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The Department of Energy
(DOE) invites public comment on DOE’s
draft document Energy Sector
Cybersecurity Framework
Implementation Guidance (Guidance).
The document is available for a 30 day
comment period at http://energy.gov/
node/942856.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before October 14, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Comments to be submitted
electronically must be submitted
through the Email address
[email protected] using the
submission form at http://energy.gov/
node/942856. Written comments may be
submitted to Akhlesh Kaushiva,
Program Manager, Office of Electricity
Delivery and Energy Reliability, U.S.
Department of Energy, 1000
Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20585.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information
should be directed to Akhlesh Kaushiva,
Program Manager, Office of Electricity
Delivery and Energy Reliability, U.S.
Department of Energy, 1000
Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20585 at
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Since the
release of the Cybersecurity Framework
by the National Institute of Standards
and Technology (NIST) on February 12,
2014, DOE has collaborated with private
sector stakeholders through the
Electricity Subsector Coordinating
Council (ESCC) and the Oil & Natural
Gas Subsector Coordinating Council
(ONG SCC) forums for the development
of the draft Guidance. The DOE, through
a notice published in Federal Register
on June 20, 2014, requested energy
sector organizations to participate in the
ESCC and ONG SCC forums. The DOE
has also been coordinating with other
Sector Specific Agency (SSA)
representatives and interested
government stakeholders for the
development of the draft Guidance and
to address cross-sector overlaps. The
primary goal of the document is to help
energy sector stakeholders develop or
align existing cybersecurity risk
management programs to meet the
objectives of the Cybersecurity
Framework. The document will also
help energy sector organizations
effectively demonstrate and
communicate their cybersecurity risk
management approach and use of the
Framework to both internal and external
stakeholders.

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SUMMARY:

Authority: Section 8 (b) Executive Order
13636 ‘‘Improving Critical Infrastructure
Cybersecurity’’.

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Issued at Washington, DC, on September 8,
2014.
Patricia A. Hoffman,
Assistant Secretary, Electricity Delivery and
Energy Reliability.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Environmental Management SiteSpecific Advisory Board, Paducah
Department of Energy.
Notice of Open Meeting:
Correction.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

On August 14, 2014, the
Department of Energy (DOE) published
a notice of open meeting announcing a
meeting on September 11, 2014 of the
Environmental Management SiteSpecific Advisory Board, Paducah (79
FR 47632). This document makes a
correction to that notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jennifer Woodard, Deputy Designated
Federal Officer, Department of Energy
Paducah Site Office, 1017 Majestic
Drive, Suite 200, Lexington, Kentucky
40513, (270) 441–6820.
SUMMARY:

Correction
In the Federal Register of August 14,
2014, in FR Doc. 2014–19307, on page
47632, please make the following
correction:
In that notice under DATES, third
column, second paragraph, the meeting
date has been changed. The new date is
September 25, 2014 instead of
September 11, 2014.
Issued at Washington, DC, on September 8,
2014.
LaTanya R. Butler,
Deputy Committee Management Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. RD14–4–000]

Proposed Agency Information
Collection
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, DOE.
ACTION: Comment Request.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
3507(a)(1)(D), the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (Commission or

SUMMARY:

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FERC) is submitting the information
collection in Docket No. RD14–4–000 to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for 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
issued a Notice in the Federal Register
(79 FR 36498, 6/27/2014) requesting
public comments. FERC received no
comments in response to that notice and
has made this notation in its submission
to OMB.
DATES: Comments on the collection of
information are due by October 14,
2014.
ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB,
identified by the docket number, 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–
4718.
A copy of the comments should also
be sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, identified by the Docket
No. RD14–4–000, by either of the
following methods:
• eFiling at Commission’s Web site:
http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/
efiling.asp.
• Mail/Hand Delivery: 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/submissionguide.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/docsfiling/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: The
proposed information collection in
Docket No. RD14–4–000 relates to a
proposed revision to the Interchange
Scheduling and Coordination (INT)
group of Reliability Standards,
developed by the North American
Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC),
and submitted to the Commission for

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approval. The proposed revision
modifies the Interchange Scheduling
and Coordination Reliability Standards
in response to Commission directives in
Order No. 693,1 as well as some other
clarifying revisions relating to the ten
revised definitions and four new
definitions to be added to the NERC
Glossary of Terms Used in NERC
Reliability Standards (NERC Glossary).
One of the revised definitions leads
some entities under Reliability Standard
IRO–008–1 to perform additional
paperwork tasks. The existing
information collection requirements
contained in the Interchange Scheduling
and Coordination, and Interconnection
Reliability Operations and Coordination
groups of Reliability Standards are
contained in FERC–725A (OMB Control
Number 1902–0244). The Commission
is submitting the new information
collection requirements to OMB under
new collections FERC–725W (for the
new burden under INT–011–1) and
FERC–725Z (for the new burden under
IRO–008–1).2
On March 16, 2007, the Commission
issued Order No. 693, approving 83 of
the 107 Reliability Standards and
associated definitions filed by NERC,
including the Interchange Scheduling
and Coordination group of Reliability
Standards INT–001, INT–003, INT–004,
INT–005, INT–006, INT–007, INT–008,
INT–009, and INT–010.3 In Order No.
693, the Commission directed NERC to
make changes through the Reliability
Standards development process to
address certain directives. Specifically,
the Commission directed NERC to: (1)
Develop a modification to INT–001–2
that includes a requirement that
interchange information must be
submitted for all point-to-point transfers
entirely within a balancing authority
area, including all grandfathered and
‘‘non-Order No. 888’’ transfers; and (2)
to develop a modification to INT–006–
1 through the Reliability Standards
development process to make the
standard applicable to reliability
coordinators and transmission
operators, and require reliability
1 Mandatory Reliability Standards for the BulkPower System, Order No. 693, 72 FR 16416 (Apr.
4, 2007), FERC Stats. & Regs. ¶ 31,242, at PP 819,
821, 843, 848, 872, 875 & 887, order on reh’g, Order
No. 693–A, 120 FERC ¶ 61,053 (2007).
2 In the initial notice the Commission stated that
the new information collection would be under
FERC–725A. However, to increase administrative
efficiency, the Commission will submit the new
requirements to OMB under FERC–725W and
FERC–725Z.
3 Order No. 693, FERC Stats. & Regs. ¶31,242 at
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coordinators and transmission operators
to review energy interchange
transactions from the wide-area and
local area reliability viewpoints
respectively and, where their review
indicates a potential detrimental
reliability impact, communicate to the
sink balancing authorities necessary
transaction modifications.
In its February 27, 2014 petition,
NERC seeks Commission approval of
proposed revisions to the currently
effective Reliability Standards, as well
as one new Reliability Standard to
address the Commission’s directives.
NERC asserts that, collectively, the five
proposed Reliability Standards,
consisting of fourteen requirements,
consolidate the body of Interchange
Scheduling and Coordination Reliability
Standards. In its petition, NERC also
seeks approval for the retirement of the
currently effective Reliability
Standards.4 NERC also seeks approval of
ten revised definitions and four new
definitions to be added to the NERC
Glossary. NERC proposes to add the
term ‘‘Interchange’’ to the existing
definition for ‘‘Operational Planning
Analysis.’’ 5 NERC States that ‘‘by
explicitly including ‘Interchange’ in the
definition of ‘Operational Planning
Analysis,’ the Reliability Coordinator
must consider Interchange when
performing the analysis required in
Reliability Standard IRO–008–1.’’ 6
Therefore, the estimates for this
information collection are based on the
proposed modifications.
The Commission estimates a modest
increase in information collection and
reporting that would result from
implementing NERC’s proposed
revision to the NERC Glossary definition
of ‘‘Operational Planning Analysis’’ and
new proposed Reliability Standard INT–
011–1. The estimate reflects NERC’s
proposal to include a requirement that
interchange information must be
submitted for all point-to-point transfers
entirely within a balancing authority
area, including all grandfathered and
‘‘non-Order No. 888’’ transfers; and
NERC’s alternative proposal to address
the Commission’s concern regarding
INT–006–1, as described above.
NERC explains that ‘‘by explicitly
including ‘Interchange’ in the definition
of ‘Operational Planning Analysis,’ the
Reliability Coordinator must consider
4 NERC

Petition at 4.
is defined in the NERC Glossary
as ‘‘Energy transfers that cross Balancing Authority
Boundaries.
6 NERC Petition at 32.
5 ‘‘Interchange’’

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Interchange when performing the
analysis required in Reliability Standard
IRO–008–1.’’ 7 These administrative
burdens fall into three categories of
‘‘Submit Interchange Information,’’
‘‘Communicate Transaction
Modification’’ and ‘‘Submit a Request
for Interchange’’ as described in NERC’s
petition.8 NERC’s technical justification
has shown that when the results of
reliability coordinator studies indicate
the need for action, the reliability
coordinator is required to share the
results per Requirement R3 of
Reliability Standard IRO–008–1. NERC
explains that because energy transfers
within a balancing authority area that
use point-to-point transmission service
can impact transmission congestion,
proposed Reliability Standard INT–011–
1 ensures that these transfers are
communicated and accounted for in
congestion management procedures. If a
transfer within a balancing authority
area is submitted as a request for
interchange or otherwise accounted for
in congestion management procedures,
it can be evaluated and processed
comparable to a request for interchange
that crosses balancing authority areas.9
Accordingly, we estimate an increase
of one hour needed for ‘‘Submit
Interchange Information’’ for balancing
authorities, ‘‘Communicate Transaction
Modification’’ for the reliability
coordinators, and ‘‘Submit a Request for
Interchange’’ for the load-serving
entities, respectively. With respect to
the proposed revisions and retirement of
the currently-effective Reliability
Standards, the Commission estimates no
material change in information
collection because the consolidation of
the standards does not impact the
paperwork burden.
Burden Statement: Public reporting
burden for this proposed collection is
estimated as:
7 NERC

Petition at 32.
Petition, Exhibit E at 1–2.
9 NERC Petition at 22.
10 The estimates for cost per response are derived
using the following formula: Average Burden Hours
per Response * XX per Hour = Average Cost per
Response. The estimates for cost per hour (rounded
to the nearest dollar) are derived as follows:
• $60/hour, the average salary plus benefits per
engineer (from Bureau of Labor Statistics at http://
bls.gov/oes/current/naics3_221000.htm)
• $82/hour, the salary plus benefits per manager
(from Bureau of Labor Statistics at http://bls.gov/
oes/current/naics3_221000.htm)
• $32/hour, the salary plus benefits per
information and record clerks (from Bureau of
Labor Statistics at http://bls.gov/oes/current/
naics3_221000.htm).
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FERC–725A
Number and type of
respondents

Annual
number of
responses per
respondent

Total number
of responses

Average
burden &
cost per
response 10

Total annual
burden hours
& total
annual cost

Cost per
respondent
($)

(1)

(2)

(1)*(2)=(3)

(4)

(3)*(4)=(5)

(5)÷(1)

Submit Interchange Information.
Communicate Transaction
Modification.
Submit Request for Interchange, (INT–011–1).
Evidence Retention .............

114, Balancing authority
(BA).
21, Reliability coordinator
(RC).
502, Load-serving entity
(LSE).
637, BA/RC/LSE ................

Total .............................

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Dated: September 5, 2014.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 13135–004]

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City of Watervliet; Notice of
Application Tendered for Filing With
the Commission and Soliciting
Additional Study Requests
Take notice that the following
hydroelectric application has been filed
with the Commission and is available
for public inspection.
a. Type of Application: License for
Major Project-Existing Dam.
b. Project No.: P–13135–004.
c. Date filed: August 26, 2014.
d. Applicant: City of Watervliet, New
York.
e. Name of Project: Delta
Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: On the East Branch of the
Mohawk River, in the Town of Rome,
Oneida County, NY. No federal lands
are occupied by the project works or
located within the project boundary.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power
Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)–825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Michael P.
Manning, Mayor, City of Watervliet,
City Hall, Watervliet, NY 12189, Phone:
518–270–3815, Email: mikemanning@
watervliet.com; or Mark Gleason,
General Manager, City of Watervliet,
City Hall, Watervliet, NY 12189, Phone:
518–270–3800x122, Email: mgleason@
watervliet.com; or Wendy Jo Carey, P.E.,
Albany Engineering Corporation, 5
Washington Square, Albany, NY 12205,

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Phone: 518–456–7712x401 Email:
[email protected].
i. FERC Contact: Brandi Sangunett,
Phone: (202) 502–8393, Email:
[email protected].
j. Cooperating agencies: Federal, state,
local, and tribal agencies with
jurisdiction and/or special expertise
with respect to environmental issues
that wish to cooperate in the
preparation of the environmental
document should follow the
instructions for filing such requests
described in item l below. Cooperating
agencies should note the Commission’s
policy that agencies that cooperate in
the preparation of the environmental
document cannot also intervene. See, 94
FERC ¶ 61,076 (2001).
k. Pursuant to 4.32(b)(7) of 18 CFR of
the Commission’s regulations, if any
resource agency, Indian Tribe, or person
believes that an additional scientific
study should be conducted in order to
form an adequate factual basis for a
complete analysis of the application on
its merit, the resource agency, Indian
Tribe, or person must file a request for
a study with the Commission not later
than 60 days from the date of filing of
the application, and serve a copy of the
request on the applicant.
l. Deadline for filing additional study
requests and requests for cooperating
agency status: October 25, 2014.
The Commission strongly encourages
electronic filing. Please file additional
study requests and requests for
cooperating agency status using the
Commission’s eFiling system at http://
www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. For
assistance, please contact FERC Online
Support at FERCOnlineSupport@
ferc.gov, (866) 208–3676 (toll free), or
(202) 502–8659 (TTY). In lieu of
electronic filing, please send a paper
copy to: Secretary, Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street

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NE., Washington, DC 20426. The first
page of any filing should include docket
number P–13135–004.
m. The application is not ready for
environmental analysis at this time.
n. The proposed project would consist
of: (1) The existing 1,016-foot-long, 76foot-high Delta dam, owned by the New
York State Canal Corporation; (2) an
existing impoundment having a surface
area of 2,700 acres and a storage
capacity of 63,200 acre-feet at the
spillway crest elevation of 551.37 feet
North American Vertical Datum of 1988;
(3) a new 40-foot-diameter cylindrical
powerhouse containing one turbinegenerator unit with a total installed
capacity of 7.4 megawatts; (4) a new
17,000-foot-long, 13.2-kilovolt
underground generator lead; and (5)
appurtenant facilities. The project
would generate about 14,100 megawatthours of electricity annually.
o. A copy of the application is
available for review at the Commission
in the Public Reference Room or may be
viewed on the Commission’s Web site at
http://www.ferc.gov using the
‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Enter the docket
number excluding the last three digits in
the docket number field to access the
document. For assistance, contact FERC
Online Support. A copy is also available
for inspection and reproduction at the
address in item h above.
You may also register online at http://
www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/
esubscription.asp to be notified via
email of new filings and issuances
related to this or other pending projects.
For assistance, contact FERC Online
Support.
p. Procedural schedule: The
application will be processed according
to the following preliminary Hydro
Licensing Schedule. Revisions to the
schedule will be made as appropriate.

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