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Dated: May 21, 2019.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. IC19–18–000]
Commission Information Collection
Activities (FERC–740); Comment
Request; Extension
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–
740 (Availability of E-Tag Information to
Commission Staff) and submitting the
information collection to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review. Any interested person may file
comments directly with OMB and
should address a copy of those
comments to the Commission as
explained below. On March 22, 2019,
the Commission published a Notice in
the Federal Register (84 FR 10820) in
Docket No. IC19–18–000 requesting
public comments. The Commission
received no public comments.
DATES: Comments on the collection of
information are due June 28, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB,
identified by OMB Control No. 1902–
0254, should be sent via email to the
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs: oira_submission@omb.gov.
Attention: Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission Desk Officer.
A copy of the comments should also
be sent to the Commission, in Docket
No. IC19–18–000, 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.
Instructions: All submissions must be
formatted and filed in accordance with
submission guidelines at: https://
SUMMARY:
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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, telephone
at (202) 502–8663, and fax at (202) 273–
0873.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: FERC–740, Availability of E-Tag
Information to Commission Staff.
OMB Control No.: 1902–0254.
Type of Request: Three-year extension
of the FERC–740 information collection
requirements with no changes to the
current reporting and recordkeeping
requirements.
Abstract: In Order 771,1 the FERC–
740 information collection (providing
Commission staff access to e-Tag data)
was implemented to provide the
Commission, Market Monitoring Units,
Regional Transmission Organizations,
and Independent System Operators with
information that allows them to perform
market surveillance and analysis more
effectively. The e-Tag information is
necessary to understand the use of the
interconnected electricity grid,
particularly transactions occurring at
interchanges. Due to the nature of the
electric grid, an individual transaction’s
impact on an interchange cannot be
assessed adequately in all cases without
information from all connected systems,
which is included in the e-Tags. The
details of the physical path of a
transaction included in the e-Tags helps
the Commission to monitor, in
particular, interchange transactions
more effectively, detect and prevent
price manipulation over interchanges,
and improve the efficient and orderly
use of the transmission grid. For
example, the e-Tag data allows the
Commission to identify transmission
reservations as they go from one market
to another and link the market
participants involved in that
transaction.
Order No. 771 provided the
Commission access to e-Tags by
requiring that Purchasing-Selling
Entities 2 (PSEs) and Balancing
1 Order 771 was issued in Docket No. RM11–12
(77 FR 76367, 12/28/2012).
2 A Purchasing-Selling Entity is the entity that
purchases or sells, and takes title to, energy,
capacity, and Interconnected Operations Services.
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Authorities (BAs), list the Commission
on the ‘‘CC’’ list of e-Tags so that the
Commission can receive a copy of the
e-Tags (the ‘‘ ’CC’ list requirement’’).
The Commission accesses the e-Tags by
contracting with a commercial vendor,
OATI, that collects all e-Tags on which
FERC is identified as a ‘‘CC’’ list
recipient in a secure database to which
FERC staff has access.
In early 2014, the North American
Energy Standards Board (NAESB)
incorporated the ‘‘CC’’ list requirement
on e-Tags as part of the tagging process.3
Even before NAESB added the FERC
requirement to the tagging standards,
the ‘‘CC’’ list requirement, with
exemptions for e-Tags between non-U.S.
BAs that do not go through any U.S.
BAs, had already been programmed into
FERC–740
Annual number
of responses
per respondent
Total number
of responses
Average burden hours
and
cost per response
Total annual burden
hours
and total annual cost
Cost per respondent
($)
(1)
(2)
(1) * (2) = (3)
(4)
(3) * (4) = (5)
(5) ÷ (1)
Automatic, so 0 burden
and cost.
Automatic, so 0 burden
and cost.
1 hr.; $65.68 ....................
Automatic, so 0 burden
and cost.
Automatic, so 0 burden
and cost.
$65.68.
1 hr.; $65.68 ....................
$65.68.
355
4,482 (rounded)
1,591,208
81
1,591,208
1
19,645 (rounded).
1 ......................
1
Automatic, so 0 burden
and cost.
Automatic, so 0 burden
and cost.
1 hr.; $65.68 ....................
....................
.........................
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.........................................
New Balancing Authority
[as noted above].
Comments: Comments are invited on:
(1) Whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
Commission, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(2) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate
of the burden and cost of the collection
of information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(3) ways to enhance the quality, utility
and clarity of the information collection;
and (4) ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Dated: May 22, 2019.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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Purchasing-Selling Entities may be affiliated or
unaffiliated merchants and may or may not own
generating facilities. Purchasing-Selling Entities are
typically E-Tag Authors.
3 NAESB Electronic Tagging Functional
Specifications, Version 1.8.2.
4 The estimated hourly cost (wages plus benefits)
provided in this section is based on the figures for
VerDate Sep<11>2014
both the BA and an e-Tag administrator
to include the BA on the exemption list.
New exempt BAs occur less frequently
than every year, but for the purpose of
estimation we will conservatively
assume one appears each year creating
an additional burden and cost
associated with the Commission’s
FERC–740 of one hour and $65.68.4
Type of Respondents: PurchasingSelling Entities and Balancing
Authorities.
Estimate of Annual Burden: 5 The
Commission estimates the burden and
cost for FERC–740 as follows based on
the distinct e-Tags submitted to the
Commission in 2017 (the most recent
full year available).
Number of
respondents
Purchasing-Selling Entities
(e-Tag Authors).
Balancing Authorities ........
Total ...........................
the industry standard tagging software
so as to make the inclusion of FERC in
the ‘‘CC’’ list of any new e-Tag
automatic, where appropriate.
The Commission expects that PSEs
and BAs will continue to use existing,
automated procedures to create and
validate the e-Tags in a way that
automatically provides the Commission
with access to them. In the rare event
that a newly formed. non-U.S. BA
would need to alert e-Tag administrators
that certain tags it generates qualify for
exemption under the Commission’s
regulations (e.g., transmissions from a
new non-U.S. BA into another non-U.S.
BA using a path that does not go
through a U.S. BA), this administrative
function would be expected to require
less than an hour of effort total from
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket Nos. EL18–182–000, ER18–2364–
000, ER19–1428–000, ER13–2266–004,
ER18–1639–000, ER18–1639–002 and ER18–
1639–003]
ISO New England Inc. and
Constellation Mystic Power, LLC;
Notice of Staff-Led Public Meeting
Take notice that Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (Commission)
staff will convene a staff-led public
meeting on Monday, July 15, 2019,
beginning at 10:00 a.m. (ET). The public
meeting will be held in the Commission
Meeting Room at Commission
headquarters, 888 First Street NE,
Washington, DC 20426. Commissioners
may attend and participate.
On July 2, 2018, the Commission
directed the ISO New England Inc.
(ISO–NE) to submit permanent revisions
to the ISO–NE Transmission, Markets
May 2017 posted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
for the Utilities sector (available at https://
www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics2_22.htm), assuming
(a) 15 minutes legal (code 23–0000), at $143.68/
hour, and (b) 45 minutes information and record
clerk (code 43–4199), at $39.68/hour.
5 ‘‘Burden’’ is the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended by persons to generate,
maintain, retain, or disclose or provide information
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and Services Tariff (Tariff) reflecting
improvements to its market design to
better address regional fuel security
concerns,1 which are due on October 15,
2019.2 On April 22, 2019, ISO–NE, the
New England States Committee on
Electricity, and the New England Power
Pool (NEPOOL) Participants Committee
jointly requested a public meeting to
share with Commission staff
information about efforts to develop
these proposed Tariff revisions without
violating the Commission’s ex parte
rules. This notice of public meeting is
in response to that request.
This staff-led public meeting will
consist of three, 90-minute
presentations by ISO–NE, NEPOOL
stakeholders, and representatives from
New England states with time for
questions and answers reserved at the
end of the meeting. Questions will only
be permitted from Commission staff and
Commissioners. Further information
to or for a Federal agency. For further explanation
of what is included in the information collection
burden, refer to Title 5 Code of Federal Regulations
Part 1320.
1 ISO New England Inc., 164 FERC ¶ 61,003, at P
2 (2018).
2 Notice of Extension of Time, Docket No. EL18–
182–000 (March 18, 2019).
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. IC19-18-000]
Commission Information Collection Activities (FERC-740); Comment
Request; Extension
AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of information collection and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission or
FERC) is soliciting public comment on the currently approved
information collection FERC-740 (Availability of E-Tag Information to
Commission Staff) and submitting the information collection to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. Any interested person
may file comments directly with OMB and should address a copy of those
comments to the Commission as explained below. On March 22, 2019, the
Commission published a Notice in the Federal Register (84 FR 10820) in
Docket No. IC19-18-000 requesting public comments. The Commission
received no public comments.
DATES: Comments on the collection of information are due June 28, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB, identified by OMB Control No. 1902-
0254, should be sent via email to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs: [email protected]. Attention: Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission Desk Officer.
A copy of the comments should also be sent to the Commission, in
Docket No. IC19-18-000, 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.
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], telephone at (202) 502-8663, and fax at
(202) 273-0873.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: FERC-740, Availability of E-Tag Information to Commission
Staff.
OMB Control No.: 1902-0254.
Type of Request: Three-year extension of the FERC-740 information
collection requirements with no changes to the current reporting and
recordkeeping requirements.
Abstract: In Order 771,\1\ the FERC-740 information collection
(providing Commission staff access to e-Tag data) was implemented to
provide the Commission, Market Monitoring Units, Regional Transmission
Organizations, and Independent System Operators with information that
allows them to perform market surveillance and analysis more
effectively. The e-Tag information is necessary to understand the use
of the interconnected electricity grid, particularly transactions
occurring at interchanges. Due to the nature of the electric grid, an
individual transaction's impact on an interchange cannot be assessed
adequately in all cases without information from all connected systems,
which is included in the e-Tags. The details of the physical path of a
transaction included in the e-Tags helps the Commission to monitor, in
particular, interchange transactions more effectively, detect and
prevent price manipulation over interchanges, and improve the efficient
and orderly use of the transmission grid. For example, the e-Tag data
allows the Commission to identify transmission reservations as they go
from one market to another and link the market participants involved in
that transaction.
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\1\ Order 771 was issued in Docket No. RM11-12 (77 FR 76367, 12/
28/2012).
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Order No. 771 provided the Commission access to e-Tags by requiring
that Purchasing-Selling Entities \2\ (PSEs) and Balancing
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Authorities (BAs), list the Commission on the ``CC'' list of e-Tags so
that the Commission can receive a copy of the e-Tags (the `` 'CC' list
requirement''). The Commission accesses the e-Tags by contracting with
a commercial vendor, OATI, that collects all e-Tags on which FERC is
identified as a ``CC'' list recipient in a secure database to which
FERC staff has access.
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\2\ A Purchasing-Selling Entity is the entity that purchases or
sells, and takes title to, energy, capacity, and Interconnected
Operations Services. Purchasing-Selling Entities may be affiliated
or unaffiliated merchants and may or may not own generating
facilities. Purchasing-Selling Entities are typically E-Tag Authors.
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In early 2014, the North American Energy Standards Board (NAESB)
incorporated the ``CC'' list requirement on e-Tags as part of the
tagging process.\3\ Even before NAESB added the FERC requirement to the
tagging standards, the ``CC'' list requirement, with exemptions for e-
Tags between non-U.S. BAs that do not go through any U.S. BAs, had
already been programmed into the industry standard tagging software so
as to make the inclusion of FERC in the ``CC'' list of any new e-Tag
automatic, where appropriate.
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\3\ NAESB Electronic Tagging Functional Specifications, Version
1.8.2.
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The Commission expects that PSEs and BAs will continue to use
existing, automated procedures to create and validate the e-Tags in a
way that automatically provides the Commission with access to them. In
the rare event that a newly formed. non-U.S. BA would need to alert e-
Tag administrators that certain tags it generates qualify for exemption
under the Commission's regulations (e.g., transmissions from a new non-
U.S. BA into another non-U.S. BA using a path that does not go through
a U.S. BA), this administrative function would be expected to require
less than an hour of effort total from both the BA and an e-Tag
administrator to include the BA on the exemption list. New exempt BAs
occur less frequently than every year, but for the purpose of
estimation we will conservatively assume one appears each year creating
an additional burden and cost associated with the Commission's FERC-740
of one hour and $65.68.\4\
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\4\ The estimated hourly cost (wages plus benefits) provided in
this section is based on the figures for May 2017 posted by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics for the Utilities sector (available at
https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics2_22.htm), assuming (a) 15
minutes legal (code 23-0000), at $143.68/hour, and (b) 45 minutes
information and record clerk (code 43-4199), at $39.68/hour.
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Type of Respondents: Purchasing-Selling Entities and Balancing
Authorities.
Estimate of Annual Burden: \5\ The Commission estimates the burden
and cost for FERC-740 as follows based on the distinct e-Tags submitted
to the Commission in 2017 (the most recent full year available).
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\5\ ``Burden'' is the total time, effort, or financial resources
expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, or disclose or
provide information to or for a Federal agency. For further
explanation of what is included in the information collection
burden, refer to Title 5 Code of Federal Regulations Part 1320.
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Annual number of Average burden hours Total annual burden
FERC-740 Number of responses per Total number of and cost per hours and total Cost per respondent
respondents respondent responses response annual cost ($)
(1) (2).................. (1) * (2) = (3) (4)................. (3) * (4) = (5).... (5) / (1)
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Purchasing-Selling Entities (e- 355 4,482 (rounded)...... 1,591,208 Automatic, so 0 Automatic, so 0 Automatic, so 0
Tag Authors). burden and cost. burden and cost. burden and cost.
Balancing Authorities............ 81 19,645 (rounded)..... 1,591,208 Automatic, so 0 Automatic, so 0 Automatic, so 0
burden and cost. burden and cost. burden and cost.
New Balancing Authority [as noted 1 1.................... 1 1 hr.; $65.68....... 1 hr.; $65.68...... $65.68.
above].
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Total........................ ........... ..................... ................. .................... 1 hr.; $65.68...... $65.68.
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Comments: Comments are invited on: (1) Whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the Commission, including whether the information will have practical
utility; (2) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden and
cost of the collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance the quality,
utility and clarity of the information collection; and (4) ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are
to respond, including the use of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Dated: May 22, 2019.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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