Department of Energy June 2005 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents
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Revision of FERC Form No. 73, Oil Pipeline Data Filing Instructions
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) is amending the FERC Form No. 73, Oil Pipeline Service Life Data to allow for filing in an Excel spreadsheet, eliminate the filing requirement for utility codes, which are no longer used by the Commission, and update the filing instructions to delete references to outdated filing formats. These modifications resulted from a review conducted by the Commission's FERC Information Assessment Team (FIAT) of the Commission's current reporting and information collection requirements to evaluate their original purposes and current uses and to propose ways to reduce the reporting burden on industry through the elimination, reduction, streamlining or reformatting of current collections. The information collected on FERC Form No. 73 assists the Commission in the selection of appropriate oil pipeline service lives and book depreciation rates. Some oil pipeline companies use the book depreciation rates to compute their operating expenses for accounting and cost of service purposes.
Generator Run Status Information
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) seeks comments on whether the Commission should require jurisdictional generators to provide the Commission with confidential access to generator run status information.
Modification of Nuclear Plant Decommissioning Trust Fund Guidelines
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) is amending its nuclear plant decommissioning trust fund (Fund) guidelines to remove the requirement that the financial report that public utilities furnish to the Commission each year must show all purchases and sales of investments and substitute a requirement that public utilities must include in their report a summary amount for purchases of fund investments and a summary amount for sales of fund investments. All other reporting requirements in the special provisions that relate to Fund reports remain in place; e.g., records of individual purchases and sales of investments must still be maintained even if such individual transactions are not routinely reported. These modifications are the result of a review conducted by the Commission's Information Assessment Team (FIAT), identifying the Commission's current information collections, evaluating their original purposes and current uses, and proposing ways to reduce the reporting burden on industry through the elimination, reduction, streamlining or reformatting of current collections. These changes in the Commission's regulations will reduce the reporting burden on the electric industry while simultaneously simplifying Fund reports and making it easier for the Commission to review them.
Information Requirements for Available Transfer Capability
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission seeks comments on: (a) The North American Electric Reliability Council's recent Long-Term AFC/ATC Task Force Report; (b) the advisability of revising and standardizing available transfer capability calculations; and (c) the most expeditious way to obtain an industry-wide standard for available transfer capabilitycalculations. This Notice of Inquiry is the result of a review conducted by the Commission's Information Assessment Team (FIAT), to propose: (a) new information the Commission needs to promote greater market transparency in electricity markets; and (b) ways to reduce the reporting burden on industry through the elimination, reduction, streamlining or reformatting of current information collections.
Standardization of Small Generator Interconnection Agreements and Procedures
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) is amending its regulations under the Federal Power Act to require public utilities that own, control, or operate facilities for transmitting electric energy in interstate commerce to amend their open access transmission tariffs to include standard generator interconnection procedures and an agreement that the Commission is adopting in this order and to provide interconnection service to devices used for the production of electricity having a capacity of no more than 20 megawatts. A non-public utility that seeks voluntary compliance with the reciprocity condition of an open access transmission tariff may satisfy this condition by adopting these procedures and agreement.
Commission Information Collection Activities, Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Submitted for OMB Review
In compliance with the requirements of section 3507 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3507, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) has submitted the information collection described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review of this information collection requirement. Any interested person may file comments directly with OMB and should address a copy of those comments to the Commission as explained below. The Commission received one comment in response to an earlier Federal Register notice of March 1, 2005 (70 FR 9938-39), and has prepared a response to the commenter in its submission to OMB.
Modification of Hydropower Procedural Regulations, Including the Deletion of Certain Outdated or Non-Essential Regulations
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) is amending its regulations concerning applications for preliminary permits to eliminate certain outdated requirements and reduce unnecessary burdens on persons subject to the Commission's regulations. These modifications are the result of a review begun by the Commission's FERC Information Assessment Team (FIAT) to identify all of the Commission's current information collections to evaluate their original purposes and current uses, and to propose ways to reduce the burden on industry through the elimination, reduction, streamlining or reformatting of current collections. The Commission is amending its regulations to eliminate 18 CFR 4.81(d)(3) to remove the requirements for identifying a market for power and related power system information in the application for a preliminary permit. The Commission expects that these minor modifications of its regulations will not have a significant impact on preliminary permit proceedings. Because these changes relate only to the Commission's procedures and relieve unnecessary regulatory burdens, notice and comment on the changes is not required.
Modification of Natural Gas Reporting Regulations
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) is proposing to amend its regulations to standardize the filing format for reporting natural gas service interruptions and emergency natural gas sale, transportation and exchange. The Commission is also proposing to modernize the filing method, develop a tracking method for filings, and develop an electronic notification system to notify appropriate Commission staff when the information is filed with the Commission. In addition, the Commission seeks comment on affording Critical Energy Infrastructure Information (CEII) protection where applicable. These modifications are the result of a review conducted by the Commission's Information Assessment Team (FIAT) of the Commission's current information collections by evaluating their original purposes and current uses, and to propose ways to reduce the reporting burden on industry through the elimination, reduction, streamlining or reformatting of current collections. The modification of the regulations to modernize the filing method and standardize the filing format should streamline the process and reduce the burden of filing information under FERC-576 ``Report of Natural Gas Service Interruptions'' and FERC-588 ``Emergency Natural Gas Sale, Transportation and Exchange Transactions.'' In addition, the Commission proposes to provide CEII protection for the information contained on both information collection requirements and seeks comment on this proposal. The Commission believes these modifications will not in any way prejudice the rights of any participant in those proceedings or anyone interested in the Commission's natural gas program.
Office of Science; Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee
This notice announces a meeting of the Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meetings be announced in the Federal Register.
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