82_FR_48425 82 FR 48226 - Commission Information Collection Activity (FERC-717); Comment Request; Extension

82 FR 48226 - Commission Information Collection Activity (FERC-717); Comment Request; Extension

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 199 (October 17, 2017)

Page Range48226-48227
FR Document2017-22472

In compliance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission or FERC) is submitting its information collection, FERC-717, (Open Access Same-Time Information System and Standards for Business Practices and Communication Protocol) which will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for a 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. The Commission published Notice in the Federal Register in Docket No. IC17-13-000, (82 FR 37580, 8/11/2017) requesting public comments. FERC received no comments in response to the Notice and is indicating that in its submittal to the OMB.

Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 199 (Tuesday, October 17, 2017)
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 199 (Tuesday, October 17, 2017)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. IC17-13-000]


Commission Information Collection Activity (FERC-717); Comment 
Request; Extension

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Comment request.

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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 submitting its information collection, FERC-717, (Open Access 
Same-Time Information System and Standards for Business Practices and 
Communication Protocol) which will be submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for a 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. The Commission published Notice in the Federal 
Register in Docket No. IC17-13-000, (82 FR 37580, 8/11/2017) requesting 
public comments. FERC received no comments in response to the Notice 
and is indicating that in its submittal to the OMB.

DATES: Comments on the collection of information are due November 16, 
2017.

ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB, identified by OMB Control No. 1902-
0173, 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 Commission, in 
Docket No. IC17-13-000 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-717, Open Access Same-Time information System and 
Standards for Business Practices and Communication Protocols.
    OMB Control No.: 1902-0173.
    Type of Request: Three-year approval of the FERC-717 information 
collection requirements with no changes to the current reporting 
requirements.
    Abstract: The Commission directs all public utilities that own, 
control or operate facilities for transmitting energy in interstate 
commerce to provide certain types of information regarding their 
transmission operations on an Open Access Same-time Information System 
(OASIS). The Commission does not believe that open-access 
nondiscriminatory transmission services can be completely realized 
until it removes real-world obstacles that prevent transmission 
customers from competing effectively with the Transmission Provider. 
One of the obstacles is unequal access to transmission information. The 
Commission believes that transmission customers must have simultaneous 
access to the same information available to the Transmission Provider 
if truly nondiscriminatory transmission services are to be a reality.
    The Commission also established Standards of Conduct requiring that 
personnel engaged in transmission system operations function 
independently from personnel engaged in marketing functions. The 
Standards of Conduct were designed to prevent employees of a public 
utility (or any of its affiliates) engaged in marketing functions from 
preferential access to OASIS-related information or from engaging in 
unduly discriminatory business practices. Companies were required to 
separate their transmission operations/reliability functions from their 
marketing/merchant functions and prevent system operators from 
providing merchant employees and employees of affiliates with 
transmission-related information not available to all customers at the 
same time through public posting on the OASIS.
    Type of Respondents: Transmission Owners and Transmission 
Operators.
    Estimate of Annual Burden: \1\ The Commission estimates an 
adjustment in the annual public reporting burden for the FERC-717. The 
adjustment is due to Transmission Providers being allowed to file 
responses jointly or individually. The Transmission Provider may 
delegate this responsibility to a Responsible Party such as another 
Transmission Provider, an Independent System Operator, a Regional 
Transmission Group, or a Regional Reliability Council. The number 
comprise two separate entities: Transmission Owners and Transmission 
Operators. The responses submitted are our best estimate of the 
Transmission Operators and remaining individual Transmission Owners. 
The rationale is that some Transmission Owners have elected to turn 
over operational control of their collective transmission systems to 
Transmission Operators, including RTOs/ISOs (as authorized in 18 CFR 
37.5). These Transmission Operators offer OASIS access to the 
collective systems facilitating a single OASIS transmission request 
serving multiple transmission systems. As a result of

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these efficiency gains, the lower respondent count is appropriate.
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    \1\ 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.
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    As a result of the efficiency gains, and an overestimate of the 
respondents in our past request, we are submitting a more accurate 
number of respondents. The estimate below reflects the work associated 
with the current information collection requirements:

                   FERC-717, Open Access Same-Time Information System and Standards for Business Practices and Communication Protocols
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                                                     Annual  number
                                        Number of     of  responses   Total  number  Average burden hours and cost per    Total annual burden hours and
Information collection requirements    respondents         per        of  responses             response \2\                    total annual cost
                                                       respondent
                                                (1)             (2)     (1) * (2) =  (4)..............................  (3) * (4) = (5)
                                                                                (3)
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FERC-717...........................             170               1             170  30 hrs.; $2,295..................  5,100 hrs.; $390,150.
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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.
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    \2\ The Commission staff thinks that the average respondent for 
this collection is similarly situated to the Commission, in terms of 
salary plus benefits. Based upon FERC's 2017 annual average of 
$158,754 (for salary plus benefits), the average hourly cost is 
$76.50/hour.

    Dated: October 11, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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                                                   Persons unable to file electronically                DATES:   Comments on the collection of                transmission information. The
                                                should submit an original and 5 copies                  information are due November 16, 2017.                Commission believes that transmission
                                                of the intervention or protest to the                   ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB,                   customers must have simultaneous
                                                Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,                   identified by OMB Control No. 1902–                   access to the same information available
                                                888 First Street NE., Washington, DC                    0173, should be sent via email to the                 to the Transmission Provider if truly
                                                20426.                                                  Office of Information and Regulatory                  nondiscriminatory transmission services
                                                   The filings in the above-referenced                  Affairs: oira_submission@omb.gov.                     are to be a reality.
                                                proceeding are accessible in the                        Attention: Federal Energy Regulatory                     The Commission also established
                                                Commission’s eLibrary system by                         Commission Desk Officer. The Desk                     Standards of Conduct requiring that
                                                clicking on the appropriate link in the                 Officer may also be reached via                       personnel engaged in transmission
                                                above list. They are also available for                 telephone at 202–395–0710.                            system operations function
                                                electronic review in the Commission’s                      A copy of the comments should also                 independently from personnel engaged
                                                Public Reference Room in Washington,                    be sent to the Commission, in Docket                  in marketing functions. The Standards
                                                DC. There is an eSubscription link on                   No. IC17–13–000 by either of the                      of Conduct were designed to prevent
                                                the Web site that enables subscribers to                following methods:                                    employees of a public utility (or any of
                                                receive email notification when a                          • eFiling at Commission’s Web site:                its affiliates) engaged in marketing
                                                document is added to a subscribed                       http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/                      functions from preferential access to
                                                docket(s). For assistance with any FERC                 efiling.asp.                                          OASIS-related information or from
                                                Online service, please email                               • Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier:                      engaging in unduly discriminatory
                                                FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call                      Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,                 business practices. Companies were
                                                (866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call               Secretary of the Commission, 888 First                required to separate their transmission
                                                (202) 502–8659.                                         Street NE., Washington, DC 20426.                     operations/reliability functions from
                                                  Dated: October 11, 2017.                                 Instructions: All submissions must be              their marketing/merchant functions and
                                                                                                        formatted and filed in accordance with                prevent system operators from
                                                Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
                                                                                                        submission guidelines at: http://                     providing merchant employees and
                                                Deputy Secretary.
                                                                                                        www.ferc.gov/help/submission-                         employees of affiliates with
                                                [FR Doc. 2017–22463 Filed 10–16–17; 8:45 am]            guide.asp. For user assistance contact                transmission-related information not
                                                BILLING CODE 6717–01–P                                  FERC Online Support by email at                       available to all customers at the same
                                                                                                        ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov, or by phone               time through public posting on the
                                                                                                        at: (866) 208–3676 (toll-free), or (202)              OASIS.
                                                DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY                                    502–8659 for TTY.                                        Type of Respondents: Transmission
                                                Federal Energy Regulatory                                  Docket: Users interested in receiving              Owners and Transmission Operators.
                                                Commission                                              automatic notification of activity in this               Estimate of Annual Burden: 1 The
                                                                                                        docket or in viewing/downloading                      Commission estimates an adjustment in
                                                                                                        comments and issuances in this docket                 the annual public reporting burden for
                                                [Docket No. IC17–13–000]                                may do so at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-                the FERC–717. The adjustment is due to
                                                                                                        filing/docs-filing.asp.                               Transmission Providers being allowed
                                                Commission Information Collection
                                                Activity (FERC–717); Comment                            FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:                      to file responses jointly or individually.
                                                Request; Extension                                      Ellen Brown may be reached by email                   The Transmission Provider may
                                                                                                        at DataClearance@FERC.gov, telephone                  delegate this responsibility to a
                                                AGENCY:  Federal Energy Regulatory                      at (202) 502–8663, and fax at (202) 273–              Responsible Party such as another
                                                Commission.                                             0873.                                                 Transmission Provider, an Independent
                                                ACTION: Comment request.                                SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:                            System Operator, a Regional
                                                                                                           Title: FERC–717, Open Access Same-                 Transmission Group, or a Regional
                                                SUMMARY:   In compliance with the                       Time information System and Standards                 Reliability Council. The number
                                                requirements of the Paperwork                           for Business Practices and                            comprise two separate entities:
                                                Reduction Act of 1995, the Federal                      Communication Protocols.                              Transmission Owners and Transmission
                                                Energy Regulatory Commission                               OMB Control No.: 1902–0173.                        Operators. The responses submitted are
                                                (Commission or FERC) is submitting its                     Type of Request: Three-year approval               our best estimate of the Transmission
                                                information collection, FERC–717,                       of the FERC–717 information collection                Operators and remaining individual
                                                (Open Access Same-Time Information                      requirements with no changes to the                   Transmission Owners. The rationale is
                                                System and Standards for Business                       current reporting requirements.                       that some Transmission Owners have
                                                Practices and Communication Protocol)                      Abstract: The Commission directs all               elected to turn over operational control
                                                which will be submitted to the Office of                public utilities that own, control or                 of their collective transmission systems
                                                Management and Budget (OMB) for a                       operate facilities for transmitting energy            to Transmission Operators, including
                                                review of the information collection                    in interstate commerce to provide                     RTOs/ISOs (as authorized in 18 CFR
                                                requirements. Any interested person                     certain types of information regarding                37.5). These Transmission Operators
                                                may file comments directly with OMB                     their transmission operations on an                   offer OASIS access to the collective
                                                and should address a copy of those                      Open Access Same-time Information                     systems facilitating a single OASIS
                                                comments to the Commission as                           System (OASIS). The Commission does                   transmission request serving multiple
                                                explained below. The Commission                         not believe that open-access
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                                                                                                                                                              transmission systems. As a result of
                                                published Notice in the Federal                         nondiscriminatory transmission services
                                                Register in Docket No. IC17–13–000, (82                 can be completely realized until it                      1 Burden is defined as the total time, effort, or

                                                FR 37580, 8/11/2017) requesting public                  removes real-world obstacles that                     financial resources expended by persons to
                                                comments. FERC received no comments                     prevent transmission customers from                   generate, maintain, retain, or disclose or provide
                                                                                                                                                              information to or for a Federal agency. For further
                                                in response to the Notice and is                        competing effectively with the                        explanation of what is included in the information
                                                indicating that in its submittal to the                 Transmission Provider. One of the                     collection burden, refer to 5 Code of Federal
                                                OMB.                                                    obstacles is unequal access to                        Regulations 1320.3.



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                                                these efficiency gains, the lower                               our past request, we are submitting a                   associated with the current information
                                                respondent count is appropriate.                                more accurate number of respondents.                    collection requirements:
                                                  As a result of the efficiency gains, and                      The estimate below reflects the work
                                                an overestimate of the respondents in
                                                        FERC–717, OPEN ACCESS SAME-TIME INFORMATION SYSTEM AND STANDARDS FOR BUSINESS PRACTICES AND
                                                                                         COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS
                                                                                                                                       Annual                Total      Average burden hours          Total annual burden
                                                                                                                Number of             number of
                                                      Information collection requirements                                                                 number of         and cost per                hours and total
                                                                                                               respondents         responses per          responses          response 2                   annual cost
                                                                                                                                     respondent

                                                                                                                      (1)               (2)           (1) * (2) = (3)              (4)                   (3) * (4) = (5)

                                                FERC–717 ...................................................                170                  1               170    30 hrs.; $2,295 ..........   5,100 hrs.; $390,150.



                                                  Comments: Comments are invited on:                            on EISs are available at: https://                      Washington, DC 20052. The CHPAC
                                                (1) Whether the collection of                                   cdxnodengn.epa.gov/cdx-nepa-public/                     advises the Environmental Protection
                                                information is necessary for the proper                         action/eis/search.                                      Agency on science, regulations, and
                                                performance of the functions of the                             EIS No. 20170198, Final, USAF, MD,                      other issues relating to children’s
                                                Commission, including whether the                                 Presidential Aircraft Recapitalization                environmental health.
                                                information will have practical utility;                          Program, Joint Base Andrews-Naval                     DATES: November 29 and 30 at The
                                                (2) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate                         Air Facility, Review Period Ends:                     George Washington University Milken
                                                of the burden and cost of the collection                          11/15/2017, Contact: Ms Jean Renolds                  Institute School of Public Health in
                                                of information, including the validity of                         210–925–4534.                                         Washington, DC.
                                                the methodology and assumptions used;                           EIS No. 20170200, Draft, FTA, PA, King                  ADDRESSES: 950 New Hampshire Ave.
                                                (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility                          of Prussia Rail Project, Comment                      NW., Washington, DC 20052.
                                                and clarity of the information collection;                        Period Ends: 12/4/2017, Contact:                      FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
                                                and (4) ways to minimize the burden of                            Daniel Koenig 202–366–8224.                           Angela Hackel, Office of Children’s
                                                the collection of information on those                          EIS No. 20170201, Draft, USN, CA,                       Health Protection, USEPA, MC 1107T,
                                                who are to respond, including the use                             Hawaii-Southern Californian Training                  1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW.,
                                                of automated collection techniques or                             and Testing, Comment Period Ends:                     Washington, DC 20460, (202) 566–2977
                                                other forms of information technology.                            12/12/2017, Contact: Nora Macariola-                  or hackel.angela@epa.gov.
                                                  Dated: October 11, 2017.                                        See 808–472–1402.                                     SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
                                                Kimberly D. Bose,                                               EIS No. 20170202, Draft, USFS, CO, CP                   meetings of the CHPAC are open to the
                                                Secretary.                                                        District-wide Salvage, Comment                        public. An agenda will be posted to
                                                [FR Doc. 2017–22472 Filed 10–16–17; 8:45 am]
                                                                                                                  Period Ends: 11/30/2017, Contact:                     epa.gov/children.
                                                                                                                  Mike Tooley 719–274–6321.                               Access and Accommodations: For
                                                BILLING CODE 6717–01–P
                                                                                                                   Dated: October 9, 2017.                              information on access or services for
                                                                                                                Kelly Knight,                                           individuals with disabilities, please
                                                ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION                                        Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office              contact Angela Hackel at 202–5566–
                                                AGENCY                                                          of Federal Activities.                                  2977.
                                                                                                                [FR Doc. 2017–22165 Filed 10–13–17; 12:00 pm]             Dated: October 2, 2017.
                                                [ER–FRL–9035–6]
                                                                                                                BILLING CODE 6560–50–P                                  Angela Hackel,
                                                Environmental Impact Statements;                                                                                        Designated Federal Official.
                                                Notice of Availability                                                                                                  [FR Doc. 2017–22498 Filed 10–16–17; 8:45 am]
                                                                                                                ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION                                BILLING CODE 6560–50–P
                                                  Responsible Agency: Office of Federal                         AGENCY
                                                Activities, General Information (202)
                                                                                                                [FRL–9969–52–OA]
                                                564–7146 or http://www2.epa.gov/                                                                                        ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
                                                nepa/.                                                          Notice of Meeting of the EPA                            AGENCY
                                                Weekly receipt of Environmental Impact                          Children’s Health Protection Advisory
                                                  Statements (EIS)                                                                                                      [FRL–9969–71–OA]
                                                                                                                Committee (CHPAC)
                                                Filed 10/02/2017 through 10/06/2017
                                                                                                                AGENCY: Environmental Protection                        Notification of a Public Teleconference
                                                Pursuant to 40 CFR 1506.9
                                                                                                                Agency (EPA).                                           of the Science Advisory Board Risk
                                                Notice                                                                                                                  and Technology Review (RTR)
                                                                                                                ACTION: Notice of meeting.
                                                  Section 309(a) of the Clean Air Act                                                                                   Methods Review Panel
                                                requires that EPA make public its                               SUMMARY:   Pursuant to the provisions of                AGENCY: Environmental Protection
                                                                                                                the Federal Advisory Committee Act,
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                                                comments on EISs issued by other                                                                                        Agency (EPA).
                                                Federal agencies. EPA’s comment letters                         notice is hereby given that the next                    ACTION: Notice.
                                                                                                                meeting of the Children’s Health
                                                  2 The Commission staff thinks that the average                Protection Advisory Committee                           SUMMARY:   The EPA Science Advisory
                                                respondent for this collection is similarly situated            (CHPAC) will be held November 29 and                    Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a
                                                to the Commission, in terms of salary plus benefits.
                                                Based upon FERC’s 2017 annual average of
                                                                                                                30 at The George Washington University                  public teleconference meeting of the
                                                $158,754 (for salary plus benefits), the average                Milken Institute School of Public Health                Science Advisory Board (SAB) Risk and
                                                hourly cost is $76.50/hour.                                     950 New Hampshire Ave. NW.,                             Technology Review (RTR) Methods


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CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionComment request.
DatesComments on the collection of information are due November 16, 2017.
ContactEllen Brown may be reached by email at [email protected], telephone at (202) 502-8663, and fax at (202) 273-0873.
FR Citation82 FR 48226 

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