[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 16 (Wednesday, January 25, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3751-3752]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-1467]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. RD11-10-000]


Commission Information Collection Activities (FERC-725A); Comment 
Request; Submitted for OMB Review

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, DOE.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirements of section 3507(a)(1) of 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1), the Federal 
Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission or FERC) has submitted the 
information collection described below to the Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) for review. Any interested person may file comments 
directly with OMB and should address a copy of those comments to the 
Commission as explained below. In compliance with section 3506 of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act, the Commission previously issued a Notice in 
the Federal Register (76 FR 65504, 10/21/2011) requesting public 
comments. FERC received no comments on FERC-725A and has made this 
notation in its submission to OMB.

DATES: Comments in consideration of the collection of information are 
due February 24, 2012.

ADDRESSES: Comments, identified by docket number, may be filed in the 
following ways:
     Electronic Filing through http://www.ferc.gov. Documents 
created electronically using word processing software should be filed 
in native applications or print-to-PDF format and not in a scanned 
format.
     Mail/Hand Delivery: Those unable to file electronically 
may mail or hand-deliver an original of their comments to: Federal 
Energy Regulatory Commission, Secretary of the Commission, 888 First 
Street NE., Washington, DC 20426.

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: The proposed information collection in 
Docket No. RD11-10-000 relates to Reliability Standard, FAC-008-3--
Facility Ratings, developed by the North American Electric Reliability 
Corporation (NERC) and approved by the Commission in an order dated 
November 17, 2011, with a January 1, 2013 effective date for the 
mandatory compliance with the revised Reliability Standard.\1\ 
Reliability Standard FAC-008-3 modifies the currently effective version 
Reliability Standard FAC-008-1 and subsumes Reliability Standard FAC-
009-1. Concurrent with the effective date of FAC-008-3, Reliability 
Standards FAC-008-1 and FAC-009-1 will be retired. The information 
collection requirements contained in Reliability Standards FAC-008 and 
FAC-009 are contained in FERC-725A (OMB Control Number 1902-0244).
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    \1\ North American Electric Reliability Corp., 137 FERC ] 61,123 
(2011).
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    There is a net increase in information collection and reporting 
that will result from implementing Reliability Standard FAC-008-3 and 
retiring the two superseded Reliability Standards. The breakdown is as 
follows:

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                                                                    Additional reporting beyond FAC-008-1    Additional recordkeeping  beyond FAC-008-1
              FAC-008-3                        Applies to:                       and FAC-009-1                             and  FAC-009-1
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R1..................................  Generator owners............  None, this requirement is derived      Retention period increased by 2 years.
                                                                     from R1 of FAC-008-1.
R2..................................  Generator owners............  None, this requirement is derived      Retention period increased by 2 years.
                                                                     from R1 of FAC-008-1.
R3..................................  Transmission owners.........  None, this requirement is derived      Retention period increased by 2 years.
                                                                     from R1 of FAC-008-1.
R4..................................  Generator owners and          None, this requirement is derived      Retention period increased by 2 years.
                                       Transmission owners.          from R2 of FAC-008-1.
R5..................................  Generator owners and          None, this requirement is derived      Retention period increased by 2 years.
                                       Transmission owners.          from R3 of FAC-008-1.
R6..................................  Generator owners and          None, this requirement is derived      Retention period increased by 2 years.
                                       Transmission owners.          from R1 of FAC-008-1.
R7..................................  Generator owners............  None, this requirement is derived      Retention period increased by 2 years.
                                                                     from R2 of FAC-008-1.
R8..................................  Generator owners that are     Newly added reporting of the next      New retention period of 3 years.
                                       subject to R2 and             most limiting equipment and the
                                       Transmission owners.          thermal rating for the next most
                                                                     limiting equipment.
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    Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this proposed 
collection is estimated as:

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                                         Number of  respondents
                                         per compliance registry     Number of       Hours per     Total annual
  Additional proposed burden in FERC-     summary as of  August    responses per    respondent         hours
                 725A                           29, 2011            respondent     per response
                                        (A).....................             (B)             (C)    ( A x B x C)
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Report the next most limiting           \2\ 83 Generator owners.               1              80           6,640
 equipment and the thermal rating for
 the next most limiting equipment.
Report the next most limiting           342 Transmission owners.               1          \3\ 20           6,840
 equipment and the thermal rating for
 the next most limiting equipment.
Increase in retention time by 2 years   833 Generator owners....               1               2           1,666
 for R1 through R7.
Increase in retention time by 2 years   342 Transmission owners.               1               2             684
 for R1 through R7.
Compliance sub-total..................  ........................  ..............  ..............          13,480
Recordkeeping sub-total...............  ........................  ..............  ..............           2,350
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    Total.............................  ........................  ..............  ..............          15,830
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    Estimated cost burden to respondents is $1,683,400; [i.e., (13,480 
hours @ $120 an hour (compliance cost)) + (2,350 hours @ $28 an hour 
(recordkeeping cost))]. The reporting burden includes the total time, 
effort, or financial resources expended to generate, maintain, retain, 
or disclose or provide the information including: (1) Reviewing 
instructions, (2) developing, acquiring, installing, and utilizing 
technology and systems for the purposes of collecting, validating, 
verifying, processing, maintaining, disclosing and providing 
information, (3) adjusting the existing ways to comply with any 
previously applicable instructions and requirements, (4) training 
personnel to respond to a collection of information, (5) searching data 
sources, (6) completing and reviewing the collection of information, 
and (7) transmitting, or otherwise disclosing the information.
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    \2\ Requirement R8 applies to generator owners that own 
facilities between the step-up transformer and the point of 
interconnection. We estimate that 10% of all NERC registered 
generator owners own such facilities.
    \3\ Transmission Owner estimate based on the supplemental work 
required to report the next most limiting equipment and assumes all 
prerequisite work was performed in compliance with currently 
effective Reliability Standard FAC-008-1.
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    The estimate of cost for respondents is based upon salaries for 
professional and clerical support, as well as direct and indirect 
overhead costs. Direct costs include all costs directly attributable to 
providing this information, such as administrative costs and the cost 
for information technology. Indirect or overhead costs are costs 
incurred by an organization in support of its mission. These costs 
apply to activities which benefit the whole organization rather than 
any particular function or activity.

    Dated: January 18, 2012.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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