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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. IC14–11–000]
Commission Information Collection
Activities (FERC–516A); Comment
Request
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, DOE.
ACTION: Comment request.
AGENCY:
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 its information
collection FERC–516A, Standardization
of Small Generator Interconnection
Agreements and Procedures, 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
SUMMARY:
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explained below. The Commission
previously issued a Notice in the
Federal Register (79 FR 21745, 4/17/
2014) requesting public comments. The
Commission received no comments on
the FERC–516A and is making this
notation in its submittal to OMB.
DATES: Comments on the collection of
information are due by September 2,
2014.
ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB,
identified by the OMB Control No.
1902–0203, should be sent via email to
the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs: oira_submission@omb.gov.
Attention: Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission Desk Officer. The Desk
Officer may also be reached via
telephone at 202–395–4718.
A copy of the comments should also
be sent to the Commission, in Docket
No. IC14–11–000, by either of the
following methods:
• eFiling at Commission’s Web site:
https://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: https://
www.ferc.gov/help/submissionguide.asp. For user assistance contact
FERC Online Support by email at
ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov, or by phone
at: (866) 208–3676 (toll-free), or (202)
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automatic notification of activity in this
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may do so at https://www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/docs-filing.asp.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ellen Brown may be reached by email
at DataClearance@FERC.gov, by
telephone at (202) 502–8663, and by fax
at (202) 273–0873.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: FERC–516A, Standardization of
Small Generator Interconnection
Agreements and Procedures.
OMB Control No.: 1902–0203.
Type of Request: Three-year extension
of the information collection
requirements for FERC–516A with no
changes to the current reporting
requirements.
Abstract: Under Sections 205 and 206
of the Federal Power Act (FPA) 1 the
Commission is charged with ensuring
just and reasonable electric transmission
rates and charges as well as ensuring
that jurisdictional providers do not
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subject any person to any undue
prejudice or disadvantage.
The lack of consistent and readily
accessible terms and conditions for
connecting resources to the grid led to
a large number of disputes between
jurisdictional transmission providers
and small generators 2 in the late 1990s
and early 2000s. In response, the
Commission directed transmission
providers to include Commissionapproved, standard, pro-forma
interconnection procedures (small
generator interconnection procedures or
SGIP) and a single uniformly applicable
interconnection agreement (small
generator interconnection agreement or
SGIA) in their open-access transmission
tariffs (OATTs). The requirement to
create and file these documents was
instituted August 2005 by Commission
Order No. 2006 3 and is codified in 18
CFR 35.28(f). This requirement set and
maintained a standard in OATTs for
consistent consideration and processing
of interconnection requests by
transmission providers.
Since the issuance of Order No. 2006,
many aspects of the energy industry
have changed including increased
numbers of small generator
interconnection requests 4 and the
growth in solar photovoltaic (PV)
installations. These changes have been
driven, in part, by state renewable
energy goals and policies. For example,
approximately 3,300 MW of gridconnected PV capacity were installed in
the U.S. in 2012 5 compared to 79 MW
in 2005, the year Order No. 2006 was
issued.6
In February 2012, pursuant to
Sections 205 and 206 of the FPA and
Rule 207 of the Commission’s Rules of
Practice and Procedures,7 and noting
that the Commission encouraged
stakeholders to submit proposed
revisions to the regulations set forth in
Order No. 2006,8 the Solar Energy
Industries Association (SEIA) filed a
Petition to Initiate Rulemaking
(Petition). The Petition requested the
Commission revise the pro forma SGIA
and SGIP set forth in Order No. 2006
In 2012 the Commission issued a
Notice of Petition for Rulemaking in
Docket No. RM12–10–000 seeking
comments on the Petition and held a
technical conference to discuss issues
related to the Petition.
In January 2013, the Commission
issued a notice of proposed rulemaking
that included proposed revisions to the
pro forma SGIP and pro forma SGIA. In
November 2013, the Commission issued
Order No. 792 revising the pro forma
SGIP and pro forma SGIA.
Order No. 792: (1) Provided an
interconnection customer with the
option of requesting from the
transmission provider a pre-application
report providing existing information
about system conditions at a possible
point of interconnection; (2) revised the
2 MW threshold for participation in the
Fast Track Process included in section
2 of the pro forma SGIP; (3) revised the
customer options meeting and the
supplemental review following failure
of the Fast Track screens so that the
supplemental review is performed at the
discretion of the interconnection
customer and includes minimum load
and other screens to determine if a small
generating facility may be
interconnected safely and reliably; (4)
revised the pro forma SGIP Facilities
Study Agreement to allow the
interconnection customer the
opportunity to provide written
comments to the transmission provider
on the upgrades required for
interconnection; (5) revised the pro
forma SGIP and the pro forma SGIA to
specifically include energy storage
devices; and (6) clarified certain
sections of the pro forma SGIP and the
pro forma SGIA.
With these modifications, the
Commission concluded that the package
of reforms adopted in Order No. 792
will reduce the time and cost to process
small generator interconnection requests
for interconnection customers and
transmission providers, maintain
reliability, increase energy supply, and
remove barriers to the development of
new energy resources.
Type of Respondents: Jurisdictional
transmission service providers.
Estimate of Annual Burden: 9 Based
on filings received in 2013 and the
increased burden from Order No. 792,
the Commission estimates the total
Public Reporting Burden for this
information collection as:
FERC–516A (STANDARDIZATION OF SMALL GENERATOR INTERCONNECTION AGREEMENTS AND PROCEDURES)
Number of
respondents
annually
Annual
number of
responses
per
respondent
Total
number of
responses
Average
burden &
cost per
response 11
Total annual
burden hours
& total
annual cost
Cost per
respondent
($)
(1)
Requirements 10
(2)
(1)*(2) = (3)
(4)
(3) × (4) = (5)
(5) ÷ (1)
Maintenance of Documents—Transmission Providers ...............................
46
Filing of Agreements—Transmission
Providers ............................................
95
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800
2 ‘‘Small generators’’ are generating facilities
having a capacity of no more than 20 megawatts
(MW).
3 Standardization of Small Generation
Interconnection Agreements and Procedures, Order
No. 2006, 70 FR 34189 (May 12, 2005), FERC Stats.
& Regs. ¶31,180 (2005).
4 See, e.g., Cal. Indep. Sys. Operator Corp., 133
FERC ¶ 61,223, at P 3 (2010) (stating that an
increasing volume of small generator
interconnection requests had created inefficiencies);
Pacific Gas & Elec. Co., 135 FERC ¶ 61,094, at P
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1
1
46
95
800
4 (2011) (stating that increased small generator
Interconnection Requests resulted in a backlog of
170 requests over three years); PJM Interconnection,
LLC, 139 FERC ¶ 61,079, at P 12 (2012) (stating that
smaller projects comprised 66 percent of recent
queue volume).
5 Sherwood, Larry, U.S. Solar Market Trends 2012
at 4, available at https://www.irecusa.org/wpcontent/uploads/2013/07/Solar-Report-Final-July2013-1.pdf.
6 U.S. Solar Market Insight Report, 2012 Year in
Review, Executive Summary Table 2.1, available at
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$75
46
$3,450
$75
25
$1,818.25
2,375
$172,733.75
1,818.25
1
$72.73
800
$58,184
72.73
https://www.seia.org/research-resources/us-solarmarket-insight-2012-year-in-review.
7 18 CFR 385.207 (2012).
8 SEIA Petition at 4 (citing Order No. 2006, FERC
Stats. & Regs. ¶ 31,180 at P 118).
9 The Commission defines burden as the total
time, effort, or financial resources expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain, or disclose or
provide information to or for a Federal agency. For
further explanation of what is included in the
information collection burden, reference 5 Code of
Federal Regulations 1320.3.
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FERC–516A (STANDARDIZATION OF SMALL GENERATOR INTERCONNECTION AGREEMENTS AND PROCEDURES)—
Continued
Number of
respondents
annually
Annual
number of
responses
per
respondent
Total
number of
responses
Average
burden &
cost per
response 11
Total annual
burden hours
& total
annual cost
Cost per
respondent
($)
(1)
Requirements 10
(2)
(1)*(2) = (3)
(4)
(3) × (4) = (5)
(5) ÷ (1)
Pre-Application Report—Transmission
Providers ............................................
142
Supplemental Review—13 Interconnection Customers ...................................
500
Supplemental
Review—Transmission
Providers ............................................
1
142
Review of Required Upgrades—Interconnection Customers ........................
3.52
250
Review of Required Upgrades—Transmission Providers ...............................
Totals ..............................................
5.63
1
142
........................
1.76
800
2.5
$181.83
2,000
$145,460
1,024.37
0.5
$35.37
250
$17,685
35.37
20
$1,454.60
10,000
$727,300
5,121.83
1
$72.73
250
$18,182.50
72.73
2
$145.46
500
$36,365
256.09
........................
16,221
$1,179,360.25
500
500
250
250
........................
3,241
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Comments: Comments are invited on:
(1) Whether the 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 estimate
of the burden and cost of the collection
of information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(3) ways to enhance the quality, utility
and clarity of the information collection;
and (4) ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
10 All of the requirements for transmission
providers are mandatory. All of the requirements
for interconnection customers are voluntary.
11 The estimates for cost per response are derived
using the following formula: Average Burden Hours
per Response * $75 per Hour = Average Cost per
Response. This figure is the average of the salary
plus benefits for an attorney, consultant (engineer),
engineer, and administrative staff. The wages are
derived from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics at
https://bls.gov/oes/current/naics3_221000.htm and
the benefits figure from https://www.bls.gov/
news.release/ecec.nr0.htm.
12 We assume each request for a pre-application
report corresponds with one interconnection
customer.
13 In the initial public notice for this collection
the Commission had an error in the Total Annual
Cost and Cost per Respondent fields for this
category of burden. We correct the errors in this
notice.
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Dated: July 25, 2014.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014–18043 Filed 7–30–14; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717–01–P
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 2492–013]
Woodland Pulp, LLC: Notice of
Application Accepted for Filing,
Soliciting Motions To Intervene and
Protests, Ready for Environmental
Analysis, and Soliciting Comments,
Recommendations, Preliminary Terms
and Conditions, and Preliminary
Fishway Prescriptions
Take notice that the following
hydroelectric application has been filed
with the Commission and is available
for public inspection.
a. Type of Application: Minor
License.
b. Project No.: 2492–013.
c. Date filed: February 28, 2014.
d. Applicant: Woodland Pulp, LLC
(Woodland Pulp).
e. Name of Project: Vanceboro Dam
Storage Project.
f. Location: The existing project is
located on the outlet of Spednik Lake,
on the east branch of the Saint Croix
River, in Washington County, Maine
and New Brunswick, Canada. The
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g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power
Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Jay Beaudoin,
Woodland Pulp, LLC, 144 Main Street,
Baileyville, Maine 04694, (207) 427–
4005 or Jay.Beaudoin@
woodlandpulp.com.
i. FERC Contact: Michael Watts, (202)
502–6123 or michael.watts@ferc.gov.
j. Deadline for filing motions to
intervene and protests, comments,
recommendations, preliminary terms
and conditions, and preliminary
prescriptions: 60 days from the issuance
date of this notice; reply comments are
due 105 days from the issuance date of
this notice.
The Commission strongly encourages
electronic filing. Please file motions to
intervene, protests, comments,
recommendations, preliminary terms
and conditions, and preliminary
fishway prescriptions using the
Commission’s eFiling system at https://
www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp.
Commenters can submit brief comments
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ecomment.asp. You must include your
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208–3676 (toll free), or (202) 502–8659
(TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, please
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Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. IC14-11-000]
Commission Information Collection Activities (FERC-516A); Comment
Request
AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, DOE.
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 its information
collection FERC-516A, Standardization of Small Generator
Interconnection Agreements and Procedures, 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 previously issued a Notice in the Federal Register (79
FR 21745, 4/17/2014) requesting public comments. The Commission
received no comments on the FERC-516A and is making this notation in
its submittal to OMB.
DATES: Comments on the collection of information are due by September
2, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB, identified by the OMB Control No.
1902-0203, should be sent via email to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs: oira_submission@omb.gov. Attention: Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission Desk Officer. The Desk Officer may also be
reached via telephone at 202-395-4718.
A copy of the comments should also be sent to the Commission, in
Docket No. IC14-11-000, by either of the following methods:
eFiling at Commission's Web site: https://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: https://www.ferc.gov/help/submission-guide.asp. For user assistance contact FERC Online Support
by email at ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov, 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 https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/docs-filing.asp.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ellen Brown may be reached by email at
DataClearance@FERC.gov, by telephone at (202) 502-8663, and by fax at
(202) 273-0873.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: FERC-516A, Standardization of Small Generator
Interconnection Agreements and Procedures.
OMB Control No.: 1902-0203.
Type of Request: Three-year extension of the information collection
requirements for FERC-516A with no changes to the current reporting
requirements.
Abstract: Under Sections 205 and 206 of the Federal Power Act (FPA)
\1\ the Commission is charged with ensuring just and reasonable
electric transmission rates and charges as well as ensuring that
jurisdictional providers do not
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\1\ 16 U.S.C. 824d and 824e.
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The lack of consistent and readily accessible terms and conditions
for connecting resources to the grid led to a large number of disputes
between jurisdictional transmission providers and small generators \2\
in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In response, the Commission directed
transmission providers to include Commission-approved, standard, pro-
forma interconnection procedures (small generator interconnection
procedures or SGIP) and a single uniformly applicable interconnection
agreement (small generator interconnection agreement or SGIA) in their
open-access transmission tariffs (OATTs). The requirement to create and
file these documents was instituted August 2005 by Commission Order No.
2006 \3\ and is codified in 18 CFR 35.28(f). This requirement set and
maintained a standard in OATTs for consistent consideration and
processing of interconnection requests by transmission providers.
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\2\ ``Small generators'' are generating facilities having a
capacity of no more than 20 megawatts (MW).
\3\ Standardization of Small Generation Interconnection
Agreements and Procedures, Order No. 2006, 70 FR 34189 (May 12,
2005), FERC Stats. & Regs. ]31,180 (2005).
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Since the issuance of Order No. 2006, many aspects of the energy
industry have changed including increased numbers of small generator
interconnection requests \4\ and the growth in solar photovoltaic (PV)
installations. These changes have been driven, in part, by state
renewable energy goals and policies. For example, approximately 3,300
MW of grid-connected PV capacity were installed in the U.S. in 2012 \5\
compared to 79 MW in 2005, the year Order No. 2006 was issued.\6\
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\4\ See, e.g., Cal. Indep. Sys. Operator Corp., 133 FERC ]
61,223, at P 3 (2010) (stating that an increasing volume of small
generator interconnection requests had created inefficiencies);
Pacific Gas & Elec. Co., 135 FERC ] 61,094, at P 4 (2011) (stating
that increased small generator Interconnection Requests resulted in
a backlog of 170 requests over three years); PJM Interconnection,
LLC, 139 FERC ] 61,079, at P 12 (2012) (stating that smaller
projects comprised 66 percent of recent queue volume).
\5\ Sherwood, Larry, U.S. Solar Market Trends 2012 at 4,
available at https://www.irecusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Solar-Report-Final-July-2013-1.pdf.
\6\ U.S. Solar Market Insight Report, 2012 Year in Review,
Executive Summary Table 2.1, available at https://www.seia.org/research-resources/us-solar-market-insight-2012-year-in-review.
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In February 2012, pursuant to Sections 205 and 206 of the FPA and
Rule 207 of the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedures,\7\ and
noting that the Commission encouraged stakeholders to submit proposed
revisions to the regulations set forth in Order No. 2006,\8\ the Solar
Energy Industries Association (SEIA) filed a Petition to Initiate
Rulemaking (Petition). The Petition requested the Commission revise the
pro forma SGIA and SGIP set forth in Order No. 2006
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\7\ 18 CFR 385.207 (2012).
\8\ SEIA Petition at 4 (citing Order No. 2006, FERC Stats. &
Regs. ] 31,180 at P 118).
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In 2012 the Commission issued a Notice of Petition for Rulemaking
in Docket No. RM12-10-000 seeking comments on the Petition and held a
technical conference to discuss issues related to the Petition.
In January 2013, the Commission issued a notice of proposed
rulemaking that included proposed revisions to the pro forma SGIP and
pro forma SGIA. In November 2013, the Commission issued Order No. 792
revising the pro forma SGIP and pro forma SGIA.
Order No. 792: (1) Provided an interconnection customer with the
option of requesting from the transmission provider a pre-application
report providing existing information about system conditions at a
possible point of interconnection; (2) revised the 2 MW threshold for
participation in the Fast Track Process included in section 2 of the
pro forma SGIP; (3) revised the customer options meeting and the
supplemental review following failure of the Fast Track screens so that
the supplemental review is performed at the discretion of the
interconnection customer and includes minimum load and other screens to
determine if a small generating facility may be interconnected safely
and reliably; (4) revised the pro forma SGIP Facilities Study Agreement
to allow the interconnection customer the opportunity to provide
written comments to the transmission provider on the upgrades required
for interconnection; (5) revised the pro forma SGIP and the pro forma
SGIA to specifically include energy storage devices; and (6) clarified
certain sections of the pro forma SGIP and the pro forma SGIA.
With these modifications, the Commission concluded that the package
of reforms adopted in Order No. 792 will reduce the time and cost to
process small generator interconnection requests for interconnection
customers and transmission providers, maintain reliability, increase
energy supply, and remove barriers to the development of new energy
resources.
Type of Respondents: Jurisdictional transmission service providers.
Estimate of Annual Burden: \9\ Based on filings received in 2013
and the increased burden from Order No. 792, the Commission estimates
the total Public Reporting Burden for this information collection as:
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\9\ The Commission defines burden as the total time, effort, or
financial resources expended by persons to generate, maintain,
retain, or disclose or provide information to or for a Federal
agency. For further explanation of what is included in the
information collection burden, reference 5 Code of Federal
Regulations 1320.3.
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Annual number Average Total annual
Number of of responses Total number burden & cost burden hours & Cost per
Requirements \10\ respondents per of responses per response total annual respondent
annually respondent \11\ cost ($)
(1) (2) (1)*(2) = (3) (4) (3) x (4) = (5) (5) / (1)
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Maintenance of Documents--Transmission Providers....... 46 1 46 1 46 ..............
$75 $3,450 $75
Filing of Agreements--Transmission Providers........... 95 1 95 25 2,375 ..............
$1,818.25 $172,733.75 1,818.25
Pre-Application Report--Interconnection Customers \12\. 800 1 800 1 800 ..............
$72.73 $58,184 72.73
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Pre-Application Report--Transmission Providers......... 142 5.63 800 2.5 2,000 ..............
$181.83 $145,460 1,024.37
Supplemental Review--\13\ Interconnection Customers.... 500 1 500 0.5 250 ..............
$35.37 $17,685 35.37
Supplemental Review--Transmission Providers............ 142 3.52 500 20 10,000 ..............
$1,454.60 $727,300 5,121.83
Review of Required Upgrades--Interconnection Customers. 250 1 250 1 250 ..............
$72.73 $18,182.50 72.73
Review of Required Upgrades--Transmission Providers.... 142 1.76 250 2 500 ..............
$145.46 $36,365 256.09
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Totals............................................. .............. .............. .............. .............. 16,221 ..............
3,241 $1,179,360.25
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\10\ All of the requirements for transmission providers are
mandatory. All of the requirements for interconnection customers are
voluntary.
\11\ The estimates for cost per response are derived using the
following formula: Average Burden Hours per Response * $75 per Hour
= Average Cost per Response. This figure is the average of the
salary plus benefits for an attorney, consultant (engineer),
engineer, and administrative staff. The wages are derived from the
Bureau of Labor and Statistics at https://bls.gov/oes/current/naics3_221000.htm and the benefits figure from https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.nr0.htm.
\12\ We assume each request for a pre-application report
corresponds with one interconnection customer.
\13\ In the initial public notice for this collection the
Commission had an error in the Total Annual Cost and Cost per
Respondent fields for this category of burden. We correct the errors
in this notice.
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Comments: Comments are invited on: (1) Whether the 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 estimate of the burden and
cost of the collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance the quality,
utility and clarity of the information collection; and (4) ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are
to respond, including the use of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Dated: July 25, 2014.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014-18043 Filed 7-30-14; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717-01-P
