In accordance
with 5 CFR 1320, the information collection is approved for three
years.
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
03/31/2021
36 Months From Approved
2
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0
32
0
0
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0
On August 8, 2005, The Electricity
Modernization Act of 2005, which is Title XII of the Energy Policy
Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005), was enacted into law. EPAct 2005 added a
new Section 215 to the Federal Power Act (FPA), which requires a
Commission-certified Electric Reliability Organization (ERO) to
develop mandatory and enforceable Reliability Standards, which are
subject to Commission review and approval. Once approved, the
Reliability Standards may be enforced by the ERO, subject to
Commission oversight. In 2006, the Commission certified the North
American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) as the ERO
pursuant to FPA section 215. Reliability Standards that the ERO
proposes to the Commission may include Reliability Standards that
are proposed to the ERO by a Regional Entity . A Regional Entity is
an entity that has been approved by the Commission to enforce
Reliability Standards under delegated authority from the ERO. On
3/17/2011, the Commission approved a regional Reliability Standard
submitted by the ERO that was developed by ReliabilityFirst
Corporation (RF). There was only one Reliability Standard in the RF
region, namely BAL-502-RFC-02 (Planning Resource Adequacy Analysis,
Assessment, and Documentation). BAL-502-RFC-02 established common
criteria (based on “one day in ten year”) load loss expectation
principles, for the analysis, assessment, and documentation of
resource adequacy for load in the RF region. Burden associated with
BAL-502-RF-02 Reliability Standard was once contained in FERC-725H
information collection (OMB Control No. 1902-0256) as approved by
Order No. 747 . FERC-725H was discontinued on 3/6/2014 . However,
the reporting requirements of BAL-502-RF-02 remained imposed on
NERC entities after discontinuance as they had been imposed before
Order No. 747 was approved. Based on the findings of Order No. 747,
burden associated with BAL-502-RF-02 was not substantive, but
Commission staff sought approval anyway using a minimal amount of
burden. In 2014, Commission staff no longer considered renewing
this collection as an effective use of time for Commission staff,
OMB, or the public since it did not qualify as an “information
collection” under the Paperwork Reduction Act. Commission staff
have verified that the ReliabilityFirst Corporation Terms of
Membership did require members to comply with the standard
regardless of whether FERC has approved it and, as stated earlier,
this was the Standard’s status prior to FERC approving the standard
in 2011. Those requirements in BAL-502-RF-02 are now being retired
with no removal of burden (any associated burden was removed
concurrent with the discontinuance of FERC-725H in 2014). On
9/7/2017, NERC and RF filed a joint petition in Docket No.
RD17-8-000 requesting Commission approval of: • Regional
Reliability Standard BAL-502-RF-03; • The retirement of regional
Reliability Standard BAL-502-RF-02 .
In addition to approving
regional Reliability Standard BAL-502-RFC-02 in Order No. 747, the
Commission also directed ReliabilityFirst to: (1) add time horizons
to the two main requirements, and (2) consider including a
requirement that the Planning Coordinators identify any gap between
the needed amount of planning reserves determined in Requirement
R1, Part 1.1 and the planning reserves documented in Requirement R2
as determined from the Resource Adequacy analysis. The Commission
directed ReliabilityFirst to address these directives during its
scheduled five-year review of BAL-502-RFC-02. The revisions add in
time horizons to Requirements R1 and R2; add Requirement R3 to
identify any gaps between the needed amount of planning reserves
defined in Requirement R1, Part 1.1 and the projected planning
reserves document in Requirement R2; and add other corresponding
changes to the measures.
$5,723
No
No
No
No
No
No
Uncollected
Susan Morris 202
502-6803
No
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.
RD17-8 supporting statement.docx
16 USC 824o.pdf
BAL-502-RF-03 Reliability Standard