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Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/21/18.
Docket Numbers: ER16–2438–002.
Applicants: Pedricktown
Cogeneration Company LP.
Description: Report Filing: TEM, et al.
Refund Report (EL16–116) to be
effective N/A.
Filed Date: 1/31/18.
Accession Number: 20180131–5280.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/21/18.
Docket Numbers: ER16–2439–002.
Applicants: H.A. Wagner LLC.
Description: Report Filing: TEM, et al.
Refund Report (EL16–116) to be
effective N/A.
Filed Date: 1/31/18.
Accession Number: 20180131–5277.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/21/18.
Docket Numbers: ER16–2440–002.
Applicants: Brandon Shores LLC.
Description: Report Filing: TEM, et al.
Refund Report (EL16–116) to be
effective N/A.
Filed Date: 1/31/18.
Accession Number: 20180131–5281.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/21/18.
Docket Numbers: ER18–754–001.
Applicants: Southwest Power Pool,
Inc.
Description: Tariff Amendment: 3391
Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska
PTP Agreement to be effective 1/1/2018.
Filed Date: 1/31/18.
Accession Number: 20180131–5241.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/21/18.
Docket Numbers: ER18–770–000.
Applicants: Southwest Power Pool,
Inc.
Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing:
3334R1 Associated Electric Cooperative
NITSA and NOA to be effective 1/1/
2018.
Filed Date: 1/31/18.
Accession Number: 20180131–5265.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/21/18.
Docket Numbers: ER18–771–000.
Applicants: DeSoto County
Generating Company, LLC.
Description: Tariff Cancellation:
Notice of Termination for Rate Schedule
FERC No. 1 to be effective 2/1/2018.
Filed Date: 1/31/18.
Accession Number: 20180131–5278.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/21/18.
Docket Numbers: ER18–772–000.
Applicants: New Mexico Wind, LLC.
Description: Baseline eTariff Filing:
New Mexico Wind, LLC Application for
Market-Based Rates to be effective 3/15/
2018.
Filed Date: 1/31/18.
Accession Number: 20180131–5279.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/21/18.
Docket Numbers: ER18–773–000.
Applicants: Midcontinent
Independent System Operator, Inc.,
Ameren Illinois Company.

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Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing:
2018–02–01_SA 3028 Ameren IL-Prairie
Power Project#10 Velma to be effective
1/23/2018.
Filed Date: 2/1/18.
Accession Number: 20180201–5033.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/22/18.
Docket Numbers: ER18–774–000.
Applicants: Midcontinent
Independent System Operator, Inc.,
Ameren Illinois Company.
Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing:
2018–02–01_SA 3028 Ameren IL-Prairie
Power Project#11 Woodland to be
effective 1/23/2018.
Filed Date: 2/1/18.
Accession Number: 20180201–5038.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/22/18.
Docket Numbers: ER18–775–000.
Applicants: All American Power and
Gas, LLC.
Description: Baseline eTariff Filing:
Market-Based Rate Tariff Application to
be effective 2/2/2018.
Filed Date: 2/1/18.
Accession Number: 20180201–5072.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/22/18.
Docket Numbers: ER18–776–000.
Applicants: United Energy Trading,
LLC.
Description: Tariff Cancellation:
Notice of Cancellation of Market-Based
Rate Tariff to be effective 2/2/2018.
Filed Date: 2/1/18.
Accession Number: 20180201–5073.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/22/18.
Docket Numbers: ER18–777–000.
Applicants: Iridium Energy, LLC.
Description: Baseline eTariff Filing:
Market-Based Rate Tariff Application to
be effective 2/2/2018.
Filed Date: 2/1/18.
Accession Number: 20180201–5075.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/22/18.
Docket Numbers: ER18–778–000.
Applicants: NorthWestern
Corporation.
Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: SA
810—Agreement with Powder River
Energy Corporation to be effective 2/2/
2018.
Filed Date: 2/1/18.
Accession Number: 20180201–5087.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/22/18.
Docket Numbers: ER18–779–000.
Applicants: Northern States Power
Company, a Minnesota corporation.
Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing:
2018–02–01 MKPC Fac Const AgrmtLake Park SS–0.0.0 to be effective 2/2/
2018.
Filed Date: 2/1/18.
Accession Number: 20180201–5100.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/22/18.
The filings are accessible in the
Commission’s eLibrary system by
clicking on the links or querying the
docket number.

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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
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: February 1, 2018.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. RD17–8–000]

Commission Information Collection
Activities (FERC–725HH); Comment
Request
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, DOE.
ACTION: Comment request.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
3507(a)(1)(D), the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (Commission or
FERC) is submitting its information
collection FERC–725HH (RF Reliability
Standards) 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 issued a Notice in the
Federal Register (82 FR 53489, 11/16/
2017) requesting public comments. The
Commission received no comments on
the FERC–725HH information collection
and is making this notation in its
submittal to OMB.
DATES: Comments on the collection of
information are due by March 9, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB,
identified by the OMB Control No.
1902–0256, should be sent via email to
the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs: [email protected].
SUMMARY:

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Attention: Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission Desk Officer. The Desk
Officer may also be reached via
telephone at 202–395–0710.
A copy of the comments should also
be sent to the Commission, in Docket
No. RD17–8–000, 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: 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–725HH, RF Reliability
Standards.
OMB Control No.: 1902–0256.
Type of Request: Three-year approval
of the FERC–725HH information
collection requirements, as modified by
Docket No. RD17–8–000.
Abstract: The information collected
by the FERC–725HH is required to
implement the statutory provisions of
section 215 of the Federal Power Act
(FPA) (16 U.S.C. 824o). Section 215 of
the FPA buttresses the Commission’s
efforts to strengthen the reliability of the
interstate grid through the grant of new
authority by providing for a system of
mandatory Reliability Standards
developed by the Electric Reliability
Organization (ERO). In July 2006, the
Commission certified the North
American Electric Reliability
Corporation (NERC) as the ERO.1
1 North American Electric Reliability Corp., 116
FERC ¶ 61,062 (ERO Certification Order), order on
reh’g & compliance, 117 FERC ¶ 61,126 (2006), aff’d
sub nom. Alcoa, Inc. v. FERC, 564 F.3d 1342 (DC
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Reliability Standards that the ERO
proposes to the Commission may
include Reliability Standards that are
proposed to the ERO by a Regional
Entity.2 A Regional Entity is an entity
that has been approved by the
Commission to enforce Reliability
Standards under delegated authority
from the ERO.3 On March 17, 2011, the
Commission approved a regional
Reliability Standard submitted by the
ERO that was developed by the
ReliabilityFirst Corporation (RF).4
RF promotes bulk electric system
reliability in the Eastern
Interconnection. RF is the Regional
Entity responsible for compliance
monitoring and enforcement in the RF
region. In addition, RF provides an
environment for the development of
Reliability Standards and the
coordination of the operating and
planning activities of its members as set
forth in the RF bylaws.
There is one regional Reliability
Standard in the RF region. The regional
Reliability Standard requires planning
coordinators within the RF geographical
footprint to analyze, assess and
document resource adequacy for load in
the RF footprint annually, to utilize a
‘‘one day in ten years’’ loss of load
criterion, and to document and post
load and resource capability in each
area or transmission-constrained subarea identified.
• BAL–502–RFC–02 (Planning
Resource Adequacy Analysis,
Assessment and Documentation) 5
establishes common criteria, based on
‘‘one day in ten year’’ loss of load
expectation principles, for the analysis,
assessment, and documentation of
resource adequacy for load in the RF
region.
The Commission’s request to OMB
reflects the following:
• Implementing the regional
Reliability Standard BAL–502–RF–03
and the retirement of regional
Reliability Standard BAL–502–RFC–02 6
which is discussed below.
2 16

U.S.C. 824o(e)(4).
U.S.C. 824o(a)(7) and (e)(4).
4 Planning Resource Adequacy Assessment
Reliability Standard, Order No. 747, 134 FERC ¶
61,212 (2011).
5 BAL–50–RFC–02 is included in the OMBapproved inventory for FERC–725H.
6 Burden associated with BAL–502–RF–02
Reliability Standard was once contained in FERC–
725H information collection (OMB Control No.
1902–0256). FERC–725H was discontinued on 3/6/
2014. However, the requirements of BAL–502–RF–
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On September 7, 2017, NERC and RF
filed a joint petition in Docket No.
RD17–8–000 7 requesting Commission
approval of: (a) Regional Reliability
Standard BAL–502–RF–03 (Planning
Resource Adequacy Analysis,
Assessment and Documentation), and
(b) the retirement of regional Reliability
Standard BAL–502–RFC–02.6 The
petition states: ‘‘Proposed regional
Reliability Standard BAL–502–RF–03
establishes common criteria, based on
‘‘one day in ten year’’ loss of Load
expectation principles, for the analysis,
assessment, and documentation of
Resource Adequacy for Load in the
ReliabilityFirst region.’’ NERC’s and
RF’s joint filing was noticed on
September 8, 2017, with interventions,
comments and protests due on or before
October 10, 2017. In this document, we
provide estimates of the burden and cost
related to those revisions to FERC–
725HH.
Type of Respondents: Planning
coordinators.
Estimate of Annual Burden: 8 Details
follow on the changes related to Docket
No. RD17–8–000.
Estimate of Changes to Burden Due to
Docket No. RD17–8: The joint petition
requested Commission approval of
regional Reliability Standard BAL–502–
RF–03 and retirement of regional
Reliability Standard BAL–502–RFC–02.
The estimated effects on burden and
cost 9 are as follows:
02 were still imposed on NERC entities. Those
requirements are now being retired with no removal
of burden (any associated burden was removed
concurrent with the discontinuance).
7 The joint petition and exhibits are posted in the
Commission’s eLibrary system in Docket No. RD17–
8–000.
8 Burden is defined as the total time, effort, or
financial resources expended by persons to
generate, maintain, retain, or disclose or provide
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.
9 For BAL–502–RF–03, the hourly cost (for salary
plus benefits) uses the figures from the Bureau of
Labor Statistics for three positions involved in the
reporting and recordkeeping requirements. These
figures include salary (http://bls.gov/oes/current/
naics2_22.htm) and benefits (http://www.bls.gov/
news.release/ecec.nr0.htm) and are:
• Manager (Occupation Code 11–0000): $81.52/
hour
• Engineer (Occupation Code 17–2071): $68.12/
hour
• File Clerk (Occupation Code 43–4071): $32.74/
hour
The hourly cost for the reporting requirements
($60.79) is an average of the cost of a manager, an
engineer, and a file clerk.

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FERC–725HH, RF RELIABILITY STANDARDS, CHANGES IN DOCKET NO. RD17–8–000

Entity

Number of
respondents 10

Annual
number of
responses
per
respondent

Annual
number of
responses

Average
burden hrs. &
cost per
response
($)

Total annual
burden hours &
total annual cost
($)

Cost per
respondent
($)

(1)

(2)

(1) * (2) = (3)

(4)

(3) * (4) = (5)

(5) ÷ (1) = (6)

Proposed Regional Reliability Standard BAL–502–RF–03
Planning Coordinators .......................

2

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: February 1, 2018.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[FRL–9974–04–OAR]

Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas
Emissions and Sinks: 1990–2016
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of document availability
and request for comments.
AGENCY:

The Draft Inventory of U.S.
Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks:
1990–2016 is available for public
review. EPA requests recommendations
for improving the overall quality of the
inventory report to be finalized in April
2018, as well as subsequent inventory
reports.

SUMMARY:

To ensure your comments are
considered for the final version of the
document, please submit your
comments by March 9, 2018. However,
comments received after that date will

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DATES:

10 The number of respondents is derived from the
NERC Compliance Registry as of October 2, 2017 for
the burden associated with the proposed regional
Reliability Standard BAL–502–RF–03.

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still be welcomed and considered for
the next edition of this report.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–
OAR–2017–0729, to the Federal
eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
Once submitted, comments cannot be
edited or withdrawn. Do not submit
electronically any information you
consider to be Confidential Business
Information (CBI). Comments can also
be submitted in hardcopy to GHG
Inventory at: Environmental Protection
Agency, Climate Change Division
(6207A), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW,
Washington, DC 20460, Fax: (202) 343–
2338. You are welcome and encouraged
to send an email with your comments to
[email protected]. EPA may
publish any comment received to its
public docket, submitted in hardcopy or
sent via email. For additional
submission methods, the full EPA
public comment policy, information
about CBI, and general guidance on
making effective comments, please visit
http://www2.epa.gov/dockets/
commenting-epa-dockets.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Mausami Desai, Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of Air and
Radiation, Office of Atmospheric
Programs, Climate Change Division,
(202) 343–9381, GHGInventory@
epa.gov.
Annual
U.S. emissions for the period of time
from 1990 through 2016 are summarized
and presented by source category and
sector. The inventory contains estimates
of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4),
nitrous oxide (N2O), hydrofluorocarbons
(HFC), perfluorocarbons (PFC), sulfur
hexafluoride (SF6), and nitrogen
trifluoride (NF3) emissions. The
technical approach used in this report to
estimate emissions and sinks for
greenhouse gases is consistent with the
methodologies recommended by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC), and reported in a format
consistent with the United Nations
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC) reporting guidelines.
The Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas
Emissions and Sinks: 1990–2016 is the
latest in a series of annual, policyneutral U.S. submissions to the
Secretariat of the UNFCCC. EPA
requests recommendations for
improving the overall quality of the
inventory report to be finalized in April
2018, as well as subsequent inventory
reports.
The draft report is available at:
https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/
inventory-us-greenhouse-gas-emissionsand-sinks.
Sarah Dunham,
Director, Office of Atmospheric Programs.
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION
[OMB 3060–0120, 3060–0716, 3060–0754
and 3060–1053]

Information Collections Being
Submitted for Review and Approval to
the Office of Management and Budget
Federal Communications
Commission.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

As part of its continuing effort
to reduce paperwork burdens, and as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA) of 1995, the Federal
Communications Commission
(Commission) invites the general public
and other Federal agencies to take this
opportunity to comment on the
following information collection.
Comments are requested concerning:
Whether the collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the Commission,
including whether the information shall
have practical utility; the accuracy of
the Commission’s burden estimate;
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information collected;

SUMMARY:

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