Commission Information Collection Activities (FERC-725B); Comment Request; Submitted for OMB Review, 19333-19334 [2011-8248]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 67 / Thursday, April 7, 2011 / Notices Title of Collection: Evaluation of the Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program. OMB Control Number: Pending. Agency Form Number(s): N/A. Frequency of Responses: Once. Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal Government, State Educational Agencies or Local Educational Agencies. Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 256. Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 151. Abstract: The evaluation will survey state coordinators and district liaisons for Education for Homeless Children and Youth (EHCY) Program. The evaluation addresses research questions in the following areas of program implementation: (1) The collection and use of data on homeless children and youth; (2) the expenditure of EHCY Program funds; (3) the policies and services provided by local educational agencies (LEAs) to remove barriers that prevent homeless children and youth from accessing a free, appropriate public education; and (4) the coordination of such efforts at the local level. Copies of the proposed information collection request may be accessed from https://edicsweb.ed.gov, by selecting the ‘‘Browse Pending Collections’’ link and by clicking on link number 4559. When you access the information collection, click on ‘‘Download Attachments’’ to view. Written requests for information should be addressed to U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., LBJ, Washington, DC 20202–4537. Requests may also be electronically mailed to ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed to 202–401–0920. Please specify the complete title of the information collection and OMB Control Number when making your request. Individuals who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877– 8339. [FR Doc. 2011–8332 Filed 4–6–11; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4000–01–P DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission mstockstill on DSKH9S0YB1PROD with NOTICES [Docket No. IC11–725B–001] Commission Information Collection Activities (FERC–725B); Comment Request; Submitted for OMB Review Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, DOE. ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: VerDate Mar<15>2010 19:53 Apr 06, 2011 Jkt 223001 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 collection 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 (75 FR 65618, 10/26/2010) requesting public comments. FERC received no comments on the FERC–725B and has made this notation in its submission to OMB. OMB only makes a decision after the 30-day comment period for this notice has expired. DATES: Comments on the collection of information are due by May 9, 2011. ADDRESSES: Address comments on the collection 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 Number 1902– 0248 for reference. The Desk Officer may be reached by telephone at 202– 395–4638. A copy of the comments should also be sent to: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Secretary of the Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. Comments may be filed either on paper or on CD/DVD, and should refer to Docket No. IC11– 725B–001. Documents must be prepared in an acceptable filing format and in compliance with Commission submission guidelines at https:// www.ferc.gov/help/submissionguide.asp. eFiling and eSubscription are not available for Docket No. IC11–725B– 001, due to a system issue. 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 e-mail at DataClearance@FERC.gov, by telephone at (202) 502–8663, and by fax at (202) 273–0873. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The information collected by the FERC– 725B, Reliability Standards for Critical Infrastructure Protection (OMB Control No. 1902–0248), is required to SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00027 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 19333 implement the statutory provisions of section 215 of the Federal Power Act (FPA) (16 U.S.C. 824o). On January 18, 2008, the Commission issued order 706, approving eight Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Reliability Standards submitted by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) for Commission approval.1 The CIP Reliability Standards require certain users, owners, and operators of the Bulk-Power System to comply with specific requirements to safeguard critical cyber assets.2 These standards help protect the nation’s Bulk-Power System against potential disruptions from cyber attacks.3 The CIP Reliability Standards include one actual reporting requirement and several recordkeeping requirements. Specifically, CIP–008–1 requires responsible entities to report cyber security incidents to the Electricity Sector-Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ES–ISAC). In addition, the eight CIP Reliability Standards require responsible entities to develop various policies, plans, programs, and procedures.4 The CIP Reliability Standards do not require a responsible entity to report to the Commission, ERO or Regional Entities, the various policies, plans, programs and procedures. However, a showing of the documented policies, plans, programs and procedures is required to demonstrate compliance with the CIP Reliability Standards. Action: The Commission is requesting a three-year extension of the existing collection with no changes to the requirements. Burden Statement: The extent of the reporting burden is influenced by the number of identified critical assets and related critical cyber assets pursuant to CIP–002. An entity identifying one or more critical cyber assets, including assets located at remote locations, will likely require more resources to demonstrate compliance with the CIP Reliability Standards compared to an entity that identifies no critical assets. The Commission has developed 1 CIP–002–1, CIP–003–1, CIP–004–1, CIP–005–1, CIP–006–1, CIP–007–1, CIP–008–1, and CIP–009–1. 2 In addition, in accordance with section 215(d)(5) of the FPA, the Commission proposed to direct NERC to develop modifications to the CIP Reliability Standards to address specific concerns identified by the Commission. 3 For a description of the CIP Reliability Standards, see the Critical Infrastructure Protection Section on NERC’s Web site at https:// www.nerc.com/page.php?cid=2«20. 4 The October notice issued in this docket contains more information on the reporting requirements and can be found at https://elibrary. ferc.gov/idmws/File_list.asp?document_id= 13857625. The full text of the standards can be found on NERC’s Web site at https://www.nerc.com/ page.php?cid=2«20. E:\FR\FM\07APN1.SGM 07APN1 19334 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 67 / Thursday, April 7, 2011 / Notices estimates using data from NERC’s compliance registry as well as a 2009 survey that was conducted by NERC to asses the number of entities reporting Critical Cyber Assets. Data collection Number of respondents 5 Average number of responses per respondent Average number of burden hours per response 6 Total annual hours (1) (2) (3) (1) x (2) x (3) FERC–725B: Estimate of U.S. Entities that have identified Critical Cyber Assets ........ Estimate of U.S. Entities that have not identified Critical Cyber Assets .. New U.S. Entities that have to come into compliance with the CIP Standards 7 ............................................................................................ 345 1,156 1 1 320 8 110,400 9,248 *6 1 1,176 7,056 Totals ................................................................................................. 1,501 126,704 * not included in the 1,501 total because it is assumed that on average, six entities per year will no longer have to comply with the CIP standards. mstockstill on DSKH9S0YB1PROD with NOTICES The total estimated annual cost burden to respondents is: • Entities that have identified Critical Assets = 110,400 hours@$96 = $10,598,400. • Entities that have not identified Critical Assets = 9,248 hours@$96 = $887,808. • Storage Costs for Entities that have identified Critical Assets 8 = 315 Entities@$15.25 = $4,804. The hourly rate of $96 is the average cost of legal services ($230 per hour), technical employees ($40 per hour) and administrative support ($18 per hour), based on hourly rates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the 2009 5 The NERC Compliance Registry as of 9/28/2010 indicated that 2079 entities were registered for NERC’s compliance program. Of these, 2057 were identified as being U.S. entities. Staff concluded that of the 2057 U.S. entities, only 1501 were registered for at least one CIP related function. According to an April 7, 2009 memo to industry, NERC’s VP and Chief Security officer noted that only 31% of entities responded to an earlier survey and reported that they had at least one Critical Asset, and only 23% reported having a Critical Cyber Asset. Staff applied the 23% reporting to the 1501 figure to obtain an estimate. The 6 new entities listed here are assumed to match a similar set of 6 entities that would drop out in an existing year. Thus, the net estimate of respondents remains at 1501 per year. 6 This figure relates to NERC’s audit schedule which requires NERC to engage in a compliance Audit once every 3 to 5 years. For simplicity, staff has divided the total number of hours by 3 to reflect the amount of time annually spent preparing documents. Staff assumed that each CIP audit or spot check would require four individuals 6 weeks to prepare and demonstrate compliance with CIP standards for entities that have identified Critical Cyber Assets. Staff estimated that entities that do not have Critical Cyber Assets would still be required to demonstrate compliance with CIP–002, which would require one individual approximately three days to execute. 7 This category of respondents (with the corresponding burden) was not included in the 60day public notice due to an oversight by Commission staff. 8 This cost category was not included in the 60day public notice due to an oversight by Commission staff. VerDate Mar<15>2010 19:53 Apr 06, 2011 Jkt 223001 Billing Rates and Practices Survey Report.9 The $15.25 rate for storage costs for each entity is an estimate based on the average costs to service and store 1 GB of data to demonstrate compliance with the CIP standards.10 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. Comments are invited on: (1) Whether the proposed collection of information is 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 estimates of the burden of the proposed collection 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 9 Bureau of Labor Statistics figures were obtained from https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics2_ 22.htm, and 2009 Billing Rates figure were obtained from https://www.marylandlawyerblog.com/2009/ 07/average_hourly_rate_for_lawyer.html. Legal services were based on the national average billing rate (contracting out) from the above report and BLS hourly earnings (in-house personnel). It is assumed that 25% of respondents have in-house legal personnel. 10 Based on the aggregate cost of an IBM advanced data protection server. PO 00000 Frm 00028 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 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. Dated: March 31, 2011. Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary. [FR Doc. 2011–8248 Filed 4–6–11; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6717–01–P DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Project No. 2479–011] Pacific Gas and Electric Company; Notice of Application Accepted for Filing, Soliciting Motions To Intervene and Protests, Ready for Environmental Analysis, and Soliciting Comments, Recommendations, and Preliminary Terms and Conditions Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection. a. Type of Application: Subsequent License—Transmission Line Only. b. Project No.: P–2479–011. c. Date filed: February 22, 2011. d. Applicant: Pacific Gas and Electric Company. e. Name of Project: French Meadows Transmission Line Project. f. Location: The French Meadows Transmission Line Project is located in Placer County, California, within the boundaries of the Eldorado and Tahoe National Forests. g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 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[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 67 (Thursday, April 7, 2011)]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. IC11-725B-001]


Commission Information Collection Activities (FERC-725B); Comment 
Request; Submitted for OMB Review

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, DOE.

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 collection 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 (75 FR 65618, 
10/26/https://www.nerc.com/page.php?cid=2|2010) requesting public comments. FERC received no comments on 
the FERC-725B and has made this notation in its submission to OMB. OMB 
only makes a decision after the 30-day comment period for this notice 
has expired.

DATES: Comments on the collection of information are due by May 9,https://www.nerc.com/page.php?cid=2|20 2011.

ADDRESSES: Address comments on the collection 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 Number 1902-0248 for 
reference. The Desk Officer may be reached by telephone athttps://www.nerc.com/page.php?cid=2|20 202-395-
4638.
    A copy of the comments should also be sent to: Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission, Secretary of the Commission, 888 First Street, 
NE., Washington, DChttps://www.nerc.com/page.php?cid=2|20 20426. Comments may be filed either on paper or on 
CD/DVD, and should refer to Docket No. IC11-725B-001. 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 and eSubscription are not available for 
Docket No. IC11-725B-001, due to a system issue.
    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)https://www.nerc.com/page.php?cid=2|20 208-3676, or for TTY, contact (https://www.nerc.com/page.php?cid=2|202) 502-8659.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ellen Brown may be reached by e-mail 
at DataClearance@FERC.gov, by telephone at (https://www.nerc.com/page.php?cid=2|202) 502-8663, and by fax 
at (https://www.nerc.com/page.php?cid=2|202) 273-0873.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The information collected by the FERC-725B, 
Reliability Standards for Critical Infrastructure Protection (OMB 
Control No. 1902-0248), is required to implement the statutory 
provisions of section 215 of the Federal Power Act (FPA) (16 U.S.C. 
824o). On January 18,https://www.nerc.com/page.php?cid=2|20 2008, the Commission issued order 706, approving 
eight Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Reliability Standards 
submitted by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) 
for Commission approval.\1\
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    \1\ CIP-002-1, CIP-003-1, CIP-004-1, CIP-005-1, CIP-006-1, CIP-
007-1, CIP-008-1, and CIP-009-1.
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    The CIP Reliability Standards require certain users, owners, and 
operators of the Bulk-Power System to comply with specific requirements 
to safeguard critical cyber assets.\2\ These standards help protect the 
nation's Bulk-Power System against potential disruptions from cyber 
attacks.\3\ The CIP Reliability Standards include one actual reporting 
requirement and several recordkeeping requirements. Specifically, CIP-
008-1 requires responsible entities to report cyber security incidents 
to the Electricity Sector-Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ES-
ISAC). In addition, the eight CIP Reliability Standards require 
responsible entities to develop various policies, plans, programs, and 
procedures.\4\
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    \2\ In addition, in accordance with section 215(d)(5) of the 
FPA, the Commission proposed to direct NERC to develop modifications 
to the CIP Reliability Standards to address specific concerns 
identified by the Commission.
    \3\ For a description of the CIP Reliability Standards, see the 
Critical Infrastructure Protection Section on NERC's Web site at 
https://www.nerc.com/page.php?cid=2|20[verbarrm]https://www.nerc.com/page.php?cid=2|20.
    \4\ The October notice issued in this docket contains more 
information on the reporting requirements and can be found at https://elibrary.ferc.gov/idmws/File_list.asp?document_id=13857625. The 
full text of the standards can be found on NERC's Web site at https://www.nerc.com/page.php?cid=2|20[verbarrm]https://www.nerc.com/page.php?cid=2|20.
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    The CIP Reliability Standards do not require a responsible entity 
to report to the Commission, ERO or Regional Entities, the various 
policies, plans, programs and procedures. However, a showing of the 
documented policies, plans, programs and procedures is required to 
demonstrate compliance with the CIP Reliability Standards.
    Action: The Commission is requesting a three-year extension of the 
existing collection with no changes to the requirements.
    Burden Statement: The extent of the reporting burden is influenced 
by the number of identified critical assets and related critical cyber 
assets pursuant to CIP-002. An entity identifying one or more critical 
cyber assets, including assets located at remote locations, will likely 
require more resources to demonstrate compliance with the CIP 
Reliability Standards compared to an entity that identifies no critical 
assets. The Commission has developed

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estimates using data from NERC's compliance registry as well as ahttps://www.nerc.com/page.php?cid=2|20 2009 
survey that was conducted by NERC to asses the number of entities 
reporting Critical Cyber Assets.

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                                                                                      Average
                                                     Number of        Average        number of
                 Data collection                    respondents      number of     burden hours    Total annual
                                                        \5\        responses per   per response        hours
                                                                    respondent          \6\
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                                                             (1)             (2)             (3)     (1) x (2) x
                                                                                                             (3)
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FERC-725B:
    Estimate of U.S. Entities that have                      345               1             3https://www.nerc.com/page.php?cid=2|20         110,400
     identified Critical Cyber Assets...........
    Estimate of U.S. Entities that have not                1,156               1               8           9,248
     identified Critical Cyber Assets...........
    New U.S. Entities that have to come into                  *6               1           1,176           7,056
     compliance with the CIP Standards \7\......
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        Totals..................................           1,501  ..............  ..............         126,704
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* not included in the 1,501 total because it is assumed that on average, six entities per year will no longer
  have to comply with the CIP standards.

    The total estimated annual cost burden to respondents is:
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    \5\ The NERC Compliance Registry as of 9/28/https://www.nerc.com/page.php?cid=2|2010 indicated thathttps://www.nerc.com/page.php?cid=2|20 2079 entities were registered for NERC's compliance program. Of 
these,https://www.nerc.com/page.php?cid=2|20 2057 were identified as being U.S. entities. Staff concluded 
that of thehttps://www.nerc.com/page.php?cid=2|20 2057 U.S. entities, only 1501 were registered for at 
least one CIP related function. According to an April 7,https://www.nerc.com/page.php?cid=2|20 2009 memo 
to industry, NERC's VP and Chief Security officer noted that only 
31% of entities responded to an earlier survey and reported that 
they had at least one Critical Asset, and only 23% reported having a 
Critical Cyber Asset. Staff applied the 23% reporting to the 1501 
figure to obtain an estimate. The 6 new entities listed here are 
assumed to match a similar set of 6 entities that would drop out in 
an existing year. Thus, the net estimate of respondents remains at 
1501 per year.
    \6\ This figure relates to NERC's audit schedule which requires 
NERC to engage in a compliance Audit once every 3 to 5 years. For 
simplicity, staff has divided the total number of hours by 3 to 
reflect the amount of time annually spent preparing documents. Staff 
assumed that each CIP audit or spot check would require four 
individuals 6 weeks to prepare and demonstrate compliance with CIP 
standards for entities that have identified Critical Cyber Assets. 
Staff estimated that entities that do not have Critical Cyber Assets 
would still be required to demonstrate compliance with CIP-002, 
which would require one individual approximately three days to 
execute.
    \7\ This category of respondents (with the corresponding burden) 
was not included in the 60-day public notice due to an oversight by 
Commission staff.
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     Entities that have identified Critical Assets = 110,400 
hours@$96 = $10,598,400.
     Entities that have not identified Critical Assets = 9,248 
hours@$96 = $887,808.
     Storage Costs for Entities that have identified Critical 
Assets \8\ = 315 Entities@$15.25 = $4,804.
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    \8\ This cost category was not included in the 60-day public 
notice due to an oversight by Commission staff.

The hourly rate of $96 is the average cost of legal services ($230 per 
hour), technical employees ($40 per hour) and administrative support 
($18 per hour), based on hourly rates from the Bureau of Labor 
Statistics (BLS) and thehttps://www.nerc.com/page.php?cid=2|20 2009 Billing Rates and Practices Survey 
Report.\9\ The $15.25 rate for storage costs for each entity is an 
estimate based on the average costs to service and store 1 GB of data 
to demonstrate compliance with the CIP standards.\10\
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    \9\ Bureau of Labor Statistics figures were obtained from https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics2_22.htm, andhttps://www.nerc.com/page.php?cid=2|20 2009 Billing Rates 
figure were obtained from https://www.nerc.com/page.php?cid=2|2009/07/average_hourly_rate_for_lawyer.html">https://www.marylandlawyerblog.com/https://www.nerc.com/page.php?cid=2|2009/07/average_hourly_rate_for_lawyer.html. Legal services were based 
on the national average billing rate (contracting out) from the 
above report and BLS hourly earnings (in-house personnel). It is 
assumed that 25% of respondents have in-house legal personnel.
    \10\ Based on the aggregate cost of an IBM advanced data 
protection server.
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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.
    Comments are invited on: (1) Whether the proposed collection of 
information is 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 estimates of the burden of 
the proposed collection 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.

    Dated: March 31,https://www.nerc.com/page.php?cid=2|20 2011.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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