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Participants must notify Courtenay
O’Mara at g2jacksonrel@
southernco.com, or (404) 506–7219, on
or before October 3, 2018, if they plan
to attend the environmental site review.
k. Procedural Schedule: The
application will be processed according
to the following schedule. Revisions to
the schedule may be made as
appropriate. If a date falls on a weekend
or holiday, the due date will be the
following business day.
Milestone

Target date

Public Scoping Meetings and
Environmental Site Review.

October 9, 2018 &
October 10,
2018.
November 5, 2018.

File Comments on PAD, SD1,
and Study Requests.
Commission Issues SD2, if
necessary.
File Proposed Study Plan .......
Study Plan Meetings ...............
File Comments on Proposed
Study Plan.
File Revised Proposed Study
Plan.
File Comments on Revised
Proposed Study Plan.
Commission Issues Study
Plan Determination.

December 20,
2018.
December 20,
2018.
January 22, 2019.
March 20, 2019.
April 19, 2019.

forwarded to: Ms. Melissa Melvin,
Secretary, Lake Upchurch Dam
Preservation Association, Inc., 127
Bayshore Drive, Parkton, NC 28371,
Phone: 910–864–3191, email:
[email protected].
Dated: September 20, 2018.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. IC18–19–000]

Commission Information Collection
Activities (FERC–725); Comment
Request; Extension September 21,
2018
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, DOE.
ACTION: Notice of information collection
and request for comments.
AGENCY:

May 6, 2019.
May 20, 2019.

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–
725 (Certification of Electric Reliability
Organization; Procedures for Electric
Reliability Standards).
DATES: Comments on the collection of
information are due November 26, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
(identified by Docket No. IC18–19–000)
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
SUMMARY:

Dated: September 20, 2018.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 6619–022]

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Lake Upchurch Power, Inc., Lake
Upchurch Dam Preservation
Association, Inc.; Notice of Transfer of
Exemption
1. By letter filed August 1, 2018 and
supplemented on August 17 and
September 4, 2018, Lake Upchurch Dam
Preservation Association, Inc., informed
the Commission that the exemption
from licensing for the Raeford Dam
Hydroelectric Project No. 6619,
originally issued October 22, 1982 1 has
been transferred to Lake Upchurch Dam
Preservation Association, Inc. The
project is located on Rockfish Creek in
Cumberland County, North Carolina.
The transfer of an exemption does not
require Commission approval.
2. Lake Upchurch Dam Preservation
Association, Inc. is now the exemptee of
the Raeford Dam Hydroelectric Project
No. 6619. All correspondence should be
1 Notice of Exemption From Licensing. Raeford
Hydropower Corporation, 21 FERC ¶ 62,114 (1982).

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at [email protected], telephone
at (202) 502–8663, and fax at (202) 273–
0873.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: FERC–725, Certification of
Electric Reliability Organization;
Procedures for Electric Reliability
Standards.
OMB Control No.: 1902–0225.
Type of Request: Three-year extension
of the FERC–725 information collection
requirements with no changes to the
current reporting and recordkeeping
requirements.1
Abstract: The FERC–725 contains the
following information collection
elements:
Self Assessment and ERO (Electric
Reliability Organization) Application:
The Commission requires the ERO to
submit to FERC a performance
assessment report every five years. The
next assessment is due in 2019. Each
Regional Entity submits a performance
assessment report to the ERO.
Submitting an application to become
the ERO is also part of this collection.2
Reliability Assessments: 18 CFR 39.11
requires the ERO to assess the reliability
and adequacy of the Bulk-Power System
in North America. Subsequently, the
ERO must report to the Commission on
its findings. Regional entities perform
similar assessments within individual
regions. Currently the ERO submits to
FERC three assessments each year: Long
term, winter, and summer. In addition,
the North American Electric Reliability
Corporation (NERC, the Commissionapproved ERO) also submits various
other assessments as needed.
Reliability Standards Development:
Under section 215 of the FPA, the ERO
is charged with developing Reliability
Standards. Regional Entities may also
develop regional specific standards.
Reliability Compliance: Reliability
Standards are mandatory and
enforceable upon approval by the
Commission. In addition to the specific
information collection requirements
contained in each standard (cleared
under other information collections),
there are general compliance,
monitoring and enforcement
1 As of 9/19/2018, a package for the ‘‘nonsubstantive’’ changes to FERC–725, implemented in
the Final Rule in Docket No. RM18–2–000, is
pending review at the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB). The burden estimates provided in
this Notice use those same burden estimates.
2 The Commission does not expect any new ERO
applications to be submitted in the next five years
and is not including any burden for this
requirement in the burden estimate. FERC still
seeks to renew the regulations pertaining to a new
ERO application under this renewal but is
expecting the burden to be zero for the foreseeable
future. 18 CFR 39.3 contains the regulation
pertaining to ERO applications.

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information collection requirements
imposed on applicable entities. Audits,
spot checks, self-certifications,
exception data submittals, violation
reporting, and mitigation plan
confirmation are included in this area.
Stakeholder Survey: The ERO uses a
stakeholder survey to solicit feedback
from registered entities 3 in preparation
for its three year and five year selfperformance assessment. The
Commission assumes that the ERO will
perform another survey prior to the
2019 self-assessment.

Other Reporting: This category refers
to all other reporting requirements
imposed on the ERO or regional entities
in order to comply with the
Commission’s regulations. For example,
FERC may require NERC to submit a
special reliability assessment. This
category captures these types of onetime filings required of NERC or the
Regions. The Commission implements
its responsibilities through 18 CFR part
39.
Type of Respondent: Electric
Reliability Organization, Regional
entities, and registered entities.

Estimate of Annual Burden 4: The
Commission estimates the total annual
burden and cost 5 for this information
collection in the table below. For hourly
cost (for wages and benefits), we
estimate that 70% of the time is spent
by Electrical Engineers (code 17–2071,
at $66.90/hr.), 20% of the time is spent
by Legal (code 23–0000, at $143.68/hr.),
and 10% by Office and Administrative
Support (code 43–0000, at $41.34/hr.).
Therefore, we use the weighted hourly
cost (for wages and benefits) of $79.70
{or [(0.70) * ($66.90/hr.)] + [(0.20) *
$143.68/hr.] + [(0.10) * $41.34/hr.]}.

FERC–725
Type of respondent

Electric Reliability Organization (ERO).

Number of
respondents

Annual
number of
responses per
respondent

Total
number of
responses

Average burden hours &
cost ($) per response
(rounded)

Estimated total annual
burden hours & cost ($)
(rounded)

(A)

(B) 6

(A) × (B) = (C)

(D)

(C) × (D)

Self-Assessment ..............

1 .................

.2

.2

4,160 hrs.; $331,552 ........

832 hrs.; $66,310.

Reliability Assessments ...
Reliability Compliance ......
Standards Development ..
Other Reporting ...............

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

5.5
2
1
1

5.5
2
1
1

15,600 hrs.; $1,243,320 ...
20,280 hrs.; $1,616,316 ...
21,840 hrs.; $1,740,648 ...
2,080 hrs.; $165,776 ........

85,800 hrs.; $6,838,260.
40,560 hrs.; $3,232,632.
21,840 hrs.; $1,740,648.
2,080 hrs.; $165,776.

ERO, Sub-Total .........
Regional Entities ..............

..........................................
Self-Assessment ..............
Reliability Assessments ...
Reliability Compliance ......
Standards Development ..
Other Reporting ...............

....................
7 .................
....................
....................
....................
....................

........................
.2
1
1
1
1

........................
1.4
7
7
7
7

..........................................
4,160 hrs.; $331,552 ........
15,600 hrs.; $1,243,320 ...
37,440 hrs.; $2,983,968 ...
2,340 hrs.; $186,498 ........
1,040 hrs.; $82,888 ..........

151,112 hrs.; $12,043,626.
5,824 hrs.; $464,173.
109,200 hrs.; $8,703,240.
262,080 hrs.; $20,887,776.
16,380 hrs.; $1,305,486.
7,280 hrs.; $580,216.

Regional Entities,
Sub-Total.
Registered Entities ...........

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

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

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

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

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

400,764 hrs.; $31,940,891.

Stakeholder Survey ..........

.2

281.8

8 hrs.; $637.60 .................

2,254 hrs.; $179,676.

Reliability Compliance ......

estimated
1,409.
....................

1

1,409

400 hrs.; $31,880 .............

563,600 hrs.; $44,918,920.

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

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

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

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

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

565,854 hrs.; $45,098,596.

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

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

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

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

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

1,117,730 hrs.; $89,083,113.

Registered Entities,
Sub-Total.
Total Burden Hrs.
and Cost.

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Type of reporting
requirement

As indicated in the table, there was a
decrease from eight to seven in the
number of Regional Entities because the
Southwest Power Pool dissolved in
2018. Other changes from previous
estimates are based on new data in the
proposed NERC 2019 Business Plan and
Budget to reflect changes in the number
of FTEs (full-time equivalent
employees) working in applicable areas.
Reviewing the NERC Compliance
database, we determined the number of
unique U.S. entities is 1,409 (compared
to the previous value of 1,446). Lastly,
in several instances, the amount of time

an FTE devotes to a given function may
have been increased or decreased.
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

3 A ‘‘registered entity’’ is an entity that is
registered with the ERO. All Bulk-Power System
owners, operators and users are required to register
with the ERO. Registration is the basis for
determining the Reliability Standards with which
an entity must comply. See http://www.nerc.com/
page.php?cid=3%7C25 for more details.
4 ‘‘Burden’’ is 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 Title 5 Code of Federal Regulations
1320.3.
5 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/

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the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Dated: September 21, 2018.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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naics2_22.htm) and benefits information (at https://
www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.nr0.htm).
6 In instances where the number of responses per
respondent is ‘‘1,’’ the Commission Staff thinks that
the actual number of responses varies and cannot
be estimated accurately.

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