Notice of Annual Change in the Producer Price Index for Finished Goods; Revisions to Oil Pipeline Regulations Pursuant to the Energy Policy Act of 1992, 23450-23451 [2018-10756]
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Dated: May 15, 2018.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
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Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern time
on May 31, 2018.
Federal Energy Regulatory
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Dated: May 15, 2018.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[Docket No. OR18–24–000]
[FR Doc. 2018–10757 Filed 5–18–18; 8:45 am]
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Notice of Request for Temporary
Waiver; Merit Energy Company, LLC,
Lambda Energy Resources, LLC
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Take notice that on May 14, 2018,
pursuant to Rule 204 of the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission’s
(Commission) Rules of Practice and
Procedure, 18 CFR 385.204, Merit
Energy Company, LLC and Lambda
Energy Resources, LLC filed a petition
seeking waiver of ICA sections 6 and 20
and Commission’s implementing
regulations at 18 CFR parts 341 and 357
with respect to the Kalkaska, Michigan
pipeline which transports ethane and
other natural gas liquids, and is being
sold by Merit Energy Company, LLC to
Lambda Energy Resources, LLC or an
affiliate of Lambda, all as more fully
explained in the petition.
Any person desiring to intervene or to
protest this filing must file in
accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of
the Commission’s Rules of Practice and
Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and 385.214.
Protests will be considered by the
Commission in determining the
appropriate action to be taken, but will
not serve to make protestants parties to
the proceeding. Any person wishing to
become a party must file a notice of
intervention or motion to intervene, as
appropriate. Such notices, motions, or
protests must be filed on or before the
comment date. Anyone filing a motion
to intervene or protest must serve a copy
of that document on the Petitioner.
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Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. RM93–11–000]
Notice of Annual Change in the
Producer Price Index for Finished
Goods; Revisions to Oil Pipeline
Regulations Pursuant to the Energy
Policy Act of 1992
The Commission’s regulations include
a methodology for oil pipelines to
change their rates through use of an
index system that establishes ceiling
levels for such rates. The Commission
bases the index system, found at 18 CFR
342.3, on the annual change in the
Producer Price Index for Finished
Goods (PPI–FG), plus one point two
three percent (PPI–FG + 1.23). The
Commission determined in an Order
Establishing Index Level,1 issued
December 17, 2015, that PPI–FG + 1.23
is the appropriate oil pricing index
factor for pipelines to use for the fiveyear period commencing July 1, 2016.
The regulations provide that the
Commission will publish annually, an
index figure reflecting the final change
in the PPI–FG, after the Bureau of Labor
Statistics publishes the final PPI–FG in
May of each calendar year. The annual
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average PPI–FG index figures were
191.9 for 2016 and 198.0 for 2017.2
Thus, the percent change (expressed as
a decimal) in the annual average PPI–FG
from 2016 to 2017, plus 1.23 percent, is
positive 0.044087.3 Oil pipelines must
multiply their July 1, 2017, through June
30, 2018, index ceiling levels by
positive 1.044087 4 to compute their
index ceiling levels for July 1, 2018,
through June 30, 2019, in accordance
with 18 CFR 342.3(d). For guidance in
calculating the ceiling levels for each 12
month period beginning January 1,
l995,5 see Explorer Pipeline Company,
71 FERC 61,416 at n.6 (1995).
In addition to publishing the full text
of this Notice in the Federal Register,
the Commission provides all interested
persons an opportunity to view and/or
print this Notice via the internet
through FERC’s Home Page (https://
www.ferc.gov) and in FERC’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. The full text of
this Notice is available on FERC’s Home
Page at the eLibrary link. To access this
document in eLibrary, type the docket
number excluding the last three digits of
this document in the docket number
field and follow other directions on the
search page.
User assistance is available for
eLibrary and other aspects of FERC’s
website during normal business hours.
For assistance, please contact the
Commission’s Online Support at 1–866–
208–3676 (toll free) or 202–502–6652
(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.
2 Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) publishes the
final figure in mid-May of each year. This figure is
publicly available from the Division of Industrial
Prices and Price Indexes of the BLS, at 202–691–
7705, and in print in August in Table 1 of the
annual data supplement to the BLS publication
Producer Price Indexes via the internet at https://
www.bls.gov/ppi/home.htm. To obtain the BLS
data, scroll down to PPI Databases and click on Top
Picks of the Commodity Data including headline
FD–ID indexes (Producer Price Index—PPI). At the
next screen, under the heading PPI Commodity
Data, select the box, Finished goods—
WPUFD49207, then scroll to the bottom of this
screen and click on Retrieve data.
3 [198.0¥191.9]/191.9 = 0.031787 + 0.0123 = +
0.044087.
4 1 + 0.044087 = 1.044087.
5 For a listing of all prior multipliers issued by the
Commission, see the Commission’s website, https://
www.ferc.gov/industries/oil/gen-info/pipelineindex.asp.
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Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 98 / Monday, May 21, 2018 / Notices
Dated: May 11, 2018.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. IC18–13–000]
Commission Information Collection
Activities (FERC–537); Comment
Request; Extension
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of information collection
and request for comments.
AGENCY:
In compliance with the
requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission
(Commission or FERC) is soliciting
public comment on the currently
approved information collection, FERC–
537 (Gas Pipeline Certificates:
Construction, Acquisition, and
Abandonment).
DATES: Comments on the collection of
information are due July 20, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
(identified by Docket No. IC18–13–000)
by either 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.
SUMMARY:
Ellen Brown may be reached by email
at DataClearance@FERC.gov, telephone
at (202) 502–8663, and fax at (202) 273–
0873.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: FERC–537 (Gas Pipeline
Certificates: Construction, Acquisition,
and Abandonment.
OMB Control No.: 1902–0060.
Type of Request: Three-year extension
of the FERC–537 information collection
requirements with no changes to the
current reporting requirements.
Abstract: The FERC–537 information
collection requires natural gas
companies to file the necessary
information with FERC in order for the
Commission to determine if the
requested certificate should be
authorized. Certain self-implementing
construction and abandonment
programs do not require the filing of
applications. However, those types of
programs do require the filing of annual
reports, so many less significant actions
can be reported in a single filing/
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response and less detail would be
required.
The data required to be submitted in
a normal certificate filing consists of
identification of the company and
responsible officials, factors considered
in the location of the facilities and the
impact on the area for environmental
considerations. Also to be submitted are
the following, as applicable to the
specific request:
• Flow diagrams showing the design
capacity for engineering design
verification and safety determination;
• Cost of proposed facilities, plans for
financing, and estimated revenues and
expenses related to the proposed facility
for accounting and financial evaluation.
• Existing and proposed storage
capacity and pressures and reservoir
engineering studies for requests to
increase storage capacity;
• An affidavit showing the consent of
existing customers for abandonment of
service requests.
Additionally, requests for an increase
of pipeline capacity must include a
statement that demonstrates compliance
with the Commission’s Certificate
Policy Statement by making a showing
that the cost of the expansion will not
be subsidized by existing customers and
that there will not be adverse economic
impacts to existing customers,
competing pipelines or their customers,
nor to landowners and to surrounding
communities.
Type of Respondents: Natural gas
companies.
Estimate of Annual Burden: 1 The
Commission estimates the annual public
reporting burden for the information
collection as:
FERC–537
[Gas pipeline certificates: Construction, acquisition, and abandonment]
Annual
number of
responses
per
respondent
Total
number of
responses
Average burden
and
cost per
response 2
Total annual
burden hours
and
total annual cost
Cost per
respondent
(1)
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Number of
respondents
(2)
(1) * (2) = (3)
(4)
(3) * (4) = (5)
(5) ÷ (1) 3
18 CFR 157.5–.11 (Interstate Certificate and Abandonment Applications).
18 CFR 157.53 (Pipeline Purging/
Testing Exemptions).
18 CFR 157.201–.209; 157.211;
157.214–.218 (Blanket Certificates Prior to Notice Filings).
18 CFR 157.201–.209; 157.211;
157.214–.218 (Blanket Certificates—Annual Reports).
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1 ‘‘Burden’’ is defined as the total time, effort, or
financial resources expended by persons to
generate, maintain, retain, or disclose or provide
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500 hrs.;
$39,500.
31,000;
$2,449,000.
1
50 hrs.; $3,950 ..
50 hrs.; $3,950 ..
1.86
39
200 hrs; $15,800
7,800 hrs.;
$616,200.
29,343
4 1.05
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50 hrs.; $3,950 ..
6,750 hrs.;
$533,250.
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information to or for a Federal agency. For further
explanation of what is included in the information
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$47,096
3,950
collection burden, reference 5 Code of Federal
Regulations 1320.3.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. RM93-11-000]
Notice of Annual Change in the Producer Price Index for Finished
Goods; Revisions to Oil Pipeline Regulations Pursuant to the Energy
Policy Act of 1992
The Commission's regulations include a methodology for oil
pipelines to change their rates through use of an index system that
establishes ceiling levels for such rates. The Commission bases the
index system, found at 18 CFR 342.3, on the annual change in the
Producer Price Index for Finished Goods (PPI-FG), plus one point two
three percent (PPI-FG + 1.23). The Commission determined in an Order
Establishing Index Level,\1\ issued December 17, 2015, that PPI-FG +
1.23 is the appropriate oil pricing index factor for pipelines to use
for the five-year period commencing July 1, 2016.
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\1\ 153 FERC 61,312 at P 52 (2015).
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The regulations provide that the Commission will publish annually,
an index figure reflecting the final change in the PPI-FG, after the
Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes the final PPI-FG in May of each
calendar year. The annual average PPI-FG index figures were 191.9 for
2016 and 198.0 for 2017.\2\ Thus, the percent change (expressed as a
decimal) in the annual average PPI-FG from 2016 to 2017, plus 1.23
percent, is positive 0.044087.\3\ Oil pipelines must multiply their
July 1, 2017, through June 30, 2018, index ceiling levels by positive
1.044087 \4\ to compute their index ceiling levels for July 1, 2018,
through June 30, 2019, in accordance with 18 CFR 342.3(d). For guidance
in calculating the ceiling levels for each 12 month period beginning
January 1, l995,\5\ see Explorer Pipeline Company, 71 FERC 61,416 at
n.6 (1995).
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\2\ Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) publishes the final figure
in mid-May of each year. This figure is publicly available from the
Division of Industrial Prices and Price Indexes of the BLS, at 202-
691-7705, and in print in August in Table 1 of the annual data
supplement to the BLS publication Producer Price Indexes via the
internet at https://www.bls.gov/ppi/home.htm. To obtain the BLS data,
scroll down to PPI Databases and click on Top Picks of the Commodity
Data including headline FD-ID indexes (Producer Price Index--PPI).
At the next screen, under the heading PPI Commodity Data, select the
box, Finished goods--WPUFD49207, then scroll to the bottom of this
screen and click on Retrieve data.
\3\ [198.0-191.9]/191.9 = 0.031787 + 0.0123 = + 0.044087.
\4\ 1 + 0.044087 = 1.044087.
\5\ For a listing of all prior multipliers issued by the
Commission, see the Commission's website, https://www.ferc.gov/industries/oil/gen-info/pipeline-index.asp.
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In addition to publishing the full text of this Notice in the
Federal Register, the Commission provides all interested persons an
opportunity to view and/or print this Notice via the internet through
FERC's Home Page (https://www.ferc.gov) and in FERC'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. The full text of
this Notice is available on FERC's Home Page at the eLibrary link. To
access this document in eLibrary, type the docket number excluding the
last three digits of this document in the docket number field and
follow other directions on the search page.
User assistance is available for eLibrary and other aspects of
FERC's website during normal business hours. For assistance, please
contact the Commission's Online Support at 1-866-208-3676 (toll free)
or 202-502-6652 (email at [email protected]), or the Public
Reference Room at 202-502-8371, TTY 202-502-8659. Email the Public
Reference Room at [email protected].
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Dated: May 11, 2018.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2018-10756 Filed 5-18-18; 8:45 am]
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