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Dated: December 15, 2017.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017–27497 Filed 12–20–17; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717–01–P
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. IC17–14–000]
Commission Information Collection
Activities (FERC–725U); Errata and
Comment Request
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Errata and comment request.
AGENCY:
In compliance with the
requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
(Commission or FERC) is submitting the
information collection FERC–725U
(Mandatory Reliability Standards:
Reliability Standard CIP–014) 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
published notices in the Federal
Register (82 FR 41618, 9/1/2017, and 82
FR 50645, 11/1/2017) requesting public
comments. FERC received no comments
on the FERC–725U for either notice and
is making this notation in its submittal
to OMB.
This 30-day errata and notice corrects
the total annual burden estimates and
SUMMARY:
explains changes in the calculation of
the annual burden estimates. There are
no changes to the information
collection, filing, or recordkeeping
requirements.
DATES: Comments on the collections of
information are due by January 22,
2018.
ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB,
identified by the OMB Control No.
1902–0274 (FERC–725U) 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 Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, identified by the Docket
No. IC17–14–000, by one of the
following methods:
• eFiling at Commission’s website:
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:
Titles: Mandatory Reliability
Standards: Reliability Standard CIP–
014.
OMB Control Nos.: 1902–0274.
Type of Request: Three-year extension
of the FERC–725U information
collection requirements with no changes
to the reporting or recordkeeping
requirements.
Abstract: Two previous notices
proposing the extension of FERC–725U
were published in the Federal Register.1
The total annual burden presented in
those notices was incorrect and based
on faulty approaches for calculating
burden estimates. This 30-day errata/
notice corrects the total annual burden
estimates and explains changes in
calculation of the annual burden
estimates.
The burden for the FERC–725U
information collection is estimated
based on the five year cycle of the
requirements in the Reliability
Standard. Over this five-year cycle,
annual burden levels fluctuate greatly
based on which reporting requirements
are implicated each year.
FERC extensions usually request three
years of extension/approval. However,
using a three-year timespan to calculate
the burden would cause the total annual
burden to fluctuate in an
unrepresentative way because of the
mathematical mismatch between the
Reliability Standard’s five-year cycle
and the three-year PRA cycle for OMB
approval. Some extension requests
would propose inordinately high or low
burden solely dependent on the timing
of the request, not on any actual changes
to reporting requirements.
In order to provide the annual burden
estimate in a more representative way,
Commission staff is calculating the
average annual burden using the fiveyear cycle of the Standard and using
that average for Years 1–3 of this
extension.
Types of Respondents: Intrastate
natural gas and Hinshaw pipelines.
Estimate of Annual Burden: 2 The
Commission estimates the total Public
Reporting Burden for the FERC–725U
information collection as:
FERC–725U: MANDATORY RELIABILITY STANDARDS: RELIABILITY STANDARD CIP–014 3
Number and type
of respondents
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Year 1:
Record Retention ......................
Number of
responses per
respondent
Total number
of responses
Average burden hours
and cost per response 4
Total burden hours
and total cost
(1)
Year and requirement for this PRA
clearance cycle
(2)
(1) * (2) = (3)
(4)
(3) * (4)
334 TO and 2 TOP 5 ........................
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notice: 82 FR 50645, 11/1/2017.
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2 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
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2 hrs.; $76 ......................
672 hrs.; $25,536.
explanation of what is included in the information
collection burden, reference 5 Code of Federal
Regulations 1320.3.
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FERC–725U: MANDATORY RELIABILITY STANDARDS: RELIABILITY STANDARD CIP–014 3—Continued
Number and type
of respondents
Year 2:
R1 ..............................................
R2 ..............................................
R3 ..............................................
R4 ..............................................
R5 ..............................................
R6 ..............................................
Record Retention ......................
Year 3:
Record Retention ......................
Year 4:
R1 ..............................................
R2 ..............................................
R3 ..............................................
R4 ..............................................
R5 ..............................................
R6 ..............................................
Record Retention ......................
Year 5:
Record Retention ......................
Year 1 Total .......................
Year 2 Total .......................
Year 3 Total .......................
Year 4 Total .......................
Year 5 Total .......................
Number of
responses per
respondent
Total number
of responses
Average burden hours
and cost per response 4
Total burden hours
and total cost
(1)
Year and requirement for this PRA
clearance cycle
(2)
(1) * (2) = (3)
(4)
(3) * (4)
334 TO .............................................
334 TO .............................................
2 TOP ...............................................
30 TO and 2 TOP ............................
30 TO and 2 TOP ............................
30 TO and 2 TOP ............................
334 TO and 2 TOP ..........................
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
334
334
2
32
32
32
336
20 hrs.; $1,280 ...............
34 hrs; $2,448 ................
1 hrs.; $129 ....................
80 hrs.; $5,120 ...............
320 hrs.; $20,480 ...........
304 hrs.; $19,456 ...........
2 hrs.; $76 ......................
6,680 hrs.; $427,520.
11,356 hrs.; $817,632.
2 hrs.; $258.
2,560 hrs.; $163,840.
10,240 hrs.; $655,360.
9,728 hrs.; $622,592.
672 hrs.; $25,536.
334 TO and 2 TOP ..........................
1
336
2 hrs.; $76 ......................
672 hrs.; $25,536.
30 TO ...............................................
30 TO ...............................................
2 TOP ...............................................
30 TO and 2 TOP ............................
30 TO and 2 TOP ............................
30 TO and 2 TOP ............................
334 TO and 2 TOP ..........................
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
30
30
2
32
32
32
336
20 hrs.; $1,280 ...............
34 hrs.; $2,448 ...............
1 hrs.; $129 ....................
80 hrs.; $5,120 ...............
80 hrs.; $5,120 ...............
134 hrs.; $8,576 .............
2 hrs.; $76 ......................
600 hrs.; $38,400.
1,020 hrs.; $73,440.
2 hrs.; $258.
2,560 hrs.; $163,840.
2,560 hrs.; $163,840.
4,288 hrs.; $274,432.
672 hrs.; $25,536.
334 TO and 2 TOP ..........................
..........................................................
..........................................................
..........................................................
..........................................................
..........................................................
1
........................
........................
........................
........................
........................
336
336
336
336
336
336
2 hrs.; $76 ......................
.........................................
.........................................
.........................................
.........................................
.........................................
672 hrs.; $25,536.
672 hrs.; $25,536.
41,238 hrs.; $2,712,738.
672 hrs.; $25,536.
11,702 hrs.; $739,746.
672 hrs.; $25,536.
Total (for Years 1–5)
..........................................................
........................
........................
.........................................
54,956 hrs.; $3,529,092.
Average Annual Burden and Cost (for
Years 1–5)
..........................................................
........................
........................
.........................................
10,991 hrs.; $705,818.
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A brief synopsis follows of the
Reliability Standard’s five-year cycle
and its relation to Requirements R1–R6
and Record Retention Requirements.
(The year stated is the year in this 3-year
3 For each Reliability Standard, the Measure
shows the acceptable evidence for the associated
Reporting Requirement (R numbers), and the
Compliance section details the related
Recordkeeping Requirement.
4 The estimates for cost per response are derived
using the following formula: Average Burden Hours
per Response * $XX per Hour = Average Cost per
Response.
The hourly cost figures are based on data for
wages plus benefits from the Bureau of Labor
Statistics (as of 11/9/2016) at https://www.bls.gov/
oes/current/naics2_22.htm and https://www.bls.gov/
news.release/ecec.nr0.htm. The figures are rounded
for the purposes of calculations in this table and
are:
• For electrical engineers (occupation code: 17–
2071), $64.29/hr., rounded to $64/hr.
• for attorneys (occupation code: 23–0000),
$129.12/hr., rounded to $129/hr.
• for administrative staff (occupation code: 43–
0000), $37.75/hr., rounded to $38/hr.
The record retention cost is based on the
administrative staff category; R3 is based on the
attorney category; and Requirements R1, R4, R5 and
R6 are based on the electrical engineer category.
R2 is a mix of the electrical engineer (30 hrs. at
$64/hr.) and attorney (4 hrs. at $129/hr.) categories.
The resulting average hourly figure is $71.65,
rounded to $72/hr.
5 TO: transmission owner; TOP: transmission
operator.
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PRA cycle with the requirements
imposed during that year.) 6
• Year 1: Record Retention only
• Year 2: R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, and
Record Retention
• Year 3: Record Retention only
• Year 4: R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, and
Record Retention
• Year 5: Record Retention only
For this 3-year PRA extension request,
we will use the annual averages (over
the 5-year cycle of the Reliability
Standard, as shown in the table) for:
• Burden of 10,991 hours
• cost of $705,828
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 estimate
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
6 Although Year 4 includes R1–R6 and Record
Retention similar to Year 2, the related burden is
not in the same amount as in Year 2.
Also note that Years 4 and 5 are part of the
5-year Reliability Standard’s cycle but beyond the
current 3-year PRA approval cycle.
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information on those who are to
respond, including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Dated: December 15, 2017.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017–27496 Filed 12–20–17; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. EL18–6–000]
FirstEnergy Service Company; Notice
of Filing
Take notice that on December 6, 2017,
FirstEnergy Service Company (Service
Company), on behalf of its affiliated
franchised public utilities and marketregulated power sales affiliates within
the FirstEnergy Corp. holding company
system,1 submitted responses to the
1 As more fully described in Service Company’s
October 6, 2017 Waiver Request in the abovecaptioned proceeding, the relevant franchised
public utilities, referred to as the FE Franchised
Public Utilities, are Jersey Central Power & Light
Company, Monongahela Power Company,
Pennsylvania Electric Company, and The Potomac
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. IC17-14-000]
Commission Information Collection Activities (FERC-725U); Errata
and Comment Request
AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Errata and comment request.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA) of 1995, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission
or FERC) is submitting the information collection FERC-725U (Mandatory
Reliability Standards: Reliability Standard CIP-014) 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 published notices in the Federal
Register (82 FR 41618, 9/1/2017, and 82 FR 50645, 11/1/2017) requesting
public comments. FERC received no comments on the FERC-725U for either
notice and is making this notation in its submittal to OMB.
This 30-day errata and notice corrects the total annual burden
estimates and explains changes in the calculation of the annual burden
estimates. There are no changes to the information collection, filing,
or recordkeeping requirements.
DATES: Comments on the collections of information are due by January
22, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB, identified by the OMB Control No.
1902-0274 (FERC-725U) should be sent via email to the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs: [email protected], 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 Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, identified by the Docket No. IC17-14-000, by one
of the following methods:
eFiling at Commission's website: 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 [email protected], 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
[email protected], by telephone at (202) 502-8663, and by fax at
(202) 273-0873.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Titles: Mandatory Reliability Standards: Reliability Standard CIP-
014.
OMB Control Nos.: 1902-0274.
Type of Request: Three-year extension of the FERC-725U information
collection requirements with no changes to the reporting or
recordkeeping requirements.
Abstract: Two previous notices proposing the extension of FERC-725U
were published in the Federal Register.\1\ The total annual burden
presented in those notices was incorrect and based on faulty approaches
for calculating burden estimates. This 30-day errata/notice corrects
the total annual burden estimates and explains changes in calculation
of the annual burden estimates.
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\1\ 60-Day notice: 82 FR 41618, 9/1/2017; 30-day notice: 82 FR
50645, 11/1/2017.
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The burden for the FERC-725U information collection is estimated
based on the five year cycle of the requirements in the Reliability
Standard. Over this five-year cycle, annual burden levels fluctuate
greatly based on which reporting requirements are implicated each year.
FERC extensions usually request three years of extension/approval.
However, using a three-year timespan to calculate the burden would
cause the total annual burden to fluctuate in an unrepresentative way
because of the mathematical mismatch between the Reliability Standard's
five-year cycle and the three-year PRA cycle for OMB approval. Some
extension requests would propose inordinately high or low burden solely
dependent on the timing of the request, not on any actual changes to
reporting requirements.
In order to provide the annual burden estimate in a more
representative way, Commission staff is calculating the average annual
burden using the five-year cycle of the Standard and using that average
for Years 1-3 of this extension.
Types of Respondents: Intrastate natural gas and Hinshaw pipelines.
Estimate of Annual Burden: \2\ The Commission estimates the total
Public Reporting Burden for the FERC-725U information collection as:
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\2\ 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.
FERC-725U: Mandatory Reliability Standards: Reliability Standard CIP-014 \3\
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Number of
Year and requirement for this PRA Number and type of responses per Total number Average burden hours and cost Total burden hours and total
clearance cycle respondents respondent of responses per response \4\ cost
(1)................. (2) (1) * (2) = (4)............................ (3) * (4)
(3)
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Year 1:
Record Retention............. 334 TO and 2 TOP \5\ 1 336 2 hrs.; $76.................... 672 hrs.; $25,536.
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Year 2:
R1........................... 334 TO.............. 1 334 20 hrs.; $1,280................ 6,680 hrs.; $427,520.
R2........................... 334 TO.............. 1 334 34 hrs; $2,448................. 11,356 hrs.; $817,632.
R3........................... 2 TOP............... 1 2 1 hrs.; $129................... 2 hrs.; $258.
R4........................... 30 TO and 2 TOP..... 1 32 80 hrs.; $5,120................ 2,560 hrs.; $163,840.
R5........................... 30 TO and 2 TOP..... 1 32 320 hrs.; $20,480.............. 10,240 hrs.; $655,360.
R6........................... 30 TO and 2 TOP..... 1 32 304 hrs.; $19,456.............. 9,728 hrs.; $622,592.
Record Retention............. 334 TO and 2 TOP.... 1 336 2 hrs.; $76.................... 672 hrs.; $25,536.
Year 3:
Record Retention............. 334 TO and 2 TOP.... 1 336 2 hrs.; $76.................... 672 hrs.; $25,536.
Year 4:
R1........................... 30 TO............... 1 30 20 hrs.; $1,280................ 600 hrs.; $38,400.
R2........................... 30 TO............... 1 30 34 hrs.; $2,448................ 1,020 hrs.; $73,440.
R3........................... 2 TOP............... 1 2 1 hrs.; $129................... 2 hrs.; $258.
R4........................... 30 TO and 2 TOP..... 1 32 80 hrs.; $5,120................ 2,560 hrs.; $163,840.
R5........................... 30 TO and 2 TOP..... 1 32 80 hrs.; $5,120................ 2,560 hrs.; $163,840.
R6........................... 30 TO and 2 TOP..... 1 32 134 hrs.; $8,576............... 4,288 hrs.; $274,432.
Record Retention............. 334 TO and 2 TOP.... 1 336 2 hrs.; $76.................... 672 hrs.; $25,536.
Year 5:
Record Retention............. 334 TO and 2 TOP.... 1 336 2 hrs.; $76.................... 672 hrs.; $25,536.
Year 1 Total............. .................... .............. 336 ............................... 672 hrs.; $25,536.
Year 2 Total............. .................... .............. 336 ............................... 41,238 hrs.; $2,712,738.
Year 3 Total............. .................... .............. 336 ............................... 672 hrs.; $25,536.
Year 4 Total............. .................... .............. 336 ............................... 11,702 hrs.; $739,746.
Year 5 Total............. .................... .............. 336 ............................... 672 hrs.; $25,536.
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Total (for Years 1-5) .................... .............. .............. ............................... 54,956 hrs.; $3,529,092.
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Average Annual Burden .................... .............. .............. ............................... 10,991 hrs.; $705,818.
and Cost (for Years
1-5)
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A brief synopsis follows of the Reliability Standard's five-year
cycle and its relation to Requirements R1-R6 and Record Retention
Requirements. (The year stated is the year in this 3-year PRA cycle
with the requirements imposed during that year.) \6\
\3\ For each Reliability Standard, the Measure shows the
acceptable evidence for the associated Reporting Requirement (R
numbers), and the Compliance section details the related
Recordkeeping Requirement.
\4\ The estimates for cost per response are derived using the
following formula: Average Burden Hours per Response * $XX per Hour
= Average Cost per Response.
The hourly cost figures are based on data for wages plus
benefits from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (as of 11/9/2016) at
https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics2_22.htm and https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.nr0.htm. The figures are rounded for
the purposes of calculations in this table and are:
For electrical engineers (occupation code: 17-2071),
$64.29/hr., rounded to $64/hr.
for attorneys (occupation code: 23-0000), $129.12/hr.,
rounded to $129/hr.
for administrative staff (occupation code: 43-0000),
$37.75/hr., rounded to $38/hr.
The record retention cost is based on the administrative staff
category; R3 is based on the attorney category; and Requirements R1,
R4, R5 and R6 are based on the electrical engineer category.
R2 is a mix of the electrical engineer (30 hrs. at $64/hr.) and
attorney (4 hrs. at $129/hr.) categories. The resulting average
hourly figure is $71.65, rounded to $72/hr.
\5\ TO: transmission owner; TOP: transmission operator.
\6\ Although Year 4 includes R1-R6 and Record Retention similar
to Year 2, the related burden is not in the same amount as in Year
2.
Also note that Years 4 and 5 are part of the 5-year Reliability
Standard's cycle but beyond the current 3-year PRA approval cycle.
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Year 1: Record Retention only
Year 2: R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, and Record Retention
Year 3: Record Retention only
Year 4: R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, and Record Retention
Year 5: Record Retention only
For this 3-year PRA extension request, we will use the annual
averages (over the 5-year cycle of the Reliability Standard, as shown
in the table) for:
Burden of 10,991 hours
cost of $705,828
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 estimate 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.
Dated: December 15, 2017.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
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