FERC-576 60-day notice

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other information, call (866) 208–3676
(toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659.
Dated: May 7, 2015.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2015–12206 Filed 5–19–15; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission

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Combined Notice of Filings #2
Take notice that the Commission
received the following electric rate
filings:
Docket Numbers: ER10–1484–011
Applicants: Shell Energy North
America (U.S.), L.P.
Description: Supplement to March 3,
2015 Notice of Non-Material Change in
Status of Shell Energy North America
(U.S.), L.P.
Filed Date: 5/13/15.
Accession Number: 20150513–5207.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/3/15.
Docket Numbers: ER14–2882–001.
Applicants: The Empire District
Electric Company.
Description: Compliance filing per 35:
Compliance Filing Revising Formula
Rate Protocols to be effective 4/1/2015.
Filed Date: 5/14/15.
Accession Number: 20150514–5150.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/4/15.
Docket Numbers: ER15–1713–000.
Applicants: Midcontinent
Independent System Operator, Inc.
Description: § 205(d) rate filing per
35.13(a)(2)(iii): 2015–05–14_SA 2786
ITC Midwest-IPL GIA (J233) to be
effective 5/15/2015.
Filed Date: 5/14/15.
Accession Number: 20150514–5113.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/4/15.
Docket Numbers: ER15–1714–000.
Applicants: Targray Americas Inc.
Description: Initial rate filing per
35.12 New Filing to be effective 7/1/
2015.
Filed Date: 5/14/15.
Accession Number: 20150514–5120.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/4/15.
Docket Numbers: ER15–1715–000.
Applicants: PJM Interconnection,
L.L.C.
Description: § 205(d) rate filing per
35.13(a)(2)(iii): PJM and NCEMC submit
Revised Service Agreement No. 3347 to
be effective 5/1/2015.
Filed Date: 5/14/15.
Accession Number: 20150514–5133.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/4/15.
Docket Numbers: ER15–1716–000.
Applicants: Midcontinent
Independent System Operator, Inc.

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Description: § 205(d) rate filing per
35.13(a)(2)(iii): 2015–05–14 Revs to App
F (Bylaws) to be effective 7/14/2015.
Filed Date: 5/14/15.
Accession Number: 20150514–5136.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/4/15.
Docket Numbers: ER15–1717–000.
Applicants: Midcontinent
Independent System Operator, Inc.,
International Transmission Company.
Description: § 205(d) rate filing per
35.13(a)(2)(iii): 2015–05–14_SA 2788
ITC-Wyandotte Interconnection
Facilities Agreement to be effective 5/
15/2015.
Filed Date: 5/14/15.
Accession Number: 20150514–5140.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/4/15.
Take notice that the Commission
received the following qualifying
facility filings:
Docket Numbers: QF15–701–000.
Applicants: Lockhart BioEnergy, LLC.
Description: Refund Report of
Lockhart BioEnergy, LLC.
Filed Date: 5/14/15.
Accession Number: 20150514–5116.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 5/14/15.
Take notice that the Commission
received the following electric
reliability filings:
Docket Numbers: RR14–6–002.
Applicants: North American Electric
Reliability Corp.
Description: Request of the North
American Electric Reliability
Corporation for Approval of an
Expenditure Greater Than $500,000
from Operating Reserves.
Filed Date: 5/14/15.
Accession Number: 20150514–5119.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 5/21/15.
The filings are accessible in the
Commission’s eLibrary system by
clicking on the links or querying the
docket number.
Any person desiring to intervene or
protest in any of the above proceedings
must file in accordance with Rules 211
and 214 of the Commission’s
Regulations (18 CFR 385.211 and
385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern
time on the specified comment date.
Protests may be considered, but
intervention is necessary to become a
party to the proceeding.
eFiling is encouraged. More detailed
information relating to filing
requirements, interventions, protests,
service, and qualifying facilities filings
can be found at: http://www.ferc.gov/
docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For
other information, call (866) 208–3676
(toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659.

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Dated: May 14, 2015.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2015–12180 Filed 5–19–15; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. IC15–8–000]

Commission Information Collection
Activities (FERC–576); Comment
Request; Extension
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of information collection
and request for comments.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A), the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (Commission or
FERC) is soliciting public comment on
the currently approved information
collection, FERC–576, Report of Service
Interruptions.
DATES: Comments on the collection of
information are due July 20, 2015.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
(identified by Docket No. IC15–8–000)
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.
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:
Title: FERC–576, Report of Service
Interruptions.
OMB Control No.: 1902–0004.
Type of Request: Three-year extension
of the FERC–576 information collection
SUMMARY:

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requirements with no changes to the
current reporting requirements.
Abstract: A natural gas company must
obtain Commission authorization to
engage in the transportation, sale, or
exchange of natural gas in interstate
commerce under the Natural Gas Act
(NGA).1 The NGA also empowers the
Commission to oversee continuity of
service in the transportation of natural
gas in interstate commerce. The
information collected under FERC–576
notifies the Commission of: (1) Damage
to jurisdictional natural gas facilities as
a result of a hurricane, earthquake, or
other natural disaster, or terrorist
activity, (2) serious interruptions to
service, and (3) damage to jurisdictional
natural gas facilities due to natural
disaster or terrorist activity, that creates
the potential for serious delivery
problems on the pipeline’s own system
or the pipeline grid.
Filings (in accordance with the
provisions of section 4(d) of the NGA) 2
must contain information necessary to
advise the Commission when a change
in service has occurred. Section 7(d) of
the NGA 3 authorizes the Commission to
issue a temporary certificate in cases of
emergency to assure maintenance of

adequate service or to serve particular
customers, without notice or hearing.
Respondents to the FERC–576 are
encouraged to submit the reports by
email to [email protected] but
also have the option of faxing the
reports to the Director of the Division of
Pipeline Certificates. 18 CFR 260.9(b)
requires that a report of service
interruption or damage to natural gas
facilities state: (1) The location of the
service interruption or damage to
natural gas pipeline or storage facilities;
(2) The nature of any damage to pipeline
or storage facilities; (3) Specific
identification of the facilities damaged;
(4) The time the service interruption or
damage to the facilities occurred; (5)
The customers affected by the service
interruption or damage to the facilities;
(6) Emergency actions taken to maintain
service; and (7) Company contact and
telephone number. The Commission
may contact pipelines reporting damage
or other pipelines to determine
availability of supply, and if necessary,
authorize transportation or construction
of facilities to alleviate constraints in
response to these reports.
A report required by 18 CFR
260.9(a)(1)(i) of damage to natural gas
facilities resulting in loss of pipeline

throughput or storage deliverability
shall be reported to the Director of the
Commission’s Division of Pipeline
Certificates at the earliest feasible time
when pipeline throughput or storage
deliverability has been restored.
In any instance in which an incident
or damage report involving
jurisdictional natural gas facilities is
required by Department of
Transportation (DOT) reporting
requirements under the Natural Gas
Pipeline Safety Act of 1968, a copy of
such report shall be submitted to the
Director of the Commission’s Division of
Pipeline Certificates, within 30 days of
the reportable incident 4.
If the Commission failed to collect
these data, it would lose the ability to
monitor and evaluate transactions,
operations, and reliability of interstate
pipelines and perform its regulatory
functions. These reports are kept by the
Commission Staff as non-public
information and are not made part of the
public record.
Type of Respondents: Natural gas
companies
Estimate of Annual Burden 5: The
Commission estimates the annual public
reporting burden for the information
collection as:

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FERC–576: REPORT OF SERVICE INTERRUPTIONS
Number of
respondents

Annual number of
responses per
respondent

Total number
of responses

Average
burden and
cost per response 6

Total annual
burden hours
and total annual cost

Cost per
respondent
($)

(1)

(2)

(1) * (2) = (3)

(4)

(3) * (4) = (5)

(5) ÷ (1)

Submittal of Original Email/Fax ...............

22

2

44

Submittal of Damage Report ...................

22

2

44

Submittal of DOT Incident Report ...........

22

1

22

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

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1 Public

Law 75 688; 15 U.S.C. 717 & 717w.
U.S.C. 717c).
3 (15 U.S.C. 717f).
4 18 CFR 260.9(d).
5 The Commission defines burden as the total
time, effort, or financial resources expended by
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persons to generate, maintain, retain, or disclose or
provide information to or for a Federal agency. For
further explanation of what is included in the
information collection burden, reference 5 Code of
Federal Regulations 1320.3.
6 The estimates for cost per response are derived
using the following formula: Average Burden Hours

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$72
0.25
$18
0.25
$18

44
$3,168
11
$198
5.5
$99

$72

60.5
$3,465

108

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18
18

per Response * $72.00 per Hour = Average Cost per
Response. The hourly cost figure comes from the
FERC average salary ($149,489/year). Commission
staff believes the FERC average salary to be
representative wage for industry respondents.

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Comments: Comments are invited on:
(1) Whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
Commission, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(2) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate
of the burden and cost of the collection
of information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(3) ways to enhance the quality, utility
and clarity of the information collection;
and (4) ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Dated: May 14, 2015.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2015–12216 Filed 5–19–15; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. RM93–11–000]

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Revisions to Oil Pipeline Regulations
Pursuant to the Energy Policy Act of
1992; Notice of Annual Change in the
Producer Price Index for Finished
Goods
The Commission’s regulations include
a methodology for oil pipelines to
change their rates through use of an
index system that establishes ceiling
levels for such rates. The Commission
bases the index system, found at 18 CFR
342.3, on the annual change in the
Producer Price Index for Finished
Goods (PPI–FG), plus two point six five
percent (PPI–FG + 2.65). The
Commission determined in an Order
Establishing Index For Oil Price Change
Ceiling Levels,1 issued December 16,
2010, that PPI–FG + 2.65 is the
appropriate oil pricing index factor for
pipelines to use for the five-year period
commencing July 1, 2011.
The regulations provide that the
Commission will publish annually, an
index figure reflecting the final change
in the PPI–FG, after the Bureau of Labor
Statistics publishes the final PPI–FG in
May of each calendar year. The annual
average PPI–FG index figures were
196.6 for 2013 and 200.4 for 2014.2
1 133

FERC ¶ 61,228 at P 1 (2010).
of Labor Statistics (BLS) publishes the
final figure in mid-May of each year. This figure is
publicly available from the Division of Industrial
Prices and Price Indexes of the BLS, at 202–691–
7705, and in print in August in Table 1 of the
annual data supplement to the BLS publication
Producer Price Indexes via the Internet at http://
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Thus, the percent change (expressed as
a decimal) in the annual average PPI–FG
from 2013 to 2014, plus 2.65 percent, is
positive 0.045829.3 Oil pipelines must
multiply their July 1, 2014, through June
30, 2015, index ceiling levels by
positive 1.045829 4 to compute their
index ceiling levels for July 1, 2015,
through June 30, 2016, in accordance
with 18 CFR 342.3(d). For guidance in
calculating the ceiling levels for each 12
month period beginning January 1,
l995,5 see Explorer Pipeline Company,
71 FERC ¶ 61,416 at n.6 (1995).
In addition to publishing the full text
of this Notice in the Federal Register,
the Commission provides all interested
persons an opportunity to view and/or
print this Notice via the Internet
through FERC’s Home Page (http://
www.ferc.gov) and in FERC’s Public
Reference Room during normal business
hours (8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern
time) at 888 First Street, NE., Room 2A,
Washington, DC 20426. The full text of
this Notice is available on FERC’s Home
Page at the eLibrary link. To access this
document in eLibrary, type the docket
number excluding the last three digits of
this document in the docket number
field and follow other directions on the
search page.
User assistance is available for
eLibrary and other aspects of FERC’s
Web site during normal business hours.
For assistance, please contact the
Commission’s Online Support at 1–866–
208–3676 (toll free) or 202–502–6652
(email at [email protected]),
or the Public Reference Room at 202–
502–8371, TTY 202–502–8659. E-mail
the Public Reference Room at
[email protected].
Dated: May 14, 2015.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2015–12182 Filed 5–19–15; 8:45 am]
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www.bls.gov/ppi/home.htm. To obtain the BLS
data, scroll down to ‘‘PPI Databases’’ and click on
‘‘Top Picks’’ of the Commodity Data including
‘‘headline’’ FD–ID indexes (Producer Price Index—
PPI). At the next screen, under the heading
‘‘Producer Price Index Commodity Data,’’ select the
box, ‘‘Finished goods—WPUSOP3000,’’ then scroll
to the bottom of this screen and click on Retrieve
data.
3 [200.4 – 196.6]/196.6 = 0.019329 + 0.0265 =
0.045829
4 1 + 0.045829 = 1.045829.
5 For a listing of all prior multipliers issued by the
Commission, see the Commission’s Web site, http://
www.ferc.gov/industries/oil/gen-info/pipelineindex.asp.

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. CP15–482–000]

Sabine Pass Liquefaction, LLC; Sabine
Pass LNG, L.P.; Notice of Application
Take notice that on May 5, 2015,
Sabine Pass Liquefaction, LLC and
Sabine Pass LNG, L.P. (collectively,
Sabine), 700 Milam Street, Suite 1900,
Houston, Texas 77002, filed in Docket
No. CP15–482–000 an application
pursuant to section 3(a) of the Natural
Gas Act (NGA) for a limited amendment
to construct approximately 5,000 feet of
36-inch diameter pipeline and
appurtenances in Cameron Parish,
Louisiana (EMP Project). Sabine states
that the EMP Project will connect to
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line
Company, LLC’s proposed Gulf Trace
Expansion Project in Docket No. CP15–
29–000, all as more fully set forth in the
application which is on file with the
Commission and open to public
inspection. The filing is available for
review at the Commission in the Public
Reference Room or may be viewed on
the Commission’s Web site web 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
at [email protected] or call
toll-free, (886) 208–3676 or TYY, (202)
502–8659.
Any questions concerning these
applications may be directed to Lisa M.
Tonery, Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP,
666 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York
10103 by telephone at (212) 318–3009 or
by email at lisa.tonery@
nortonrosefulbright.com.
Pursuant to section 157.9 of the
Commission’s rules, 18 CFR 157.9,
within 90 days of this Notice, the
Commission staff will either: Complete
its environmental assessment (EA) and
place it into the Commission’s public
record (eLibrary) for this proceeding; or
issue a Notice of Schedule for
Environmental Review. If a Notice of
Schedule for Environmental Review is
issued, it will indicate, among other
milestones, the anticipated date for the
Commission staff’s issuance of the EA
for this proposal. The filing of the EA
in the Commission’s public record for
this proceeding or the issuance of a
Notice of Schedule for Environmental
Review will serve to notify federal and
state agencies of the timing for the
completion of all necessary reviews, and
the subsequent need to complete all
federal authorizations within 90 days of

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