OMB files this
comment in accordance with 5 CFR 1320.11(c) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act and is withholding approval of this collection at
this time. This OMB action is not an approval to conduct or sponsor
an information collection under the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995. The agency shall examine public comment in response to the
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and will include in the supporting
statement of the next ICR, to be submitted to OMB at the final rule
stage, a description of how the agency has responded to any public
comments on the ICR. This action has no effect on any current
approvals.
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
05/31/2019
36 Months From Approved
05/31/2019
7,479
0
7,479
526,877
0
526,877
0
0
0
Background: On December 31, 2014, NERC
submitted a petition seeking approval of the PRC-026-1 Reliability
Standard, as well as the associated implementation plan, and
violation risk factors and violation severity levels. NERC avers
that Reliability Standard PRC-026-1 satisfies the FERC Order No.
733 directive to develop a new standard that requires the use of
protective relay systems that can differentiate between faults and
stable power swings. According to NERC, the Reliability Standard
sets forth requirements that prevent the unnecessary tripping of
bulk electric system elements in response to stable power swings.
NERC further explains that the identification of bulk electric
system elements with protection systems at-risk of operating as a
result of a stable or unstable power swing and subsequent review by
the applicable generator owner or transmission owner “provides
assurance that relays will continue to be secure for stable power
swings if any changes in system impedance occur.” Reliability
Standard PRC-026-1 has four requirements and two attachments. NERC
explains “provides clarity on which load-responsive protective
relay functions are applicable” under the standard. Specifically,
Attachment A provides that Reliability Standard PRC-026-1 applies
to: -any protective functions which could trip instantaneously or
with a time delay of less than 15 cycles on load current (i.e.,
“load-responsive”)…. According to NERC, the 15 cycle time delay “is
representative of an expected power swing having a slow slip rate
of 0.67 Hertz (Hz) and is the average time that a stable power
swing with that slip rate would enter the relays’ characteristic,
reverse direction, and then exit the characteristic before the time
delay expired.” NERC states that the proposed standard does not
apply to “functions that are either immune to power swings, block
power swings, or prevent non-immune protection function operation
due to supervision of the function.” The RM15-8-000 Final Rule was
submitted to FERC-725G (OMB Control No. 1902-0252; ICR No.
201603-1902-006) which is a permanent information collection.
Docket RM16-20 NOPR related to this ICR. The Commission proposes to
approve Reliability Standard PRC-012-2 (Remedial Action Schemes)
submitted by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation.
The purpose of proposed Reliability Standard PRC-012-2 is to ensure
that remedial action schemes do not introduce unintentional or
unacceptable reliability risks to the bulk electric
system.
US Code:
16
USC 824o Name of Law: Federal Power Act
Proposed Reliability Standard
PRC-012-2 sets forth Requirements for remedial action schemes to
ensure that remedial action schemes do not introduce unintentional
or unacceptable reliability risks to the bulk electric system and
are coordinated to provide the service to the system as intended.
Reliability Standard PRC-012-2 improves upon the existing standards
because it removes ambiguity in NERC’s original “fill-in-the-blank”
Reliability Standards by assigning responsibility to appropriate
functional entities. It also streamlines and consolidates the RAS
Reliability Standards into one clear, effective Reliability
Standard.
$5,481
No
No
No
No
No
Uncollected
Syed Ahmad 202 502-8718
No
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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).
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the proposed collection of information, that the certification
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and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
RM16-20 NOPR Supporting Statement 6-28-17.docx
RM16-20 NERC Petition.pdf
PRC-012-2 Reliablity Standard (NOPR in RM16-20)