In accordance with 5 CFR 1320, the information collection is approved for three years with the understanding that FERC will remove the one-time burden of 6,720 hours (from the previous ICR201502-1902-005 and IC for MOD-031-1 Reliability Standard (related to the one-time burden hours)) which were imposed by the Final Rule in RM14-12 upon their estimated completion in 2016.
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Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
04/30/2018
04/30/2018
04/30/2018
5,693
0
5,693
53,911
0
53,911
0
0
0
The FERC-725L contains the information collection requirements related to Modeling, Data, and Analysis (MOD) Reliability Standards.
Order in Docket RD16-1. The proposed Reliability Standard MOD-031-2 achieves the same reliability purpose of the prior version MOD-031-1. This standard provides authority for Bulk-Power System planners and operators to collect demand, energy, and related data to support reliability studies and assessments, and enumerates the responsibilities and obligations of requestors and respondents of that data.
In its November 13, 2015 petition, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) states that Reliability Standard MOD-031-2 is an improvement to the existing version of the standard because it clarifies the compliance obligations related to (1) providing data to Regional Entities and (2) responding to a request for data subject to confidentiality restrictions. NERC also states that the improvements to the Reliability Standard are consistent with the Commission directives in Order No. 804. In Order No. 804, the Commission approved Reliability Standard MOD-031. However, the Commission also directed, pursuant to 215(d)(5) of the FPA, that NERC develop a modification to Reliability Standard MOD-031-1 to clarify that planning coordinators and balancing authorities must provide demand and energy data upon request of a Regional Entity, as necessary to support NERCâs development of seasonal and long-term reliability assessments.
In a Delegated Letter Order in Docket No. RD16-1, the Commission approved the proposed Reliability Standard MOD-031-2 on 2/18/2016.
FERC is not changing the way the collection is being done, and is not modifying the burden, cost or respondents, and sees this as a non-material or non-substantive change to a currently approved collection.
Final Rule in RM14-12. The approved MOD-031-1 Reliability Standard provides planners and operators access to actual and forecast demand and energy data, as well as other related information, needed to perform resource adequacy studies. The North American Energy Reliability Corporation (NERC) [approved by FERC to serve as the nation-wide Electric Reliability Organization [ERO]] explains that the proposed Reliability Standard also supports the continued development of the reliability assessments prepared by NERC. NERC states that the approved Reliability Standard improves the Existing MOD C Standards by: (1) streamlining the Reliability Standards to clarify data collection requirements; (2) including transmission planners as applicable entities that must report demand and energy data; (3) requiring applicable entities to report weather normalized annual peak hour actual demand data from the previous year to allow for meaningful comparison with forecasted values; and (4) requiring applicable entities to provide an explanation of how their demand side management forecasts compare to actual demand side management for the prior calendar year and how their peak demand forecasts compare to actual demand for the prior calendar year with due regard to any relevant weather-related variations. Along with approving MOD-031-1 Reliability Standard , the Commission also approves the associated implementation plan, violation risk factors and violation severity levels, and NERC's retirement of the currently effective Reliability Standards MOD-016-1.1, MOD-017-0.1, MOD-018-0, MOD-019-0.1, and MOD-021-1 (existing MOD C Standards). [The standards scheduled for retirement are covered under FERC-725A.]
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.
RD16-1_725L_30day_FRpub_2016-05654.pdf
RD16-1DLO_20160218-3042.docx
MOD-031-2 Reliability Standard