[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 198 (Friday, October 12, 2018)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 51654-51659]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-22074]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
18 CFR Parts 2 and 38
[Docket No. RM05-5-026]
Standards for Business Practices and Communication Protocols for
Public Utilities
AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission)
proposes to remove the incorporation by reference of the Wholesale
Electric Quadrant (WEQ) WEQ-006 Time Error Correction Business Practice
Standards as adopted by the North American Energy Standards Board
(NAESB) in its WEQ Version 003.0 Businesses Practice Standards. The
WEQ-006 Manual Time Error Correction Business Practice Standards
previously defined the commercial based procedures to be used for
reducing time error to keep the system's time within acceptable limits
of true time. NAESB's latest version of its Business Practice Standards
retires and eliminates its Manual Time Error Correction Business
Practice Standards to correspond with the removal of the Time Error
Correction requirements of the North American Electric Reliability
Corporation (NERC), which was approved by the Commission in 2017. The
Commission also proposes to incorporate by reference Standard WEQ-000
(Version 003.2), which eliminates the definitions of ``Time Error'' and
``Time Error Correction'' as well as making unrelated minor
corrections.
DATES: Comments are due November 13, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Comments, identified by Docket No. RM05-5-026, 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-
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deliver comments to: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Secretary of
the Commission, 888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426.
Instructions: For detailed instructions on submitting comments and
additional information on the rulemaking process, see the Comment
Procedures Section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Michael P. Lee (technical issues), Office of Energy Policy and
Innovation, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE,
Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502-6548
Gary D. Cohen (legal issues), Office of the General Counsel, Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE, Washington, DC
20426, (202) 502-8321
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Table of Contents
Paragraph Nos.
I. Background........................................ 2
II. Discussion....................................... 5
III. Implementation.................................. 8
IV. Notice of Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards... 9
V. Incorporation By Reference........................ 11
VI. Information Collection Statement................. 16
VII. Environmental Analysis.......................... 23
VIII. Regulatory Flexibility Act Certification....... 24
IX. Comment Procedures............................... 28
X. Document Availability............................. 32
1. In this Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR), the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (Commission) proposes to remove its incorporation
by reference of the Wholesale Electric Quadrant (WEQ) WEQ-006 Time
Error Correction Business Practice Standards as adopted by the North
American Energy Standards Board (NAESB) in its WEQ Version 003.0
Businesses Practice Standards.\1\ NAESB adopted the Manual Time Error
Correction Business Practice Standard to correspond with a similar
reliability standard adopted by the North American Electric Reliability
Corporation (NERC). These Time Error Correction standards defined the
commercial methods used for reducing time error to keep the system's
time within acceptable limits of true time. NERC retired its Time Error
Correction reliability standard (BAL-004-0) and the Commission approved
that retirement in a letter order issued on January 18, 2017 in Docket
No. RD17-1-000. To maintain parallel treatment with NERC's reliability
standards, NAESB, in Version 003.2 of its standards, retired and
eliminated the standards contained in its WEQ-006 Manual Time Error
Correction Business Practice Standards.\2\
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\1\ NAESB's WEQ Version 003.1 and WEQ Version 003.2 Business
Practice Standards are currently pending Commission review.
\2\ NAESB notified the Commission that it had adopted Version
003.2 of its standards on December 7, 2018, in Docket No. RM05-5-
000.
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I. Background
2. NAESB is a non-profit standards development organization that
serves as an industry forum for the development of business practice
standards and communication protocols for the wholesale and retail
natural gas and electricity industry sectors. Since 1995, NAESB and its
predecessor, the Gas Industry Standards Board (GISB), have been
accredited members of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI),
complying with ANSI's requirements that its standards reflect a
consensus of the affected industries.\3\
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\3\ Prior to the establishment of NAESB in 2001, the
Commission's development of business practice standards for the
wholesale electric industry was aided by two ad hoc industry working
groups established during the rulemaking proceeding that resulted in
issuance of Order No. 889 and the creation of the Open Access Same-
Time Information System (OASIS), while GISB's efforts involved the
development of business practice standards for the wholesale natural
gas industry. Once formally established, NAESB took over the
standards development previously handled by GISB and by the electric
working groups.
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3. NAESB supports three quadrants of the gas and electric
industries--wholesale gas, wholesale electric, and retail markets
quadrants.\4\ NAESB's standards include business practices intended to
standardize and streamline the transactional processes of the natural
gas and electric industries, as well as communication protocols and
related standards designed to improve the efficiency of communication
within each industry. All participants in the gas and electric
industries are eligible to join NAESB and participate in standards
development.
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\4\ The retail gas quadrant and the retail electric quadrant
were combined into the retail markets quadrant. NAESB continues to
refer to these working groups as ``quadrants'' even though there are
now only three quadrants.
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4. NAESB develops its standards under a consensus process so that
the standards draw support from a wide range of industry members.
NAESB's procedures are designed to ensure that all persons choosing to
participate can have input into the development of a standard,
regardless of whether they are members of NAESB, and each standard
NAESB adopts is supported by a consensus of the relevant industry
segments. Standards that fail to gain consensus support are not
adopted. NAESB's consistent practice has been to submit a report to the
Commission after it has made revisions to existing business practice
standards or has developed and adopted new business practice standards.
NAESB has submitted a report to the Commission to reserve specific
standards in conjunction with the retirement of corresponding NERC
standards. NAESB's standards are voluntary standards, which become
mandatory for public utilities upon incorporation by reference by the
Commission.
II. Discussion
5. As discussed below, we propose to revise the Commission's
regulations at 18 CFR 38.1(b)) to remove the standard WEQ-006 governing
the business practices for Time Error Correction. NAESB approved this
removal on December 8, 2017. We also propose to incorporate
corresponding modifications to WEQ-000, Abbreviations, Acronyms, and
Definition of Terms Business Practice Standards, which were adopted by
NAESB on that same date.
6. The WEQ-000 Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Definition of Terms
standards define the terms used throughout the WEQ Business Practice
Standards. Consistent with NAESB's removal of Standard WEQ-006 from the
WEQ Version 003.2 Business Practice Standards, NAESB also deleted the
terms ``Time Error'' and ``Time Error Correction'' from the WEQ-000
standards as well as making other minor
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corrections to defined terms unrelated to time error correction.
7. The WEQ-006 Manual Time Error Correction Business Practice
Standards defines the commercial based procedures to be used for
reducing time error to within acceptable limits of true time. However,
NERC and NAESB are both in agreement that it is now appropriate to
retire these standards. NERC decided to retire the Reliability Standard
BAL-004-0 (Time Error Correction), since the standard does not
materially support reliability of the Bulk Power System and has been
superseded by newer standards since Order No. 693,\5\ rendering
Reliability Standard BAL-004-0 redundant. NERC took the first step in
accomplishing this by submitting for Commission approval a revision to
Reliability Standards BAL-004-0 to retire the standard but reserves the
title of the standard as a placeholder. The Commission approved this
NERC action in a letter order issued in Docket No. RD17-1-000 on
January 18, 2017. After the Commission's approval of NERC's retirement
of Reliability Standards BAL-004-0, NAESB submitted a parallel revision
to the WEQ Version 003.2 Business Practice Standards in which it
retired and reserved all the standards contained in Standard WEQ-006,
although NAESB retained the standard number WEQ-006 and the title
``Manual Time Error Correction.'' \6\ NAESB also made corresponding
revisions to the definitions in Standard WEQ-000. Since NAESB has
retired all of the standards governing Manual Time Error Correction,
the Commission proposes to remove the NAESB standard WEQ-006 from its
incorporation by reference, and to adopt NAESB's revisions to its
definitions to ensure consistency between the NERC and NAESB standards.
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\5\ Mandatory Reliability Standards for the Bulk-Power System,
Order No. 693, FERC Stats. & Regs. ] 31,242, PP 382-386, order on
reh'g, Order No. 693-A, 120 FERC ] 61,053 (2007). Since issuance of
Order No. 693 in 2007, NERC has periodically updated and revised its
reliability standards. The standards were most recently updated on
July 3, 2018.
\6\ NERC replaced the manual time error correction standard with
a guideline for automatic time error correction that would manage
continued adherence to a frequency approximating 60 Hertz (Hz) over
long-term averages. NAESB did not receive a request to adopt, and
has not adopted, any business practice standards to complement
NERC's automatic time error guideline.
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III. Implementation
8. We do not propose to require public utilities to make filings
upon adoption of this proposal to implement the removal of WEQ-006
Manual Time Error Correction. We generally require public utilities to
make compliance filings revising their tariffs to acknowledge their
responsibility to comply with the revised standards or include a
provision in their tariffs stating that they will comply with the
latest version of the NAESB business practice standards as incorporated
by reference by the Commission.\7\ Because we are only proposing to
remove a single standard, we see no necessity for those utilities that
make tariff filings to incorporate NAESB standards upon adoption of
this proposal. Such filings can be made after the Commission addresses
the remainder of the standards included in WEQ Version 003.2 of the
standards.
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\7\ See Standards for Business Practices and Communication
Protocols for Public Utilities, Order No. 676-H, FERC Stats. & Regs.
] 31,359, at P 71.
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IV. Notice of Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards
9. The retirement and reservation of the NAESB WEQ-006 Manual Time
Error Correction Business Practice Standards was adopted by NAESB under
NAESB's consensus procedures.\8\ As the Commission found in Order No.
676, adoption of consensus standards is appropriate because the
consensus process helps ensure the reasonableness of the standards by
requiring that the standards draw support from a broad spectrum of all
segments of the industry. Moreover, since the industry itself has to
conduct business under these standards, the Commission's regulations
should reflect those standards that have the widest possible support.
In section 12(d) of the National Technology Transfer and Advancement
Act of 1995, Congress affirmatively requires federal agencies to use
technical standards developed by voluntary consensus standards
organizations, like NAESB, as a means to carry out policy objectives or
activities unless use of such standards would be inconsistent with
applicable law or otherwise impractical.\9\
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\8\ Under this process, to be approved a standard must receive a
super-majority vote of 67 percent of the members of the WEQ's
Executive Committee with support from at least 40 percent from each
of the five industry segments--transmission, generation, marketer/
brokers, distribution/load serving entities, and end users. For
final approval, 67 percent of the WEQ's general membership must
ratify the standards.
\9\ Public Law 104-113, 12(d), 110 Stat. 775 (1996), 15 U.S.C.
272 note (1997).
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10. Office of Management and Budget Circular A-119 (section 11)
(February 10, 1998) provides that Federal Agencies should publish a
request for comment in a NOPR when the agency is seeking to issue or
revise a regulation proposing to adopt a voluntary consensus standard
or a government-unique standard. In this NOPR, the Commission is
proposing to incorporate by reference NAESB's revised WEQ-006 Manual
Time Error Correction Business Practice Standards, which retire and
``reserve'' these standards.
V. Incorporation by Reference
11. The Office of the Federal Register requires agencies
incorporating material by reference in final rules to discuss, in the
preamble of the final rule, the ways that the materials it incorporates
by reference are reasonably available to interested parties and how
interested parties can obtain the materials.\10\ The regulations also
require agencies to summarize, in the preamble of the final rule, the
material it incorporates by reference.
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\10\ 1 CFR 51.5. See Incorporation by Reference, 79 FR 66267
(Nov. 7, 2014).
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12. Prior to NAESB's adoption of the WEQ Version 003.2 Business
Practice Standards, earlier iterations of the NAESB WEQ-006 Manual Time
Error Correction Business Practice Standards defined the commercial
procedures to be used for reducing time error to keep the system's time
within acceptable limits of true time. However, in the latest version
of this standard (the version of Standard WEQ-006 appearing in the WEQ
Version 003.2 Business Practice Standards) NAESB has retired and
eliminated these standards. And in this NOPR, we propose to incorporate
by reference the version of these standards that retires and reserves
Standard WEQ-006.
13. We also propose in this NOPR to incorporate by reference the
revised WEQ-000 that deletes the definitions of the terms ``Time
Error'' and ``Time Error Correction'' as well as making other minor
corrections to defined terms unrelated to time error correction. The
WEQ-000 Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Definition of Terms Business
Practice Standards provide a single location for all abbreviations,
acronyms, and defined terms referenced in the WEQ Business Practice
Standards. These standards provide common nomenclature for terms within
the wholesale electric industry, reducing confusion and opportunities
for misinterpretation or misunderstandings among industry participants.
14. Our regulations provide that copies of the NAESB standards
incorporated by reference may be obtained from the North American
Energy Standards Board, 801 Travis Street, Suite 1675, Houston, TX
77002, Phone: (713) 356-0060. NAESB's website is located at http://
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www.naesb.org/. Copies of the standards may be inspected at the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, Public Reference and Files Maintenance
Branch, 888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426, Phone: (202) 502-
8371, http://www.ferc.gov.\11\
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\11\ 18 CFR 284.12.
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15. NAESB is a private consensus standards developer that develops
voluntary wholesale and retail standards related to the energy
industry. The procedures used by NAESB make its standards reasonably
available to those affected by the Commission regulations, which
generally is comprised of entities that have the means to acquire the
information they need to effectively participate in Commission
proceedings.\12\ NAESB provides a free electronic read-only version of
the standards for a three business day period or, in the case of a
regulatory comment period, through the end of the comment period.\13\
Participants can join NAESB, for an annual membership cost of $7,000,
which entitles them to full participation in NAESB and enables them to
obtain these standards at no additional cost.\14\ Non-members may
obtain a complete set of Standards Manuals, Booklets, and Contracts on
CD for $2,000 and the Individual Standards Manual or Booklets for each
standard by email for $250 per manual or booklet.\15\ In addition,
NAESB considers requests for waivers of the charges on a case by case
basis based on need.
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\12\ As a private, consensus standards developer, NAESB needs
the funds obtained from its membership fees and sales of its
standards to finance the organization. The parties affected by these
Commission regulations generally are highly sophisticated and have
the means to acquire the information they need to effectively
participate in Commission proceedings.
\13\ Procedures for non-members to evaluate work products before
purchasing are available at https://www.naesb.org/misc/NAESB_Nonmember_Evaluation.pdf. See Incorporation by Reference, 79
FR at 66271, n.51 & 53 (Nov. 7, 2014) (citing to NAESB's procedure
of providing ``no-cost, no-print electronic access,'' NAESB Comment
at 1, http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=OFR-2013-0001-
0023).
\14\ North American Energy Standards Board Membership
Application, https://www.naesb.org/pdf4/naesbapp.pdf.
\15\ NAESB Materials Order Form, https://www.naesb.org//pdf/ordrform.pdf.
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VI. Information Collection Statement
16. The collection of information contained in this proposed rule
is subject to review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under
section 3507(d) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
3507(d).\16\ OMB's regulations require approval of certain information
collection requirements imposed by agency rules.\17\ Upon approval of a
collection(s) of information, OMB will assign an OMB control number and
an expiration date. Respondents subject to the filing requirements of
this rule will not be penalized for failing to respond to the
collection of information unless the collection of information displays
a valid OMB control number.
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\16\ 44 U.S.C. 3507(d).
\17\ 5 CFR 1320.11.
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17. The Commission solicits comments on the Commission's need for
this information, whether the information will have practical utility,
the accuracy of the provided burden estimates, ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected, and
any suggested methods for minimizing respondents' burden, including the
use of automated information techniques. We propose that the
requirement to make compliance tariff filings (included in FERC-516)
for the WEQ-006 Business Practice Standards be deferred until final
action is taken by the Commission on the entirety of the WEQ Version
003.2 Business Practice Standards for those who continue to opt to
specify a specific version of the standards in their tariffs.
Therefore, changes to the burden and cost of the FERC-516 (Electric
Rate Schedules and Tariff Filings, OMB Control No. 1902-0096) are not
being proposed at this time.
18. The following estimates for burden and cost \18\ are based on
the projected savings due to the retirement and reservation of the WEQ-
006 Manual Time Error Correction Business Practice Standards, as
adopted by NAESB and proposed to be incorporated by reference in this
NOPR.
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\18\ The Commission staff estimates that industry is similarly
situated in terms of hourly cost (for wages plus benefits). Based on
the Commission's FY (Fiscal Year) 2018 average cost (for wages plus
benefits), $79.00/hour is used.
Proposed Burden Reduction in NOPR in Docket No. RM05-5-026 \19\
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Total annual
Number of Annual number Total number Average burden burden hrs. &
respondents of responses of responses (hrs.) & cost total annual
per respondent ($) per response cost ($)
(1) (2) (1) * (2) = (4)............. (3) * (4) = (5)
(3)
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FERC-717 20 21 (retirement of 170 1 170 1 hr.; $79 170 hours;
WEQ-006 Time Error (reduction). $13,430
Correction Standard). (reduction).
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Title: FERC-717, Open Access Same Time Information System and
Standards for Business Practices and Communication Protocols for Public
Utilities.
Action: Proposed revision (reduction) to an existing collection.
OMB Control No.: 1902-0173.
Respondents: Business or other for profit.
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\19\ As noted above, changes to the FERC-516 are not proposed at
this time.
\20\ FERC-717 (OMB Control No. 1902-0173) identifies the
information collection associated with Standards for Business
Practices and Communication Protocols for Public Utilities. We
estimate that the proposed retirement in this docket of WEQ-006 will
reduce burden for each respondent by 1 hour.
\21\ This burden for FERC-717 was originally included in Order
676-H. At that time, we had an estimate of 132 respondents. Due to
normal industry fluctuation (e.g., companies merging or splitting,
going into or leaving the industry), the number of respondents is
now 170.
In Order 676-H (issued 9/18/2014), the estimated average hourly
wage (plus benefits) was $72.67. For the calculations here, we are
using today's estimated hourly cost of $79.00/hour, as noted above.
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Frequency of Responses: One-time implementation (business
procedures, capital/start-up).
19. Necessity of the Information: This proposed rule, if
implemented would update the Commission's current business practice and
communication standards to retire and remove Standard WEQ-006 on Manual
Time Error Correction to be consistent with NERC's retirement of the
corresponding reliability standard for Time Error Correction. In
addition, we are also proposing to incorporate by reference the revised
Standard WEQ-000 (Version 003.2) that deletes the definitions of
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``Time Error'' and ``Time Error Correction'', as well as making
unrelated minor corrections to the standard.
20. Internal Review: The Commission has reviewed the revised
business practice standards and has made a preliminary determination
that the proposed revisions that we propose here to incorporate by
reference are both necessary and useful. In addition, the Commission
has assured itself, by means of its internal review, that there is
specific, objective support for the burden estimate associated with the
information requirements.
21. Interested persons may obtain information on the reporting
requirements by contacting the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
Office of the Executive Director, 888 First Street NE, Washington, DC
20426 [Attn: Ellen Brown, email: [email protected], phone: (202)
502-8663, fax: (202) 273-0873].
22. Comments concerning the information collection proposed for
revision in this NOPR and the associated burden estimate should be sent
to the Commission in this docket, and by email to the Office of
Management and Budget, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
[Attention: Desk Officer for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission].
For security reasons, comments should be sent by email to OMB at the
following email address: [email protected]. Please refer to
OMB Control No. 1902-0173 in your submittal to OMB.
VII. Environmental Analysis
23. The Commission is required to prepare an Environmental
Assessment or an Environmental Impact Statement for any action that may
have a significant adverse effect on the human environment.\22\ The
Commission has categorically excluded certain actions from these
requirements as not having a significant effect on the human
environment.\23\ The actions proposed here fall within categorical
exclusions in the Commission's regulations for rules that are
clarifying, corrective, or procedural, for information gathering,
analysis, and dissemination, and for sales, exchange, and
transportation of electric power that requires no construction of
facilities.\24\ Therefore, an environmental assessment is unnecessary
and has not been prepared in this NOPR.
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\22\ Regulations Implementing the National Environmental Policy
Act of 1969, Order No. 486, FERC Stats. & Regs. ] 30,783 (1987).
\23\ 18 CFR 380.4.
\24\ See 18 CFR 380.4(a)(2)(ii), 380.4(a)(5), 380.4(a)(27).
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VIII. Regulatory Flexibility Act Certification
24. The Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980 (RFA) \25\ generally
requires a description and analysis of proposed rules that will have
significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities.
The RFA does not mandate any particular outcome in a rulemaking. It
only requires consideration of alternatives that are less burdensome to
small entities and an agency explanation of why alternatives were
rejected.
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\25\ 5 U.S.C. 601-612.
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25. The Small Business Administration (SBA) size standards for
electric utilities is based on the number of employees, including
affiliates. Under SBA's standards, some transmission owners will fall
under the following category and associated size threshold: Electric
bulk power transmission and control, at 500 employees.\26\
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\26\ 13 CFR 121.201, Sector 22 (Utilities), NAICS code 221121
(Electric Bulk Power Transmission and Control).
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26. The Commission estimates that 5 of the 170 respondents (or 3%)
are small. The Commission estimates that the impact on each entity
(large and small) is a proposed reduction or savings of $79.00 (or one
hour).
27. Based on the above, the Commission certifies that
implementation of the proposed Business Practice Standards will not
have a significant impact on a substantial number of small entities.
Accordingly, no initial regulatory flexibility analysis is required.
IX. Comment Procedures
28. The Commission invites interested persons to submit comments on
the matters and issues proposed in this notice to be adopted, including
any related matters or alternative proposals that commenters may wish
to discuss. Comments are due November 13, 2018. Comments must refer to
Docket No. RM05-5-026 and must include the commenter's name, the
organization they represent, if applicable, and their address in their
comments.
29. The Commission encourages comments to be filed electronically
via the eFiling link on the Commission's website at http://www.ferc.gov. The Commission accepts most standard word processing
formats. Documents created electronically using word processing
software should be filed in native applications or print-to-PDF format
and not in a scanned format. Commenters filing electronically do not
need to make a paper filing.
30. Commenters that are not able to file comments electronically
must send an original of their comments to: Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, Secretary of the Commission, 888 First Street NE,
Washington, DC 20426.
31. All comments will be placed in the Commission's public files
and may be viewed, printed, or downloaded remotely as described in the
Document Availability section below. Commenters on this proposal are
not required to serve copies of their comments on other commenters.
X. Document Availability
32. In addition to publishing the full text of this document in the
Federal Register, the Commission provides all interested persons an
opportunity to view and/or print the contents of this document via the
internet through the Commission's Home Page (http://www.ferc.gov) and
in the Commission's Public Reference Room during normal business hours
(8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern time) at 888 First Street NE, Room 2A,
Washington, DC 20426.
33. From the Commission's Home Page on the internet, this
information is available on eLibrary. The full text of this document is
available on eLibrary in PDF and Microsoft Word format for viewing,
printing, and/or downloading. To access this document in eLibrary, type
the docket number excluding the last three digits of this document in
the docket number field.
34. User assistance is available for eLibrary and the Commission's
website during normal business hours from the Commission's Online
Support at (202) 502-6652 (toll free at 1-866-208-3676) or email at
[email protected], or the Public Reference Room at (202) 502-
8371, TTY (202) 502-8659. Email the Public Reference Room at
[email protected].
List of Subjects in 18 CFR Part 38
Incorporation by reference, Conflicts of interest, Electric power
plants, Electric utilities, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.
By direction of the Commission.
Issued: October 4, 2018.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
In consideration of the foregoing, the Commission proposes to amend
part 38, chapter I, title 18, Code of Federal Regulations, as follows:
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PART 38--STANDARDS FOR PUBLIC UTILITY BUSINESS OPERATIONS AND
COMMUNICATIONS
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1. The authority citation for part 38 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 791-825r, 2601-2645; 31 U.S.C. 9701; 42
U.S.C. 7101-7352.
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2. Amend Sec. 38.1, by revising paragraph (b)(1) and removing and
reserving paragraph (b)(7) to read as follows:
(b) * * *
(1) WEQ-000, Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Definition of Terms
(Version 003.2, Dec. 8, 2017);
* * * * *
(7) [Reserved]
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