In accordance
with 5 CFR 1320, the information collection is approved for three
years.
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
04/30/2016
36 Months From Approved
04/30/2013
110
0
120
17,600
0
19,200
0
0
1,184,280
The Energy Policy Act of 1992 provided
the Commission authority with which it may mandate bulk power
transmission owners to provide access to their transmission grids
to third parties when requested. This allowed transmission systems
to be more accessible to outside customers. In spite of the added
accessibility, transmission owners retained a flexibility of
service that transmission customers did not also receive. Moreover,
timely permission to use the transmission grid did not occur since
the Commission had to review requests on a case-by-case basis. To
remedy these problems, the Commission issued Order No. 888 . Order
No. 888 required utilities owning bulk power transmission
facilities to treat any of their own wholesale and purchases of
energy over their own transmission facilities under the same
transmission tariffs they apply to others. The Energy Policy Act of
2005 further granted significant new responsibilities and authority
to discharge these responsibilities by modifying the Federal Power
Act (FPA), the Natural Gas Act, and the Public Utility Regulatory
Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA). These new responsibilities included
(but not limited to): Overseeing the reliability of the nation's
electricity transmission grid; Implementing new tolls (including
penalty authority) to prevent market manipulation; Providing rate
incentives to promote electric transmission investment;
Supplementing state transmission siting efforts in national
interest electric transmission corridors and; Reviewing certain
holding company mergers and acquisitions involving electric utility
facilities as well as certain public utility acquisitions of
generating facilities. FPA Section 213 requires each transmitting
utility that operates integrated transmission system facilities
rated above 100 kilovolts (kV) to submit annually: Contact
information for the FERC-715; Base case power flow data (if it
does not participate in the development and use of regional power
flow data); Transmission system maps and diagrams used by the
respondent for transmission planning; A detailed description of
the transmission planning reliability criteria used to evaluate
system performance for time frames and planning horizons used in
regional and corporate planning; A detailed description of the
respondent's transmission planning assessment practices (including,
but not limited to, how reliability criteria are applied and the
steps taken in performing transmission planning studies); and A
detailed evaluation of the respondent's anticipated system
performance as measured against its stated reliability criteria
using its stated assessment practices.
The requirements within
FERC-715 did not change. Thus, there is no significant change in
burden from the last date of submittal.The decrease in the number
of filers is due primarily to filers electing to collaborate and
submit a single, regional filings in lieu of multiple
company-specific filings. Specifically, the estimated burden here
is based on FERC's receipt of exactly 110 responses in 2012.
Commission staff corrected the industry's annual cost burden within
the ROCIS metadata to show that the Commission associates no cost
to capital investment or other non-labor costs. The Commission
estimates the monetary cost related to the burden hours in #12 in
the supporting statement.
$8,478
No
No
No
No
No
Uncollected
David Burnham
2025028732
No
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.
FINAL IC12-16-000 (FERC-715) Supporting Statement 3-27-2013_4_25_13.docx
PUBLISHED IC12-16-000 (FERC-715) 30dy.pdf
Annual Transmission Planning and Evaluation Report