Emergency Preparedness and Operations Reliability Standards, 44746-44750 [2017-20552]
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Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(g), 40113, 44701.
§ 39.13
[Amended]
2. The FAA amends § 39.13 by adding
the following new airworthiness
directive (AD):
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The Boeing Company: Docket No. FAA–
2017–0900; Product Identifier 2017–
NM–055–AD.
(a) Comments Due Date
We must receive comments by November
13, 2017.
(b) Affected ADs
This AD affects AD 2007–24–02,
Amendment 39–15268 (72 FR 65446,
November 21, 2007) (‘‘AD 2007–24–02’’).
(c) Applicability
This AD applies to all The Boeing
Company Model 737–100, –200, –200C,
–300, –400, and –500 series airplanes,
certificated in any category.
(d) Subject
Air Transport Association (ATA) of
America Code 28, Fuel.
(e) Unsafe Condition
This AD was prompted by reports of
chafed wires and a damaged wiring sleeve on
a fuel boost pump power cable, and an onground fuel tank explosion. We are issuing
this AD to prevent electrical arcing between
the fuel boost pump power cable wiring and
the surrounding conduit, which could lead to
arc-through of the conduit, consequent fire or
explosion of the fuel tank, and subsequent
loss of the airplane.
(f) Compliance
Comply with this AD within the
compliance times specified, unless already
done.
(g) Required Actions
(1) For Group 1 and Group 2 airplanes
identified in Boeing Alert Service Bulletin
737–28A1273, Revision 1, dated March 14,
2017: Except as required by paragraph (j) of
this AD, at the applicable times specified in
paragraph 1.E., ‘‘Compliance,’’ of Boeing
Alert Service Bulletin 737–28A1273,
Revision 1, dated March 14, 2017, do all
applicable actions identified as required for
compliance (‘‘RC’’) in, and in accordance
with, the Accomplishment Instructions of
Boeing Alert Service Bulletin 737–28A1273,
Revision 1, dated March 14, 2017.
(2) For airplanes identified as Group 3 in
Boeing Alert Service Bulletin 737–28A1273,
Revision 1, dated March 14, 2017: Within
120 days after the effective date of this AD,
inspect the airplane and do all applicable
corrective actions using a method approved
in accordance with the procedures specified
in paragraph (l) of this AD.
(h) Revision of Maintenance or Inspection
Program
Within 60 days after the effective date of
this AD: Revise the maintenance or
inspection program, as applicable, to
incorporate the applicable Airworthiness
Limitations (AWLs) from Boeing 737–100/
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200/200C/300/400/500 Airworthiness
Limitations (AWLs)/Certification
Maintenance Requirements (CMRs), D6–
38278–CMR, dated May 2016, as identified in
paragraphs (h)(1) and (h)(2) of this AD.
(1) 28–AWL–18 and 28–AWL–26, ‘‘Fuel
Boost Pump Wires In Conduit Installation—
In Fuel Tank,’’ for Boeing Model 737–100,
–200, –200C series airplanes.
(2) 28–AWL–18 and 28–AWL–25, ‘‘Fuel
Boost Pump Wires In Conduit Installation—
In Fuel Tank,’’ for Boeing Model 737–300,
–400, –500 series airplanes.
(i) No Alternative Critical Design
Configuration Control Limitations (CDCCLs)
After the maintenance or inspection
program, as applicable, has been revised as
required by paragraph (h) of this AD, no
alternative CDCCLs may be used unless the
CDCCLs are approved as an alternative
method of compliance (AMOC) in
accordance with the procedures specified in
paragraph (l) of this AD.
(j) Exceptions to Service Information
Specifications
Where Boeing Alert Service Bulletin 737–
28A1273, Revision 1, dated March 14, 2017,
uses the phrase ‘‘after the original issue date
of this service bulletin,’’ for purposes of
determining compliance with the
requirements of this AD, the phrase ‘‘after the
effective date of this AD’’ must be used.
(k) Terminating Action for Requirements of
AD 2007–24–02
Accomplishment of the actions required by
paragraph (g) of this AD terminates all
requirements of AD 2007–24–02.
(l) Alternative Methods of Compliance
(AMOCs)
(1) The Manager, Los Angeles ACO Branch,
FAA, has the authority to approve AMOCs
for this AD, if requested using the procedures
found in 14 CFR 39.19. In accordance with
14 CFR 39.19, send your request to your
principal inspector or local Flight Standards
District Office, as appropriate. If sending
information directly to the manager of the
certification office, send it to the attention of
the person identified in paragraph (m)(2) of
this AD. Information may be emailed to: 9ANM-LAACO-AMOC-Requests@faa.gov.
(2) Before using any approved AMOC,
notify your appropriate principal inspector,
or lacking a principal inspector, the manager
of the local flight standards district office/
certificate holding district office.
(3) An AMOC that provides an acceptable
level of safety may be used for any repair,
modification, or alteration required by this
AD if it is approved by the Boeing
Commercial Airplanes Organization
Designation Authorization (ODA) that has
been authorized by the Manager, Los Angeles
ACO Branch, to make those findings. To be
approved, the repair method, modification
deviation, or alteration deviation must meet
the certification basis of the airplane, and the
approval must specifically refer to this AD.
(4) For service information that contains
steps that are labeled as Required for
Compliance (RC), the provisions of
paragraphs (l)(4)(i) and (l)(4)(ii) of this AD
apply.
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(i) The steps labeled as RC, including
substeps under an RC step and any figures
identified in an RC step, must be done to
comply with the AD. If a step or substep is
labeled ‘‘RC Exempt,’’ then the RC
requirement is removed from that step or
substep. An AMOC is required for any
deviations to RC steps, including substeps
and identified figures.
(ii) Steps not labeled as RC may be
deviated from using accepted methods in
accordance with the operator’s maintenance
or inspection program without obtaining
approval of an AMOC, provided the RC steps,
including substeps and identified figures, can
still be done as specified, and the airplane
can be put back in an airworthy condition.
(m) Related Information
(1) For more information about this AD,
contact Christopher Baker, Aerospace
Engineer, Propulsion Section, FAA, Seattle
ACO Branch, 1601 Lind Avenue SW.,
Renton, WA 98057–3356; phone: 425–917–
6498; fax: 425–917–6590; email:
christopher.r.baker@faa.gov.
(2) For information about AMOCs, contact
Serj Harutunian, Aerospace Engineer,
Propulsion Section, FAA, Los Angeles ACO
Branch, 3960 Paramount Boulevard,
Lakewood, CA 90712–4137; phone: 562–627–
5254; fax: 562–627–5210; email:
serj.harutunian@faa.gov.
(3) For service information identified in
this AD, contact Boeing Commercial
Airplanes, Attention: Contractual & Data
Services (C&DS), 2600 Westminster Blvd.,
MC 110–SK57, Seal Beach, CA 90740–5600;
telephone 562–797–1717; Internet https://
www.myboeingfleet.com. You may view this
referenced service information at the FAA,
Transport Standards Branch, 1601 Lind
Avenue SW., Renton, WA. For information
on the availability of this material at the
FAA, call 425–227–1221.
Issued in Renton, Washington, on
September 20, 2017.
Dionne Palermo,
Acting Director, System Oversight Division,
Aircraft Certification Service.
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BILLING CODE 4910–13–P
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
18 CFR Part 40
[Docket No. RM17–12–000]
Emergency Preparedness and
Operations Reliability Standards
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking.
AGENCY:
The Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission proposes to
approve Emergency Preparedness and
Operations (EOP) Reliability Standards
SUMMARY:
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EOP–004–4 (Event Reporting), EOP–
005–3 (System Restoration from
Blackstart Resources), EOP–006–3
(System Restoration Coordination), and
EOP–008–2 (Loss of Control Center
Functionality).
DATES:
Comments are due November 27,
2017.
Comments, identified by
docket number, may be filed in the
following ways:
• Electronic Filing through https://
www.ferc.gov. Documents created
electronically using word processing
software should be filed in native
applications or print-to-PDF format and
not in a scanned format.
• Mail/Hand Delivery: Those unable
to file electronically may mail or handdeliver comments to: Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, Secretary of the
Commission, 888 First Street NE.,
Washington, DC 20426.
Instructions: For detailed instructions
on submitting comments and additional
information on the rulemaking process,
see the Comment Procedures Section of
this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
E. Nick Henery (Technical Information),
Office of Electric Reliability, Division
of Reliability Standards, Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street NE., Washington, DC
20426, Telephone: (202) 502–8636,
Nick.Henery@ferc.gov.
Bob Stroh (Legal Information), Office of
the General Counsel, Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, 888 First
Street NE., Washington, DC 20426,
Telephone: (202) 502–8473,
Robert.Stroh@ferc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
1. Under section 215 of the Federal
Power Act (FPA),1 the Commission
proposes to approve proposed
Emergency Preparedness and
Operations (EOP) Reliability Standards
EOP–004–4 (Event Reporting), EOP–
005–3 (System Restoration from
Blackstart Resources), EOP–006–3
(System Restoration Coordination), and
EOP–008–2 (Loss of Control Center
Functionality), submitted by the North
American Electric Reliability
Corporation (NERC), the Commissioncertified Electric Reliability
Organization (ERO). The proposed EOP
Reliability Standards are intended to: (1)
Provide accurate reporting of events to
NERC’s event analysis group to analyze
the impact on the reliability of the bulk
ADDRESSES:
1 16 U.S.C. 824(o). The proposed Reliability
Standards are available on the Commission’s
eLibrary document retrieval system in Docket No.
RM17–12–000 and on the NERC Web site,
www.nerc.com.
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electric system (EOP–004–4); (2)
delineate the roles and responsibilities
of entities that support system
restoration from blackstart resources
which generate power without the
support of the grid (EOP–005–3); (3)
clarify the procedures and coordination
requirements for reliability coordinator
personnel to execute system restoration
processes (EOP–006–3); and (4) refine
the required elements of an operating
plan used to continue reliable
operations of the bulk electric system if
that primary control functionality is lost
(EOP–008–2). The Commission also
proposes to approve the associated
violation risk factors, violation severity
levels, implementation plans, and
effective dates. In addition, the
Commission proposes to retire
currently-effective Reliability Standards
EOP–004–3, EOP–005–2, EOP–006–2,
and EOP–008–1 immediately prior to
the effective dates of the proposed EOP
Reliability Standards.
I. Background
A. Regulatory Background
2. Section 215 of the FPA requires a
Commission-certified ERO to develop
mandatory and enforceable Reliability
Standards that are subject to
Commission review and approval. The
Commission may approve, by rule or
order, a proposed Reliability Standard
or modification to a Reliability Standard
if it determines that the Reliability
Standard is just, reasonable, not unduly
discriminatory or preferential and in the
public interest.2 Once approved, the
Reliability Standards may be enforced
by the ERO, subject to Commission
oversight, or by the Commission
independently.3 Pursuant to section 215
of the FPA, the Commission established
a process to select and certify an ERO,4
and subsequently certified NERC.5 On
March 16, 2007, the Commission issued
Order No. 693, approving 83 of the 107
Reliability Standards filed by NERC,
including the initial EOP Reliability
Standards.6
2 Id.
824o(d)(2).
824o(e).
4 Rules Concerning Certification of the Electric
Reliability Organization; and Procedures for the
Establishment, Approval, and Enforcement of
Electric Reliability Standards, Order No. 672, FERC
Stats. & Regs. ¶ 31,204, order on reh’g, Order No.
672–A, FERC Stats. & Regs. ¶ 31,212 (2006).
5 North American Electric Reliability Corp., 116
FERC ¶ 61,062, order on reh’g and compliance, 117
FERC ¶ 61,126 (2006), aff’d sub nom. Alcoa, Inc.
v. FERC, 564 F.3d 1342 (D.C. Cir. 2009).
6 Mandatory Reliability Standards for the BulkPower System, Order No. 693, 72 FR 16416 (Apr.
4, 2007), FERC Stats. & Regs. ¶ 31,242, at P 297,
order on reh’g, Order No. 693–A, 120 FERC ¶
61,053 (2007).
3 Id.
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B. NERC Petition
3. According to NERC, the proposed
EOP Reliability Standards: (1)
Streamline the currently-effective EOP
Standards; (2) remove redundancies and
other unnecessary language while
making the Reliability Standards more
results-based; 7 and (3) address the
Commission’s concern articulated in
Order No. 749 regarding system
restoration training.8 The proposed EOP
Reliability Standards are summarized
below.
Proposed Reliability Standard EOP–
004–4
4. Proposed Reliability Standard
EOP–004–4 requires reporting of events
by responsible entities. The reportable
events under the proposed Reliability
Standard are collected and used to
examine the underlying causes of
events; track subsequent corrective
action to prevent recurrence of such
events; and develop lessons learned for
industry. While these events arise in the
real-time operation time horizon and
require action by responsible entities
within one hour or less to preserve the
reliability of the bulk electric system,
Reliability Standard EOP–004–3 is not
intended to require system operators to
report the events during the real-time
operation time horizon, but rather can
be reported six to twenty four hours
after the event.
5. NERC states that the proposed
Reliability Standard modifications are
designed to eliminate redundant
reporting of a single event by multiple
entities; assign reporting requirements
to appropriate entities; clarify the
threshold reporting for a given event;
and where appropriate, align the
reportable events and thresholds
identified in Attachments 1 and 2 of the
proposed Reliability Standard with the
Department of Energy’s (DOE) Form
OE–417. NERC states that the proposed
Reliability Standard improves the
quality of information received by the
ERO as well as the quality of analysis
that the ERO produces from this
information to assess the greatest risk to
the bulk electric system.
6. Attachment 1 of the proposed
Reliability Standard identifies the types
and thresholds of reportable events that
have the potential to impact the
7 North American Electric Reliability Corp., 138
FERC ¶ 61,193, at P 81 (March 2012 Order), order
on reh’g and clarification, 139 FERC ¶ 61,168
(2012). The March 2012 Order approved a NERC
process to identify requirements that could be
removed from Reliability Standards without
impacting the reliability of the interconnected
transmission network.
8 System Restoration Reliability Standards, Order
No. 749, 134 FERC ¶ 61,215, at PP 18, 24 (2011).
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reliability of the bulk electric system.
Attachment 2 is a reporting template for
entities to report the types and
thresholds of events identified in
Attachment 1 to NERC. To the extent
that DOE’s Form OE–417 reflects similar
event types and thresholds of events as
Attachment 2, responsible entities may
submit Form OE–417 in lieu of
Attachment 2.9
7. Under currently-effective
Reliability Standard EOP–004–3,
Attachment 1, reliability coordinators
must report to NERC when they operate
outside of their interconnection
reliability operating limit (IROL) for
greater than ‘‘Tv’’ (defined as less than
or equal to 30 minutes). NERC proposes
to eliminate the IROL violation
reporting requirement in Attachment 1
of proposed Reliability Standard EOP–
004–4 because, according to NERC,
EOP–004 is primarily a tool for trending
analysis and developing lessons learned
and not designed to be a real-time tool.
8. NERC states that the standard
drafting team concluded that any realtime reporting to NERC or Regional
Entities (i.e., contemporaneous with the
transmission operator’s notification of
the IROL to the reliability coordinator)
should be addressed in the TOP
Reliability Standards, which deal with
the real-time operations time horizon. In
its petition, NERC identifies Reliability
Standard TOP–001–3 (Transmission
Operations) as the appropriate
Reliability Standard for reporting such
real-time events. NERC states that the
purpose of Reliability Standard TOP–
001–3 is to prevent instability,
uncontrolled separation, or cascading
outages that adversely impact the
reliability of an interconnection by
ensuring prompt action to prevent or
mitigate such occurrences. Specifically,
Reliability Standard TOP–001–3,
Requirement R12 provides that ‘‘[e]ach
Transmission Operator shall not operate
outside any identified Interconnection
Reliability Operating Limit (IROL) for a
continuous duration exceeding its
associated Tv.’’ Separately, NERC
identifies Reliability Standard TOP–
007–0 (Reporting System Operating
Limit (SOL) and IROL Violations),
Requirement R2, which states that
‘‘[f]ollowing a Contingency or other
event that results in an IROL violation,
the Transmission Operator shall return
its transmission system to within IROL
as soon as possible, but not longer than
30 minutes.’’ Finally, NERC cites
Requirement R3 of Reliability Standard
9 Under the current practice, the ERO will accept
DOE’s Form OE–417 report in lieu of Attachment
2 to Reliability Standard EOP–004–3 to the extent
a given event type and threshold align.
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IRO–009–2 (Reliability Coordinator
Actions to Operate within IROLs),
which states that ‘‘[e]ach Reliability
Coordinator shall act or direct others to
act so that the magnitude and duration
of an IROL exceedance is mitigated
within the IROL Tv, as identified in the
Reliability Coordinator’s Real-time
monitoring or Real-time Assessment.’’
Proposed Reliability Standard EOP–
005–3
9. The purpose of proposed Reliability
Standard EOP–005–3 is to ensure plans,
facilities, and personnel are prepared to
enable system restoration from
blackstart resources to ensure reliability
is maintained during restoration and
priority is placed on restoring the
interconnection. NERC states that
proposed Reliability Standard EOP–
005–3 improves the existing version of
the Reliability Standard by: (1)
Emphasizing the need for transmission
operators to develop and use restoration
plans relating to blackstart resources; (2)
retiring redundant or administrative
requirements; and (3) clarifying
requirements for revising and testing
restoration plans.
Proposed Reliability Standards EOP–
006–3
10. The purpose of proposed
Reliability Standard EOP–006–3 is to
establish how personnel should prepare,
execute, and coordinate system
restoration processes to maintain
reliability and to restore the
Interconnection. NERC states that
proposed Reliability Standard EOP–
006–3 improves upon the existing
version of the standard by emphasizing
the need for reliability coordinators to
develop and use their restoration plans
and clarifying requirements for training
and coordination of restoration plans
amongst reliability coordinators.
Proposed Reliability Standard EOP–
008–2
11. The purpose of proposed
Reliability Standard EOP–008–2 is to
ensure continued reliable operations of
the bulk electric system if a control
center becomes inoperable. NERC states
that proposed Reliability Standard EOP–
008–2 improves upon the existing
Reliability Standard by clarifying the
required contents of an operating plan
used by reliability coordinators,
balancing authorities and transmission
operators.
II. Discussion
12. Pursuant to section 215(d) of the
FPA, the Commission proposes to
approve the proposed EOP Reliability
Standards as just, reasonable, not
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unduly discriminatory or preferential
and in the public interest. The
Commission also proposes to approve
the associated violation risk factors,
violation severity levels,
implementation plans, and effective
dates. Further, the Commission
proposes to retire currently-effective
Reliability Standards EOP–004–3, EOP–
005–2, EOP–006–2, and EOP–008–1
immediately prior to the effective dates
of the proposed EOP Reliability
Standards.
13. Proposed Reliability Standard
EOP–004–4 will enhance reliability by
assigning reporting to appropriate
entities; and clarifying the threshold
reporting for a given event. In addition,
aligning the reportable events and
thresholds identified in Attachment 1 of
the proposed Reliability Standard with
DOE’s Form OE–417 should improve
the quality of information received by
NERC and the quality of analysis that
NERC produces to assess the greatest
risks to the bulk electric system.
Further, proposed Reliability Standard
EOP–004–4 promotes efficiency and
clarity by eliminating redundant
reporting of a single event by multiple
entities.
14. Proposed Reliability Standards
EOP–005–3, EOP–006–3, and EOP–008–
2 will enhance reliability by delineating
the roles and responsibilities of entities
that support system restoration from
blackstart resources; clarifying the
procedures and coordination
requirements for reliability coordinator
personnel to execute system restoration
processes; and refining operating plan
elements if primary control
functionality is lost.
15. Finally, while we are not
persuaded that the three Reliability
Standards identified by NERC require
the reporting of IROL information,10 we
propose to accept NERC’s proposed
retirement of currently-effective
Reliability Standard EOP–004–3.
10 While Reliability Standard TOP–007–0,
Requirement R1 mandates reporting of SOL and
IROL violations, that Reliability Standard was
retired recently. Transmission Operations
Reliability Standards and Interconnection
Reliability Operations and Coordination Reliability
Standards, Order No. 817, 153 FERC ¶ 61,178
(2015). Reliability Standard TOP–001–3,
Requirement R12 requires transmission operators
not to operate outside of IROL Tv. The
requirement’s associated compliance measure,
however, only requires transmission operators to
‘‘make available evidence to show that for any
occasion in which it operated outside any identified
[IROL], the continuous duration did not exceed its
associated IROL Tv.’’ 10 While this information may
be similar to what would be found in an IROL Tv
exceedance report under currently-effective
Reliability Standard EOP–004–3, Reliability
Standard TOP–001–3 does not require responsible
entities to report the exceedance. The same can be
said of Reliability Standard IRO–009–2.
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Currently NERC voluntarily shares IROL
Tv exceedance information with
Commission staff so that Commission
staff can monitor the transmission
system and identify reliability trends.
We understand that NERC will continue
to receive IROL Tv exceedance
information and share it with
Commission staff even after the
proposed retirement of EOP–004–3.
III. Information Collection Statement
16. The Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) regulations require that
OMB approve certain reporting and
recordkeeping (collections of
information) imposed by an agency.11
Upon approval of a collection(s) of
information, OMB will assign an OMB
control number and expiration date.
Respondents subject to the filing
requirements of this rule will not be
penalized for failing to respond to these
collections of information unless the
collections of information display a
valid OMB control number.
17. The Commission is submitting
these reporting and recordkeeping
requirements to OMB for its review and
approval under section 3507(d) of the
Paper Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
3507(d) (2012). Comments are solicited
on the Commission’s need for this
information, whether the information
will have practical utility, the accuracy
of the provided burden estimate, ways
to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected, and any suggested methods
for minimizing the respondent’s burden,
including the use of automated
information techniques.
18. This Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking proposes to approve
revisions to Reliability Standards EOP–
004–4 (Event Reporting), EOP–005–3
(System Restoration from Blackstart
Resources), EOP–006–3 (System
Restoration Coordination), and EOP–
008–2 (Loss of Control Center
Functionality).
19. Public Reporting Burden: Our
estimate below regarding the number of
respondents is based on the NERC
Compliance Registry as of April 7, 2017.
The following estimates relate to the
requirements for this Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking in Docket No. RM17–12–
000.
RM17–12–000 (EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND OPERATIONS RELIABILITY STANDARDS)
Number of
respondents
Annual
number of
responses per
respondent
Total number
of responses
Average burden
and cost per
response 12
Total annual
burden and total
annual cost 13
Cost per respondent
($)
(1)
(2)
(1) * (2) = (3)
(4)
(3) * (4) = (5)
(5) ÷ (1)
EOP–008–2
One-time Review
and Revision of
Plan.
Updating, Approving, and Maintaining Records.
215
215
20 hrs. (Eng.);
$1,286.
4,300 hrs. (Eng.);
$276,447.
$1,286 (Eng.).
215
1
215
6 hrs. (Eng.); $386
2 hrs. (R.K.);
$76.
1
27
1,290 hrs. (Eng.);
$82,934, 430
hrs. (R.K.);
$16,233.
3,240 hrs.
$208,300 (Eng.).
$386 (Eng.); $76 (R.K.).
27
One-time Contracting.
1
416 hrs. (R.K.);
$26,745.
20,416 hrs. (Eng.);
$1,312,545,
2,816 hrs.
(R.K.); $106,304.
18,400 hrs. (Eng.);
$1,182,936.
5,424 hrs. (Eng.);
$348,709.
$514 (R.K.).
2 hrs. (Eng.); $129
2,800 hrs. (Eng.)
$180,012.
$129.
0.17 hrs. (Eng.);
$11.
59.5 hrs. (Eng.);
$3,825.
$11.
...............................
55,929.5 (Eng.)
3,662 (R.K.),
$3,595,708
(Eng.) $149,282
(R.K.).
120 hrs. (Eng.)
$7,715.
$7,715 (Eng.).
EOP–005–3 & EOP–006–3
RC Data Retention
26
2
52
8 hrs. (R.K.) $514
TOP Reporting
Data.
176
1
176
116 hrs. (Eng.);
$7,458 16 hrs.
(R.K.); $604.
GOP Testing .........
230
1
230
TO and DP Training.
678
1
678
80 hrs. (Eng.);
$5,143.
8 hrs. (Eng.); $514
$7,458 (Eng.); $604 (R.K.).
$5,143 (Eng.).
$514 (Eng.).
EOP–004–4
One-Time Review
and Revision of
Plan.
Reporting Events ..
1,400
1
1,400
350
1
350
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3,343
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2015 wage figures and derived as follows:
12 Eng.:
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$37.75/hour, the average salary plus benefits per
information and record clerks (from Bureau of
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Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 185 / Tuesday, September 26, 2017 / Proposed Rules
Title: FERC–725S (Mandatory
Reliability Standards).14
Action: Proposed Collection of
Information.
OMB Control No.: 1902–0270.
Respondents: Businesses or other forprofit institutions; not-for-profit
institutions.
Frequency of Responses: Annually.
Necessity of the Information:
Proposed Reliability Standards EOP–
004–4, EOP–005–3, EOP–006–3, and
EOP–008–2 are intended to provide
accurate reporting of events to NERC’s
event analysis group to analyze the
impact on the reliability of the bulk
electric system (EOP–004–4); delineate
the roles and responsibilities of entities
that support system restoration from
blackstart resources (EOP–005–3);
clarify the procedures and coordination
requirements for reliability coordinator
personnel to execute system restoration
processes (EOP–006–3); and refine the
required elements of an operating plan
used to continue reliable operations of
the bulk electric system if that primary
control functionality is lost (EOP–008–
2).
Internal Review: The Commission has
assured itself, by means of its internal
review, that there is specific, objective
support for the burden estimates
associated with the information
requirements.
20. Interested persons may obtain
information on the reporting
requirements by contacting the
following: Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, 888 First Street NE.,
Washington, DC 20426 [Attention: Ellen
Brown, Office of the Executive Director,
email: DataClearance@ferc.gov, phone:
(202) 502–8663, fax: (202) 273–0873].
21. For submitting comments
concerning the collection(s) of
information and the associated burden
estimate(s), please send your comments
to the Commission and to the Office of
Management and Budget, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Washington, DC 20503 [Attention: Desk
Officer for the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, phone: (202)
395–4638, fax: (202) 395–7285]. For
security reasons, comments to OMB
should be submitted by email to: oira_
submission@omb.eop.gov. Comments
submitted to OMB should include
14 The revisions to EOP–004–4, EOP–005–3,
EOP–006–3, and EOP–008–2 Reliability Standards
will result in paperwork burden being accounted
for in FERC–725S (OMB Control No. 1902–0270).
These standards will replace previous versions
whose paperwork burden was previously approved
in FERC–725A (OMB Control. No. 1902–0244). The
burden proposed here will only be added to FERC–
725S and will be temporarily duplicated by
previously approved burden in FERC–725A.
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12–000.
IV. Environmental Analysis
22. The Commission is required to
prepare an Environmental Assessment
or an Environmental Impact Statement
for any action that may have a
significant adverse effect on the human
environment.15 The Commission has
categorically excluded certain actions
from this requirement as not having a
significant effect on the human
environment. Included in the exclusion
are rules that are clarifying, corrective,
or procedural or that do not
substantially change the effect of the
regulations being amended.16 The
actions proposed here fall within this
categorical exclusion in the
Commission’s regulations.
V. Regulatory Flexibility Act
23. The Regulatory Flexibility Act of
1980 (RFA) 17 generally requires a
description and analysis of proposed
rules that will have significant
economic impact on a substantial
number of small entities. Because the
burden discussed above is being
accounted for in FERC–725S these
standards will replace previous versions
whose paperwork burden was
previously approved in FERC–725A.
The burden will only be added to
FERC–725S and will be temporarily
duplicated by previously approved
burden in FERC–725A. Accordingly, the
Commission certifies that the proposed
Reliability Standards will not have a
significant economic impact on a
substantial number of small entities.
VI. Comment Procedures
24. The Commission invites interested
persons to submit comments on the
matters and issues proposed in this
notice to be adopted, including any
related matters or alternative proposals
that commenters may wish to discuss.
Comments are due November 27, 2017.
Comments must refer to Docket No.
RM17–12–000, and must include the
commenter’s name, the organization
they represent, if applicable, and their
address in their comments.
25. The Commission encourages
comments to be filed electronically via
the eFiling link on the Commission’s
Web site at https://www.ferc.gov. The
Commission accepts most standard
word processing formats. Documents
created electronically using word
processing software should be filed in
native applications or print-to-PDF
format and not in a scanned format.
Commenters filing electronically do not
need to make a paper filing.
26. Commenters that are not able to
file comments electronically must send
an original of their comments to:
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
Secretary of the Commission, 888 First
Street NE., Washington, DC 20426.
27. All comments will be placed in
the Commission’s public files and may
be viewed, printed, or downloaded
remotely as described in the Document
Availability section below. Commenters
on this proposal are not required to
serve copies of their comments on other
commenters.
VII. Document Availability
28. In addition to publishing the full
text of this document in the Federal
Register, the Commission provides all
interested persons an opportunity to
view and/or print the contents of this
document via the Internet through the
Commission’s Home Page (https://
www.ferc.gov) and in the Commission’s
Public Reference Room during normal
business hours (8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Eastern time) at 888 First Street NE.,
Room 2A, Washington, DC 20426.
29. From the Commission’s Home
Page on the Internet, this information is
available on eLibrary. The full text of
this document is available on eLibrary
in PDF and Microsoft Word format for
viewing, printing, and/or downloading.
To access this document in eLibrary,
type the docket number of this
document, excluding the last three
digits, in the docket number field.
30. User assistance is available for
eLibrary and the Commission’s Web site
during normal business hours from the
Commission’s Online Support at (202)
502–6652 (toll free at 1–866–208–3676)
or email at ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov,
or the Public Reference Room at (202)
502–8371, TTY (202) 502–8659. Email
the Public Reference Room at
public.referenceroom@ferc.gov.
By direction of the Commission.
Dated: September 20, 2017.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017–20552 Filed 9–25–17; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717–01–P
15 Regulations Implementing the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969, Order No. 486,
FERC Stats. & Regs. ¶ 30,783 (1987).
16 18 CFR 380.4(a)(2)(ii).
17 5 U.S.C. 601–612.
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[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 185 (Tuesday, September 26, 2017)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 44746-44750]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-20552]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
18 CFR Part 40
[Docket No. RM17-12-000]
Emergency Preparedness and Operations Reliability Standards
AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission proposes to approve
Emergency Preparedness and Operations (EOP) Reliability Standards
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EOP-004-4 (Event Reporting), EOP-005-3 (System Restoration from
Blackstart Resources), EOP-006-3 (System Restoration Coordination), and
EOP-008-2 (Loss of Control Center Functionality).
DATES: Comments are due November 27, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Comments, identified by docket number, may be filed in the
following ways:
Electronic Filing through https://www.ferc.gov. Documents
created electronically using word processing software should be filed
in native applications or print-to-PDF format and not in a scanned
format.
Mail/Hand Delivery: Those unable to file electronically
may mail or hand-deliver comments to: Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, Secretary of the Commission, 888 First Street NE.,
Washington, DC 20426.
Instructions: For detailed instructions on submitting comments and
additional information on the rulemaking process, see the Comment
Procedures Section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
E. Nick Henery (Technical Information), Office of Electric Reliability,
Division of Reliability Standards, Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, 888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426, Telephone:
(202) 502-8636, Nick.Henery@ferc.gov.
Bob Stroh (Legal Information), Office of the General Counsel, Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE., Washington, DC
20426, Telephone: (202) 502-8473, Robert.Stroh@ferc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
1. Under section 215 of the Federal Power Act (FPA),\1\ the
Commission proposes to approve proposed Emergency Preparedness and
Operations (EOP) Reliability Standards EOP-004-4 (Event Reporting),
EOP-005-3 (System Restoration from Blackstart Resources), EOP-006-3
(System Restoration Coordination), and EOP-008-2 (Loss of Control
Center Functionality), submitted by the North American Electric
Reliability Corporation (NERC), the Commission-certified Electric
Reliability Organization (ERO). The proposed EOP Reliability Standards
are intended to: (1) Provide accurate reporting of events to NERC's
event analysis group to analyze the impact on the reliability of the
bulk electric system (EOP-004-4); (2) delineate the roles and
responsibilities of entities that support system restoration from
blackstart resources which generate power without the support of the
grid (EOP-005-3); (3) clarify the procedures and coordination
requirements for reliability coordinator personnel to execute system
restoration processes (EOP-006-3); and (4) refine the required elements
of an operating plan used to continue reliable operations of the bulk
electric system if that primary control functionality is lost (EOP-008-
2). The Commission also proposes to approve the associated violation
risk factors, violation severity levels, implementation plans, and
effective dates. In addition, the Commission proposes to retire
currently-effective Reliability Standards EOP-004-3, EOP-005-2, EOP-
006-2, and EOP-008-1 immediately prior to the effective dates of the
proposed EOP Reliability Standards.
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\1\ 16 U.S.C. 824(o). The proposed Reliability Standards are
available on the Commission's eLibrary document retrieval system in
Docket No. RM17-12-000 and on the NERC Web site, www.nerc.com.
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I. Background
A. Regulatory Background
2. Section 215 of the FPA requires a Commission-certified ERO to
develop mandatory and enforceable Reliability Standards that are
subject to Commission review and approval. The Commission may approve,
by rule or order, a proposed Reliability Standard or modification to a
Reliability Standard if it determines that the Reliability Standard is
just, reasonable, not unduly discriminatory or preferential and in the
public interest.\2\ Once approved, the Reliability Standards may be
enforced by the ERO, subject to Commission oversight, or by the
Commission independently.\3\ Pursuant to section 215 of the FPA, the
Commission established a process to select and certify an ERO,\4\ and
subsequently certified NERC.\5\ On March 16, 2007, the Commission
issued Order No. 693, approving 83 of the 107 Reliability Standards
filed by NERC, including the initial EOP Reliability Standards.\6\
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\2\ Id. 824o(d)(2).
\3\ Id. 824o(e).
\4\ Rules Concerning Certification of the Electric Reliability
Organization; and Procedures for the Establishment, Approval, and
Enforcement of Electric Reliability Standards, Order No. 672, FERC
Stats. & Regs. ] 31,204, order on reh'g, Order No. 672-A, FERC
Stats. & Regs. ] 31,212 (2006).
\5\ North American Electric Reliability Corp., 116 FERC ]
61,062, order on reh'g and compliance, 117 FERC ] 61,126 (2006),
aff'd sub nom. Alcoa, Inc. v. FERC, 564 F.3d 1342 (D.C. Cir. 2009).
\6\ Mandatory Reliability Standards for the Bulk-Power System,
Order No. 693, 72 FR 16416 (Apr. 4, 2007), FERC Stats. & Regs. ]
31,242, at P 297, order on reh'g, Order No. 693-A, 120 FERC ] 61,053
(2007).
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B. NERC Petition
3. According to NERC, the proposed EOP Reliability Standards: (1)
Streamline the currently-effective EOP Standards; (2) remove
redundancies and other unnecessary language while making the
Reliability Standards more results-based; \7\ and (3) address the
Commission's concern articulated in Order No. 749 regarding system
restoration training.\8\ The proposed EOP Reliability Standards are
summarized below.
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\7\ North American Electric Reliability Corp., 138 FERC ]
61,193, at P 81 (March 2012 Order), order on reh'g and
clarification, 139 FERC ] 61,168 (2012). The March 2012 Order
approved a NERC process to identify requirements that could be
removed from Reliability Standards without impacting the reliability
of the interconnected transmission network.
\8\ System Restoration Reliability Standards, Order No. 749, 134
FERC ] 61,215, at PP 18, 24 (2011).
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Proposed Reliability Standard EOP-004-4
4. Proposed Reliability Standard EOP-004-4 requires reporting of
events by responsible entities. The reportable events under the
proposed Reliability Standard are collected and used to examine the
underlying causes of events; track subsequent corrective action to
prevent recurrence of such events; and develop lessons learned for
industry. While these events arise in the real-time operation time
horizon and require action by responsible entities within one hour or
less to preserve the reliability of the bulk electric system,
Reliability Standard EOP-004-3 is not intended to require system
operators to report the events during the real-time operation time
horizon, but rather can be reported six to twenty four hours after the
event.
5. NERC states that the proposed Reliability Standard modifications
are designed to eliminate redundant reporting of a single event by
multiple entities; assign reporting requirements to appropriate
entities; clarify the threshold reporting for a given event; and where
appropriate, align the reportable events and thresholds identified in
Attachments 1 and 2 of the proposed Reliability Standard with the
Department of Energy's (DOE) Form OE-417. NERC states that the proposed
Reliability Standard improves the quality of information received by
the ERO as well as the quality of analysis that the ERO produces from
this information to assess the greatest risk to the bulk electric
system.
6. Attachment 1 of the proposed Reliability Standard identifies the
types and thresholds of reportable events that have the potential to
impact the
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reliability of the bulk electric system. Attachment 2 is a reporting
template for entities to report the types and thresholds of events
identified in Attachment 1 to NERC. To the extent that DOE's Form OE-
417 reflects similar event types and thresholds of events as Attachment
2, responsible entities may submit Form OE-417 in lieu of Attachment
2.\9\
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OE-417 report in lieu of Attachment 2 to Reliability Standard EOP-
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7. Under currently-effective Reliability Standard EOP-004-3,
Attachment 1, reliability coordinators must report to NERC when they
operate outside of their interconnection reliability operating limit
(IROL) for greater than ``Tv'' (defined as less than or equal to 30
minutes). NERC proposes to eliminate the IROL violation reporting
requirement in Attachment 1 of proposed Reliability Standard EOP-004-4
because, according to NERC, EOP-004 is primarily a tool for trending
analysis and developing lessons learned and not designed to be a real-
time tool.
8. NERC states that the standard drafting team concluded that any
real-time reporting to NERC or Regional Entities (i.e., contemporaneous
with the transmission operator's notification of the IROL to the
reliability coordinator) should be addressed in the TOP Reliability
Standards, which deal with the real-time operations time horizon. In
its petition, NERC identifies Reliability Standard TOP-001-3
(Transmission Operations) as the appropriate Reliability Standard for
reporting such real-time events. NERC states that the purpose of
Reliability Standard TOP-001-3 is to prevent instability, uncontrolled
separation, or cascading outages that adversely impact the reliability
of an interconnection by ensuring prompt action to prevent or mitigate
such occurrences. Specifically, Reliability Standard TOP-001-3,
Requirement R12 provides that ``[e]ach Transmission Operator shall not
operate outside any identified Interconnection Reliability Operating
Limit (IROL) for a continuous duration exceeding its associated Tv.''
Separately, NERC identifies Reliability Standard TOP-007-0 (Reporting
System Operating Limit (SOL) and IROL Violations), Requirement R2,
which states that ``[f]ollowing a Contingency or other event that
results in an IROL violation, the Transmission Operator shall return
its transmission system to within IROL as soon as possible, but not
longer than 30 minutes.'' Finally, NERC cites Requirement R3 of
Reliability Standard IRO-009-2 (Reliability Coordinator Actions to
Operate within IROLs), which states that ``[e]ach Reliability
Coordinator shall act or direct others to act so that the magnitude and
duration of an IROL exceedance is mitigated within the IROL Tv, as
identified in the Reliability Coordinator's Real-time monitoring or
Real-time Assessment.''
Proposed Reliability Standard EOP-005-3
9. The purpose of proposed Reliability Standard EOP-005-3 is to
ensure plans, facilities, and personnel are prepared to enable system
restoration from blackstart resources to ensure reliability is
maintained during restoration and priority is placed on restoring the
interconnection. NERC states that proposed Reliability Standard EOP-
005-3 improves the existing version of the Reliability Standard by: (1)
Emphasizing the need for transmission operators to develop and use
restoration plans relating to blackstart resources; (2) retiring
redundant or administrative requirements; and (3) clarifying
requirements for revising and testing restoration plans.
Proposed Reliability Standards EOP-006-3
10. The purpose of proposed Reliability Standard EOP-006-3 is to
establish how personnel should prepare, execute, and coordinate system
restoration processes to maintain reliability and to restore the
Interconnection. NERC states that proposed Reliability Standard EOP-
006-3 improves upon the existing version of the standard by emphasizing
the need for reliability coordinators to develop and use their
restoration plans and clarifying requirements for training and
coordination of restoration plans amongst reliability coordinators.
Proposed Reliability Standard EOP-008-2
11. The purpose of proposed Reliability Standard EOP-008-2 is to
ensure continued reliable operations of the bulk electric system if a
control center becomes inoperable. NERC states that proposed
Reliability Standard EOP-008-2 improves upon the existing Reliability
Standard by clarifying the required contents of an operating plan used
by reliability coordinators, balancing authorities and transmission
operators.
II. Discussion
12. Pursuant to section 215(d) of the FPA, the Commission proposes
to approve the proposed EOP Reliability Standards as just, reasonable,
not unduly discriminatory or preferential and in the public interest.
The Commission also proposes to approve the associated violation risk
factors, violation severity levels, implementation plans, and effective
dates. Further, the Commission proposes to retire currently-effective
Reliability Standards EOP-004-3, EOP-005-2, EOP-006-2, and EOP-008-1
immediately prior to the effective dates of the proposed EOP
Reliability Standards.
13. Proposed Reliability Standard EOP-004-4 will enhance
reliability by assigning reporting to appropriate entities; and
clarifying the threshold reporting for a given event. In addition,
aligning the reportable events and thresholds identified in Attachment
1 of the proposed Reliability Standard with DOE's Form OE-417 should
improve the quality of information received by NERC and the quality of
analysis that NERC produces to assess the greatest risks to the bulk
electric system. Further, proposed Reliability Standard EOP-004-4
promotes efficiency and clarity by eliminating redundant reporting of a
single event by multiple entities.
14. Proposed Reliability Standards EOP-005-3, EOP-006-3, and EOP-
008-2 will enhance reliability by delineating the roles and
responsibilities of entities that support system restoration from
blackstart resources; clarifying the procedures and coordination
requirements for reliability coordinator personnel to execute system
restoration processes; and refining operating plan elements if primary
control functionality is lost.
15. Finally, while we are not persuaded that the three Reliability
Standards identified by NERC require the reporting of IROL
information,\10\ we propose to accept NERC's proposed retirement of
currently-effective Reliability Standard EOP-004-3.
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Currently NERC voluntarily shares IROL Tv exceedance information with
Commission staff so that Commission staff can monitor the transmission
system and identify reliability trends. We understand that NERC will
continue to receive IROL Tv exceedance information and share it with
Commission staff even after the proposed retirement of EOP-004-3.
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\10\ While Reliability Standard TOP-007-0, Requirement R1
mandates reporting of SOL and IROL violations, that Reliability
Standard was retired recently. Transmission Operations Reliability
Standards and Interconnection Reliability Operations and
Coordination Reliability Standards, Order No. 817, 153 FERC ] 61,178
(2015). Reliability Standard TOP-001-3, Requirement R12 requires
transmission operators not to operate outside of IROL Tv. The
requirement's associated compliance measure, however, only requires
transmission operators to ``make available evidence to show that for
any occasion in which it operated outside any identified [IROL], the
continuous duration did not exceed its associated IROL Tv.'' \10\
While this information may be similar to what would be found in an
IROL Tv exceedance report under currently-effective Reliability
Standard EOP-004-3, Reliability Standard TOP-001-3 does not require
responsible entities to report the exceedance. The same can be said
of Reliability Standard IRO-009-2.
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III. Information Collection Statement
16. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) regulations require
that OMB approve certain reporting and recordkeeping (collections of
information) imposed by an agency.\11\ Upon approval of a collection(s)
of information, OMB will assign an OMB control number and expiration
date. Respondents subject to the filing requirements of this rule will
not be penalized for failing to respond to these collections of
information unless the collections of information display a valid OMB
control number.
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17. The Commission is submitting these reporting and recordkeeping
requirements to OMB for its review and approval under section 3507(d)
of the Paper Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3507(d) (2012). Comments
are solicited on the Commission's need for this information, whether
the information will have practical utility, the accuracy of the
provided burden estimate, ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be collected, and any suggested methods
for minimizing the respondent's burden, including the use of automated
information techniques.
18. This Notice of Proposed Rulemaking proposes to approve
revisions to Reliability Standards EOP-004-4 (Event Reporting), EOP-
005-3 (System Restoration from Blackstart Resources), EOP-006-3 (System
Restoration Coordination), and EOP-008-2 (Loss of Control Center
Functionality).
19. Public Reporting Burden: Our estimate below regarding the
number of respondents is based on the NERC Compliance Registry as of
April 7, 2017. The following estimates relate to the requirements for
this Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in Docket No. RM17-12-000.
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\12\ Eng.: engineering; R.K.: record-keeping.
\13\ 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);
$37.75/hour, the average salary plus benefits per information
and record clerks (from Bureau of Labor Statistics at https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics2_22.htm)
The results of calculations are rounded to the nearest dollar
within the burden table.
RM17-12-000 (Emergency Preparedness and Operations Reliability Standards)
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Annual number
Number of of responses Total number Average burden Total annual
respondents per of responses and cost per burden and total Cost per respondent ($)
respondent response \12\ annual cost \13\
(1) (2) (1) * (2) = (4).............. (3) * (4) = (5).. (5) / (1)
(3)
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EOP-008-2
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One-time Review and Revision 215 1 215 20 hrs. (Eng.); 4,300 hrs. $1,286 (Eng.).
of Plan. $1,286. (Eng.); $276,447.
Updating, Approving, and 215 1 215 6 hrs. (Eng.); 1,290 hrs. $386 (Eng.); $76 (R.K.).
Maintaining Records. $386 2 hrs. (Eng.); $82,934,
(R.K.); $76. 430 hrs. (R.K.);
$16,233.
One-time Contracting.......... 27 1 27 120 hrs. (Eng.) 3,240 hrs. $7,715 (Eng.).
$7,715. $208,300 (Eng.).
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RC Data Retention............. 26 2 52 8 hrs. (R.K.) 416 hrs. (R.K.); $514 (R.K.).
$514. $26,745.
TOP Reporting Data............ 176 1 176 116 hrs. (Eng.); 20,416 hrs. $7,458 (Eng.); $604 (R.K.).
$7,458 16 hrs. (Eng.);
(R.K.); $604. $1,312,545,
2,816 hrs.
(R.K.); $106,304.
GOP Testing................... 230 1 230 80 hrs. (Eng.); 18,400 hrs. $5,143 (Eng.).
$5,143. (Eng.);
$1,182,936.
TO and DP Training............ 678 1 678 8 hrs. (Eng.); 5,424 hrs. $514 (Eng.).
$514. (Eng.); $348,709.
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EOP-004-4
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One-Time Review and Revision 1,400 1 1,400 2 hrs. (Eng.); 2,800 hrs. (Eng.) $129.
of Plan. $129. $180,012.
Reporting Events.............. 350 1 350 0.17 hrs. (Eng.); 59.5 hrs. (Eng.); $11.
$11. $3,825.
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Total..................... .............. .............. 3,343 ................. 55,929.5 (Eng.)
3,662 (R.K.),
$3,595,708
(Eng.) $149,282
(R.K.).
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Title: FERC-725S (Mandatory Reliability Standards).\14\
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\14\ The revisions to EOP-004-4, EOP-005-3, EOP-006-3, and EOP-
008-2 Reliability Standards will result in paperwork burden being
accounted for in FERC-725S (OMB Control No. 1902-0270). These
standards will replace previous versions whose paperwork burden was
previously approved in FERC-725A (OMB Control. No. 1902-0244). The
burden proposed here will only be added to FERC-725S and will be
temporarily duplicated by previously approved burden in FERC-725A.
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Action: Proposed Collection of Information.
OMB Control No.: 1902-0270.
Respondents: Businesses or other for-profit institutions; not-for-
profit institutions.
Frequency of Responses: Annually.
Necessity of the Information: Proposed Reliability Standards EOP-
004-4, EOP-005-3, EOP-006-3, and EOP-008-2 are intended to provide
accurate reporting of events to NERC's event analysis group to analyze
the impact on the reliability of the bulk electric system (EOP-004-4);
delineate the roles and responsibilities of entities that support
system restoration from blackstart resources (EOP-005-3); clarify the
procedures and coordination requirements for reliability coordinator
personnel to execute system restoration processes (EOP-006-3); and
refine the required elements of an operating plan used to continue
reliable operations of the bulk electric system if that primary control
functionality is lost (EOP-008-2).
Internal Review: The Commission has assured itself, by means of its
internal review, that there is specific, objective support for the
burden estimates associated with the information requirements.
20. Interested persons may obtain information on the reporting
requirements by contacting the following: Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, 888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426 [Attention:
Ellen Brown, Office of the Executive Director, email:
DataClearance@ferc.gov, phone: (202) 502-8663, fax: (202) 273-0873].
21. For submitting comments concerning the collection(s) of
information and the associated burden estimate(s), please send your
comments to the Commission and to the Office of Management and Budget,
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Washington, DC 20503
[Attention: Desk Officer for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
phone: (202) 395-4638, fax: (202) 395-7285]. For security reasons,
comments to OMB should be submitted by email to:
oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. Comments submitted to OMB should include
1902-0270 and Docket Number RM17-12-000.
IV. Environmental Analysis
22. The Commission is required to prepare an Environmental
Assessment or an Environmental Impact Statement for any action that may
have a significant adverse effect on the human environment.\15\ The
Commission has categorically excluded certain actions from this
requirement as not having a significant effect on the human
environment. Included in the exclusion are rules that are clarifying,
corrective, or procedural or that do not substantially change the
effect of the regulations being amended.\16\ The actions proposed here
fall within this categorical exclusion in the Commission's regulations.
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\15\ Regulations Implementing the National Environmental Policy
Act of 1969, Order No. 486, FERC Stats. & Regs. ] 30,783 (1987).
\16\ 18 CFR 380.4(a)(2)(ii).
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V. Regulatory Flexibility Act
23. The Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980 (RFA) \17\ generally
requires a description and analysis of proposed rules that will have
significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities.
Because the burden discussed above is being accounted for in FERC-725S
these standards will replace previous versions whose paperwork burden
was previously approved in FERC-725A. The burden will only be added to
FERC-725S and will be temporarily duplicated by previously approved
burden in FERC-725A. Accordingly, the Commission certifies that the
proposed Reliability Standards will not have a significant economic
impact on a substantial number of small entities.
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\17\ 5 U.S.C. 601-612.
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VI. Comment Procedures
24. The Commission invites interested persons to submit comments on
the matters and issues proposed in this notice to be adopted, including
any related matters or alternative proposals that commenters may wish
to discuss. Comments are due November 27, 2017. Comments must refer to
Docket No. RM17-12-000, and must include the commenter's name, the
organization they represent, if applicable, and their address in their
comments.
25. The Commission encourages comments to be filed electronically
via the eFiling link on the Commission's Web site at https://www.ferc.gov. The Commission accepts most standard word processing
formats. Documents created electronically using word processing
software should be filed in native applications or print-to-PDF format
and not in a scanned format. Commenters filing electronically do not
need to make a paper filing.
26. Commenters that are not able to file comments electronically
must send an original of their comments to: Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, Secretary of the Commission, 888 First Street NE.,
Washington, DC 20426.
27. All comments will be placed in the Commission's public files
and may be viewed, printed, or downloaded remotely as described in the
Document Availability section below. Commenters on this proposal are
not required to serve copies of their comments on other commenters.
VII. Document Availability
28. In addition to publishing the full text of this document in the
Federal Register, the Commission provides all interested persons an
opportunity to view and/or print the contents of this document via the
Internet through the Commission's Home Page (https://www.ferc.gov) and
in the Commission's Public Reference Room during normal business hours
(8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern time) at 888 First Street NE., Room 2A,
Washington, DC 20426.
29. From the Commission's Home Page on the Internet, this
information is available on eLibrary. The full text of this document is
available on eLibrary in PDF and Microsoft Word format for viewing,
printing, and/or downloading. To access this document in eLibrary, type
the docket number of this document, excluding the last three digits, in
the docket number field.
30. User assistance is available for eLibrary and the Commission's
Web site during normal business hours from the Commission's Online
Support at (202) 502-6652 (toll free at 1-866-208-3676) or email at
ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov, or the Public Reference Room at (202) 502-
8371, TTY (202) 502-8659. Email the Public Reference Room at
public.referenceroom@ferc.gov.
By direction of the Commission.
Dated: September 20, 2017.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-20552 Filed 9-25-17; 8:45 am]
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