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Dated: August 14, 2018..
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.

Public Reference Room in Washington,
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission

Dated: August 15, 2018.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.

[Docket No. ER18–2216–000]

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Supplemental Notice That Initial
Market-Based Rate Filing Includes
Request for Blanket Section 204
Authorization; Plumsted 537 LLC

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This is a supplemental notice in the
above-referenced proceeding of
Plumsted 537 LLC’s application for
market-based rate authority, with an
accompanying rate tariff, noting that
such application includes a request for
blanket authorization, under 18 CFR
part 34, of future issuances of securities
and assumptions of liability.
Any person desiring to intervene or to
protest should file with the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426,
in accordance with Rules 211 and 214
of the Commission’s Rules of Practice
and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and
385.214). Anyone filing a motion to
intervene or protest must serve a copy
of that document on the Applicant.
Notice is hereby given that the
deadline for filing protests with regard
to the applicant’s request for blanket
authorization, under 18 CFR part 34, of
future issuances of securities and
assumptions of liability, is September 4,
2018.
The Commission encourages
electronic submission of protests and
interventions in lieu of paper, using the
FERC Online links at http://
www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic
service, persons with internet access
who will eFile a document and/or be
listed as a contact for an intervenor
must create and validate an
eRegistration account using the
eRegistration link. Select the eFiling
link to log on and submit the
intervention or protests.
Persons unable to file electronically
should submit an original and 5 copies
of the intervention or protest to the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
888 First Street NE, Washington, DC
20426.
The filings in the above-referenced
proceeding are accessible in the
Commission’s eLibrary system by
clicking on the appropriate link in the
above list. They are also available for
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. IC18–13–000]

Commission Information Collection
Activities (FERC–537); Comment
Request
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, Department of Energy.
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–537 (Gas
Pipeline Certificates: Construction,
Acquisition, and Abandonment) 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 on May 21, 2018,
requesting public comments. The
Commission received two comments on
the FERC–537 and is making this
notation in its submittal to OMB.
DATES: Comments on the collection of
information are due by September 20,
2018.
ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB,
identified by the OMB Control No.
1902–0060, 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.
A copy of the comments should also
be sent to the Commission, in Docket
No. IC18–13–000, by either of the
following methods:
SUMMARY:

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• 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–537 (Gas Pipeline
Certificates: Construction, Acquisition,
and Abandonment).
OMB Control No.: 1902–0060.
Type of Request: Three-year extension
of the FERC–537 information collection
requirements with no changes to the
reporting requirements.
Abstract: The FERC–537 information
collection requires natural gas
companies to file the necessary
information with FERC in order for the
Commission to determine if the
requested certificate should be
authorized. Certain self-implementing
construction and abandonment
programs do not require the filing of
applications. However, those types of
programs do require the filing of annual
reports, so many less significant actions
can be reported in a single filing/
response and less detail would be
required.
The data required to be submitted in
a normal certificate filing consists of
identification of the company and
responsible officials, factors considered
in the location of the facilities and the
impact on the area for environmental
considerations. Also to be submitted are
the following, as applicable to the
specific request:
• Flow diagrams showing the design
capacity for engineering design
verification and safety determination;
• Cost of proposed facilities, plans for
financing, and estimated revenues and
expenses related to the proposed facility
for accounting and financial evaluation.
• Existing and proposed storage
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engineering studies for requests to
increase storage capacity;
• An affidavit showing the consent of
existing customers for abandonment of
service requests.
Additionally, requests for an increase
of pipeline capacity must include a
statement that demonstrates compliance
with the Commission’s Certificate
Policy Statement by making a showing
that the cost of the expansion will not
be subsidized by existing customers and
that there will not be adverse economic
impacts to existing customers,
competing pipelines or their customers,
nor to landowners and to surrounding
communities.
Type of Respondents: Natural gas
companies.
Responses to public comments:

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To the comment received from Ms.
Joanne Collins on 5/30/2018, FERC
responds:

To the comment received from Ms.
Laurie Lubsen on 6/4/2018, FERC
responds:

Commenter points out that the collection
of data and information from applicants
requesting authorization to construct and
operate natural gas pipelines can create a
secondary burden on the general citizenry to
learn about the Commission’s rules and
process; and further to perhaps take costly
and time consuming efforts to participate in
the Commission’s proceedings. The
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 was not
intended to measure this type of secondary
burden; only the primary burden on those
applicant entities to collect and compile the
information necessary for the Government to
make an informed decision and take
appropriate action. The Commission has
multiple ways, times, and methods for the
general citizenry to appropriately input their
views on the Commission’s rules and
process, or its individual proceedings.

Commenter concurs in the collection of
information necessary for the Commission to
make an informed decision and take
appropriate action is appropriate, but does
not want less information that is needed to
not be collected solely because it is a burden
on those seeking authorizations. We confirm
that all the information required by FERC–
537 continues to be necessary and that no
data collections have been revised in this
current review on FERC–537. Commenter
notes that automated ways to collect
information, such as eFiling are good, as long
as they are not ultimately required of all
fliers.

Estimate of Annual Burden: 1 The
Commission estimates the annual public
reporting burden for the information
collection as:

FERC–537 (GAS PIPELINE CERTIFICATES: CONSTRUCTION, ACQUISITION, AND ABANDONMENT)
Number of
respondents

Annual
number of
responses per
respondent

Total number
of responses

Average burden
and cost per
response 2

Total annual
burden hours
and total
annual cost

Cost per
respondent
($)

(1)

(2)

(1) * (2) = (3)

(4)

(3) * (4) = (5)

(5) ÷ (1) 3

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18 CFR 157.5–.11
(Interstate Certificate and Abandonment Applications.
18 CFR 157.53
(Pipeline Purging/
Testing Exemptions).
18 CFR 157.201–
.209; 157.211;
157.214–.218
(Blanket Certificates Prior to Notice Filings).
18 CFR 157.201–
.209; 157.211;
157.214–.218
(Blanket Certificates—Annual
Reports).
18 CFR 284.11
(NGPA Section
311 Construction—Annual Reports).
18 CFR 284.8 .........

52

1.19

62

500 hrs.; $39,500 ......

31,000; $2,449,000 ............

$47,096

1

1

1

50 hrs.; $3,950 ..........

50 hrs.; $3,950 ...................

3,950

21

1.86

39

200 hrs.; $15,800 ......

7,800 hrs.; $616,200 ..........

29,343

129

4 1.05

135

50 hrs.; $3,950 ..........

6,750 hrs.; $533,250 ..........

4,134

83

5 1.01

84

50 hrs.; $3,950 ..........

4,200 hrs.; $331,800 ..........

3,998

178

0

0

N/A ............................

N/A .....................................

N/A

1 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. Refer to 5
CFR 1320.3 for additional information.
2 The estimates for cost per response are derived
using the following formula: Average Burden Hours
per Response * $79.00/hour = Average cost/
response. The figure is the 2018 FERC average
hourly cost (for wages and benefits) of $79.00 (and
an average annual salary of $164,820/year).

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Commission staff is using the FERC average salary
because we consider any reporting requirements
completed in response to the FERC–537 to be
compensated at rates similar to the work of FERC
employees.
3 Each of the figures in this column are rounded
to the nearest dollar.
4 This figure was derived from 135 responses ÷
129 respondents = 1.046 or ∼1.05 responses/
respondent.

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5 This figure was derived from 84 responses ÷ 83
respondents = 1.012 or ∼1.01 responses/respondent.
6 One-time filings, new tariff and rate design
proposal, or request for exemptions.
7 This figure was derived from 7 responses ÷ 5
respondents = 1.4 responses/respondent.
8 The 335 responses are derived from 214
individual respondents.

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FERC–537 (GAS PIPELINE CERTIFICATES: CONSTRUCTION, ACQUISITION, AND ABANDONMENT)—Continued
Number of
respondents

Annual
number of
responses per
respondent

Total number
of responses

Average burden
and cost per
response 2

Total annual
burden hours
and total
annual cost

Cost per
respondent
($)

(1)

(2)

(1) * (2) = (3)

(4)

(3) * (4) = (5)

(5) ÷ (1) 3

18 CFR 284.13(e)
and 284.126(a)
(Interstate and
Intrastate Bypass
Notice).
18 CFR 284.221
(Blanket Certificates) 6.
18 CFR 224
(Hinshaw Blanket
Certificates).
18 CFR 157.5–.11;
157.13–.20 (Nonfacility Certificate
or Abandonment
Applications.
Total .................

2

1

2

30 hrs.; $2,370 ..........

60 hrs.; $4,740 ...................

2,370

5

7 1.4

7

100 hrs.; $7,900 ........

700 hrs.; $55,300 ...............

11,060

2

1

2

75 hrs.; $5,925 ..........

150 hrs.; $11,850 ...............

5,925

3

1

3

75 hrs.; $5,925 ..........

225 hrs.; $17,775 ...............

5,925

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

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

8 335

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

50,935 hrs.; $4,023,865 .....

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

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: August 14, 2018.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 14795–002]

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Shell Energy North America (US), L.P.;
Notice of Meeting
Environmental staff of the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission
(Commission) will participate in a
meeting, via telephone, with
representatives of Shell Energy North
America, the Confederated Tribes of the
Colville Reservation, and the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers to continue the on-

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going discussion of potential impacts to
cultural resources from the proposed
Hydro Battery Pearl Hill Pumped
Storage Project. The meeting will be
held at the location and time listed
below:
Executive Conference Room at the
Executive Conference Center at the
Spokane International Airport, 9000 W.
Airport Drive, Spokane, Washington
99224, (located adjacent to the lower
level baggage claim and parking areas),
August 30, 2018, 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
PST, Call-in lines will be available.
Members of the public and
intervenors in the referenced proceeding
may attend and observe this meeting, in
person or via telephone. If tribal
representatives decide to disclose
information about a specific location
which could create a risk or harm to an
archeological site or Native American
cultural resource, the public will be
excused for that portion of the meeting.
A summary of the meeting will be
entered into the Commission’s
administrative record.
If you plan to attend this meeting, in
person or via telephone, please contact
Brent Hicks of HRA Associates
(contractor for Shell Energy) at (206)
343–0226 or [email protected].
Dated: August 14, 2018.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
Combined Notice of Filings #1
Take notice that the Commission
received the following electric corporate
filings:
Docket Numbers: EC18–139–000.
Applicants: Lower Mount Bethel
Energy, LLC, Martins Creek, LLC, LMBE
Project Company LLC, MC Project
Company LLC.
Description: Joint Application for
Approval under Section 203 of the
Federal Power Act, et al. of Lower
Mount Bethel Energy, LLC, et al.
Filed Date: 8/14/18.
Accession Number: 20180814–5143.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/4/18.
Take notice that the Commission
received the following electric rate
filings:
Docket Numbers: ER18–1584–000.
Applicants: Mississippi Power
Company.
Description: Response of Mississippi
Power Company to July 13, 2018 letter
requesting additional information.
Filed Date: 8/14/18.
Accession Number: 20180814–5140.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/4/18.
Docket Numbers: ER18–1731–001.
Applicants: Midcontinent
Independent System Operator, Inc.
Description: Tariff Amendment:
2018–08–15_Deficiency response of
MISO TOs for Cost Recovery to be
effective 8/1/2018.
Filed Date: 8/15/18.

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