81 FR 19166 - Commission Information Collection Activities (FERC Form 6-Q); Comment Request; Extension
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 64 (April 4, 2016)
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 64 (April 4, 2016)
| Page Range | 19166-19167 | |
| FR Document | 2016-07537 |
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 64 (Monday, April 4, 2016)] [Notices] [Pages 19166-19167] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2016-07537] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Docket No. IC16-7-000] Commission Information Collection Activities (FERC Form 6-Q); Comment Request; Extension AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, DOE. ACTION: Notice of information collection and request for comments. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission or FERC) is soliciting public comment on the currently approved information collection, FERC Form 6-Q (Quarterly Financial Report of Oil Pipeline Companies). DATES: Comments on the collection of information are due June 3, 2016. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments (identified by Docket No. IC16-7- 000) by either of the following methods:eFiling at Commission's Web site: http://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: http://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 http://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 Form 6-Q, Quarterly Financial Report of Oil Pipeline Companies.\1\ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \1\ The renewal request in this IC docket is for the current FERC Form 6-Q, with no change to the reporting requirements. The FERC Form 6-Q is also part of the Forms Refresh effort (started in Docket No. AD15-11), which is a separate activity. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- OMB Control No.: 1902-0206. Type of Request: Three-year extension of the FERC Form 6-Q information collection requirements with no changes to the current reporting requirements. Abstract: Under the Interstate Commerce Act (ICA) ,\2\ the Commission is authorized and empowered to make investigations and to collect and record data to the extent FERC may consider to be necessary or useful for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the ICA. FERC must ensure just and reasonable rates for transportation of crude oil and petroleum products by pipelines in interstate commerce. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \2\ 49 U.S.C. Part 1, Section 20, 54 Stat. 916. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Commission uses the information collected by FERC Form 6-Q to carry out its responsibilities in implementing the statutory provisions of the ICA to include the authority to prescribe rules and regulations concerning accounts, records, and memoranda, as necessary or appropriate. Financial accounting and reporting provides necessary information concerning a company's past performance and its future prospects. Without reliable financial statements prepared in accordance with the Commission's Uniform System of Accounts and related regulations, the Commission would be unable to accurately determine the costs that relate to a particular time period, service, or line of business. The Commission uses data from the FERC Form 6-Q to assist in: 1. Implementation of its financial audits and programs, 2. continuous review of the financial condition of regulated companies, 3. assessment of energy markets, 4. rate proceedings and economic analyses, and 5. research for use in litigation. Financial information reported on the quarterly FERC Form 6-Q provides FERC, as well as customers, investors and others, an important tool to help identify emerging trends and issues affecting jurisdictional entities within the energy industry. It also provides timely disclosures of the impacts that new accounting standards, or changes in existing standards, have on jurisdictional entities, as well as the economic effects of significant transactions, events, and circumstances. The reporting of this information by jurisdictional entities assists the Commission in its analysis of profitability, efficiency, risk, and in its overall monitoring. Type of Respondents: Oil pipelines. Estimate of Annual Burden: \3\ The Commission estimates the annual public reporting burden for the information collection as: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \3\ 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. [[Page 19167]] FERC Form 6-Q--Quarterly Financial Report of Oil Companies ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total annual Annual number Total number Average burden burden hours & Cost per Number of respondents of responses of responses & cost per total annual respondent ($) per respondent response \4\ cost ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) (2) (1) * (2) = (4) (3) * (4) = (5) / (1) (3) (5) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 175............................. 3 525 150 78,750 32,400 $10,800 $5,670,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \4\ The estimates for cost per response are derived using the 2015 FERC average salary plus benefits of $149,489/year (or $72.00/ hour). Commission staff finds that the work done for this information collection is typically done by wage categories similar to those at FERC. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: March 29, 2016. Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., Deputy Secretary. 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of your comments. For assistance, • eFiling at Commission’s Web site: the statutory provisions of the ICA to
please contact FERC Online Support at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ include the authority to prescribe rules
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866) efiling.asp. and regulations concerning accounts,
208–3676 (toll free), or (202) 502–8659 • Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier: records, and memoranda, as necessary
(TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, please Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or appropriate. Financial accounting
send a paper copy to: Secretary, Federal Secretary of the Commission, 888 First and reporting provides necessary
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 Street NE., Washington, DC 20426. information concerning a company’s
First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426. Instructions: All submissions must be past performance and its future
The first page of any filing should formatted and filed in accordance with prospects. Without reliable financial
include docket number P–14746–000. submission guidelines at: http:// statements prepared in accordance with
More information about this project, www.ferc.gov/help/submission- the Commission’s Uniform System of
including a copy of the application, can guide.asp. For user assistance contact Accounts and related regulations, the
be viewed or printed on the ‘‘eLibrary’’ FERC Online Support by email at Commission would be unable to
link of the Commission’s Web site at ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov, or by phone accurately determine the costs that
http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ at: (866) 208–3676 (toll-free), or (202) relate to a particular time period,
elibrary.asp. Enter the docket number 502–8659 for TTY. service, or line of business.
(P–14746) in the docket number field to Docket: Users interested in receiving The Commission uses data from the
access the document. For assistance, automatic notification of activity in this FERC Form 6–Q to assist in:
contact FERC Online Support. docket or in viewing/downloading 1. Implementation of its financial
Dated: March 29, 2016. comments and issuances in this docket audits and programs,
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., may do so at http://www.ferc.gov/docs- 2. continuous review of the financial
filing/docs-filing.asp. condition of regulated companies,
Deputy Secretary.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 3. assessment of energy markets,
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Ellen Brown may be reached by email 4. rate proceedings and economic
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at DataClearance@FERC.gov, telephone analyses, and
at (202) 502–8663, and fax at (202) 273– 5. research for use in litigation.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 0873. Financial information reported on the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: quarterly FERC Form 6–Q provides
Federal Energy Regulatory Title: FERC Form 6–Q, Quarterly FERC, as well as customers, investors
Commission Financial Report of Oil Pipeline and others, an important tool to help
[Docket No. IC16–7–000] Companies.1 identify emerging trends and issues
OMB Control No.: 1902–0206. affecting jurisdictional entities within
Commission Information Collection Type of Request: Three-year extension the energy industry. It also provides
Activities (FERC Form 6–Q); Comment of the FERC Form 6–Q information timely disclosures of the impacts that
Request; Extension collection requirements with no changes new accounting standards, or changes in
to the current reporting requirements. existing standards, have on
AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory Abstract: Under the Interstate jurisdictional entities, as well as the
Commission, DOE. Commerce Act (ICA) ,2 the Commission economic effects of significant
ACTION: Notice of information collection is authorized and empowered to make transactions, events, and circumstances.
and request for comments. investigations and to collect and record The reporting of this information by
data to the extent FERC may consider to jurisdictional entities assists the
SUMMARY: In compliance with the be necessary or useful for the purpose Commission in its analysis of
requirements of the Paperwork of carrying out the provisions of the profitability, efficiency, risk, and in its
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. ICA. FERC must ensure just and overall monitoring.
3506(c)(2)(A), the Federal Energy reasonable rates for transportation of Type of Respondents: Oil pipelines.
Regulatory Commission (Commission or crude oil and petroleum products by
FERC) is soliciting public comment on Estimate of Annual Burden: 3 The
pipelines in interstate commerce. Commission estimates the annual public
the currently approved information The Commission uses the information
collection, FERC Form 6–Q (Quarterly reporting burden for the information
collected by FERC Form 6–Q to carry collection as:
Financial Report of Oil Pipeline out its responsibilities in implementing
Companies).
3 The Commission defines burden as the total
DATES: Comments on the collection of 1 The renewal request in this IC docket is for the time, effort, or financial resources expended by
information are due June 3, 2016. current FERC Form 6–Q, with no change to the persons to generate, maintain, retain, or disclose or
reporting requirements. The FERC Form 6–Q is also provide information to or for a Federal agency. For
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments part of the Forms Refresh effort (started in Docket further explanation of what is included in the
(identified by Docket No. IC16–7–000) No. AD15–11), which is a separate activity. information collection burden, reference 5 Code of
by either of the following methods: 2 49 U.S.C. Part 1, Section 20, 54 Stat. 916. Federal Regulations 1320.3.
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FERC FORM 6–Q—QUARTERLY FINANCIAL REPORT OF OIL COMPANIES
Annual Total annual
Total Average Cost per
number of burden hours
Number of respondents number of burden & cost respondent
responses per & total annual
responses per response 4 ($)
respondent cost
(1) (2) (1) * (2) = (3) (4) (3) * (4) = (5) (5) ÷ (1)
175 ....................................................................................... 3 525 150 78,750 32,400
$10,800 $5,670,000
markets in eastern and southeastern Background
Comments: Comments are invited on: Pennsylvania and New Jersey. On October 10, 2014, the Commission
(1) Whether the collection of On October 8, 2015, the Federal staff granted PennEast’s request to use
information is necessary for the proper Energy Regulatory Commission the FERC’s Pre-filing environmental
performance of the functions of the (Commission or FERC) issued its Notice review process and assigned the
Commission, including whether the of Application for the project. Among PennEast Pipeline Project Docket No.
information will have practical utility; other things, that notice alerted other PF15–1–000. On January 13, 2015, the
(2) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate agencies issuing federal authorizations Commission issued, in that docket, a
of the burden and cost of the collection of the requirement to complete all Notice of Intent to Prepare an
of information, including the validity of necessary reviews and to reach a final Environmental Impact Statement for the
the methodology and assumptions used; decision on the request for a federal Planned PennEast Pipeline Project,
(3) ways to enhance the quality, utility authorization within 90 days of the date Request for Comments on
and clarity of the information collection; of issuance of the Commission staff’s Environmental Issues, and Notice of
and (4) ways to minimize the burden of final Environmental Impact Statement Public Scoping Meetings (NOI). The NOI
the collection of information on those (EIS) for the PennEast Pipeline Project. was sent to affected landowners; federal,
who are to respond, including the use This instant notice identifies the FERC state, and local government agencies;
of automated collection techniques or staff’s planned schedule for completion elected officials; environmental and
other forms of information technology. of the final EIS for the project. public interest groups; Native American
Dated: March 29, 2016. tribes; other interested parties; and local
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Schedule for Environmental Review libraries and newspapers.
Deputy Secretary. Issuance of Notice of Availability of The primary issues raised by the
[FR Doc. 2016–07537 Filed 4–1–16; 8:45 am] the final EIS—December 16, 2016. commenters during scoping included
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concerns about potential impacts on
90-day Federal Authorization agricultural farms, ground water
Decision Deadline—March 16, 2017. resources on Sourland Region, protected
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY If a schedule change becomes conservation lands, threatened and
necessary, additional notice will be endangered species, archaeological
Federal Energy Regulatory provided so the relevant agencies are sites, forest (i.e., fragmentation), and
Commission kept informed of the project’s progress. impacts on property value. In addition,
the added responsibility for emergency
Project Description response teams; potential for arsenic
[Docket No. CP15–558–000]
release into groundwater; safety of local
The project includes a total of 118.8
PennEast Pipeline Company, LLC; residents in the event of a pipeline
miles of pipeline and laterals composed
Notice of Schedule for Environmental incident; long-term impacts of
of 115.0 miles of new, 36-inch-diameter
Review of the Penneast Pipeline compressor stations on human health
pipeline extending from Luzerne
Project and the environment; construction in
County, Pennsylvania to Mercer County,
karst areas; and need for alternatives
On September 24, 2015, PennEast New Jersey. The Project would also have
were also raised.
Pipeline Company, LLC (PennEast) filed three pipeline laterals: The 2.1-mile The U.S. Environmental Protection
an application in Docket No. CP15–558– Hellertown Lateral consisting of 24- Agency, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
000 under section 7(c) of the Natural inch-diameter pipeline in Northampton U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S.
Gas Act seeking a Certificate of Public County, Pennsylvania; the 0.1-mile Fish and Wildlife Service, and U.S.
Convenience and Necessity to construct, Gilbert Lateral consisting of 12-inch- Department of Transportation’s Pipeline
operate, and maintain a new natural gas diameter pipeline in Hunterdon County, and Hazardous Materials Safety
pipeline system in Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania; and the 1.5-mile Administration are cooperating agencies
New Jersey. The proposed project is Lambertville Lateral consisting of 36- in the preparation of the EIS.
known as the PennEast Pipeline Project inch-diameter pipeline in Hunterdon
and will provide approximately 1.0 County, New Jersey. Additional Information
billion cubic feet per day of year-round
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The proposed aboveground facilities In order to receive notification of the
transportation natural gas service to consist of a new, 47,700 horsepower issuance of the EIS and to keep track of
compressor station in Kidder Township, all formal issuances and submittals in
4 The estimates for cost per response are derived Carbon County, Pennsylvania. The specific dockets, the Commission offers
using the 2015 FERC average salary plus benefits of project would also include the a free service called eSubscription. This
$149,489/year (or $72.00/hour). Commission staff
finds that the work done for this information
construction of 8 meter and regulator can reduce the amount of time you
collection is typically done by wage categories stations, 11 mainline valves, and 11 pig spend researching proceedings by
similar to those at FERC. launcher/receiver sites. automatically providing you with
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| Dates | Comments on the collection of information are due June 3, 2016. | |
| Contact | Ellen Brown may be reached by email at [email protected], telephone at (202) 502-8663, and fax at (202) 273-0873. | |
| FR Citation | 81 FR 19166 |
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