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Drawdown Plan required by Article 404
of the license. The licensee must lower
the water surface elevation of the
project’s 2,400-foot-long power canal by
approximately 18 feet to complete
turbine maintenance/repairs on several
units currently out of service. The
license proposes a drawdown rate of 1.0
feet per 24-hour with no more than 0.5
feet drop in any 8-hour period. The
drawdown, repair and refill is estimated
to span nine week. The licensee has
consulted with the Wisconsin and
Michigan Departments of Natural
Resources, and the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service.
l. Locations of the Application: A
copy of the application is available for
inspection and reproduction at the
Commission’s Public Reference Room,
located at 888 First Street NE, Room 2A,
Washington, DC 20426, or by calling
(202) 502–8371. This filing may also be
viewed on the Commission’s website at
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reproduction at the address in item (h)
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n. Comments: Anyone may submit
comments in accordance with the
requirements of Rules of Practice and
Procedure, 18 CFR 385.210, .211, .214.
Any comments must be received on or
before the specified comment date for
the particular application.
o. Filing and Service of Documents:
Any filing must (1) bear in all capital
letters the title COMMENTS, as
applicable; (2) set forth in the heading
the name of the applicant and the
project number of the application to
which the filing responds; (3) furnish
the name, address, and telephone
number of the person commenting; and
(4) otherwise comply with the
requirements of 18 CFR 385.2001
through 385.2005. All comments must
set forth their evidentiary basis. A copy
of all other filings in reference to this
application must be accompanied by
proof of service on all persons listed in
the service list prepared by the
Commission in this proceeding, in
accordance with 18 CFR 385.2010.
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Dated: August 19, 2019.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. IC19–40–000]
Commission Information Collection
Activities (FERC–516A); Comment
Request; Extension
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, Department of Energy.
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–
516A, Small Generator Interconnection
Agreements.
SUMMARY:
Comments on the collection of
information are due November 4, 2019.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
(identified by Docket No. IC19–40–000)
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/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–516A, Standardization of
Small Generator Interconnection
Agreements and Procedures.
OMB Control No.: 1902–0203.
DATES:
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Type of Request: Three-year extension
of the FERC–516A information
collection requirements with no changes
to the current reporting requirements.
Abstract: Under Sections 205 and 206
of the Federal Power Act (FPA) the
Commission is charged with ensuring
just and reasonable electric transmission
rates and charges as well as ensuring
that jurisdictional providers do not
subject any person to any undue
prejudice or disadvantage.
The lack of consistent and readily
accessible terms and conditions for
connecting resources to the grid led to
a large number of disputes between
jurisdictional transmission providers
and small generators in the late 1990s
and early 2000s. In response, the
Commission directed transmission
providers to include Commissionapproved, standard, pro-forma
interconnection procedures (small
generator interconnection procedures or
SGIP) and a single uniformly applicable
interconnection agreement (small
generator interconnection agreement or
SGIA) in their open-access transmission
tariffs (OATTs). The requirement to
create and file these documents was
instituted August 2005 by Commission
Order No. 2006 and is codified in 18
CFR 35.28(f). This requirement set and
maintained a standard in OATTs for
consistent consideration and processing
of interconnection requests by
transmission providers.
Since the issuance of Order No. 2006,
many aspects of the energy industry
have changed including the growth of
small generator interconnection requests
and the growth in solar photovoltaic
(PV) installations. These changes have
been driven, in part, by state renewable
energy goals and policies. For example,
approximately 3,300 MW of gridconnected PV capacity were installed in
the U.S. in 2012 compared to 79 MW in
2005, the year Order No. 2006 was
issued.
In February 2012, pursuant to
Sections 205 and 206 of the FPA and
Rule 207 of the Commission’s Rules of
Practice and Procedures, and noting that
the Commission encouraged
stakeholders to submit proposed
revisions to the regulations set forth in
Order No. 2006, the Solar Energy
Industries Association (SEIA) filed a
Petition to Initiate Rulemaking
(Petition). The Petition requested the
Commission revise the pro forma SGIA
and SGIP set forth in Order No. 2006.
SEIA asserted that the pro forma SGIP
and SGIA as applied to small solar
generation were no longer just and
reasonable, had become unduly
discriminatory, and presented
unreasonable barriers to market entry.
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SEIA noted that its Petition would apply
exclusively to solar electric generation
due to its unique characteristics.
In 2012 the Commission issued a
Notice of Petition for Rulemaking in
Docket No. RM12–10–000 and began a
public process to explore SEIA’s
Petition through the Commission’s
formal notice and comment process as
well as technical conferences.
In November 2013, the Commission
issued Order No. 792 to amend the pro
forma Small Generator Interconnection
Procedures and pro forma Small
Generator Interconnection Agreement.
Order No. 792: (1) Incorporates
provisions that provide an
Interconnection Customer with the
option of requesting from the
Transmission Provider a pre-application
report providing existing information
about system conditions at a possible
Point of Interconnection; (2) revised the
2 megawatt (MW) threshold for
participation in the Fast Track Process
included in section 2 of the pro forma
SGIP; (3) revised the customer options
meeting and the supplemental review
following failure of the Fast Track
screens so that the supplemental review
is performed at the discretion of the
Interconnection Customer and includes
minimum load and other screens to
determine if a Small Generating Facility
may be interconnected safely and
reliably; (4) revised the pro forma SGIP
Facilities Study Agreement to allow the
Interconnection Customer the
opportunity to provide written
comments to the Transmission Provider
on the upgrades required for
interconnection; (5) revised the pro
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forma SGIP and the pro forma SGIA to
specifically include energy storage
devices; and (6) clarified certain
sections of the pro forma SGIP and the
pro forma SGIA.
With these modifications, the
Commission concluded that the package
of reforms adopted in Order No. 792
will reduce the time and cost to process
small generator interconnection requests
for Interconnection Customers and
Transmission Providers, maintain
reliability, increase energy supply, and
remove barriers to the development of
new energy resources.
Type of Respondents: Jurisdictional
transmission service providers.
Estimate of Annual Burden: 1 The
Commission estimates the annual public
reporting burden for the information
collection as:
FERC–516A—STANDARDIZATION OF SMALL GENERATOR INTERCONNECTION AGREEMENTS AND PROCEDURES
Requirements 2
Number of
respondents
annually
Annual
number of
responses
per
respondent
Total number
of responses
Average
burden
& cost per
response 3
Total annual burden
hours & total annual
cost
Cost per
respondent
($)
(1)
(2)
(1) * (2) = (3)
(4)
(3) * (4) = (5)
(5) ÷ (1)
Maintenance of Documents—
Transmission Providers ........
46
1
46
1
$84.38
46
$3,881
84.38
Filing of Agreements—Transmission Providers .................
95
1
95
25
$2,109.50
2,375
$200,403
2,109.50
Pre-Application Report—Interconnection Customers 4 .......
800
1
800
1
$84.38
800
$67,504
84.38
Pre-Application Report—Transmission Providers .................
142
5.63
800
2.5
$210.95
2,000
$168,760
1,188.45
Supplemental Review—Interconnection Customers ..........
500
1
500
0.5
$42.19
250
$21,095
42.19
Supplemental Review—Transmission Providers .................
142
3.52
500
20
$1,687.60
10,000
$843,800
5,942.25
Review of Required Upgrades—Interconnection
Customers ............................
250
1
250
1
$84.38
250
$21,095
84.38
Review of Required Upgrades—Transmission Providers ....................................
142
1.76
250
2
$168.76
500
$42,190
297.11
Total ..................................
........................
........................
3,241
........................
16,221
$1,368,728
........................
2 All
requirements for transmission providers are mandatory. All requirements for interconnection customers are voluntary.
estimates for cost per response are derived using the following formula: Average Burden Hours per Response * $84.38 per Hour = Average Cost per Response. This figure is the average of the salary plus benefits for an attorney, electrical engineer, and administrative staff: Attorney (Occupation Code: 23–0000): $142.86/hour, Electrical Engineer (Occupation Code: 17–2071): $68.17/hour, Office and Administrative Support (Occupation Code: 43–0000): $42.11/hour. The wages are derived from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics at https://bls.gov/oes/current/
naics3_221000.htm and the benefits figure from https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.nr0.htm.
4 We assume each request for a pre-application report corresponds with one Interconnection Customer.
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3 The
1 The Commission defines burden as the total
time, effort, or financial resources expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain, or disclose or
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provide information to or for a Federal agency. For
further explanation of what is included in the
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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: August 28, 2019.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. ER02–1695–000]
Dated: August 28, 2019.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
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Cabazon Wind Partners, LLC;
Supplemental Notice That Initial
Market-Based Rate Filing Includes
Request for Blanket Section 204
Authorization
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Description: § 4(d) Rate Filing: Fuel
Filing Out of Cycle on 8–27–19 to be
effective 10/1/2019.
Filed Date: 8/27/19.
Accession Number: 20190827–5054.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/9/19.
The filings are accessible in the
Commission’s eLibrary system by
clicking on the links or querying the
docket number.
Any person desiring to intervene or
protest in any of the above proceedings
must file in accordance with Rules 211
and 214 of the Commission’s
Regulations (18 CFR 385.211 and
385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern
time on the specified comment date.
Protests may be considered, but
intervention is necessary to become a
party to the proceeding.
eFiling is encouraged. More detailed
information relating to filing
requirements, interventions, protests,
service, and qualifying facilities filings
can be found at: https://www.ferc.gov/
docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For
other information, call (866) 208–3676
(toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659.
Dated: August 28, 2019.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019–19037 Filed 9–3–19; 8:45 am]
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This is a supplemental notice in the
above-referenced Cabazon Wind
Partners, LLC’s application for marketbased rate authority, with an
accompanying rate tariff, noting that
such application includes a request for
blanket authorization, under 18 CFR
part 34, of future issuances of securities
and assumptions of liability.
Any person desiring to intervene or to
protest should file with the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426,
in accordance with Rules 211 and 214
of the Commission’s Rules of Practice
and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and
385.214). Anyone filing a motion to
intervene or protest must serve a copy
of that document on the Applicant.
Notice is hereby given that the
deadline for filing protests with regard
to the applicant’s request for blanket
authorization, under 18 CFR part 34, of
future issuances of securities and
assumptions of liability, is September 4,
2019.
The Commission encourages
electronic submission of protests and
interventions in lieu of paper, using the
FERC Online links at https://
www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic
service, persons with internet access
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who will eFile a document and/or be
listed as a contact for an intervenor
must create and validate an
eRegistration account using the
eRegistration link. Select the eFiling
link to log on and submit the
intervention or protests.
Persons unable to file electronically
should submit an original and 5 copies
of the intervention or protest to the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
888 First Street NE, Washington, DC
20426.
The filings in the above-referenced
proceeding are accessible in the
Commission’s eLibrary system by
clicking on the appropriate link in the
above list. They are also available for
electronic review in the Commission’s
Public Reference Room in Washington,
DC. There is an eSubscription link on
the website that enables subscribers to
receive email notification when a
document is added to a subscribed
docket(s). For assistance with any FERC
Online service, please email
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call
(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call
(202) 502–8659.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. EF19–6–000]
Combined Notice of Filings
Take notice that the Commission has
received the following Natural Gas
Pipeline Rate and Refund Report filings:
Filings Instituting Proceedings
Docket Numbers: RP19–1060–002.
Applicants: WBI Energy
Transmission, Inc.
Description: Compliance filing 2019
Correction Compliance Filing with
Order 587–Y to be effective 8/1/2019.
Filed Date: 8/27/19.
Accession Number: 20190827–5063.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/9/19.
Docket Numbers: RP19–1486–000.
Applicants: Algonquin Gas
Transmission, LLC.
Description: § 4(d) Rate Filing:
Negotiated Rate—BUG to Energy Plus
799755 to be effective 9/1/2019.
Filed Date: 8/27/19.
Accession Number: 20190827–5027.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/9/19.
Docket Numbers: RP19–1487–000.
Applicants: ETC Tiger Pipeline, LLC.
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Western Area Power Administration;
Notice of Filing
Take notice that on August 20, 2019,
Western Area Power Administration
submitted tariff filing per: Rate Service
for the Central Arizona Project
Transmission Services—Western Area
Power Administration-Rate Order No.
WAPA–172 to be effective August 2,
2019.
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, 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. On or before the
comment date, it is not necessary to
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. IC19-40-000]
Commission Information Collection Activities (FERC-516A); Comment
Request; Extension
AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy.
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-516A, Small Generator Interconnection
Agreements.
DATES: Comments on the collection of information are due November 4,
2019.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments (identified by Docket No. IC19-40-
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-516A, Standardization of Small Generator
Interconnection Agreements and Procedures.
OMB Control No.: 1902-0203.
Type of Request: Three-year extension of the FERC-516A information
collection requirements with no changes to the current reporting
requirements.
Abstract: Under Sections 205 and 206 of the Federal Power Act (FPA)
the Commission is charged with ensuring just and reasonable electric
transmission rates and charges as well as ensuring that jurisdictional
providers do not subject any person to any undue prejudice or
disadvantage.
The lack of consistent and readily accessible terms and conditions
for connecting resources to the grid led to a large number of disputes
between jurisdictional transmission providers and small generators in
the late 1990s and early 2000s. In response, the Commission directed
transmission providers to include Commission-approved, standard, pro-
forma interconnection procedures (small generator interconnection
procedures or SGIP) and a single uniformly applicable interconnection
agreement (small generator interconnection agreement or SGIA) in their
open-access transmission tariffs (OATTs). The requirement to create and
file these documents was instituted August 2005 by Commission Order No.
2006 and is codified in 18 CFR 35.28(f). This requirement set and
maintained a standard in OATTs for consistent consideration and
processing of interconnection requests by transmission providers.
Since the issuance of Order No. 2006, many aspects of the energy
industry have changed including the growth of small generator
interconnection requests and the growth in solar photovoltaic (PV)
installations. These changes have been driven, in part, by state
renewable energy goals and policies. For example, approximately 3,300
MW of grid-connected PV capacity were installed in the U.S. in 2012
compared to 79 MW in 2005, the year Order No. 2006 was issued.
In February 2012, pursuant to Sections 205 and 206 of the FPA and
Rule 207 of the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedures, and
noting that the Commission encouraged stakeholders to submit proposed
revisions to the regulations set forth in Order No. 2006, the Solar
Energy Industries Association (SEIA) filed a Petition to Initiate
Rulemaking (Petition). The Petition requested the Commission revise the
pro forma SGIA and SGIP set forth in Order No. 2006. SEIA asserted that
the pro forma SGIP and SGIA as applied to small solar generation were
no longer just and reasonable, had become unduly discriminatory, and
presented unreasonable barriers to market entry.
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SEIA noted that its Petition would apply exclusively to solar electric
generation due to its unique characteristics.
In 2012 the Commission issued a Notice of Petition for Rulemaking
in Docket No. RM12-10-000 and began a public process to explore SEIA's
Petition through the Commission's formal notice and comment process as
well as technical conferences.
In November 2013, the Commission issued Order No. 792 to amend the
pro forma Small Generator Interconnection Procedures and pro forma
Small Generator Interconnection Agreement.
Order No. 792: (1) Incorporates provisions that provide an
Interconnection Customer with the option of requesting from the
Transmission Provider a pre-application report providing existing
information about system conditions at a possible Point of
Interconnection; (2) revised the 2 megawatt (MW) threshold for
participation in the Fast Track Process included in section 2 of the
pro forma SGIP; (3) revised the customer options meeting and the
supplemental review following failure of the Fast Track screens so that
the supplemental review is performed at the discretion of the
Interconnection Customer and includes minimum load and other screens to
determine if a Small Generating Facility may be interconnected safely
and reliably; (4) revised the pro forma SGIP Facilities Study Agreement
to allow the Interconnection Customer the opportunity to provide
written comments to the Transmission Provider on the upgrades required
for interconnection; (5) revised the pro forma SGIP and the pro forma
SGIA to specifically include energy storage devices; and (6) clarified
certain sections of the pro forma SGIP and the pro forma SGIA.
With these modifications, the Commission concluded that the package
of reforms adopted in Order No. 792 will reduce the time and cost to
process small generator interconnection requests for Interconnection
Customers and Transmission Providers, maintain reliability, increase
energy supply, and remove barriers to the development of new energy
resources.
Type of Respondents: Jurisdictional transmission service providers.
Estimate of Annual Burden: \1\ The Commission estimates the annual
public reporting burden for the information collection as:
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\1\ The Commission defines burden 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-516A--Standardization of Small Generator Interconnection Agreements and Procedures
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Number of Annual number Average burden Total annual burden
Requirements \2\ respondents of responses Total number & cost per hours & total annual Cost per
annually per respondent of responses response \3\ cost respondent ($)
(1) (2) (1) * (2) = (4) (3) * (4) = (5) (5) / (1)
(3)
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Maintenance of Documents--Transmission 46 1 46 1 46 84.38
Providers..................................... $84.38 $3,881
Filing of Agreements--Transmission Providers... 95 1 95 25 2,375 2,109.50
$2,109.50 $200,403
Pre-Application Report--Interconnection 800 1 800 1 800 84.38
Customers \4\................................. $84.38 $67,504
Pre-Application Report--Transmission Providers. 142 5.63 800 2.5 2,000 1,188.45
$210.95 $168,760
Supplemental Review--Interconnection Customers. 500 1 500 0.5 250 42.19
$42.19 $21,095
Supplemental Review--Transmission Providers.... 142 3.52 500 20 10,000 5,942.25
$1,687.60 $843,800
Review of Required Upgrades--Interconnection 250 1 250 1 250 84.38
Customers..................................... $84.38 $21,095
Review of Required Upgrades--Transmission 142 1.76 250 2 500 297.11
Providers..................................... $168.76 $42,190
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Total...................................... .............. .............. 3,241 .............. 16,221 ..............
$1,368,728
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\2\ All requirements for transmission providers are mandatory. All requirements for interconnection customers are voluntary.
\3\ The estimates for cost per response are derived using the following formula: Average Burden Hours per Response * $84.38 per Hour = Average Cost per
Response. This figure is the average of the salary plus benefits for an attorney, electrical engineer, and administrative staff: Attorney (Occupation
Code: 23-0000): $142.86/hour, Electrical Engineer (Occupation Code: 17-2071): $68.17/hour, Office and Administrative Support (Occupation Code: 43-
0000): $42.11/hour. The wages are derived from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics at https://bls.gov/oes/current/naics3_221000.htm and the benefits
figure from https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.nr0.htm.
\4\ We assume each request for a pre-application report corresponds with one Interconnection Customer.
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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: August 28, 2019.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-19044 Filed 9-3-19; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717-01-P
