FERC-917.918 Errata Issue

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION

Docket No. IC18-5-000

ERRATA NOTICE

(June 5, 2018)

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Errata and comment request.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission or FERC) is submitting the information collections FERC-917 (Non-discriminatory Open Access Transmission Tariff) and FERC-918 (Information to be posted on OASIS & Auditing Transmission Service Information) 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 published 60-day¹ and 30-day² notices, for the renewal of the FERC-917 and FERC-918 information collections. Both notices requested comments on FERC-917 and FERC-918 and indicated the Commission will submit the information collections to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. The cost information was inadvertently omitted from the Notices. Due to this oversight, we are providing an additional 15 days for comment. Any interested person may file comments directly with OMB and should address a copy of those comments to the Commission as explained below. (There are no changes to the information collections.)

DATES: Comments on the collections of information are due by [insert date 15 days after date of publication in the Federal Register].

ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB, identified by the OMB Control No. 1902-0233 (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.

A copy of the comments should also be sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, identified by the Docket No. IC18-5-000, by one 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/submission-guide.asp. For user assistance contact FERC Online Support by e-mail 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/docs-filing/docs-filing.asp.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Ellen Brown may be reached by e-mail at [email protected], by telephone at (202) 502-8663, and by fax at (202) 273-0873.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: FERC-917 Non-discriminatory Open Access Transmission Tariff and FERC-918 (Information to be posted on OASIS & Auditing Transmission Service Information)

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.

Type of Respondents: Public Utilities transmission providers

Estimate of Annual Burden: This Errata Notice adds the cost data missing from the

Notices for FERC-917 and FERC-918 and provides an additional 15 days for comment.

The corrected table follows³.

FERC-917 (Non-discriminatory Open Access Transmission Tariff) and FERC-918 (Information to be Posted on OASIS & Auditing Transmission Service Information)
	No. of Respondents (1)	Annual No. of Responses per Respondent (2)	Annual No. of Responses (1)*(2)=(3)	Average Burden Hrs. & Cost4 Per Response ($) (4)		Total Annual Burden Hours & Total Annual Cost ($) (3)*(4)=(5)		Cost per Respondent ($) (5)÷(1)=(6)
18 CFR 35.28 (FERC-917)
Conforming tariff changes (Reporting)3	0	0	0	0		0		0
Revision of Imbalance Charges (Reporting)3	0	0	0	0		0		0
ATC revisions (Reporting)3	0	0	0	0		0		0
Planning (Attachment K) (Reporting)	134	1	134	100 hrs., $7,200.00		13,400 hrs., $964,800		$7,200.00
Congestion studies (Reporting)	134	1	134	300 hrs., $21,600		40,200 hrs., $2,894,400		$21,600.00
Attestation of network resource commitment (Reporting)	134	1	134	1 hrs., $ 72.00		134 hrs., $9,648.00		$72.00
Capacity reassignment (Reporting)	134	1	134	100 hrs., $7,200.00	13,400 hrs., $964,800.00			$7,200
Operational Penalty annual filing (Record Keeping))	134	1	134	10 hrs., $327.40	1,340 hrs., $43,871.60			$327.40
Creditworthiness – include criteria in the tariff (Reporting)3	0	0	0	0	0			0
FERC-917, Sub-Total of Record Keeping Requirements					1,340 hrs., $43,871.60
FERC-917, Sub-Total of Reporting Requirements					67,134 hrs., $4,833,648.00
FERC-917 -- Sub Total of Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements	-	-	-		68,474 hrs., $4,877,519.60
18 CFR 37.6 & 37.7 (FERC-918)
Implementation by each utility5 (Reporting)3	0	0	0	0			0		0
NERC/NAESB Team to develop5 (Reporting)3	0	0	0	0			0		0
Review and comment by utility5 (Reporting)3	0	0	0	0			0		0
Mandatory data exchanges (Reporting)	134	1	134	80 hrs., $5,760.00		10,720 hrs., $771,840.00			$5,760.00
Explanation of change of ATC values (Reporting)	134	1	134	100 hrs., $7200.00		13,400 hrs., $964,800.00			$7,200.00
Reevaluate CBM and post quarterly (Record Keeping )	134	1	134	20 hrs., $4,387.16		2,680 hrs., $687,879.44			$4654.80
Post OASIS metrics; requests accepted/denied (Reporting)	134	1	134	90 hrs., $6,480.00		12,060 hrs., $868,320.00			$6,480.00
Post planning redispatch offers and reliability redispatch data (Record Keeping)	134	1	134	20 hrs., $4,387.16		2,680 hrs., $587,879.44			$387.16
Post curtailment data(Reporting)	134	1	134	1 hrs., $72.00		134 hrs., $9,648.00			$72.00
Post Planning and System Impact Studies(Reporting)	134	1	134	5 hrs., $360.00		670 hrs., $48,240.00			$360.00
Posting of metrics for System Impact Studies (Reporting)	134	1	134	100 hrs., $7,200.00		13,400 hrs.; $964,800.00			$7,200.00
Post all rules to OASIS (Record Keeping)	134	1	134	5 hrs., $163.70		670 hrs., $21,935.80				$163.22
FERC-918, Sub-Total of Record Keeping Requirements						6,030 hrs., $1,197,694.68
FERC-918 Sub-Total of Reporting Requirements						50,384.00 hrs., $3,627,648
FERC-918 -- Sub Total of Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements	-	-	-			56,414 hrs., $4,825,342.68
Total FERC-917 and FERC-918 ( Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements)	-	-	-			124,888 hrs., $9,702,862.28
Off-site storage cost						$7,400,000

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,

Deputy Secretary.

1 83 FR 5255, 2/6/2018

2 83 FR 21288, 5/9/2018

3 The zeroes for respondents and responses are based on having no filings of this type over the past four years. In addition, we estimate no filings during the next three years. The requirements remain in the regulations and are included as part of the OMB Control Number.

4 The estimated hourly cost (salary plus benefits) provided in this section is based on the salary figures for May 2017 posted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the Utilities sector (available at http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics2_22.htm) and benefits May 2017 (available at https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics2_22.htm).:

Legal (Occupation Code: 23-0000): $143.68

Consulting (Occupation Code: 54-1600): $89.00

Management Analyst (Occupation Code: 13-1111): $63.49

Office and Administrative Support (Occupation Code: 43-000): $40.89

Electrical Engineer (Occupation Code: 17-2071): $68.12

Information Security Analyst (Occupation Code: 15-1122): $66.34

File Clerk (Occupation Code: 43-4071): $32.74

The skill sets are assumed to contribute equally, so the hourly cost is an average [($143.68 + $89.00 + $63.49 + $40.89 + $68.12 + $66.34 + 32.74) ÷ 7 = $72.04]. The figure is rounded to $72.00 per hour.

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