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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.
Dated: May 3, 2018.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. IC18–5–000]

Commission Information Collection
Activities (FERC–917 and FERC–918);
Comment Request; Extension
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Comment request.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission
(Commission or FERC) is submitting its
information collection FERC–917
(Electric Transmission Facilities) and
FERC–918 (Standards for Business
Practices and Communication Protocols
for Public Utilities 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 published a Notice in the
Federal Register 2/6/2018 requesting
public comments. The Commission
received no comments on the FERC–917
nor the FERC–918 and is making this
notation in its submittal to OMB.
DATES: Comments on the collection of
information are due by June 8, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB,
identified by the OMB Control No.
1902–0233 (for both the FERC–917 and
FERC–918), 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 202–395–8528.

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A copy of the comments should also
be sent to the Commission, in Docket
No. IC18–5–000, by either of the
following methods:
• eFiling at Commission’s website:
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], by
telephone at (202) 502–8663, and by fax
at (202) 273–0873.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: FERC–917 (Electric
Transmission Facilities) and FERC–918
(Standards for Business Practices and
Communication Protocols for Public
Utilities.
OMB Control No.: 1902–0233.
Type of Request: Three-year extension
of the FERC–917 and FERC–918
information collection requirements
with no changes to the reporting
requirements.
Abstract: On February 17, 2007, the
Commission issued Order No. 890 1 to
address and remedy opportunities for
undue discrimination under the pro
forma Open Access Transmission Tariff
(OATT) adopted in 1996 by Order No.
888.2 Through Order No. 890, the
Commission:
• Adopted pro forma OATT
provisions necessary to keep imbalance
charges closely related to incremental
costs;
1 Final Rule in Docket Nos. RM05–17–000 and
RM05–25–000, issued 2/16/2007.
2 Promoting Wholesale Competition Through
Open Access Non-discriminatory Transmission
Services by Public Utilities; Recovery of Stranded
Costs by Public Utilities and Transmitting Utilities,
Order No. 888, 61 FR 21540 (May 10, 1996), FERC
Stats. & Regs. ¶ 31,036 (1996), order on reh’g, Order
No. 888–A, 62 FR 12274 (Mar. 14, 1997), FERC
Stats. & Regs. ¶ 31,048 (1997), order on reh’g, Order
No. 888–B, 81 FERC ¶ 61,248 (1997), order on reh’g,
Order No. 888–C, 82 FERC ¶ 61,046 (1998), aff’d in
relevant part sub nom. Transmission Access Policy
Study Group v. FERC, 225 F.3d 667 (D.C. Cir. 2000),
aff’d sub nom. New York v. FERC, 535 U.S. 1
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• Increased nondiscriminatory access
to the grid by requiring public utilities,
working through the North American
Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC),
to develop consistent methodologies for
available transfer capability (ATC)
calculation and to publish those
methodologies to increase transparency;
• Required an open, transparent, and
coordinated transmission planning
process thereby increasing the ability of
customers to access new generating
resources and promote efficient
utilization of transmission;
• Gave the right to customers to
request from transmission providers,
studies addressing congestion and/or
integration of new resource loads in
areas of the transmission system where
they have encountered transmission
problems due to congestion or where
they believe upgrades and other
investments may be necessary to reduce
congestion and to integrate new
resources;
• Required both the transmission
provider’s merchant function and
network customers to include a
statement with each application for
network service or to designate a new
network resource that attests, for each
network resource identified, that the
transmission customer owns or has
committed to purchase the designated
network resource and the designated
network resource comports with the
requirements for designated network
resources. The network customer
includes this attestation in the
customer’s comment section of the
request when it confirms the request on
the Open Access Same-Time
Information System (OASIS);
• Required with regard to capacity
reassignment that: (a) All sales or
assignments of capacity be conducted
through or otherwise posted on the
transmission provider’s OASIS on or
before the date the reassigned service
commences; (b) assignees of
transmission capacity execute a service
agreement prior to the date on which
the reassigned service commences; and
(c) transmission providers aggregate and
summarize in an electric quarterly
report the data contained in these
service agreements;
• Adopted an operational penalties
annual filing that provides information
regarding the penalty revenue the
transmission provider has received and
distributed; and
• Required creditworthiness
information to be included in a
transmission provider’s OATT.
Attachment L must specify the
qualitative and quantitative criteria that
the transmission provider uses to

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• Planning redispatch offers and
reliability redispatch data;
• Curtailment data;
• Planning and system impact
studies;
• Metrics for system impact studies;
and
• All rules.
Incorporating the Order No. 890
standards into the Commission’s
regulations benefits wholesale electric
customers by streamlining utility
business practices, transactional
processes, and OASIS procedures, and
by adopting a formal ongoing process
for reviewing and upgrading the
Commission’s OASIS standards and
other electric industry business
practices. These practices and
• Explanations for changes in ATC
procedures benefit from the
values;
implementation of generic industry
• Capacity benefit margin (CBM)
standards.
reevaluations and quarterly postings;
The Commission’s Order No. 890
• OASIS metrics and accepted/denied regulations can be found in 18 CFR
35.28 (pro forma tariff requirements),
requests;
determine the level of secured and
unsecured credit required.
The Commission required a NERC/
NAESB 3 team to draft and review Order
No. 890 reliability standards and
business practices. The team was to
solicit comment from each utility on
developed standards and practices and
utilities were to implement each, after
Commission approval. Public utilities,
working through NERC, were to revise
reliability standards to require the
exchange of data and coordination
among transmission providers and,
working through NAESB, were to
develop complementary business
practices.
Required OASIS postings included:

FERC information collection

and 37.6 and 37.7 (OASIS
requirements).
Type of Respondents: Provide
information on any types of entities who
respond to the information collection.
Estimate of Annual Burden 4: The
estimated annual public reporting
burdens for FERC–917 (requirements in
18 CFR 35.28) and FERC–918
(requirements in 18 CFR 37.6 and 37.7)
are reduced from the original estimates
made three years ago. The reductions
are due to the incorporation and
completion of:
• One-time pro forma tariff and
standards changes by utilities in
existence at that time, which would not
be needed unless the tariff and/or
standards are changed again; and
• completed development and
comment solicitation of the required
NERC/NAESB reliability standards and
business practices. The other activities
are annual ongoing requirements. The
estimated annual figures follow:

Annual
number of
respondents

Average
number of
reponses per
respondent

Average
burden 5 hours
per response

Total annual
burden hours

(1)

(2)

(3)

(1)×(2)×(3)

18 CFR 35.28 (FERC–917)
Conforming tariff changes ...............................................................................
Revision of Imbalance Charges .......................................................................
ATC revisions ..................................................................................................
Planning (Attachment K) ..................................................................................
Congestion studies ..........................................................................................
Attestation of network resource commitment ..................................................
Capacity reassignment ....................................................................................
Operational Penalty annual filing .....................................................................
Creditworthiness—include criteria in the tariff .................................................

0
0
0
134
134
134
134
134
0

0
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
0

0
0
0
100
300
1
100
10
0

0
0
0
13,400
40,200
134
13,400
1,340
0

FERC–917—Sub Total Part 35 ................................................................

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

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

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

68,474

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18 CFR 37.6 & 37.7 (FERC–918)
ATC-related standards:
NERC/NAESB Team to develop ..............................................................
Review and comment by utility .................................................................
Implementation by each utility ..................................................................
Mandatory data exchanges .............................................................................
Explanation of change of ATC values .............................................................
Reevaluate CBM and post quarterly ...............................................................
Post OASIS metrics; requests accepted/denied .............................................
Post planning redispatch offers and reliability redispatch data .......................
Post curtailment data .......................................................................................
Post Planning and System Impact Studies .....................................................
Posting of metrics for System Impact Studies ................................................
Post all rules to OASIS ....................................................................................
FERC–918—Recordkeeping Requirements .............................................

0
0
0
134
134
134
134
134
134
134
134
134
134

0
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

0
0
0
80
100
20
90
20
10
5
100
5
40

0
0
0
10,720
13,400
2,680
12,060
2,680
1,340
670
13,400
670
5,360

FERC–918 -Sub Total of Part 37 Reporting Requirements .............

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

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

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

57,620

3 NAESB is the North American Energy Standards
Board.
4 The Commission defines burden as the total
time, effort, or financial resources expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain, or disclose or
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further explanation of what is included in the
information collection burden, reference 5 Code of
Federal Regulations 1320.3.
5 Burden is defined as the total time, effort, or
financial resources expended by persons to
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information to or for a Federal agency. For further
explanation of what is included in the information
collection burden, refer to 5 Code of Federal
Regulations 1320.3.

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Annual
number of
respondents

Average
number of
reponses per
respondent

Average
burden 5 hours
per response

Total annual
burden hours

(1)

(2)

(3)

(1)×(2)×(3)

FERC–918—Sub Total of Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements .............................................................................................

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

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

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

62,980

Total FERC–917 and FERC–918 (Part 35 + Part 37, Reporting
and Recordkeeping Requirements) ...............................................

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

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

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

131,454

FERC information collection

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 3, 2018.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
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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: ER10–2641–031;
ER10–1874–007; ER10–2663–032;
ER10–2881–032; ER10–2882–034;
ER10–2883–032; ER10–2884–032;
ER10–2885–032; ER16–2509–003;
ER17–2400–003; ER17–2401–003;
ER17–2403–003; ER17–2404–003.
Applicants: Oleander Power Project,
Limited Partnership, Southern
Company—Florida LLC, Mankato
Energy Center, LLC, Alabama Power
Company, Southern Power Company,
Mississippi Power Company, Georgia
Power Company, Gulf Power Company,
Rutherford Farm, LLC, SP Butler Solar,
LLC, SP Decatur Parkway Solar, LLC, SP
Pawpaw Solar, LLC, SP Sandhills Solar,
LLC.
Description: Notification of Change in
Status of Oleander Power Project,
Limited Partnership, et al.
Filed Date: 5/3/18.

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Accession Number: 20180503–5091.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 5/24/18.
Docket Numbers: ER18–1464–002.
Applicants: Midcontinent
Independent System Operator, Inc.
Description: Tariff Amendment:
2018–05–03_2nd Amendment to SubRegional Power Balance Constraints
filing to be effective 6/27/2018.
Filed Date: 5/3/18.
Accession Number: 20180503–5111.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 5/24/18.
Docket Numbers: ER18–1482–001.
Applicants: Pacific Gas and Electric
Company.
Description: Tariff Amendment: Errata
to Q1 2018 Quarterly Filing of City and
County of San Francisco’s WDT SA to
be effective 3/31/2018.
Filed Date: 5/3/18.
Accession Number: 20180503–5053.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 5/24/18.
Docket Numbers: ER18–1507–000.
Applicants: PJM Interconnection,
L.L.C.
Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: First
Revised ISA, SA No. 2013, Queue No.
AC2–018 to be effective 4/11/2018.
Filed Date: 5/2/18.
Accession Number: 20180502–5186.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 5/23/18.
Docket Numbers: ER18–1514–000.
Applicants: Southern California
Edison Company.
Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: GIA
& DSA Goleta Energy Center Project SA
Nos. 1004–1005 to be effective 5/4/2018.
Filed Date: 5/3/18.
Accession Number: 20180503–5050.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 5/24/18.
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
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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.
Dated: May 3, 2018.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
Notice of Document Labelling
Guidance for Documents Submitted to
or Filed With the Commission or
Commission Staff
Take notice that, pursuant to National
Archives and Records Administration
procedures for appropriate handling of
documents (81 FR 63323 (Sept. 14,
2016)), the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (Commission) will follow
the Information Governance Policy and
Guidelines for the Protection of
Sensitive Information requirements as
described in 18 CFR 388.112 and
388.113. As a result, every submission
or filing with the Commission or
Commission staff that contains sensitive
material (as described below) should be
labeled controlled unclassified
information (CUI). The documents
described below should be labeled as
follows:
Documents containing Critical Energy/
Electric Infrastructure Information (CEII), see
18 CFR 388.113, should include in a top
center header of each page of the document
the following text: CUI//CEII.
Documents containing information that
section 388.112 of the Commission’s
regulations, 18 CFR 388.112, recognizes as
privileged, and documents containing
information within the scope of protective
orders and agreements in Commission
proceedings, should include in a top center
header of each page of the document the
following text: CUI//PRIV.
Documents containing multiple
information types, should reference each

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