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Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern
Time on August 6, 2018.
Dated: July 17, 2018.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.

concerning any deliberations in these
dockets.
Matthew Estes
Kristopher Fitzpatrick
Emma Nicholson
Dated: July 17, 2018.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. IC18–17–000]

Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission

Commission Information Collection
Activities (FERC–576); Comment
[Docket Nos. EL16–49–000, ER18–1314–000, Request; Extension
ER18–1314–001, EL18–178–000
(Consolidated), EL18–169–000]

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Notice of Designation of Commission
Staff as Non-Decisional
Calpine Corporation, Dynegy Inc.,
Eastern Generation, LLC, Homer
City Generation, L.P., NRG Power
Marketing LLC, GenOn Energy
Management, LLC, Carroll County
Energy LLC, C.P. Crane LLC,
Essential Power, LLC, Essential
Power OPP, LLC, Essential Power
Rock Springs, LLC, Lakewood
Cogeneration, L.P., GDF SUEZ
Energy Marketing NA, Inc., Oregon
Clean Energy, LLC and Panda
Power Generation Infrastructure
Fund, LLC
v.
PJM Interconnection, L.L.C., PJM
Interconnection, L.L.C., PJM
Interconnection, L.L.C., CPV Power
Holdings, L.P., Calpine Corporation
and Eastern Generation, LLC
v.
PJM Interconnection, L.L.C.
With respect to an order issued by the
Commission on June 29, 2018,1 the
following staff of the Office of the
General Counsel, the Office of Energy
Market Regulation, and the Office of
Energy Policy and Innovation are hereby
designated as non-decisional in
deliberations by the Commission in
these dockets. Accordingly, pursuant to
18 CFR 385.2202 (2017), they will not
serve as advisors to the Commission or
take part in the Commission’s review of
any offer of settlement. Likewise, as
non-decisional staff, pursuant to 18 CFR
385.2201 (2017), they are prohibited
from communicating with advisory staff
1 Calpine

Corp, et al., 163 FERC ¶ 61,236 (2018).

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Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of information collection
and request for comments.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission
(Commission or FERC) is soliciting
public comment on the currently
approved information collection, FERC–
576, Report of Service Interruptions.
DATES: Comments on the collection of
information are due September 21,
2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
(identified by Docket No. IC18–17–000)
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], telephone
at (202) 502–8663, and fax at (202) 273–
0873.
SUMMARY:

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: FERC–576, Report of Service
Interruptions.
OMB Control No.: 1902–0004.
Type of Request: Three-year extension
of the FERC–576 information collection
requirements with no changes to the
current reporting requirements.
Abstract: A natural gas company must
obtain Commission authorization to
engage in the transportation, sale, or
exchange of natural gas in interstate
commerce under the Natural Gas Act
(NGA).1 The NGA also empowers the
Commission to oversee continuity of
service in the transportation of natural
gas in interstate commerce. The
information collected under FERC–576
notifies the Commission of: (1) Damage
to jurisdictional natural gas facilities as
a result of a hurricane, earthquake, or
other natural disaster, or terrorist
activity, (2) serious interruptions to
service, and (3) damage to jurisdictional
natural gas facilities due to natural
disaster or terrorist activity, that creates
the potential for serious delivery
problems on the pipeline’s own system
or the pipeline grid.
Filings (in accordance with the
provisions of section 4(d) of the NGA) 2
must contain information necessary to
advise the Commission when a change
in service has occurred. Section 7(d) of
the NGA 3 authorizes the Commission to
issue a temporary certificate in cases of
emergency to assure maintenance of
adequate service or to serve particular
customers, without notice or hearing.
Respondents to the FERC–576 are
encouraged to submit the reports by
email to [email protected] but
also have the option of faxing the
reports to the Director of the Division of
Pipeline Certificates. 18 CFR 260.9(b)
requires that a report of service
interruption or damage to natural gas
facilities state: (1) The location of the
service interruption or damage to
natural gas pipeline or storage facilities;
(2) The nature of any damage to pipeline
or storage facilities; (3) Specific
identification of the facilities damaged;
(4) The time the service interruption or
damage to the facilities occurred; (5)
The customers affected by the service
interruption or damage to the facilities;
(6) Emergency actions taken to maintain
service; and (7) Company contact and
telephone number. The Commission
may contact pipelines reporting damage
or other pipelines to determine
availability of supply, and if necessary,
authorize transportation or construction
1 Public

Law 75 688; 15 U.S.C. 717 & 717w.
U.S.C. 717c).
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jurisdictional natural gas facilities is
required by Department of
Transportation (DOT) reporting
requirements under the Natural Gas
Pipeline Safety Act of 1968, a copy of
such report shall be submitted to the
Director of the Commission’s Division of
Pipeline Certificates, within 30 days of
the reportable incident.4
If the Commission failed to collect
these data, it would lose the ability to
monitor and evaluate transactions,

of facilities to alleviate constraints in
response to these reports.
A report required by 18 CFR
260.9(a)(1)(i) of damage to natural gas
facilities resulting in loss of pipeline
throughput or storage deliverability
shall be reported to the Director of the
Commission’s Division of Pipeline
Certificates at the earliest feasible time
when pipeline throughput or storage
deliverability has been restored.
In any instance in which an incident
or damage report involving

operations, and reliability of interstate
pipelines and perform its regulatory
functions. These reports are kept by the
Commission Staff as non-public
information and are not made part of the
public record.
Type of Respondents: Natural gas
companies.
Estimate of Annual Burden: 5 The
Commission estimates the total annual
burden and cost 6 for the information
collection as follows.

FERC–576—REPORT OF SERVICE INTERRUPTIONS
Number of
respondents

Annual
number of
responses per
respondent

Total number
of responses

Average burden hours
and cost ($)
per response

Total annual
burden hours and total
annual cost

Cost per
respondent
($)

(1)

(2)

(1) * (2) = (3)

(4)

(3) * (4) = (5)

(5) ÷ (1)

Submittal of Original Email/Fax .........
Submittal of Damage Report .............
Submittal of DOT Incident Report .....

21
21
21

3
3
1

63
63
21

1 hr.; $133.80 .................
0.25 hrs.; $33.45 ............
0.25 hrs.; $33.45 ............

63 hrs.; $8,429.40 ...............
15.75 hrs.; $2,107.35 ..........
5.25 hrs.; $702.45 ...............

$133.80
33.45
33.45

Total ............................................

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

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

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

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

84 hrs.; $11,239.20 .............

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

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: July 17, 2018.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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CFR 260.9(d)
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.
5 ‘‘Burden’’

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. AD18–11–000]

Supplemental Notice of Technical
Conference; Reliability Technical
Conference
Take notice that the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (Commission)
will hold a Technical Conference on
Tuesday, July 31, 2018, from 9:00 a.m.
to 5:00 p.m. This Commissioner-led
conference will be held in the
Commission Meeting Room at the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
888 First Street, NE, Washington, DC
20426. The purpose of the conference is
to discuss policy issues related to the
reliability of the Bulk-Power System.
Attached is the final agenda for this
event.
The conference will be open for the
public to attend. There is no fee for
attendance. However, members of the
public are encouraged to preregister
online at: https://www.ferc.gov/whatsnew/registration/07-31-18-form.asp.
Information on this event will be
posted on the Calendar of Events on the
Commission’s website, http://
www.ferc.gov, prior to the event. The
6 Costs (for wages and benefits) are based on wage
figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for
May 2017 (at https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/
naics2_22.htm) and benefits information (for
December 2017, issued March 20, 2018, at https://
www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.nr0.htm).
Commission staff estimates that 20% of the work is
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conference will also be webcast and
transcribed. Anyone with internet
access who desires to listen to this event
can do so by navigating to the Calendar
of Events at http://www.ferc.gov and
locating this event in the Calendar. The
event will contain a link to the webcast.
The Capitol Connection provides
technical support for webcasts and
offers the option of listening to the
meeting via phone-bridge for a fee. If
you have any questions, visit http://
www.CapitolConnection.org or call (703)
993–3100. Transcripts of the technical
conference will be available for a fee
from Ace-Federal Reporters, Inc. at (202)
347–3700.
Commission conferences are
accessible under section 508 of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973. For
accessibility accommodations, please
send an email to [email protected]
or call toll free 1 (866) 208–3372 (voice)
or (202) 502–8659 (TTY), or send a fax
to (202) 208–2106 with the required
accommodations.
For more information about this
technical conference, please contact
Lodie White (202) 502–8453,
[email protected]. For information
related to logistics, please contact Sarah
McKinley at (202) 502–8368,
[email protected].
legal staff members. The hourly costs for wages plus
benefits are: $94.28 for management services (code
11–0000), and $143.68 for legal services (code 23–
0000). Therefore, the weighted hourly cost (for
wages plus benefits) is $133.80 [or (0.80 * $143.68)
+ (0.20 * $94.28)].

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