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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 15276–000]
Rye Hildebrand Hydroelectric, LLC;
Notice of Preliminary Permit
Application Accepted for Filing and
Soliciting Comments, Motions To
Intervene, and Competing Applications
On June 6, 2022, Rye Hildebrand
Hydroelectric, LLC, filed an application
for a preliminary permit, pursuant to
section 4(f) of the Federal Power Act
(FPA), proposing to study the feasibility
of the Hildebrand Lock/Dam
Hydroelectric Project to be located at the
existing U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Pittsburgh District Hildebrand Lock/
Dam located on the Monongahela River
at Hilderbrand, Monongalia County,
West Virginia. The sole purpose of a
preliminary permit, if issued, is to grant
the permit holder priority to file a
license application during the permit
term. A preliminary permit does not
authorize the permit holder to perform
any land-disturbing activities or
otherwise enter upon lands or waters
owned by others without the owners’
express permission.
The proposed project would consist of
the following: (1) a 405-acre
impoundment with a normal volume of
7,600 acre-feet at a normal maximum
surface elevation of 835.0 feet mean sea
level; (2) an existing 649-foot-long, 64foot-high concrete gravity dam with a
600-foot-long, 84-foot-wide lock and six
60-foot-wide, 21-foot-high tainter gates;
(3) a new 100-foot-long, 70-foot-wide
intake section with trashracks; (4) two
new 3-megawatt horizontal Kaplan bulb
turbine/generator units; (5) a new 90foot-long, 60-foot-wide concrete
powerhouse; (6) a new three-phase,
36.7-kilovolt (kV), 1,000-foot-long
transmission line; (7) a new 50-footlong, 50-foot-wide substation with a
new 10-megavolt-amperes 4.16/36.7-kV
three-phase step-up transformer; (8) a
new 150-foot-long, 70-foot-wide tailrace;
and (9) appurtenant facilities. The
proposed project would have an annual
generation of 28,000 megawatt-hours.
Applicant Contact: Michael Rooney,
Rye Hildebrand Hydroelectric, LLC, 100
S Olive Street, West Palm Beach, FL
33401; phone: (412) 400–4186.
FERC Contact: Woohee Choi; email:
woohee.choi@ferc.gov; phone: (202)
502–6336.
Deadline for filing comments, motions
to intervene, competing applications
(without notices of intent), or notices of
intent to file competing applications: 60
days from the issuance of this notice.
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Competing applications and notices of
intent must meet the requirements of 18
CFR 4.36.
The Commission strongly encourages
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motions to intervene, notices of intent,
and competing applications using the
Commission’s eFiling system at https://
ferconline.ferc.gov/eFiling.aspx.
Commenters can submit brief comments
up to 6,000 characters, without prior
registration, using the eComment system
at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/
QuickComment.aspx. You must include
your name and contact information at
the end of your comments. For
assistance, please contact FERC Online
Support. In lieu of electronic filing, you
may submit a paper copy. Submissions
sent via the U.S. Postal Service must be
addressed to: Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, 888 First Street NE, Room
1A, Washington, DC 20426.
Submissions sent via any other carrier
must be addressed to: Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, 12225 Wilkins Avenue,
Rockville, Maryland 20852. The first
page of any filing should include docket
number P–15276–000.
More information about this project,
including a copy of the application, can
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link of the Commission’s website at
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elibrary.asp. Enter the docket number
(P–15276) in the docket number field to
access the document. For assistance,
contact FERC Online Support.
Dated: July 28, 2022.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. IC22–24–000]
Commission Information Collection
Activities (FERC–725Z); 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
SUMMARY:
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approved information collection, FERC–
725Z (Mandatory Reliability Standards:
IRO Reliability Standards).
DATES: Comments on the collection of
information are due October 3, 2022.
ADDRESSES: You may submit your
comments (identified by Docket No.
IC22–24–000) by one of the following
methods:
Electronic filing through https://
www.ferc.gov, is preferred.
• Electronic Filing: Documents must
be filed in acceptable native
applications and print-to-PDF, but not
in scanned or picture format.
• For those unable to file
electronically, comments may be filed
by USPS mail or by hand (including
courier) delivery:
Æ Mail via U.S. Postal Service Only:
Addressed to: Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, Secretary of the
Commission, 888 First Street NE,
Washington, DC 20426.
Æ Hand (including courier) delivery:
Deliver to: Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, Office of the Secretary,
12225 Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, MD
20852.
Instructions: All submissions must be
formatted and filed in accordance with
submission guidelines at: https://
www.ferc.gov. For user assistance,
contact FERC Online Support by email
at ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov, or by
phone at (866) 208–3676 (toll-free).
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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ellen Brown may be reached by email
at DataClearance@FERC.gov, telephone
at (202) 502–8663.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: FERC–725Z (Mandatory
Reliability Standards: IRO Reliability
Standards).
OMB Control No.: 1902–0276.
Type of Request: Extension to this
currently approved information
collection.
Abstract: On August 8, 2005, The
Electricity Modernization Act of 2005,
which is Title XII of the Energy Policy
Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005), was enacted
into law.1 Under section 215 of the
Federal Power Act (FPA) implemented
in 18 CFR 40, the Commission requires
a Commission-certified Electric
Reliability Organization (ERO) to
develop mandatory and enforceable
Reliability Standards 2, which are
1 The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct), Public
Law No 109–58, Title XII, Subtitle A, 119 Stat. 594,
941 (2005), codified at 16 U.S.C. 824o (2000).
2 The Federal Power Act (as modified by the
EPAct) states ‘‘[t]he terms ‘‘reliability standard’’
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subject to Commission review and
approval. In 2006, the Commission
established a process to select and
certify an ERO and, subsequently,
certified the North American Electric
Reliability Corporation (NERC) as the
ERO.3
The ERO develops proposed
Reliability Standards 4 and, if approved
by NERC, submits them to the
Commission for review and approval.
When the standards are approved by the
Commission, the Reliability Standards
become mandatory and must be
enforced by the ERO, subject to
Commission oversight.
NERC established the following IRO
standards within FERC–725Z:
IRO–001–4 purpose is to establish the
responsibility of Reliability
Coordinators to act or direct other
entities to act.
In a joint petition dated May 30, 2019,
the North American Electric Reliability
Corporation (‘‘NERC’’) and Western
Electricity Coordinating Council
(‘‘WECC’’) requested Commission
approval for Reliability Standard IRO–
002–6 (now IRO–002–7) (Reliability
Coordination, Monitoring and Analysis).
NERC and WECC stated that the
‘‘Reliability Standard IRO–002–7
reflects the addition of a regional
Variance containing additional
requirements applicable to Reliability
Coordinators providing service to
entities in the Western
Interconnection.’’ NERC maintains that
the data exchange capability
requirement in Reliability Standard
IRO–002–7, Requirement R1 is covered
by Reliability Standard IRO–008–2,
Requirement R1, which obligates the
reliability coordinator to perform
operational planning analyses to assess
whether the planned operations for the
next-day will exceed System Operating
Limits and Interconnection Reliability
means a requirement, approved by the Commission
under this section, to provide for reliable operation
of the bulk-power system. The term includes
requirements for the operation of existing bulkpower system facilities, including cybersecurity
protection, and the design of planned additions or
modifications to such facilities to the extent
necessary to provide for reliable operation of the
bulk-power system, but the term does not include
any requirement to enlarge such facilities or to
construct new transmission capacity or generation
capacity.’’
3 North American Electric Reliability Corp., 116
FERC ¶ 61,062, order on reh’g and compliance, 117
FERC ¶ 61,126 (2006), order on compliance, 118
FERC ¶ 61,190, order on reh’g, 119 FERC ¶ 61,046
(2007), aff’d sub nom. Alcoa Inc. v. FERC, 564 F.3d
1342 (D.C. Cir. 2009).
4 The NERC Standard Processes Manual,
Appendix 3A of the NERC Rules Of Procedure,
(posted at https://www.nerc.com/FilingsOrders/us/
RuleOfProcedureDL/SPM_Clean_Mar2019.pdf)
describes the process for developing, modifying,
withdrawing, or retiring a Reliability Standard.
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Operating Limits within its Wide Area.
NERC asserts that ‘‘to perform the
required operational planning analyses,
the Reliability Coordinator must have
the data it deems necessary from those
entities that possess it.’’
Currently effective IRO–009–2
applicable to reliability coordinators
and the purpose of the standard is to
prevent instability, uncontrolled
separation, or cascading outages that
adversely impact the reliability of the
interconnection by ensuring prompt
action to prevent or mitigate instances
of exceeding Interconnection Reliability
Operating Limits (IROLs).
Additionally, regarding data
exchange, NERC cites Reliability
Standard IRO–010–2 (Reliability
Coordinator Data Specification and
Collection) and its stated purpose of
preventing instability, uncontrolled
separation, or cascading outages ‘‘by
ensuring the Reliability Coordinator has
the data it needs to monitor and assess
the operation of its Reliability
Coordinator Area.’’ NERC states that
under Reliability Standard IRO–010–2,
Requirements R1, R2 and R3, the
reliability coordinator must specify the
data necessary for it to perform its
operational planning analyses and
provide the specifications to the entities
from which it needs data who then must
comply with the data request using a
mutually agreeable format and security
protocols.
IRO–014–3 purpose is to ensure that
each Reliability Coordinator’s
operations are coordinated such that
they will not adversely impact other
Reliability Coordinator Areas and to
preserve the reliability benefits of
interconnected operations.
IRO–017–1 (Outage Coordination)
purpose is to ensure that outages are
properly coordinated in the Operations
Planning time horizon and Near-Term
Transmission Planning Horizon.
Reliability coordinators, planning
coordinators, balancing authorities,
transmission owners and transmission
planners are applicable entities for IRO–
017–1.
IRO–018–1 (Reliability Coordinator
Real-time Reliability Monitoring and
Analysis Capabilities), submitted by
North American Electric Reliability
Corporation (NERC). Requirement R3
requires reliability coordinators to have
an alarm process monitor that provides
notification to system operators when
the failure of a real-time monitoring
alarm processor has occurred. In this
order, the Reliability Standards build on
monitoring, real-time assessments and
support effective situational awareness.
The Reliability Standards accomplish
this by requiring applicable entities to:
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(1) provide notification to operators of
real-time monitoring alarm failures; (2)
provide operators with indications of
the quality of information being
provided by their monitoring and
analysis capabilities; and (3) address
deficiencies in the quality of
information being provided by their
monitoring and analysis capabilities.
NERC observes that the performance
of the requirements it cites is premised
on the existence of data exchange
capabilities, regardless of whether a
separate requirement expressly requires
the reliability coordinator to have data
exchange capabilities in place. In review
the 725Z collection for the IRO
Reliability Standards, the number of
entities/respondents was checked and
broken down into the appliable type of
entity for each reliability standard. In
the past combining reliability standards
caused the same reliability standard to
be accounted for multiple times,
resulting in the previously recorded
6,686 responses. These numbers were
revised and updated to be the new
calculated total of 953 responses. Staff
looked at each reliability standard as its
own unique project and in doing so
eliminated the multiple entity count by
making a more accurate representation
of the number of responses.
Type of Respondents: Reliability
coordinators (RC), planning
coordinators (PC), balancing authorities
(BA), transmission owners (TO),
transmission planners (TP),
Transmission Operators (TOP) are
included entities for Estimate of Annual
Burden: 5 The Commission estimates the
changes in the annual public reporting
burden and cost 6 as follows.
FERC–725Z—REPORTING AND RECORDKEEPING REQUIREMENTS FOR RELIABILITY STANDARDS IRO–001, IRO–002,
IRO–008, IRO–009, IRO–010, IRO–014, IRO–017, AND IRO–018
Information collection
requirements
Number of
respondents &
type of entity
Annual
number of
responses per
respondent
Total number
of responses
Average burden hours
& cost per response
($)
Total annual burden
hours & total annual
cost ($)
Total annual
burden cost
(1)
(2)
(1) * (2) = (3)
(4)
(3) * (4) = (5)
(5)/(1)
288 hrs. $20,779.2 ....
2,016 hrs. 145,454.4
288 hrs., 20,779.2 .....
1,920 hrs., 138,528 ...
144 hrs. 10,389.6 ......
288 hrs., 20,779.2 .....
144 hrs., 10,389.6 .....
14,400 hrs.,
1,038,960.
6,048 hrs., 436,363.2
19,584 hrs.,
1,412,985.6.
2,608 Hrs., 188,167.2
758 hrs., 54,689.7 .....
288 hrs., 20,779.2 .....
IRO–001–4 .......................
IRO–002–7
IRO–008–2
IRO–009–2
IRO–010–3
IRO–014–3
IRO–017–1
12 (RC)
168 (TOP)
12 (RC)
12 (RC)
12 (RC)
12 (RC)
12 (RC)
12 (RC)
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
12
168
12
12
12
12
12
12
24 hrs. $1,731.6 ........
12 hrs. 865.8 .............
24 hrs., 1,731.6 .........
160 hrs., 11,544 ........
12 hrs. 865.8 .............
24 hrs., 1,731.6 .........
12 hrs., 865.8 ............
1,200 hrs., 86,580 .....
63 (PC)
204 (TP)
1
1
63
204
96 hrs., 6,926.4 .........
96 hrs., 6,926.4 .........
326 (TO)
96 (BA)
12 (RC)
1
1
1
326
96
12
8 hrs, 577.2 ...............
8 hr., 577.2 ................
34 hrs., 2,453.1 .........
........................
........................
953
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.......................
.......................
.......................
.......................
.......................
IRO–018–1 .......................
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Total for FERC–725Z
48,774 hrs.,
3,519,044.1.
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: July 28, 2022.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
ACTION:
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SUMMARY:
5 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, refer to 5 Code of Federal
Regulations 1320.3.
6 The hourly cost figures, for salary plus benefits,
for the new standards are based on Bureau of Labor
Statistics (BLS) information (at https://www.bls.gov/
oes/current/naics2_22.htm), as of May 2021, and
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$1,731.6
865.8
1,731.6
11,544
865.8
1,731.6
865.8
86,580
6,926.4
6,926.4
577.2
577.2
$2,453.1
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Notice of information collection
and request for comments.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. IC22–25–000]
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–
725P1 (Mandatory Reliability Standards:
PRC–005–6 Reliability Standard).
Comments on the collection of
information are due October 3, 2022.
DATES:
Commission Information Collection
Activities (FERC–725P1); Comment
Request; Extension
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, Department of Energy.
AGENCY:
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You may submit your
comments (identified by Docket No.
IC22–25–000) by one of the following
methods:
ADDRESSES:
benefits information for March 2021 (at https://
www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.nr0.htm). For salary
plus benefits, for reporting requirements, an
electrical engineer (code 17–2071) is $72.15/hour;
for the recordkeeping requirements.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. IC22-24-000]
Commission Information Collection Activities (FERC-725Z); 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
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approved information collection, FERC-725Z (Mandatory Reliability
Standards: IRO Reliability Standards).
DATES: Comments on the collection of information are due October 3,
2022.
ADDRESSES: You may submit your comments (identified by Docket No. IC22-
24-000) by one of the following methods:
Electronic filing through https://www.ferc.gov, is preferred.
Electronic Filing: Documents must be filed in acceptable
native applications and print-to-PDF, but not in scanned or picture
format.
For those unable to file electronically, comments may be
filed by USPS mail or by hand (including courier) delivery:
[cir] Mail via U.S. Postal Service Only: Addressed to: Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, Secretary of the Commission, 888 First
Street NE, Washington, DC 20426.
[cir] Hand (including courier) delivery: Deliver to: Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, Office of the Secretary, 12225 Wilkins Avenue,
Rockville, MD 20852.
Instructions: All submissions must be formatted and filed in
accordance with submission guidelines at: https://www.ferc.gov. For
user assistance, contact FERC Online Support by email at
[email protected], or by phone at (866) 208-3676 (toll-free).
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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ellen Brown may be reached by email at
[email protected], telephone at (202) 502-8663.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: FERC-725Z (Mandatory Reliability Standards: IRO Reliability
Standards).
OMB Control No.: 1902-0276.
Type of Request: Extension to this currently approved information
collection.
Abstract: On August 8, 2005, The Electricity Modernization Act of
2005, which is Title XII of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005),
was enacted into law.\1\ Under section 215 of the Federal Power Act
(FPA) implemented in 18 CFR 40, the Commission requires a Commission-
certified Electric Reliability Organization (ERO) to develop mandatory
and enforceable Reliability Standards \2\, which are subject to
Commission review and approval. In 2006, the Commission established a
process to select and certify an ERO and, subsequently, certified the
North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) as the ERO.\3\
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\1\ The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct), Public Law No 109-58,
Title XII, Subtitle A, 119 Stat. 594, 941 (2005), codified at 16
U.S.C. 824o (2000).
\2\ The Federal Power Act (as modified by the EPAct) states
``[t]he terms ``reliability standard'' means a requirement, approved
by the Commission under this section, to provide for reliable
operation of the bulk-power system. The term includes requirements
for the operation of existing bulk-power system facilities,
including cybersecurity protection, and the design of planned
additions or modifications to such facilities to the extent
necessary to provide for reliable operation of the bulk-power
system, but the term does not include any requirement to enlarge
such facilities or to construct new transmission capacity or
generation capacity.''
\3\ North American Electric Reliability Corp., 116 FERC ]
61,062, order on reh'g and compliance, 117 FERC ] 61,126 (2006),
order on compliance, 118 FERC ] 61,190, order on reh'g, 119 FERC ]
61,046 (2007), aff'd sub nom. Alcoa Inc. v. FERC, 564 F.3d 1342
(D.C. Cir. 2009).
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The ERO develops proposed Reliability Standards \4\ and, if
approved by NERC, submits them to the Commission for review and
approval. When the standards are approved by the Commission, the
Reliability Standards become mandatory and must be enforced by the ERO,
subject to Commission oversight.
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\4\ The NERC Standard Processes Manual, Appendix 3A of the NERC
Rules Of Procedure, (posted at https://www.nerc.com/FilingsOrders/us/RuleOfProcedureDL/SPM_Clean_Mar2019.pdf) describes the process
for developing, modifying, withdrawing, or retiring a Reliability
Standard.
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NERC established the following IRO standards within FERC-725Z:
IRO-001-4 purpose is to establish the responsibility of Reliability
Coordinators to act or direct other entities to act.
In a joint petition dated May 30, 2019, the North American Electric
Reliability Corporation (``NERC'') and Western Electricity Coordinating
Council (``WECC'') requested Commission approval for Reliability
Standard IRO-002-6 (now IRO-002-7) (Reliability Coordination,
Monitoring and Analysis). NERC and WECC stated that the ``Reliability
Standard IRO-002-7 reflects the addition of a regional Variance
containing additional requirements applicable to Reliability
Coordinators providing service to entities in the Western
Interconnection.'' NERC maintains that the data exchange capability
requirement in Reliability Standard IRO-002-7, Requirement R1 is
covered by Reliability Standard IRO-008-2, Requirement R1, which
obligates the reliability coordinator to perform operational planning
analyses to assess whether the planned operations for the next-day will
exceed System Operating Limits and Interconnection Reliability
Operating Limits within its Wide Area. NERC asserts that ``to perform
the required operational planning analyses, the Reliability Coordinator
must have the data it deems necessary from those entities that possess
it.''
Currently effective IRO-009-2 applicable to reliability
coordinators and the purpose of the standard is to prevent instability,
uncontrolled separation, or cascading outages that adversely impact the
reliability of the interconnection by ensuring prompt action to prevent
or mitigate instances of exceeding Interconnection Reliability
Operating Limits (IROLs).
Additionally, regarding data exchange, NERC cites Reliability
Standard IRO-010-2 (Reliability Coordinator Data Specification and
Collection) and its stated purpose of preventing instability,
uncontrolled separation, or cascading outages ``by ensuring the
Reliability Coordinator has the data it needs to monitor and assess the
operation of its Reliability Coordinator Area.'' NERC states that under
Reliability Standard IRO-010-2, Requirements R1, R2 and R3, the
reliability coordinator must specify the data necessary for it to
perform its operational planning analyses and provide the
specifications to the entities from which it needs data who then must
comply with the data request using a mutually agreeable format and
security protocols.
IRO-014-3 purpose is to ensure that each Reliability Coordinator's
operations are coordinated such that they will not adversely impact
other Reliability Coordinator Areas and to preserve the reliability
benefits of interconnected operations.
IRO-017-1 (Outage Coordination) purpose is to ensure that outages
are properly coordinated in the Operations Planning time horizon and
Near-Term Transmission Planning Horizon. Reliability coordinators,
planning coordinators, balancing authorities, transmission owners and
transmission planners are applicable entities for IRO-017-1.
IRO-018-1 (Reliability Coordinator Real-time Reliability Monitoring
and Analysis Capabilities), submitted by North American Electric
Reliability Corporation (NERC). Requirement R3 requires reliability
coordinators to have an alarm process monitor that provides
notification to system operators when the failure of a real-time
monitoring alarm processor has occurred. In this order, the Reliability
Standards build on monitoring, real-time assessments and support
effective situational awareness. The Reliability Standards accomplish
this by requiring applicable entities to:
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(1) provide notification to operators of real-time monitoring alarm
failures; (2) provide operators with indications of the quality of
information being provided by their monitoring and analysis
capabilities; and (3) address deficiencies in the quality of
information being provided by their monitoring and analysis
capabilities.
NERC observes that the performance of the requirements it cites is
premised on the existence of data exchange capabilities, regardless of
whether a separate requirement expressly requires the reliability
coordinator to have data exchange capabilities in place. In review the
725Z collection for the IRO Reliability Standards, the number of
entities/respondents was checked and broken down into the appliable
type of entity for each reliability standard. In the past combining
reliability standards caused the same reliability standard to be
accounted for multiple times, resulting in the previously recorded
6,686 responses. These numbers were revised and updated to be the new
calculated total of 953 responses. Staff looked at each reliability
standard as its own unique project and in doing so eliminated the
multiple entity count by making a more accurate representation of the
number of responses.
Type of Respondents: Reliability coordinators (RC), planning
coordinators (PC), balancing authorities (BA), transmission owners
(TO), transmission planners (TP), Transmission Operators (TOP) are
included entities for Estimate of Annual Burden: \5\ The Commission
estimates the changes in the annual public reporting burden and cost
\6\ as follows.
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\5\ 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, refer to 5 Code of Federal Regulations 1320.3.
\6\ The hourly cost figures, for salary plus benefits, for the
new standards are based on Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
information (at https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics2_22.htm), as of
May 2021, and benefits information for March 2021 (at https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.nr0.htm). For salary plus benefits,
for reporting requirements, an electrical engineer (code 17-2071) is
$72.15/hour; for the recordkeeping requirements.
FERC-725Z--Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements for Reliability Standards IRO-001, IRO-002, IRO-008, IRO-009, IRO-010, IRO-014, IRO-017, and IRO-018
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Number of Annual number
Information collection respondents & of responses Total number Average burden hours & cost Total annual burden hours & Total annual
requirements type of entity per respondent of responses per response ($) total annual cost ($) burden cost
(1) (2) (1) * (2) = (4)........................ (3) * (4) = (5)............ (5)/(1)
(3)
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IRO-001-4..................... 12 (RC) 1 12 24 hrs. $1,731.6........... 288 hrs. $20,779.2......... $1,731.6
168 (TOP) 1 168 12 hrs. 865.8.............. 2,016 hrs. 145,454.4....... 865.8
IRO-002-7..................... 12 (RC) 1 12 24 hrs., 1,731.6........... 288 hrs., 20,779.2......... 1,731.6
IRO-008-2..................... 12 (RC) 1 12 160 hrs., 11,544........... 1,920 hrs., 138,528........ 11,544
IRO-009-2..................... 12 (RC) 1 12 12 hrs. 865.8.............. 144 hrs. 10,389.6.......... 865.8
IRO-010-3..................... 12 (RC) 1 12 24 hrs., 1,731.6........... 288 hrs., 20,779.2......... 1,731.6
IRO-014-3..................... 12 (RC) 1 12 12 hrs., 865.8............. 144 hrs., 10,389.6......... 865.8
IRO-017-1..................... 12 (RC) 1 12 1,200 hrs., 86,580......... 14,400 hrs., 1,038,960..... 86,580
63 (PC) 1 63 96 hrs., 6,926.4........... 6,048 hrs., 436,363.2...... 6,926.4
204 (TP) 1 204 96 hrs., 6,926.4........... 19,584 hrs., 1,412,985.6... 6,926.4
326 (TO) 1 326 8 hrs, 577.2............... 2,608 Hrs., 188,167.2...... 577.2
96 (BA) 1 96 8 hr., 577.2............... 758 hrs., 54,689.7......... 577.2
IRO-018-1..................... 12 (RC) 1 12 34 hrs., 2,453.1........... 288 hrs., 20,779.2......... $2,453.1
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Total for FERC-725Z....... .............. .............. 953 ........................... 48,774 hrs., 3,519,044.1... ..............
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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: July 28, 2022.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2022-16590 Filed 8-2-22; 8:45 am]
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