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without prior registration, using the
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k. Description of Request: The
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intervene in accordance with the
requirements of Rules of Practice and
Procedure, 18 CFR 385.210, .211, .214,
respectively. In determining the
appropriate action to take, the
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other comments filed, but only those
who file a motion to intervene in
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proceeding. Any comments, protests, or
motions to intervene must be received
on or before the specified comment date
for the particular application.
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letters the title COMMENTS, PROTEST,
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the name of the applicant and the
project number of the application to
which the filing responds; (3) furnish
the name, address, and telephone
number of the person commenting,
protesting or intervening; and (4)
otherwise comply with the requirements
of 18 CFR 385.2001 through 385.2005.
All comments, motions to intervene, or
protests must set forth their evidentiary
basis. Any filing made by an intervenor
must be accompanied by proof of
service on all persons listed in the
service list prepared by the Commission
in this proceeding, in accordance with
18 CFR 385.2010.
Dated: May 23, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. IC17–7–000]
Commission Information Collection
Activities (FERC–725T); Comment
Request
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, Energy.
ACTION: Comment request.
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In compliance with the
requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission
(Commission or FERC) is submitting its
information collection [FERC–725T,
Mandatory Reliability Standards for the
Bulk-Power System: TRE Reliability
Standards] 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 (82 FR 14215, 3/17/
2017) requesting public comments. The
Commission received no comments on
the FERC–725Tand is making this
notation in its submittal to OMB.
DATES: Comments on the collection of
information are due by June 30, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB,
identified by the OMB Control No.
1902–0273 (FERC–725T) 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. IC17–7–000, 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:
Type of Request: Three-year extension
of the information collection
SUMMARY:
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requirements for all collections
described below with no changes to the
current reporting requirements. Please
note that each collection is distinct from
the next.
Comments: Comments are invited on:
(1) Whether the 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
estimates of the burden and cost of the
collections of information, including the
validity of the methodology and
assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance
the quality, utility and clarity of the
information collections; and (4) ways to
minimize the burden of the collections
of information on those who are to
respond, including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
FERC–725T [Mandatory Reliability
Standards for the Bulk-Power System:
TRE Reliability Standards]
OMB Control No.: 1902–0273.
Abstract: Reliability Standard BAL–
001–TRE–01 applies to entities
registered as Generator Owners (GOs),
Generator Operators (GOPs), and
Balancing Authorities (BAs) within the
Texas Reliability Entity region.
Regional Reliability Standard BAL–
001–TRE–01 is more comprehensive
than the existing continent-wide
Reliability Standards addressing
frequency response, BAL–001–0.1a and
BAL–003–0.1b in that the regional
standard includes additional
requirements and applies to generator
owners and generator operators as well
as balancing authorities. The expanded
applicability of the regional Reliability
Standard, thus, increases the reporting
burden for entities that operate within
the ERCOT 1 Interconnection.
The information collection
requirements entail the setting or
configuration of the Control System
software, identification and recording of
events, data retention, and submitting
frequency measurable events to the
compliance enforcement authority
(Regional Entity or NERC).
Submitting frequency measurable
events. As per Requirement R1, the BA
has to identify and post information
regarding Frequency Measurable Events
(FME). Further, the BA has to calculate
and report to the Compliance
Enforcement Authority data related to
Primary Frequency Response (PFR)
performance of each generating unit/
generating facility.
Data retention. The BA, GO, and GOP
shall keep data or evidence to show
compliance, as identified below, unless
directed by its Compliance Enforcement
Authority to retain specific evidence for
a longer period of time as part of an
investigation. Compliance audits are
generally about three years apart.
• The BA shall retain a list of
identified Frequency Measurable Events
and shall retain FME information since
its last compliance audit for
Requirement R1, Measure M1.
• The BA shall retain all monthly
PFR performance reports since its last
compliance audit for Requirement R2,
Measure M2.
• The BA shall retain all annual
Interconnection minimum Frequency
Response calculations, and related
methodology and criteria documents,
relating to time periods since its last
compliance audit for Requirement R3,
Measure M3.
• The BA shall retain all data and
calculations relating to the
Interconnection’s Frequency Response,
and all evidence of actions taken to
increase the Interconnection’s
Frequency Response, since its last
compliance audit for Requirements R4
and R5, Measures M4 and M5.
• Each GOP shall retain evidence
since its last compliance audit for
Requirement R8, Measure M8.
• Each GO shall retain evidence since
its last compliance audit for
Requirements R6, R7, R9 and R10,
Measures M6, M7, M9 and M10.
Modification to Governor Controller
Setting/Configuration (to be removed
from the FERC–725T information
collection). This category of response
burden is being removed from FERC–
725T. The ‘‘Modification to Governor
Controller Setting/Configuration’’
category was a one-time requirement
related to implementation of the BAL–
001–TRE–01 Reliability Standard. Each
GO was required to set its governor
settings according to Requirement R6. In
order to modify its settings, the GO had
to generate governor test reports,
governor setting sheets, and/or
performance monitoring reports. The
burden (912 hours) associated with this
category was averaged over 2014–2016 2.
The response requirements included in
this category were complete within 18
months of the effective date of the
standard 3 or by 10/1/2015. Due to
completion, the corresponding 304
annual burden hours are now being
removed.
Type of Respondent: NERC Registered
entities (specifically balancing
authorities, generator owners, generator
operators).
Estimate of Annual Burden: 4 The
Commission estimates the annual public
reporting burden for the information
collection as:
FERC–725T (MANDATORY RELIABILITY STANDARDS FOR THE BULK-POWER SYSTEM: TRE RELIABILITY STANDARDS)
Number of
respondents
Annual
number of
responses per
respondent
Total number
of responses
Average burden
and cost per
response 5
Total annual
burden hours
and total
annual cost
Cost per
respondent
($)
(1)
(2)
(1) * (2) = (3)
(4)
(3) * (4) = (5)
(5) ÷ (1)
61
1
1
16 hrs.; $1,029 ....
16 hrs.; $1,029 ....
$1,029
7 130
1
130
2 hrs.; $76 8 .........
260 hrs.; $9,815 ..
$76
Total .......................................
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Event Log Data.
Evidence Retention ......................
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276 hrs.; $10,844
1 Electric
Reliability Council of Texas.
total annual figure for this response
category was 304 hours.
3 The effective date of the standard was 4/1/2014.
4 Burden is defined 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
2 The
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collection burden, reference 5 Code of Federal
Regulations 1320.3.
5 The estimates for cost per hour are based on
2015 wage figures and derived as follows:
• $64.29/hour, the average salary plus benefits
per engineer (from Bureau of Labor Statistics at
https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics2_22.htm).
• $37.75/hour, the salary plus benefits per
information and record clerks (from Bureau of
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Labor Statistics at https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/
naics2_22.htm).
All calculated wage figures within the burden
table are rounded to the nearest dollar.
6 BA (balancing authority)
7 BA (balancing authority), GO (generator owner),
and GOP (generator operator)
8 Rounded from $75.50.
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Dated: May 24, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017–11194 Filed 5–30–17; 8:45 am]
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Take notice that the Commission
received the following electric rate
filings:
Docket Numbers: ER17–1461–001.
Applicants: Duke Energy Carolinas,
LLC.
Description: Tariff Amendment: DECGreenwood Response to Deficiency
Letter to be effective 7/1/2017.
Filed Date: 5/24/17.
Accession Number: 20170524–5136.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/14/17.
Docket Numbers: ER17–1462–001.
Applicants: Duke Energy Carolinas,
LLC.
Description: Tariff Amendment: DECConcord Response to Deficiency Letter
to be effective 7/1/2017.
Filed Date: 5/24/17.
Accession Number: 20170524–5121.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/14/17.
Docket Numbers: ER17–1474–001.
Applicants: Duke Energy Carolinas,
LLC.
Description: Tariff Amendment: DECKings Mountain Response to Deficiency
Letter to be effective 7/1/2017.
Filed Date: 5/24/17.
Accession Number: 20170524–5140.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/14/17.
Docket Numbers: ER17–1486–001.
Applicants: Duke Energy Carolinas,
LLC.
Description: Tariff Amendment: DECForest City Response to Deficiency
Letter to be effective 7/1/2017.
Filed Date: 5/24/17.
Accession Number: 20170524–5132.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/14/17.
Docket Numbers: ER17–1492–001.
Applicants: Duke Energy Carolinas,
LLC.
Description: Tariff Amendment: DECDallas Response to Deficiency Letter to
be effective 7/1/2017.
Filed Date: 5/24/17.
Accession Number: 20170524–5124.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/14/17.
Docket Numbers: ER17–1520–001.
Applicants: Duke Energy Carolinas,
LLC.
Description: Tariff Amendment: DECLockhart Response to Deficiency Letter
to be effective 1/1/2016.
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Filed Date: 5/24/17.
Accession Number: 20170524–5142.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/14/17.
Docket Numbers: ER17–1576–001.
Applicants: Duke Energy Carolinas,
LLC.
Description: Tariff Amendment: DECWestern Carolina Response to
Deficiency Letter to be effective 7/1/
2017.
Filed Date: 5/24/17.
Accession Number: 20170524–5149.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/14/17.
Docket Numbers: ER17–1582–001.
Applicants: Duke Energy Carolinas,
LLC.
Description: Tariff Amendment: DECHighlands Response to Deficiency Letter
to be effective 7/1/2017.
Filed Date: 5/24/17.
Accession Number: 20170524–5138.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/14/17.
Docket Numbers: ER17–1611–001.
Applicants: Duke Energy Carolinas,
LLC.
Description: Tariff Amendment: DECProsperity Response to Deficiency Letter
to be effective 7/1/2017.
Filed Date: 5/24/17.
Accession Number: 20170524–5147.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/14/17.
Docket Numbers: ER17–1614–001.
Applicants: Duke Energy Carolinas,
LLC.
Description: Tariff Amendment: DECDue West Response to Deficiency Letter
to be effective 1/1/2016.
Filed Date: 5/24/17.
Accession Number: 20170524–5128.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/14/17.
Docket Numbers: ER17–1671–000.
Applicants: Gulf Coast Solar Center II,
LLC.
Description: Baseline eTariff Filing:
Application for Market Based Rate to be
effective 5/31/2017.
Filed Date: 5/24/17.
Accession Number: 20170524–5092.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/14/17.
Docket Numbers: ER17–1672–000.
Applicants: Gulf Coast Solar Center
III, LLC.
Description: Baseline eTariff Filing:
Application for Market Based Rate to be
effective 5/31/2017.
Filed Date: 5/24/17.
Accession Number: 20170524–5098.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/14/17.
Docket Numbers: ER17–1674–000.
Applicants: ITC Midwest LLC.
Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing:
Filing of an Amended and Restated
Interconnection Agreement to be
effective 7/24/2017.
Filed Date: 5/24/17.
Accession Number: 20170524–5165.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/14/17.
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Docket Numbers: ER17–1675–000.
Applicants: Midcontinent
Independent System Operator, Inc.
Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing:
2017–05–24_SA 2856 MidAmericanMidAmerican 2nd Revised GIA (J411) to
be effective 5/25/2017.
Filed Date: 5/24/17.
Accession Number: 20170524–5166.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/14/17.
Docket Numbers: ER17–1676–000.
Applicants: ITC Midwest LLC.
Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing:
Filing of a Master Joint Use Agreement
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Filed Date: 5/24/17.
Accession Number: 20170524–5169.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/14/17.
Docket Numbers: ER17–1677–000.
Applicants: ITC Midwest LLC.
Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing:
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be effective 7/24/2017.
Filed Date: 5/24/17.
Accession Number: 20170524–5170.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/14/17.
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received the following electric securities
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Applicants: Consumers Energy
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Description: Amendment to April 27,
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Issue Securities of Consumers Energy
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Filed Date: 5/24/17.
Accession Number: 20170524–5159.
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must file in accordance with Rules 211
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385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern
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Dated: May 24, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. IC17-7-000]
Commission Information Collection Activities (FERC-725T); Comment
Request
AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Energy.
ACTION: Comment request.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission or
FERC) is submitting its information collection [FERC-725T, Mandatory
Reliability Standards for the Bulk-Power System: TRE Reliability
Standards] 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 (82 FR 14215, 3/17/2017) requesting
public comments. The Commission received no comments on the FERC-
725Tand is making this notation in its submittal to OMB.
DATES: Comments on the collection of information are due by June 30,
2017.
ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB, identified by the OMB Control No.
1902-0273 (FERC-725T) 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. IC17-7-000, 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:
Type of Request: Three-year extension of the information collection
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requirements for all collections described below with no changes to the
current reporting requirements. Please note that each collection is
distinct from the next.
Comments: Comments are invited on: (1) Whether the 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 estimates of the
burden and cost of the collections of information, including the
validity of the methodology and assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance
the quality, utility and clarity of the information collections; and
(4) ways to minimize the burden of the collections of information on
those who are to respond, including the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information technology.
FERC-725T [Mandatory Reliability Standards for the Bulk-Power System:
TRE Reliability Standards]
OMB Control No.: 1902-0273.
Abstract: Reliability Standard BAL-001-TRE-01 applies to entities
registered as Generator Owners (GOs), Generator Operators (GOPs), and
Balancing Authorities (BAs) within the Texas Reliability Entity region.
Regional Reliability Standard BAL-001-TRE-01 is more comprehensive
than the existing continent-wide Reliability Standards addressing
frequency response, BAL-001-0.1a and BAL-003-0.1b in that the regional
standard includes additional requirements and applies to generator
owners and generator operators as well as balancing authorities. The
expanded applicability of the regional Reliability Standard, thus,
increases the reporting burden for entities that operate within the
ERCOT \1\ Interconnection.
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The information collection requirements entail the setting or
configuration of the Control System software, identification and
recording of events, data retention, and submitting frequency
measurable events to the compliance enforcement authority (Regional
Entity or NERC).
Submitting frequency measurable events. As per Requirement R1, the
BA has to identify and post information regarding Frequency Measurable
Events (FME). Further, the BA has to calculate and report to the
Compliance Enforcement Authority data related to Primary Frequency
Response (PFR) performance of each generating unit/generating facility.
Data retention. The BA, GO, and GOP shall keep data or evidence to
show compliance, as identified below, unless directed by its Compliance
Enforcement Authority to retain specific evidence for a longer period
of time as part of an investigation. Compliance audits are generally
about three years apart.
The BA shall retain a list of identified Frequency
Measurable Events and shall retain FME information since its last
compliance audit for Requirement R1, Measure M1.
The BA shall retain all monthly PFR performance reports
since its last compliance audit for Requirement R2, Measure M2.
The BA shall retain all annual Interconnection minimum
Frequency Response calculations, and related methodology and criteria
documents, relating to time periods since its last compliance audit for
Requirement R3, Measure M3.
The BA shall retain all data and calculations relating to
the Interconnection's Frequency Response, and all evidence of actions
taken to increase the Interconnection's Frequency Response, since its
last compliance audit for Requirements R4 and R5, Measures M4 and M5.
Each GOP shall retain evidence since its last compliance
audit for Requirement R8, Measure M8.
Each GO shall retain evidence since its last compliance
audit for Requirements R6, R7, R9 and R10, Measures M6, M7, M9 and M10.
Modification to Governor Controller Setting/Configuration (to be
removed from the FERC-725T information collection). This category of
response burden is being removed from FERC-725T. The ``Modification to
Governor Controller Setting/Configuration'' category was a one-time
requirement related to implementation of the BAL-001-TRE-01 Reliability
Standard. Each GO was required to set its governor settings according
to Requirement R6. In order to modify its settings, the GO had to
generate governor test reports, governor setting sheets, and/or
performance monitoring reports. The burden (912 hours) associated with
this category was averaged over 2014-2016 \2\. The response
requirements included in this category were complete within 18 months
of the effective date of the standard \3\ or by 10/1/2015. Due to
completion, the corresponding 304 annual burden hours are now being
removed.
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\2\ The total annual figure for this response category was 304
hours.
\3\ The effective date of the standard was 4/1/2014.
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Type of Respondent: NERC Registered entities (specifically
balancing authorities, generator owners, generator operators).
Estimate of Annual Burden: \4\ The Commission estimates the annual
public reporting burden for the information collection as:
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\4\ Burden is defined 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.
\5\ The estimates for cost per hour are based on 2015 wage
figures and derived as follows:
$64.29/hour, the average salary plus benefits per
engineer (from Bureau of Labor Statistics at https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics2_22.htm).
$37.75/hour, the salary plus benefits per information
and record clerks (from Bureau of Labor Statistics at https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics2_22.htm).
All calculated wage figures within the burden table are rounded
to the nearest dollar.
\6\ BA (balancing authority)
\7\ BA (balancing authority), GO (generator owner), and GOP
(generator operator)
\8\ Rounded from $75.50.
FERC-725T (Mandatory Reliability Standards for the Bulk-Power System: TRE Reliability Standards)
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Annual number
Number of of responses Total number Average burden and cost Total annual burden hours Cost per
respondents per of responses per response \5\ and total annual cost respondent
respondent ($)
(1) (2) (1) * (2) = (4)....................... (3) * (4) = (5)........... (5) / (1)
(3)
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Maintenance and Submission of \6\ 1 1 1 16 hrs.; $1,029........... 16 hrs.; $1,029........... $1,029
Event Log Data.
Evidence Retention.............. \7\ 130 1 130 2 hrs.; $76 \8\........... 260 hrs.; $9,815.......... $76
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Total....................... .............. .............. 131 .......................... 276 hrs.; $10,844......... ..............
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Dated: May 24, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-11194 Filed 5-30-17; 8:45 am]
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