FERC-919, [SIL component], Electric Rate Schedule Filings: Market Based Rates for Wholesale Sales of Electric Energy, Capacity and Ancillary Services by Public Utilities
ICR 201105-1902-006 · OMB 1902-0234 · Historical Active
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FERC-919, [SIL component], Electric Rate Schedule Filings: Market Based Rates for Wholesale Sales of Electric Energy, Capacity and Ancillary Services by Public Utilities
No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection
In accordance with 5 CFR 1320, the non-substantive change to the required reporting of Simultaneous Transmission Import Limit (SIL) values is approved.
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Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
03/31/2014
03/31/2014
03/31/2014
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709
61,630
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61,630
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FERC is requesting OMB approval of a non-substantive change to the required reporting of Simultaneous Transmission Import Limit (SIL) values, as described below.
SIL studies are a part of the Commission's reporting requirements included in FERC-919 and have OMB approval under OMB Control No. 1902-0234. Order No. 697 (issued 6/21/2007, in Docket RM04-7-000) and subsequent orders contain SIL study requirements. The SIL study is one of many inputs into the initial and triennial market power studies, and while a significant number of MBR sellers rely on such studies, only a small portion of MBR sellers actually prepare such studies each year.
Based on feedback from industry and the completion of the first post-Order No. 697 three-year cycle of updated market power analyses, FERC has consolidated previous Commission direction for calculating SIL values into one document (order issued 6/17/2011, and attached under Supplemental Documents). With the consolidated direction, FERC has issued a required, standardized reporting format for certain transmission studies and a table to facilitate sellers' reporting of the components of the SIL values. The consolidated direction and standardized formats are expected to reduce:
-industry questions, filing burden, and delays and costs associated with the need to correct and re-file materials;
-FERC staff time required for review of the filings; and
-the time other members of the public spend analyzing the filed data.
[However, at this time, FERC is not revising the burden estimates.]
No data elements are being changed from those already approved by OMB.
The following is general background on FERC-919.
Compliance with Federal Power Act (FPA) sections 205 and 206 make collection of this information necessary. Specifically, Section 205 of the FPA requires just and reasonable rates and charges. Section 206 allows the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) to revoke a seller's market-based rate authorization if it determines that the seller may have gained market power since its original authorization to charge market based rates.
The information collected under FERC-919 (OMB Control No. 1902-0234), "Market Based Rates for Wholesale Sales of Electric Energy, Capacity and Ancillary Services by Public Utilities", allows the Commission to meet its statutory responsibilities by providing it with the following:
Âinitial market power analyses to qualify for authority to charge market based rates,
Âtriennial market power analysis in category 2 seller updates as required in 18 CFR 35.37(a)
Âquarterly land acquisition reports, as required in 18 CFR 35.42(d) and
Âchange in status reports as required in 18 CFR 35.42(a) Appendix B.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will use information collected under FERC-919 to ensure that market-based rates charged by public utilities are just and reasonable, as Congress has mandated it to do.
Respondents include all utilities seeking for initial or continued authorization to charge market-based rates.
The filing requirements have not changed. However, some of the burden estimates have changed, and FERC is breaking out the previous comprehensive IC into several, more detailed IC's to provide more information on the types of reporting requirements included in the FERC-919.
The July 2010 notice and the November 2010 notice mistakenly announced there were only 40 quarterly land acquisition reports filed annually. That notice said the FERC had received 400 change in status reports. These filing counts were inadvertently transposed: the initial estimate as of July 2010 was that FERC received about 400 land acquisition reports each year and 40 change in status reports.
The FERC has changed the burden associated with the FERC-919 change in status reports to 34.75 hours per response. When the Commission directed the filing of changes in status in Order No. 652, the Commission found the ongoing burden associated with change in status filings to be de minimis. As a result of that determination, the Commission did not attribute a burden estimate to this activity at that time; therefore, no authorization from OMB was needed for that data collection. In examining various aspects of its market-based rate program in Order No. 697, FERC compiled all market-based rate data requirements into the FERC-919. Although the consolidation of market-based rate data requirements in the FERC-919 included change in status filings, FERC did not estimate new burden hours for the change in status filings based on the assumption they were still a de minimis activity as determined in Order No. 652. In the July 2010, 60-day Federal Register Notice for the FERC-919 FERC estimated that the Appendix B addition to change in status filings would take one hour to complete. The comments FERC received to its July 2010 notice for renewing the FERC-919 suggested FERCÂs estimate of one hour to compile and submit change in status filings was too low. The estimate of 34.75 hours per response is based on FERCÂs reviewing and analyzing change-in-status filings filed during the previous 3-year collection cycle.
FERC has also changed burden and cost estimates from the July 2010 Notice for the FERC-919 market power analyses in new applications for market based rates because these analyses require the expertise of specialized professionals such as consultant economists, electrical engineers and lawyers whose average salary estimate is higher than the salary for professional FERC identified in the July 2010 Notice. Additionally, FERC increased the burden hours per response for the FERC-919 triennial market power analysis in category 2 seller updates to 250 hours per response: market power analyses in these filings showed a complexity approaching that of initial applications for market based rate authority.
The net result of the above adjustments, as well as a reduction in the number of respondents, is a reduction in the number of responses and a reduction in the annual time burden. The reduction in the number of respondents is the result of an updated estimate in the number of filers under FERC-919.
FERC estimates the total number of filings expected under the FERC-919 to remain about the same as it has been for the last 3 years.
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Norma McOmber 202 502-8022
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On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
eRequest to OMB for approval of a NonSubstantive 6-17-2011.doc
919 30 dy FR 2010.pdf
FERC-919, Market power analysis in new applications for market-based rates