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Coordination Act consultation
procedures. Other environmental review
and consulation requirements for the
proposed project include the need for
the applicant to obtain water quality
certification under Section 401 of the
Clean Water Act from the Louisiana
Department of Environmental Quality.
In addition, because the proposed
project may affect federally listed
species, the USACE will consult with
the Service and the National Marine
Fisheries Service (NMFS) in accordance
with Section 7 of the Federal
Endangered Species Act. The NMFS
will be consulted regarding the effects of
this proposed project on Essential Fish
Habitat per the Magnuson-Stevens Act.
The USACE will also be consulting with
the State Historic Preservation Officer
under 106 of the National Historic
Preservation Act concerning properties
listed, or potentially eligible for listing.
The USACE will serve as the lead
Federal agency in the preparation of the
EIS. Other federal and/or state agencies
may participate as cooperating and/or
commenting agencies throughout the
EIS process.
The USACE will use a ‘‘third party
contractor’’ to prepare all or part of the
EIS or to obtain required information
(40 CFR 1500–1508). ‘‘Third party
contract’’ refers to the preparation of the
EIS by a contractor paid by the
applicant but who is selected and
supervised directly by the district
engineer. Contractor election by the
USACE for a Regulatory Program EIS
will be as follows: The USACE will
select from the applicant’s list the first
contractor that is fully acceptable to the
USACE, using the applicant’s order of
preference; this selection is finalized by
the applicant’s selection of the same
contractor. The procedures outlined in
40 CFR 1500–1508 and CEQ’s forty
questions must be followed.
Furthermore, the USACE is responsible
for final acceptance of the draft and
final EIS.
7. Availability. The Draft EIS (DEIS) is
expected to be available for public
comment and review no sooner than the
spring of 2016. At that time, a 45-day
public review period will be provided
for individuals and agencies to review
and comment on the DEIS. All
interested parties are encouraged to
respond to this notice and provide a
current address if they wish to be
notified of the DEIS circulation.
Brenda S. Bowen,
Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. RD14–11–000]

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
FERC) is submitting the information
collection in Docket No. RD14–11–000
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 46781, 8/11/2014) 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 December 1,
2014.
SUMMARY:

Comments filed with OMB,
regarding FERC–725A (OMB Control
Number 1902–0244) and FERC–725X
(OMB Control Number TBD), 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. RD14–11–000, by either of the
following methods:
• eFiling at Commission’s Web site:
http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/
efiling.asp.
• Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier:
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.

ADDRESSES:

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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], by
telephone at (202) 502–8663, and by fax
at (202) 273–0873.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
proposed information collection
changes in Docket No. RD14–11–000
relate to the proposed Reliability
Standards VAR–001–4 (Voltage and
Reactive Control) and VAR–002–3
(Generator Operation for Maintaining
Network Voltage Schedules), developed
by the North American Electric
Reliability Corporation (NERC), and
submitted to the Commission for
approval. The Commission received
NERC’s petition to approve the
proposed Reliability Standards on June
9, 2014.
NERC summarizes the VAR group of
standards as follows:
The Voltage and Reactive (‘‘VAR’’) group of
Reliability Standards, which consists of two
continent-wide Reliability Standards, VAR–
001–3 and VAR–002–2b, is designed to
maintain voltage stability on the Bulk-Power
System, protect transmission, generation,
distribution, and customer equipment, and
support the reliable operation of the BulkPower System.1

In its petition, NERC also summarizes
the proposed Reliability Standards’
applicability and requirements:
In general, proposed Reliability Standard
VAR–001–4 sets forth the requirements
applicable to Transmission Operators for
scheduling, monitoring, and controlling
Reactive Power resources in the Real-time
Operations, Same-day Operations, and
Operational Planning time horizons to
regulate voltage and Reactive Power flows for
the reliable operation of the Bulk-Power
System. Proposed Reliability Standard VAR–
002–3 sets forth the requirements applicable
to Generator Operators and Generator
Owners for providing the necessary reactive
support and voltage control necessary to
maintain reliable operations. Generators are
the largest and most reliable Reactive Power
resource and play an integral role in
maintaining voltage stability on the BulkPower System. Collectively, the proposed
Reliability Standards are designed to prevent
voltage instability and voltage collapse on the
Bulk-Power System.2

Finally, NERC also states that the
proposed Reliability Standards improve
reliability, clarify requirement language
and eliminate redundant or unnecessary
requirements.3
1 NERC

Petition at 3.
at 4.
3 Id. at 15.
2 Id.

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Burden Statement: Commission staff
analyzed the proposed and currently
enforced standards and has concluded
that while information collection
requirements have been deleted, added,
and/or changed, the overall paperwork
burden and applicable respondent
universe remains unchanged. To
improve accounting of the burden, the
Commission recognizes that in the
transition from VAR–001–3 to VAR–
001–4 (requirement R1) there is a
decrease in documentation related to
policies and procedures. However, the
transmission operators are now required
to have documentation related to system

voltage and reactive power schedules as
well as documentation related to
coordination with adjacent transmission
operators and applicable reliability
coordinators. The Commission estimates
that this transition leads to a decrease of
160 hours as well as an increase of 160
hours, for a net change of zero. The
Commission seeks comment on whether
this estimate is accurate.
For the transition from VAR–002–2b
to VAR–002–3, the Commission
estimates that changes in requirement
R1 lead to an increase of 80 hours for
recordkeeping and changes in
requirement R2 lead to an increase in
120 hours for documentation. However,

Changes

the Commission estimates a decrease of
the same magnitude (200 hours) related
to the changes in requirements R3 and
R4. The remaining information
collection requirements in the two
standards remain essentially
unchanged.
Based on the above estimates, the
Commission intends to submit a total
reduction of 204,240 hours from FERC–
725A and a total increase of 204,240
hours into FERC–725X, a new collection
FERC is using to account for burden
related to VAR reliability standards. The
following table summarizes the burden
changes:

Number of
respondents 4

Number of
responses per
respondent

Average
burden hours
per response

Total annual
burden hours

(1)

(2)

(3)

(1)×(2)×(3)

VAR–001–4 Requirement R1 Increase (FERC–725X) .......
VAR–001–4 Requirement R1 Decrease (FERC–725A) ......
VAR–002–3 Requirement R1 Increase (FERC–725X) .......
VAR–002–3 Requirement R2 Increase (FERC–725X) .......
VAR–002–3 Requirements R3 and R4 Decrease (FERC–
725A) ................................................................................

184 (TOP)
184 (TOP)
874 (GOP)
874 (GOP)

1
1
1
1

160
¥160
80
120

29,440
¥29,440
69,920
104,880

$1,766,400
¥1,766,400
4,195,200
6,292,800

874 (GOP)

1

¥200

¥174,800

¥10,488,000

0

0

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

Dated: October 23, 2014.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 6957–002]

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City of Portland Water Bureau; Notice
of Application Accepted for Filing,
Soliciting Comments, Motions To
Intervene, and Protests
Take notice that the following
hydroelectric application has been filed
with the Commission and is available
for public inspection:
a. Types of Application: Surrender of
Exemption.
b. Project No.: 6957–002.
c. Date Filed: October 3, 2014.
d. Applicant: City of Portland Water
Bureau.
e. Name of Project: Mt. Tabor
Hydroelectric Project.
4 TOP = Transmission Operator, GOP = Generator
Operator.
5 The estimate for cost per hour (rounded to the
nearest dollar) is derived as follows:

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f. Location: Mt. Tabor Reservoir, in
the City of Portland and Multnomah
County, Oregon.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power
Act, 16 U.S.C. 791a–825r.
h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Frank
Galida, Portland Hydroelectric Project
Manager, Portland Water Bureau, 1120
SW. Fifth Avenue, Room 530, Portland,
OR 97204, (503) 823–1517.
i. FERC Contact: Ms. Rebecca Martin,
(202) 502–6012, Rebecca.martin@
ferc.gov.
j. Deadline for filing comments,
motions to intervene, and protests, is
November 23, 2014. All documents may
be filed electronically via the Internet.
See, 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the
instructions on the Commission’s Web
site at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/
efiling.asp. If unable to be filed
electronically, documents may be paperfiled. To paper-file, an original and
seven copies should be mailed to:
Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, 888 First Street NE.,
Washington, DC 20426. Commenters
can submit brief comments up to 6,000
characters, without prior registration,
using the eComment system at http://
www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/
ecomment.asp. You must include your

name and contact information at the end
of your comments.
Please include the project number (P–
6957–002) on any comments, motions,
or recommendations filed.
k. Description of Request: The
applicant proposes to surrender the
exemption for the Mt. Tabor Project.
The licensee proposes to remove the
turbine, generator, and governor. The
underground electrical connection to
the local power utility would be
disconnected. No ground disturbing
activities are proposed.
l. Locations of the Application: A
copy of the application is available for
inspection and reproduction at the
Commission’s Public Reference Room,
located at 888 First Street NE., Room
2A, Washington, DC 20426, or by calling
(202) 502–8371. This filing may also be
viewed on the Commission’s Web site at
http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/
efiling.asp. Enter the docket number
excluding the last three digits in the
docket number field to access the
document. 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, call 1–866–208–3676 or

• $61/hour, the average salary plus benefits
(representing 30.1% of the total compensation) per
engineer (from Bureau of Labor Statistics at

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