reporting of this information by jurisdictional
entities assists the Commission in its analysis of profitability,
efficiency, risk and in its overall monitoring.
A summary of the comment received (from the 60-day Notice) and
FERC's response follow.
Comment: The Commission received comments from only one commenter,
the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), U.S. Department of Commerce. BEA
endorsed the continued use of the information contained in the FERC
Form Nos. 6 and 6Q, stating that:
``BEA uses FERC tabulations FERC forms 6 and 6Q indirectly. They
are used to estimate the U.S. Census Bureau's Construction Value Put-In
Place (VPIP) for oil pipeline utilities. Census VPIP serves as a major
source data input to the National Income and Product Account (NIPA) for
structures investment estimates. NIPA estimates for electric, gas, and
pipeline structures rely upon the VPIP source data * * *. The FERC Form
6 is used indirectly as well to derive annual pipeline transportation
output in the Industry Accounts program. Data obtained by the Industry
Accounts from the Association of Oil Pipelines ``Shifts in Petroleum
Transportation'' report is based, in part, on this survey. BEA
currently uses this FERC information indirectly through the VPIP
program and the trade association, and it is considered an
indispensable data source to the NIPA estimates and Industry Accounts
estimates.''
FERC's response: The Commission is appreciative of BEA's continued
support for the Commission's information collection programs.
ACTION: The Commission is requesting a three-year extension of the
current FERC Form No. 6 and FERC Form No. 6Q requirements, with no
changes.
Burden Statement: The estimated annual public reporting burdens and
the associated public costs follow.1 2
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\1\ These figures may not be exact, due to rounding and/or
truncating.
\2\ Order 620 in Docket No. RM99-10 (issued 12/13/2000,
available at https://elibrary.ferc.gov/idmws/common/opennat.asp?fileID=8370177) established filing thresholds. The
filing thresholds for filing all or part of the FERC-6 are based on
the filer's annual jurisdictional operating revenues, for each of
the three previous calendar years:
File complete Form 6: Revenues $500,000 or more
File only Pages 1, 301, and 700: Revenues more than
$350,000 but less than $500,000
File only Pages 1 and 700: Revenues of $350,000 or
less.
See the instructions at https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/forms/form-6/form-6.pdf for more information.
The estimated annual totals for all filers completing all or
part of the FERC-6 are: 166 filers and 26,657 hours, for a cost of
$1,767,092.
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Number of Projected
Projected annual average Total annual
FERC data collection number of responses per burden hours burden hours
respondents respondent per response \1\
(1) (2) (3) (1) x (2) x
(3)
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FERC-6 (Complete form) \2\...................... 142 1 186 26,412
FERC-6 (Pages 1, 301, and 700 only) \2\......... 1 1 15 15
FERC-6 (Pages 1 and 700 only) \2\............... 23 1 10 230
FERC-6Q......................................... 142 3 150 63,900
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The total annual cost to respondents 1 2 3 is estimated
as follows.
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\3\ Using 2,080 hours/year, the estimated cost for 1 full-time
employee is $137,874/year. The estimated hourly cost is $66.29 (or
$137,874/2,080).
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Estimated
Estimated total annual
FERC data collection Total annual hourly cost cost to
burden hours \3\ ($) respondents
($)\1\
(1) (2) (2) x (1)
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FERC-6 (Complete form) \2\...................................... 26,412 $66.29 $1,750,851
FERC-6 (Pages 1, 301, and 700 only) \2\......................... 15 66.29 994
FERC-6 (Pages 1 and 700 only) \2\............................... 230 66.29 15,247
FERC-6Q......................................................... 63,900 66.29 4,235,931
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The reporting burden includes the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended to generate, maintain, retain, disclose, or provide
the information including: (1) Reviewing instructions; (2) developing,
acquiring, installing, and utilizing technology and systems for the
purposes of collecting, validating, verifying, processing, maintaining,
disclosing and providing information; (3) adjusting the existing ways
to comply with any previously applicable instructions and requirements;
(4) training personnel to respond to a collection of information; (5)
searching data sources; (6) completing and reviewing the collection of
information; and (7) transmitting, or otherwise disclosing the
information.
The estimate of cost for respondents is based upon salaries for
professional and clerical support, as well as direct and indirect
overhead costs. Direct costs include all costs directly attributable to
providing this information, such as administrative costs and the cost
for information technology. Indirect or overhead costs are costs
incurred by an organization in support of its mission. These costs
apply to activities which benefit the whole organization rather than
any one particular function or activity.
Comments are invited on: (1) Whether the proposed collections of
information are necessary for the proper performance of the functions
of the Commission, including whether the information will have
practical utility;
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(2) the accuracy of the agency's estimates of the burden of the
proposed collections of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance the quality,
utility and clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) ways to
minimize the burden of the collections of information on those who are
to respond, including the use of appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms
of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.S
[FR Doc. 2010-9529 Filed 4-23-10; 8:45 am]
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