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Thelma Melendez de Santa Ana,
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Commission Information Collection
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at DataClearance@ferc.gov, telephone at
(202) 502–8663, and fax at (202) 273–
0873.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket Nos. IC10–917–000 and IC10–918–
000]
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of proposed information
collections and request for comments.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: In compliance with the
requirements of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A) (2006), (Pub. L.
104–13), the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (Commission or FERC) is
soliciting public comment on the
proposed information collections
described below.
DATES: Comments in consideration of
the collections of information are due
July 27, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be filed
either electronically (eFiled) or in paper
format, and should refer to Docket Nos.
IC10–917–000 and IC10–918–000. For
comments that only pertain to one of the
collections, specify the appropriate
collection and related docket number.
Documents must be prepared in an
acceptable filing format and in
compliance with Commission
submission guidelines at https://www.
ferc.gov/help/submission-guide.asp.
eFiling instructions are available at:
https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.
asp. First time users must follow
eRegister instructions at: https://www.
ferc.gov/docs-filing/eregistration.asp, to
establish a user name and password
before eFiling. The Commission will
send an automatic acknowledgement to
the sender’s e-mail address upon receipt
of eFiled comments. Commenters
making an eFiling should not make a
paper filing. Commenters that are not
able to file electronically must send an
original and two (2) paper copies of
their comments to: Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, Secretary of the
Commission, 888 First Street, NE.,
Washington, DC 20426.
Users interested in receiving
automatic notification of activity in this
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On
February 17, 2007, the Commission
issued Order No. 890 to address and
remedy opportunities for undue
discrimination under the pro forma
Open Access Transmission Tariff
(OATT) adopted in 1996 by Order No.
888.1 Through Order No. 890, the
Commission:
(1) Adopted pro forma OATT
provisions necessary to keep imbalance
charges closely related to incremental
costs;
(2) Increased nondiscriminatory
access to the grid by requiring public
utilities, working through the North
American Electric Reliability
Corporation (NERC), to develop
consistent methodologies for available
transfer capability (ATC) calculation
and to publish those methodologies to
increase transparency.
(3) Required an open, transparent, and
coordinated transmission planning
process thereby increasing the ability of
customers to access new generating
resources and promote efficient
utilization of transmission.
(4) Gave the right to customers to
request from transmission providers,
studies addressing congestion and/or
integration of new resource loads in
areas of the transmission system where
they have encountered transmission
problems due to congestion or where
they believe upgrades and other
investments may be necessary to reduce
1 Promoting Wholesale Competition Through
Open Access Non-discriminatory Transmission
Services by Public Utilities; Recovery of Stranded
Costs by Public Utilities and Transmitting Utilities,
Order No. 888, 61 FR 21540 (May 10, 1996), FERC
Stats. & Regs. ¶ 31,036 (1996), order on reh’g, Order
No. 888–A, 62 FR 12274 (Mar. 14, 1997), FERC
Stats. & Regs. ¶ 31,048 (1997), order on reh’g, Order
No. 888–B, 81 FERC ¶ 61,248 (1997), order on reh’g,
Order No. 888–C, 82 FERC ¶ 61,046 (1998), aff’d
in relevant part sub nom. Transmission Access
Policy Study Group v. FERC, 225 F.3d 667 (DC Cir.
2000), aff’d sub nom. New York v. FERC, 535 U.S.
1 (2002).
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congestion and to integrate new
resources.
(5) Required both the transmission
provider’s merchant function and
network customers to include a
statement with each application for
network service or to designate a new
network resource that attests, for each
network resource identified, that the
transmission customer owns or has
committed to purchase the designated
network resource and the designated
network resource comports with the
requirements for designated network
resources. The network customer
includes this attestation in the
customer’s comment section of the
request when it confirms the request on
the Open Access Same-Time
Information System (OASIS).
(6) Required with regard to capacity
reassignment that: (a) All sales or
assignments of capacity be conducted
through or otherwise posted on the
transmission provider’s OASIS on or
before the date the reassigned service
commences; (b) assignees of
transmission capacity execute a service
agreement prior to the date on which
the reassigned service commences; and
(c) transmission providers aggregate and
summarize in an electric quarterly
report the data contained in these
service agreements.
(7) Adopted an operational penalties
annual filing that provides information
regarding the penalty revenue the
transmission provider has received and
distributed.
(8) Required creditworthiness
information to be included in a
transmission provider’s OATT.
Attachment L must specify the
qualitative and quantitative criteria that
the transmission provider uses to
determine the level of secured and
unsecured credit required.
The Commission required a NERC/
NAESB 2 team to draft and review Order
No. 890 reliability standards and
business practices. The team was to
solicit comment from each utility on
developed standards and practices and
utilities were to implement each, after
Commission approval. Public utilities,
working through NERC, were to revise
reliability standards to require the
exchange of data and coordination
among transmission providers and,
working through NAESB, were to
develop complementary business
practices.
Required OASIS postings included:
(1) Explanations for changes in ATC
values;
(2) Capacity benefit margin (CBM)
reevaluations and quarterly postings;
(3) OASIS metrics and accepted/
denied requests;
(4) Planning redispatch offers and
reliability redispatch data;
(5) Curtailment data;
(6) Planning and system impact
studies;
(7) Metrics for system impact studies;
(8) All rules.
Incorporating the Order No. 890
standards into the Commission’s
regulations benefits wholesale electric
customers by streamlining utility
business practices, transactional
processes, and OASIS procedures, and
by adopting a formal ongoing process
for reviewing and upgrading the
Commission’s OASIS standards and
other electric industry business
practices. These practices and
procedures benefit from the
implementation of generic industry
standards.
The Commission’s Order No. 890
regulations can be found in 18 CFR
35.28 (pro forma tariff requirements),
and 37.6 and 37.7 (OASIS
requirements).
Action: The Commission is requesting
a three-year extension of the current
FERC–917 and FERC–918 (Order No.
890) reporting requirements, with no
change to the existing requirements.
Burden Statement: FERC–917 and
FERC–918 are both included in OMB
Control Number 1902–0233. The
estimated annual public reporting
burdens for FERC–917 (requirements in
18 CFR 35.28) and FERC–918
(requirements in 18 CFR 37.6 and 37.7)
are reduced from the original estimates
made three years ago. The reductions
are due to the incorporation and
completion of: (1) One-time pro forma
tariff changes by utilities in existence at
that time; (2) completed development
and comment solicitation of the
required NERC/NAESB reliability
standards and business practices; and
(3) the transfer of burden associated
with the implementation of some of the
NERC/NAESB business practices, in
Order No. 729, issued November 11,
2009,3 to the Commission’s FERC–725A
information collection (OMB Control
Number 1902–0244). The estimated
annual figures follow.
Annual No. of
respondents
Average No.
of reponses
per respondent
Average burden hours per
response
Total annual
burden hours
(1)
FERC Information collection
(2)
(3)
(1) × (2) × (3)
18 CFR 35.28 (FERC–917)
6
6
6
134
134
134
134
134
6
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
25
5
40
100
300
1
100
10
40
150
30
240
13,400
40,200
134
13,400
1,340
240
FERC–917—Sub Total Part 35 ................................................................
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Conforming tariff changes ...............................................................................
Revision of Imbalance Charges .......................................................................
ATC revisions ..................................................................................................
Planning (Attachment K) ..................................................................................
Congestion studies ..........................................................................................
Attestation of network resource commitment ..................................................
Capacity reassignment ....................................................................................
Operational Penalty annual filing .....................................................................
Creditworthiness—include criteria in the tariff .................................................
........................
........................
........................
69,134
2 NAESB is the North American Energy Standards
Board.
3 Mandatory Reliability Standards for the
Calculation of Available Transfer Capability,
Capacity Benefit Margins, Transmission Reliability
Margins, Total Transfer Capability, and Existing
Transmission Commitments and Mandatory
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Reliability Standards for the Bulk-Power System,
Order No. 729, 74 FR 64884 (Dec. 3, 2009) 129
FERC ¶ 61,155.
The FERC–725A requirements (Mandatory
Reliability Standards for the Bulk-Power System,
which now includes the utilities’ implementation)
are separate and are not a subject of this Notice in
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Docket Nos. IC10–917 and IC10–918. The FERC–
725A reporting and recordkeeping requirements in
Order 729 (Docket No. RM08–19, et. al.) were
approved by OMB (in ICR Number 200912–1902–
005) on 3/12/2010.
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Annual No. of
respondents
Average No.
of reponses
per respondent
Average burden hours per
response
Total annual
burden hours
(1)
FERC Information collection
(2)
(3)
(1) × (2) × (3)
18 CFR 37.6 & 37.7 (FERC–918)
ATC-related standards:
NERC/NAESB Team to develop ..............................................................
Review and comment by utility .................................................................
Implementation by each utility 3 ................................................................
Mandatory data exchanges ......................................................................
Explanation of change of ATC values .............................................................
Reevaluate CBM and post quarterly ...............................................................
Post OASIS metrics; requests accepted/denied .............................................
Post planning redispatch offers and reliability redispatch data .......................
Post curtailment data .......................................................................................
Post Planning and System Impact Studies .....................................................
Posting of metrics for System Impact Studies ................................................
Post all rules to OASIS ....................................................................................
0
0
0
134
134
134
134
134
134
134
134
134
0
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
80
100
20
90
20
10
5
100
5
0
0
30
10,720
13,400
2,680
12,060
2,680
1,340
670
13,400
670
FERC–918—Sub Total of Part 37 Reporting Requirements ...................
FERC–918—Recordkeeping Requirements .............................................
........................
134
........................
1
........................
40
57,620
5,360
FERC–918—Sub Total of Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements
........................
........................
........................
62,980
........................
........................
........................
132,114
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Total FERC–917 and FERC–918 (Part 35 + Part 37, Reporting
and Recordkeeping Requirements) ...............................................
Total combined annual burden for
FERC–917 and FERC–918 is 132,114
hours (126,754 reporting hours + 5,360
recordkeeping hours). This is a
reduction of 24,922 hours from the
combined FERC–917 and FERC–918
burden OMB previously approved.
Total combined estimated annual cost
for FERC–917 and FERC–918 is
$21,941,076.4 This includes:
(1) Reporting costs of $14,449,956;
(126,754 hours @ $114 an hour (average
cost of attorney ($200 per hour),
consultant ($150), technical ($80), and
administrative support ($25)) and
(2) Recordkeeping (labor and storage)
costs of $7,491,120; (labor = $91,120;
5,360 hours × $17/hour (file/record
clerk @ $17 an hour) and off-site storage
costs = $7,400,000; (8,000 sq. ft. × $925/
sq. ft.).
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)
4 Using the hourly rate figures of the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, occupational series and market
rates as applicable, the hourly rate is a composite
of the respondents who will be responsible for
implementing and responding to the collection of
information (support staff, engineering, and legal).
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training personnel to respond to the
collections of information; (5) searching
data sources; (6) completing and
reviewing the collections 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;
(2) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate
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
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information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submission of responses.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
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Commission
[Docket No. AD10–12–000]
Improving Market and Planning
Efficiency Through Improved Software;
Notice of Agenda and Procedures for
Staff Technical Conference
May 20, 2010.
This notice establishes the agenda and
procedures for the staff technical
conference to be held on June 2, 2010
and June 3, 2010, to discuss issues
related to unit commitment software.
The technical conference will be held
from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (EDT) on June
2, 2010, and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (EDT)
on June 3, 2010 at the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, 888 First
Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426, in
the Commission Meeting Room. All
interested persons are invited to attend,
and registration is not required.
The agenda for this conference is
attached. The presentations will be
technical in nature, and approximately
20 minutes in length with 5 to 10
minutes for questions. Equipment will
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket Nos. IC10-917-000 and IC10-918-000]
Commission Information Collection Activities; Comment Request;
Extension
May 20, 2010.
AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of proposed information collections and request for
comments.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirements of section 3506(c)(2)(A)
of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A) (2006),
(Pub. L. 104-13), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission
or FERC) is soliciting public comment on the proposed information
collections described below.
DATES: Comments in consideration of the collections of information are
due July 27, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be filed either electronically (eFiled) or in
paper format, and should refer to Docket Nos. IC10-917-000 and IC10-
918-000. For comments that only pertain to one of the collections,
specify the appropriate collection and related docket number. Documents
must be prepared in an acceptable filing format and in compliance with
Commission submission guidelines at https://www.ferc.gov/help/submission-guide.asp. eFiling instructions are available at: https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. First time users must follow
eRegister instructions at: https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/eregistration.asp, to establish a user name and password before
eFiling. The Commission will send an automatic acknowledgement to the
sender's e-mail address upon receipt of eFiled comments. Commenters
making an eFiling should not make a paper filing. Commenters that are
not able to file electronically must send an original and two (2) paper
copies of their comments to: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
Secretary of the Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC
20426.
Users interested in receiving automatic notification of activity in
this docket may do so through eSubscription at https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/esubscription.asp. In addition, all comments and FERC
issuances may be viewed, printed or downloaded remotely through FERC's
eLibrary at: https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp, by searching
on Docket Nos. IC10-917 and IC10-918. For user assistance, contact FERC
Online Support by e-mail at ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov, or by phone,
toll-free, at: (866) 208-3676, or (202) 502-8659 for TTY.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ellen Brown may be reached by e-mail
at DataClearance@ferc.gov, telephone at (202) 502-8663, and fax at
(202) 273-0873.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On February 17, 2007, the Commission issued
Order No. 890 to address and remedy opportunities for undue
discrimination under the pro forma Open Access Transmission Tariff
(OATT) adopted in 1996 by Order No. 888.\1\ Through Order No. 890, the
Commission:
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\1\ Promoting Wholesale Competition Through Open Access Non-
discriminatory Transmission Services by Public Utilities; Recovery
of Stranded Costs by Public Utilities and Transmitting Utilities,
Order No. 888, 61 FR 21540 (May 10, 1996), FERC Stats. & Regs. ]
31,036 (1996), order on reh'g, Order No. 888-A, 62 FR 12274 (Mar.
14, 1997), FERC Stats. & Regs. ] 31,048 (1997), order on reh'g,
Order No. 888-B, 81 FERC ] 61,248 (1997), order on reh'g, Order No.
888-C, 82 FERC ] 61,046 (1998), aff'd in relevant part sub nom.
Transmission Access Policy Study Group v. FERC, 225 F.3d 667 (DC
Cir. 2000), aff'd sub nom. New York v. FERC, 535 U.S. 1 (2002).
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(1) Adopted pro forma OATT provisions necessary to keep imbalance
charges closely related to incremental costs;
(2) Increased nondiscriminatory access to the grid by requiring
public utilities, working through the North American Electric
Reliability Corporation (NERC), to develop consistent methodologies for
available transfer capability (ATC) calculation and to publish those
methodologies to increase transparency.
(3) Required an open, transparent, and coordinated transmission
planning process thereby increasing the ability of customers to access
new generating resources and promote efficient utilization of
transmission.
(4) Gave the right to customers to request from transmission
providers, studies addressing congestion and/or integration of new
resource loads in areas of the transmission system where they have
encountered transmission problems due to congestion or where they
believe upgrades and other investments may be necessary to reduce
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congestion and to integrate new resources.
(5) Required both the transmission provider's merchant function and
network customers to include a statement with each application for
network service or to designate a new network resource that attests,
for each network resource identified, that the transmission customer
owns or has committed to purchase the designated network resource and
the designated network resource comports with the requirements for
designated network resources. The network customer includes this
attestation in the customer's comment section of the request when it
confirms the request on the Open Access Same-Time Information System
(OASIS).
(6) Required with regard to capacity reassignment that: (a) All
sales or assignments of capacity be conducted through or otherwise
posted on the transmission provider's OASIS on or before the date the
reassigned service commences; (b) assignees of transmission capacity
execute a service agreement prior to the date on which the reassigned
service commences; and (c) transmission providers aggregate and
summarize in an electric quarterly report the data contained in these
service agreements.
(7) Adopted an operational penalties annual filing that provides
information regarding the penalty revenue the transmission provider has
received and distributed.
(8) Required creditworthiness information to be included in a
transmission provider's OATT. Attachment L must specify the qualitative
and quantitative criteria that the transmission provider uses to
determine the level of secured and unsecured credit required.
The Commission required a NERC/NAESB \2\ team to draft and review
Order No. 890 reliability standards and business practices. The team
was to solicit comment from each utility on developed standards and
practices and utilities were to implement each, after Commission
approval. Public utilities, working through NERC, were to revise
reliability standards to require the exchange of data and coordination
among transmission providers and, working through NAESB, were to
develop complementary business practices.
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Required OASIS postings included:
(1) Explanations for changes in ATC values;
(2) Capacity benefit margin (CBM) reevaluations and quarterly
postings;
(3) OASIS metrics and accepted/denied requests;
(4) Planning redispatch offers and reliability redispatch data;
(5) Curtailment data;
(6) Planning and system impact studies;
(7) Metrics for system impact studies;
(8) All rules.
Incorporating the Order No. 890 standards into the Commission's
regulations benefits wholesale electric customers by streamlining
utility business practices, transactional processes, and OASIS
procedures, and by adopting a formal ongoing process for reviewing and
upgrading the Commission's OASIS standards and other electric industry
business practices. These practices and procedures benefit from the
implementation of generic industry standards.
The Commission's Order No. 890 regulations can be found in 18 CFR
35.28 (pro forma tariff requirements), and 37.6 and 37.7 (OASIS
requirements).
Action: The Commission is requesting a three-year extension of the
current FERC-917 and FERC-918 (Order No. 890) reporting requirements,
with no change to the existing requirements.
Burden Statement: FERC-917 and FERC-918 are both included in OMB
Control Number 1902-0233. The estimated annual public reporting burdens
for FERC-917 (requirements in 18 CFR 35.28) and FERC-918 (requirements
in 18 CFR 37.6 and 37.7) are reduced from the original estimates made
three years ago. The reductions are due to the incorporation and
completion of: (1) One-time pro forma tariff changes by utilities in
existence at that time; (2) completed development and comment
solicitation of the required NERC/NAESB reliability standards and
business practices; and (3) the transfer of burden associated with the
implementation of some of the NERC/NAESB business practices, in Order
No. 729, issued November 11, 2009,\3\ to the Commission's FERC-725A
information collection (OMB Control Number 1902-0244). The estimated
annual figures follow.
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\3\ Mandatory Reliability Standards for the Calculation of
Available Transfer Capability, Capacity Benefit Margins,
Transmission Reliability Margins, Total Transfer Capability, and
Existing Transmission Commitments and Mandatory Reliability
Standards for the Bulk-Power System, Order No. 729, 74 FR 64884
(Dec. 3, 2009) 129 FERC ] 61,155.
The FERC-725A requirements (Mandatory Reliability Standards for
the Bulk-Power System, which now includes the utilities'
implementation) are separate and are not a subject of this Notice in
Docket Nos. IC10-917 and IC10-918. The FERC-725A reporting and
recordkeeping requirements in Order 729 (Docket No. RM08-19, et.
al.) were approved by OMB (in ICR Number 200912-1902-005) on 3/12/
2010.
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Average No. of Average burden
FERC Information collection Annual No. of reponses per hours per Total annual
respondents respondent response burden hours
(1) (2) (3) (1) x (2) x
(3)
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18 CFR 35.28 (FERC-917)
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Conforming tariff changes....................... 6 1 25 150
Revision of Imbalance Charges................... 6 1 5 30
ATC revisions................................... 6 1 40 240
Planning (Attachment K)......................... 134 1 100 13,400
Congestion studies.............................. 134 1 300 40,200
Attestation of network resource commitment...... 134 1 1 134
Capacity reassignment........................... 134 1 100 13,400
Operational Penalty annual filing............... 134 1 10 1,340
Creditworthiness--include criteria in the tariff 6 1 40 240
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FERC-917--Sub Total Part 35................. .............. .............. .............. 69,134
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ATC-related standards:
NERC/NAESB Team to develop.................. 0 0 0 0
Review and comment by utility............... 0 0 0 0
Implementation by each utility \3\.......... 0 0 0 \3\ 0
Mandatory data exchanges.................... 134 1 80 10,720
Explanation of change of ATC values............. 134 1 100 13,400
Reevaluate CBM and post quarterly............... 134 1 20 2,680
Post OASIS metrics; requests accepted/denied.... 134 1 90 12,060
Post planning redispatch offers and reliability 134 1 20 2,680
redispatch data................................
Post curtailment data........................... 134 1 10 1,340
Post Planning and System Impact Studies......... 134 1 5 670
Posting of metrics for System Impact Studies.... 134 1 100 13,400
Post all rules to OASIS......................... 134 1 5 670
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FERC-918--Sub Total of Part 37 Reporting .............. .............. .............. 57,620
Requirements...............................
FERC-918--Recordkeeping Requirements........ 134 1 40 5,360
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FERC-918--Sub Total of Reporting and .............. .............. .............. 62,980
Recordkeeping Requirements.................
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Total FERC-917 and FERC-918 (Part 35 + .............. .............. .............. 132,114
Part 37, Reporting and Recordkeeping
Requirements)..........................
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Total combined annual burden for FERC-917 and FERC-918 is 132,114
hours (126,754 reporting hours + 5,360 recordkeeping hours). This is a
reduction of 24,922 hours from the combined FERC-917 and FERC-918
burden OMB previously approved.
Total combined estimated annual cost for FERC-917 and FERC-918 is
$21,941,076.\4\ This includes:
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\4\ Using the hourly rate figures of the Bureau of Labor
Statistics, occupational series and market rates as applicable, the
hourly rate is a composite of the respondents who will be
responsible for implementing and responding to the collection of
information (support staff, engineering, and legal).
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(1) Reporting costs of $14,449,956; (126,754 hours @ $114 an hour
(average cost of attorney ($200 per hour), consultant ($150), technical
($80), and administrative support ($25)) and
(2) Recordkeeping (labor and storage) costs of $7,491,120; (labor =
$91,120; 5,360 hours x $17/hour (file/record clerk @ $17 an hour) and
off-site storage costs = $7,400,000; (8,000 sq. ft. x $925/sq. ft.).
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 the collections of information;
(5) searching data sources; (6) completing and reviewing the
collections 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; (2) the accuracy of the agency's estimate 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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