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Commission staff’s issuance of the final
environmental impact statement (FEIS)
or EA for this proposal. The filing of the
EA in the Commission’s public record
for this proceeding or the issuance of a
Notice of Schedule for Environmental
Review will serve to notify federal and
state agencies of the timing for the
completion of all necessary reviews, and
the subsequent need to complete all
federal authorizations within 90 days of
the date of issuance of the Commission
staff’s FEIS or EA.
There are two ways to become
involved in the Commission’s review of
this project. First, any person wishing to
obtain legal status by becoming a party
to the proceedings for this project
should, on or before the comment date
stated below, file with the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426,
a motion to intervene in accordance
with the requirements of the
Commission’s Rules of Practice and
Procedure (18 CFR 385.214 or 385.211)
and the Regulations under the NGA (18
CFR 157.10). A person obtaining party
status will be placed on the service list
maintained by the Secretary of the
Commission and will receive copies of
all documents filed by the applicant and
by all other parties. A party must submit
7 copies of filings made with the
Commission and must mail a copy to
the applicant and to every other party in
the proceeding. Only parties to the
proceeding can ask for court review of
Commission orders in the proceeding.
However, a person does not have to
intervene in order to have comments
considered. The second way to
participate is by filing with the
Secretary of the Commission, as soon as
possible, an original and two copies of
comments in support of or in opposition
to this project. The Commission will
consider these comments in
determining the appropriate action to be
taken, but the filing of a comment alone
will not serve to make the filer a party
to the proceeding. The Commission’s
rules require that persons filing
comments in opposition to the project
provide copies of their protests only to
the party or parties directly involved in
the protest.
Persons who wish to comment only
on the environmental review of this
project should submit an original and
two copies of their comments to the
Secretary of the Commission.
Environmental commentors will be
placed on the Commission’s
environmental mailing list, will receive
copies of the environmental documents,
and will be notified of meetings
associated with the Commission’s
environmental review process.
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Environmental commentors will not be
required to serve copies of filed
documents on all other parties.
However, the non-party commentors
will not receive copies of all documents
filed by other parties or issued by the
Commission (except for the mailing of
environmental documents issued by the
Commission) and will not have the right
to seek court review of the
Commission’s final order.
The Commission strongly encourages
electronic filings of comments, protests
and interventions in lieu of paper using
the ‘‘eFiling’’ link at https://
www.ferc.gov. Persons unable to file
electronically should submit an original
and 5 copies of the protest or
intervention to the Federal Energy
regulatory Commission, 888 First Street
NE., Washington, DC 20426.
Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern
Time on August 18, 2015.
Dated: July 28, 2015.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. IC15–8–000]
Commission Information Collection
Activities (FERC–576); 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–576, Report of Service
Interruptions] 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 (80 FR 28991, 5/20/
2015) requesting public comments. The
Commission received no comments on
the FERC–576 and is making this
notation in its submittal to OMB.
DATES: Comments on the collection of
information are due by September 3,
2015.
SUMMARY:
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Comments filed with OMB,
identified by the OMB Control No.
1902–0004, 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. IC15–8–000, 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)
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/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–576, Report of Service
Interruptions.
OMB Control No.: 1902–0004.
Type of Request: Three-year extension
of the FERC–576 information collection
requirements with no changes to the
reporting requirements.
Abstract: A natural gas company must
obtain Commission authorization to
engage in the transportation, sale, or
exchange of natural gas in interstate
commerce under the Natural Gas Act
(NGA).1 The NGA also empowers the
Commission to oversee continuity of
service in the transportation of natural
gas in interstate commerce. The
information collected under FERC–576
notifies the Commission of: (1) Damage
to jurisdictional natural gas facilities as
a result of a hurricane, earthquake, or
other natural disaster, or terrorist
activity, (2) serious interruptions to
service, and (3) damage to jurisdictional
natural gas facilities due to natural
disaster or terrorist activity, that creates
ADDRESSES:
1 Public
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the potential for serious delivery
problems on the pipeline’s own system
or the pipeline grid.
Filings (in accordance with the
provisions of section 4(d) of the NGA) 2
must contain information necessary to
advise the Commission when a change
in service has occurred. Section 7(d) of
the NGA 3 authorizes the Commission to
issue a temporary certificate in cases of
emergency to assure maintenance of
adequate service or to serve particular
customers, without notice or hearing.
Respondents to the FERC–576 are
encouraged to submit the reports by
email to pipelineoutage@ferc.gov but
also have the option of faxing the
reports to the Director of the Division of
Pipeline Certificates. 18 CFR 260.9(b)
requires that a report of service
interruption or damage to natural gas
facilities state: (1) The location of the
service interruption or damage to
natural gas pipeline or storage facilities;
(2) The nature of any damage to pipeline
or storage facilities; (3) Specific
identification of the facilities damaged;
(4) The time the service interruption or
damage to the facilities occurred; (5)
The customers affected by the service
interruption or damage to the facilities;
(6) Emergency actions taken to maintain
service; and (7) Company contact and
telephone number. The Commission
may contact pipelines reporting damage
or other pipelines to determine
availability of supply, and if necessary,
authorize transportation or construction
of facilities to alleviate constraints in
response to these reports.
A report required by 18 CFR
260.9(a)(1)(i) of damage to natural gas
facilities resulting in loss of pipeline
throughput or storage deliverability
shall be reported to the Director of the
Commission’s Division of Pipeline
Certificates at the earliest feasible time
when pipeline throughput or storage
deliverability has been restored.
In any instance in which an incident
or damage report involving
jurisdictional natural gas facilities is
required by Department of
Transportation (DOT) reporting
requirements under the Natural Gas
Pipeline Safety Act of 1968, a copy of
such report shall be submitted to the
Director of the Commission’s Division of
Pipeline Certificates, within 30 days of
the reportable incident.4
If the Commission failed to collect
these data, it would lose the ability to
monitor and evaluate transactions,
operations, and reliability of interstate
pipelines and perform its regulatory
functions. These reports are kept by the
Commission Staff as non-public
information and are not made part of the
public record.
Type of Respondents: Natural gas
companies.
Estimate of Annual Burden 5: The
Commission estimates the annual public
reporting burden for the information
collection as:
FERC–576—REPORT OF SERVICE INTERRUPTIONS
Number of
respondents
Annual
number
of
responses
per
respondent
Total
number of
responses
Average
burden & cost
per
response 6
Total annual
burden hours
&
total
annual cost
Cost per
respondent
($)
(1)
(2)
(1) * (2) = (3)
(4)
(3) * (4) = (5)
(5) ÷ (1)
22
2
44
Submittal of Damage Report ...................
22
2
44
Submittal of DOT Incident Report ...........
22
1
22
Total ..................................................
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Submittal of Original Email/Fax ...............
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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
2 (15
U.S.C. 717c).
U.S.C. 717f).
4 18 CFR 260.9(d).
5 The Commission defines burden as the total
time, effort, or financial resources expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain, or disclose or
3 (15
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$72
0.25
$18
0.25
$18
44
$3,168
11
$198
5.5
$99
72
18
........................
60.5
$3,465
108
18
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
Dated: July 29, 2015.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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Notice of Availability of the
Environmental Protection Agency’s
Updated Ozone Transport Modeling
Data for the 2008 Ozone National
Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS)
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of data availability
(NODA); request for public comment.
AGENCY:
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.
6 The estimates for cost per response are derived
using the following formula: Average Burden Hours
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per Response * $72.00 per Hour = Average Cost per
Response. The hourly cost figure comes from the
FERC average salary ($149,489/year). Commission
staff believes the FERC average salary to be
representative wage for industry respondents.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. IC15-8-000]
Commission Information Collection Activities (FERC-576); 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-576, Report of Service Interruptions] 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 (80 FR 28991, 5/20/2015) requesting public comments.
The Commission received no comments on the FERC-576 and is making this
notation in its submittal to OMB.
DATES: Comments on the collection of information are due by September
3, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB, identified by the OMB Control No.
1902-0004, 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. IC15-8-000, 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-576, Report of Service Interruptions.
OMB Control No.: 1902-0004.
Type of Request: Three-year extension of the FERC-576 information
collection requirements with no changes to the reporting requirements.
Abstract: A natural gas company must obtain Commission
authorization to engage in the transportation, sale, or exchange of
natural gas in interstate commerce under the Natural Gas Act (NGA).\1\
The NGA also empowers the Commission to oversee continuity of service
in the transportation of natural gas in interstate commerce. The
information collected under FERC-576 notifies the Commission of: (1)
Damage to jurisdictional natural gas facilities as a result of a
hurricane, earthquake, or other natural disaster, or terrorist
activity, (2) serious interruptions to service, and (3) damage to
jurisdictional natural gas facilities due to natural disaster or
terrorist activity, that creates
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the potential for serious delivery problems on the pipeline's own
system or the pipeline grid.
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\1\ Public Law 75 688; 15 U.S.C. 717 & 717w.
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Filings (in accordance with the provisions of section 4(d) of the
NGA) \2\ must contain information necessary to advise the Commission
when a change in service has occurred. Section 7(d) of the NGA \3\
authorizes the Commission to issue a temporary certificate in cases of
emergency to assure maintenance of adequate service or to serve
particular customers, without notice or hearing.
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\2\ (15 U.S.C. 717c).
\3\ (15 U.S.C. 717f).
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Respondents to the FERC-576 are encouraged to submit the reports by
email to pipelineoutage@ferc.gov but also have the option of faxing the
reports to the Director of the Division of Pipeline Certificates. 18
CFR 260.9(b) requires that a report of service interruption or damage
to natural gas facilities state: (1) The location of the service
interruption or damage to natural gas pipeline or storage facilities;
(2) The nature of any damage to pipeline or storage facilities; (3)
Specific identification of the facilities damaged; (4) The time the
service interruption or damage to the facilities occurred; (5) The
customers affected by the service interruption or damage to the
facilities; (6) Emergency actions taken to maintain service; and (7)
Company contact and telephone number. The Commission may contact
pipelines reporting damage or other pipelines to determine availability
of supply, and if necessary, authorize transportation or construction
of facilities to alleviate constraints in response to these reports.
A report required by 18 CFR 260.9(a)(1)(i) of damage to natural gas
facilities resulting in loss of pipeline throughput or storage
deliverability shall be reported to the Director of the Commission's
Division of Pipeline Certificates at the earliest feasible time when
pipeline throughput or storage deliverability has been restored.
In any instance in which an incident or damage report involving
jurisdictional natural gas facilities is required by Department of
Transportation (DOT) reporting requirements under the Natural Gas
Pipeline Safety Act of 1968, a copy of such report shall be submitted
to the Director of the Commission's Division of Pipeline Certificates,
within 30 days of the reportable incident.\4\
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\4\ 18 CFR 260.9(d).
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If the Commission failed to collect these data, it would lose the
ability to monitor and evaluate transactions, operations, and
reliability of interstate pipelines and perform its regulatory
functions. These reports are kept by the Commission Staff as non-public
information and are not made part of the public record.
Type of Respondents: Natural gas companies.
Estimate of Annual Burden \5\: The Commission estimates the annual
public reporting burden for the information collection as:
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\5\ 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.
FERC-576--Report of Service Interruptions
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Annual number Total annual
Number of of responses Total number Average burden burden hours & Cost per
respondents per of responses & cost per total annual respondent ($)
respondent response \6\ cost
(1) (2) (1) * (2) = (4) (3) * (4) = (5) / (1)
(3) (5)
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Submittal of Original Email/Fax......................... 22 2 44 1 44 72
$72 $3,168
Submittal of Damage Report.............................. 22 2 44 0.25 11 18
$18 $198
Submittal of DOT Incident Report........................ 22 1 22 0.25 5.5 18
$18 $99
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Total............................................... .............. .............. .............. .............. 60.5 108
$3,465
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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.
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\6\ The estimates for cost per response are derived using the
following formula: Average Burden Hours per Response * $72.00 per
Hour = Average Cost per Response. The hourly cost figure comes from
the FERC average salary ($149,489/year). Commission staff believes
the FERC average salary to be representative wage for industry
respondents.
Dated: July 29, 2015.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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