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Written comments may be
sent to William Booth by email at
[email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument and instructions should be
directed to William Booth at
[email protected]. The draft form
and instructions are available at http://
www.eia.gov/survey/changes/
electricity/.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
information collection request contains:
(1) OMB No.: 1905–0208;
(2) Information Collection Request
Title: Quarterly Electricity Imports and
Exports Report;
(3) Type of Request: Extension, with
changes, of a currently approved
collection;
(4) Purpose: Form EIA–111 collects U.
S. electricity import and export data.
The data are used to get an accurate
measure of the flow of electricity into
and out of the United States. The import
and export data are reported by U.S.
purchasers, sellers and transmitters of
wholesale electricity, including persons
authorized by Order to export electric
energy from the United States to foreign
countries, persons authorized by
Presidential Permit to construct,
operate, maintain, or connect electric
power transmission lines that cross the
U.S. international border, and U.S.
Balancing Authorities that are directly
interconnected with foreign Balancing
Authorities. Such entities are to report
monthly flows of electric energy
received or delivered across the border,
the cost associated with the
transactions, and actual and
implemented interchange. The data
collected on this form may appear in
various EIA publications.
(4a) Proposed Changes to Information
Collection: The data element ‘‘Transfer
Facility’s Presidential Permit numbers’’
is changed to ‘‘Transmission Provider/
Transfer Facility(ies)’’ and the section
for reporting Actual Interchange is
expanded to collect monthly metered
cross border flow over Presidential
Permit holders facilities that do not
involve interchange.
(5) Annual Estimated Number of
Respondents: 158;
(6) Annual Estimated Number of
Total Responses: 632;
(7) Annual Estimated Number of
Burden Hours: 948;
(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping Cost Burden: EIA
estimates that there are no additional
costs to respondents associated with the
surveys other than the costs associated
with the burden hours.

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Statutory Authority: Section 13(b) of the
Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974,
Pub L. 93–275, codified at 15 U.S.C. 772(b).
Issued in Washington, DC, on January 29,
2015.
Nanda Srinivasan,
Director, Office of Survey Development and
Statistical Integration, U. S. Energy
Information Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. RD14–12–000]

Proposed Agency Information
Collection
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, Department of Energy.
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 FERC–725D
information collection in Docket No.
RD14–12–000 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 68426, 11/17/2014) requesting
public comments. FERC received no
comments in response to that notice and
is making the notation in its submission
to OMB.
DATES: Comments on the collection of
information are due by March 6, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB
should be sent via email to the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs:
[email protected], Attention:
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Desk Officer and should be identified by
FERC–725D (OMB Control Number
1902–0247), The OMB Desk Officer may
also be reached via telephone at 202–
395–0710.
A copy of the comments should also
be sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, identified by the Docket
No. RD14–12–000, 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,
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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
information collection changes in
Docket No. RD14–12–000 relate to the
Reliability Standards FAC–001–2
(Facility Interconnection Requirements)
and FAC–002–2 (Facility
Interconnection Studies), 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 August 22, 2014.
NERC summarizes the FAC group of
standards as follows:
The Facility Design, Connections, and
Maintenance (‘‘FAC’’) Reliability Standards
address topics such as facility
interconnection requirements, facility
ratings, system operating limits, and transfer
capabilities.1

In its petition, NERC also summarizes
the proposed Reliability Standards’
applicability and requirements:
Proposed Reliability Standard FAC–001–2
requires that Transmission Owners and
applicable Generator Owners document and
make Facility interconnection requirements
available so that entities seeking to
interconnect have the necessary information.
Proposed Reliability Standard FAC–002–2
ensures that the reliability impact of
interconnecting new or materially modified
Facilities is studied. Collectively, proposed
Reliability Standards FAC–001–2 and FAC–
002–2 ensure that there is appropriate
coordination and communication regarding
the interconnection of Facilities, which
improves the reliability of the Bulk-Power
System.2

Finally, NERC also states that the
proposed Reliability Standards improve
reliability, clarify requirement language
1 NERC
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and eliminate redundant or unnecessary
requirements.3
Burden Statement: Commission staff
analyzed the proposed and currently
enforced Reliability Standards and has
concluded that proposed Reliability
Standards merely clarify or eliminate
redundancies and thus, the information
collection requirements have not
changed. Accordingly, the net overall

burden and respondent universe 4
remain unchanged, when compared to
the burden of the existing standards
being replaced.5
The Commission intends to submit a
request for approval to OMB under the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) related
to the proposed Reliability Standards.
For PRA purposes, the information
collection requirements in proposed

Reliability Standards FAC–001–2 and
FAC–002–2 are identified as FERC–
725D and OMB Control Number 1902–
0247.
The annual reporting burden for the
implementation of Reliability Standards
FAC–001–2 and FAC–002–2 is
estimated as follows.

FERC–725D, MODIFICATIONS IN RD14–12
Number and type of
respondent 6

Annual
number of
responses per
respondent

Total number
of responses

Average
burden per
response
(hours)

Total annual
burden (hours)

Total annual
cost 7

(1)

(2)

(1)*(2)=(3)

(4)

(3)*(4)=(5)

($)

FAC–001–2
Documentation & updates ..
Record Retention ................

GO 5 ...................................
TO 332 ...............................
GO 5 ...................................
TO 332 ...............................

1
1
1
1

5
332
5
332

16
16
1
1

80
5,312
5
332

$5,833.60
387,351.04
145.05
9,631.32

FAC–002–2
Study ...................................
Record Retention ................
Coordination ........................
Record Retention ................
Total .............................

PC,
PC,
TO,
TO,

TP 183 ........................
TP 183 ........................
DP, LSE, GO 216 .......
DP, LSE, GO 216 .......

1
1
1
1

183
183
216
216

32
1
16
1

5,856
183
3456
216

427,019.52
5,308.83
252,011.52
6,266.16

.............................................

........................

........................

........................

........................

1,093,567.04

Dated: January 28, 2015.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. IC14–16–000]

Commission Information Collection
Activities (FERC–537, FERC–725F, and
FERC–725I); Comment Request
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Comment request.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.

SUMMARY:

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3 Id.

at 4.
affected entities for FAC–001–2 are
Transmission Owners (TO) and applicable
Generator Owners (GO). The affected entities for
FAC–002–2 are Transmission Planners (TP),
Planning Coordinators (PC), Generator Owners
(GO), Transmission Owners (TO), Distribution
Providers (DP), and Load-Serving Entities (LSE).
Note that Planning Coordinator (PC) is the new
name for Planning Authority—a term still used in
NERC’s Compliance Registry.
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3507(a)(1)(D), the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (Commission or
FERC) is submitting its information
collections FERC–537 (Gas Pipeline
Certificates: Construction, Acquisition
and Abandonment), FERC–725F
(Mandatory Reliability Standards for
Nuclear Plant Interface Coordination),
and FERC–725I (Mandatory Reliability
Standards for the Northeast Power
Coordinating Council), 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
previously issued a Notice in the
Federal Register (79 FR 61068, 10/9/
2014) requesting public comments. The
Commission received no comments on
the FERC–537, FERC–725F, and FERC–
5 The burden for the preceding versions of the
standards being replaced was included in: (a)
FERC–725M (OMB Control No. 1902–0263) for
FAC–001–1, and (b) FERC–725A (OMB Control No.
1902–0244) for FAC–002–1. The corresponding
burden will be transferred from FERC–725M and
FERC–725A to FERC–725D.
6 The number of respondents is based on the
NERC Compliance Registry as of September 24,
2014. Although 2,163 entities are registered as TO,
DP, LSE, or GO, we expect at the most 216 entities
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725I and is making this notation in its
submittal to OMB.
Comments on the collections of
information are due by March 6, 2015.

DATES:

Comments filed with OMB,
identified by the OMB Control Nos.
1902–0060 (FERC–537), 1902–0249
(FERC–725F), and 1902–0258 (FERC–
725I) 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 202–395–0710.
A copy of the comments should also
be sent to the Commission, in Docket
No. IC14–16–000, by either of the
following methods:
• eFiling at Commission’s Web site:
http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/
efiling.asp.

ADDRESSES:

through the study phase that may require
coordination in any given year.
7 The estimates for cost per hour are derived as
follows:
• $72.92/hour, the average of the salary plus
benefits for a manager ($84.96/hour) and an
electrical engineer ($60.87/hour), from Bureau of
Labor and Statistics at http://bls.gov/oes/current/
naics3_221000.htm, as of 9/4/2014
• $29.01/hour, based on a Commission staff
study of record retention burden cost.

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