82 FR 26081 - Commission Information Collection Activities (FERC-521); Comment Request
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 107 (June 6, 2017)
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 107 (June 6, 2017)
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| FR Document | 2017-11663 |
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 107 (Tuesday, June 6, 2017)] [Notices] [Pages 26081-26082] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2017-11663] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Docket No. IC17-4-000] Commission Information Collection Activities (FERC-521); Comment Request June 1, 2017. AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy. ACTION: Comment request. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission or FERC) previously issued a 60-day Notice in the Federal Register (82 FR 14710, 3/22/2017) requesting public comments on FERC-521 (Payments for Benefits from Headwater Improvements). The Commission received no comments. In compliance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D), the Commission is submitting the FERC-521 to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review of the information collection requirements. Any interested person may file comments directly with OMB and should address a copy of those comments to the Commission as explained below. DATES: Comments on FERC-521 are due by July 6, 2017. [[Page 26082]] ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB, identified by the OMB Control No. 1902-0087, should be sent via email to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs: [email protected]. Attention: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Desk Officer. The Desk Officer may also be reached via telephone at 202-395-0710. A copy of the comments should also be sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, identified by the Docket No. IC17-4-000, 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], by telephone at (202) 502-8663, and by fax at (202) 273-0873. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: FERC-521, Payments for Benefits from Headwater Improvements. OMB Control No.: 1902-0087. Type of Request: Three-year extension of the FERC-521 information collection requirements with no changes to the current reporting requirements. Abstract: The information collected under the requirements of FERC- 521 is used by the Commission to implement the statutory provisions of Section 10(f) of the Federal Power Act (FPA).\1\ The FPA authorizes the Commission to determine headwater benefits received by downstream hydropower project owners. Headwater benefits are the additional energy production possible at a downstream hydropower project resulting from the regulation of river flows by an upstream storage reservoir. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \1\ 16 U.S.C. 803. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- When the Commission completes a study of a river basin, it determines headwater benefits charges that will be apportioned among the various downstream beneficiaries. A headwater benefits charge and the cost incurred by the Commission to complete an evaluation are paid by downstream hydropower project owners. In essence, the owners of non- federal hydropower projects that directly benefit from a headwater improvement must pay an equitable portion of the annual charges for interest, maintenance, and depreciation of the headwater project to the U.S. Treasury. The regulations provide for apportionment of these costs between the headwater project and downstream projects based on downstream energy gains and propose equitable apportionment methodology that can be applied to all river basins in which headwater improvements are built. The Commission requires owners of non-federal hydropower projects to file data for determining annual charges as outlined in 18 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 11. Type of Respondents: There are two types of entities that respond, Federal and Non-Federal hydropower project owners. The Federal entities that typically respond are the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Reclamation. The Non-Federal entities may consist of any Municipal or Non-Municipal hydropower project owner. Estimate of Annual Burden: \2\ The Commission estimates the total Public Reporting Burden for this information collection as: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \2\ ``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 1320.3. FERC-521--Payments for Benefits From Headwater Improvements -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Annual number of Cost per Number of responses Total number of Average burden & cost per Total annual burden hours and respondent respondents per responses response total annual cost ($) respondent (1) (2) (1) * (2) = (3) (4)........................ (3) * (4) = (5).............. (5) / (1) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Federal and Non-Federal hydropower 3 1 3 40 hrs.; $3,060............ 120 hrs.; $9,180............. $3,060 project owners. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total cost..................... ........... ........... ................ ........................... 120 hrs.; $9,180............. 3,060 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The total estimated annual cost burden to respondents is $9,180 [120 hrs. * $76.50/hour \3\ = $9,180]. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \3\ Commission staff thinks that respondents to this collection are similarly compensated in terms of salary and benefits. $76.50/ hour is the average FERC employee hourly salary plus benefits for 2017. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary. [FR Doc. 2017-11663 Filed 6-5-17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6717-01-P
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C services available to children three Docket ID number or via postal mail, (WSF) systems. In doing so, the study
years of age and older may develop an commercial delivery, or hand delivery. team will investigate how these systems
IEP, to be implemented after the child Please note that comments submitted by for funding schools have been
turns three, before a parent chooses Part fax or email and those submitted after implemented, the benefits in terms of
C or Part B services for their child. the comment period will not be enhanced school funding equity and
Electronic Access to This Document: accepted. Written requests for improved resource allocation practices
The official version of this document is information or comments submitted by through more equitable distributions of
the document published in the Federal postal mail or delivery should be funding to schools and increased
Register. Free Internet access to the addressed to the Director of the principal autonomy, and the challenges
official edition of the Federal Register Information Collection Clearance each district may have faced in
and the Code of Federal Regulations is Division, U.S. Department of Education, undertaking such a reform. To this end,
available via the Federal Digital System 400 Maryland Avenue SW., LBJ, Room the study team will conduct site visits
at: www.gpo.gov/fdsys. At this site you 216–34, Washington, DC 20202–4537. to a set of nine case study districts that
can view this document, as well as all FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For will involve in-person interviews with
other documents of this Department specific questions related to collection district officials and school staff
published in the Federal Register, in activities, please contact Oliver Schak, involved in WSF system administration.
text or Portable Document Format 202–453–5643. In addition, the study team will collect
(PDF). To use PDF you must have SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The and review relevant extant data (budget
Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is Department of Education (ED), in and audited expenditure files) and
available free at the site. accordance with the Paperwork administer surveys to a nationally
You may also access documents of the Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. representative sample of principals and
Department published in the Federal 3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general school district administrators.
Register by using the article search public and Federal agencies with an Dated: June 1, 2017.
feature at: www.federalregister.gov. opportunity to comment on proposed, Kate Mullan,
Specifically, through the advanced revised, and continuing collections of Acting Director, Information Collection
search feature at this site, you can limit information. This helps the Department Clearance Division, Office of the Chief Privacy
your search to documents published by assess the impact of its information Officer, Office of Management.
the Department. collection requirements and minimize [FR Doc. 2017–11653 Filed 6–5–17; 8:45 am]
Dated: June 1, 2017. the public’s reporting burden. It also BILLING CODE 4000–01–P
Ruth E. Ryder, helps the public understand the
Deputy Director, Office of Special Education Department’s information collection
Programs, delegated the duties of the requirements and provide the requested DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Assistant Secretary for Special Education and data in the desired format. ED is
Rehabilitative Services. soliciting comments on the proposed Federal Energy Regulatory
[FR Doc. 2017–11713 Filed 6–5–17; 8:45 am] information collection request (ICR) that Commission
BILLING CODE 4000–01–P is described below. The Department of
[Docket No. IC17–4–000]
Education is especially interested in
public comment addressing the Commission Information Collection
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION following issues: (1) Is this collection Activities (FERC–521); Comment
[Docket No. ED–2017–ICCD–0063] necessary to the proper functions of the Request
Department; (2) will this information be
Agency Information Collection processed and used in a timely manner; June 1, 2017.
Activities; Comment Request; Study of (3) is the estimate of burden accurate; AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory
Weighted Student Funding and (4) how might the Department enhance Commission, Department of Energy.
School-Based Systems (Study the quality, utility, and clarity of the ACTION: Comment request.
Instruments) information to be collected; and (5) how
might the Department minimize the SUMMARY: The Federal Energy
AGENCY: Office of Planning, Evaluation burden of this collection on the Regulatory Commission (Commission or
and Policy Development (OPEPD), respondents, including through the use FERC) previously issued a 60-day
Department of Education (ED). of information technology. Please note Notice in the Federal Register (82 FR
ACTION: Notice. that written comments received in 14710, 3/22/2017) requesting public
response to this notice will be comments on FERC–521 (Payments for
SUMMARY: In accordance with the Benefits from Headwater
considered public records.
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is Improvements). The Commission
Title of Collection: Study of Weighted
proposing a new information collection. received no comments.
Student Funding and School-Based
DATES: Interested persons are invited to Systems (Study Instruments). In compliance with the requirements
submit comments on or before August 7, OMB Control Number: 1875–NEW. of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
2017. Type of Review: A new information 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D), the Commission
ADDRESSES: To access and review all the collection. is submitting the FERC–521 to the
documents related to the information Respondents/Affected Public: State, Office of Management and Budget
collection listed in this notice, please Local, and Tribal Governments. (OMB) for review of the information
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use http://www.regulations.gov by Total Estimated Number of Annual collection requirements. Any interested
searching the Docket ID number ED– Responses: 738. person may file comments directly with
2017–ICCD–0063. Comments submitted Total Estimated Number of Annual OMB and should address a copy of
in response to this notice should be Burden Hours: 212. those comments to the Commission as
submitted electronically through the Abstract: The purpose of this study is explained below.
Federal eRulemaking Portal at http:// to examine districts that have DATES: Comments on FERC–521 are due
www.regulations.gov by selecting the implemented weighted student funding by July 6, 2017.
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ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB, may do so at http://www.ferc.gov/docs- evaluation are paid by downstream
identified by the OMB Control No. filing/docs-filing.asp. hydropower project owners. In essence,
1902–0087, should be sent via email to FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: the owners of non-federal hydropower
the Office of Information and Regulatory Ellen Brown may be reached by email projects that directly benefit from a
Affairs: oira_submission@omb.gov. at DataClearance@FERC.gov, by headwater improvement must pay an
Attention: Federal Energy Regulatory telephone at (202) 502–8663, and by fax equitable portion of the annual charges
Commission Desk Officer. The Desk at (202) 273–0873. for interest, maintenance, and
Officer may also be reached via SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: depreciation of the headwater project to
telephone at 202–395–0710. Title: FERC–521, Payments for the U.S. Treasury. The regulations
A copy of the comments should also Benefits from Headwater Improvements. provide for apportionment of these costs
be sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory OMB Control No.: 1902–0087. between the headwater project and
Commission, identified by the Docket Type of Request: Three-year extension downstream projects based on
No. IC17–4–000, by either of the of the FERC–521 information collection downstream energy gains and propose
following methods: requirements with no changes to the equitable apportionment methodology
• eFiling at Commission’s Web site: current reporting requirements. that can be applied to all river basins in
http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ Abstract: The information collected which headwater improvements are
efiling.asp. under the requirements of FERC–521 is built. The Commission requires owners
used by the Commission to implement of non-federal hydropower projects to
• Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier: file data for determining annual charges
the statutory provisions of Section 10(f)
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, as outlined in 18 Code of Federal
of the Federal Power Act (FPA).1 The
Secretary of the Commission, 888 First Regulations (CFR) part 11.
FPA authorizes the Commission to
Street NE., Washington, DC 20426. Type of Respondents: There are two
determine headwater benefits received
Instructions: All submissions must be by downstream hydropower project types of entities that respond, Federal
formatted and filed in accordance with owners. Headwater benefits are the and Non-Federal hydropower project
submission guidelines at: http:// additional energy production possible at owners. The Federal entities that
www.ferc.gov/help/submission- a downstream hydropower project typically respond are the U.S. Army
guide.asp. For user assistance contact resulting from the regulation of river Corps of Engineers and the U.S.
FERC Online Support by email at flows by an upstream storage reservoir. Department of Interior Bureau of
ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov, or by phone When the Commission completes a Reclamation. The Non-Federal entities
at: (866) 208–3676 (toll-free), or (202) study of a river basin, it determines may consist of any Municipal or Non-
502–8659 for TTY. headwater benefits charges that will be Municipal hydropower project owner.
Docket: Users interested in receiving apportioned among the various Estimate of Annual Burden: 2 The
automatic notification of activity in this downstream beneficiaries. A headwater Commission estimates the total Public
docket or in viewing/downloading benefits charge and the cost incurred by Reporting Burden for this information
comments and issuances in this docket the Commission to complete an collection as:
FERC–521—PAYMENTS FOR BENEFITS FROM HEADWATER IMPROVEMENTS
Annual
number of Average burden & Total annual burden Cost per
Number of Total number of
responses cost per hours and total annual respondent
respondents responses
per response cost ($)
respondent
(1) (2) (1) * (2) = (3) (4) (3) * (4) = (5) (5) ÷ (1)
Federal and Non-Federal hydropower project owners .. 3 1 3 40 hrs.; $3,060 ..... 120 hrs.; $9,180 ........ $3,060
Total cost ................................................................. .................... .................... ............................ ............................... 120 hrs.; $9,180 ........ 3,060
The total estimated annual cost and (4) ways to minimize the burden of DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
burden to respondents is $9,180 [120 the collection of information on those
hrs. * $76.50/hour 3 = $9,180]. who are to respond, including the use Federal Energy Regulatory
Comments: Comments are invited on: of automated collection techniques or Commission
(1) Whether the collection of other forms of information technology.
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1 16 U.S.C. 803. of what is included in the information collection salary and benefits. $76.50/hour is the average
2 ‘‘Burden’’ is the total time, effort, or financial burden, refer to Title 5 Code of Federal Regulations FERC employee hourly salary plus benefits for
resources expended by persons to generate, 1320.3. 2017.
maintain, retain, or disclose or provide information 3 Commission staff thinks that respondents to this
to or for a Federal agency. For further explanation collection are similarly compensated in terms of
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