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Presenter or requester

P–1267–000 .........................................................................................................
P–2082–000 .........................................................................................................
Exempt:
P–2305–000 .........................................................................................................

2/21/19
2/26/19

Robert H. Brewer.
Ursula Bendix.

2/21/19

CP16–480–000 .....................................................................................................

2/26/19

CP18–102–000 .....................................................................................................
CP18–103–000

2/28/19

State Representative James White.
Senator John Cornyn.
Senator Ted Cruz.
Congressman Brian Babin.
State Representative Alex Dominguez.
Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick.
FERC Staff.

Dated: March 5, 2019.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019–04320 Filed 3–8–19; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. RD18–7–000]

Commission Information Collection
Activities (Ferc–725r); Comment
Request; Extension
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, DOE.
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–
725R (Mandatory Reliability Standards:
BAL Reliability Standards) and
submitting the information collection to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review. Any interested
person may file comments directly with
OMB and should address a copy of
those comments to the Commission as
explained below. On October 9, 2018,
the Commission published a Notice in
the Federal Register in Docket No.
RD18–7–000 requesting public
comments. The Commission received no
comments.
DATES: Comments on the collection of
information are due April 10, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB,
identified by OMB Control No. 1902–
0268, should be sent via email to the
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs: [email protected].
Attention: Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission Desk Officer.
A copy of the comments should also
be sent to the Commission, in Docket
SUMMARY:

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File date

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No. RD18–7–000, 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.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: FERC–725R, Mandatory
Reliability Standards: BAL Reliability
Standards.
OMB Control No.: 1902–0268.
Type of Request: Revision to FERC–
725R information collection
requirements, as discussed in Docket
No. RD18–7–000.
Abstract: On August 17, 2018, the
North American Electric Reliability
Corporation (NERC) filed a petition
seeking approval of proposed Reliability
Standard BAL–002–3 (Disturbance
Control Standard—Contingency Reserve
for Recovery from a Balancing
Contingency Event) and the retirement
of currently-effective Reliability
Standard BAL–002–2. NERC submitted
proposed Reliability Standard BAL–
002–3 in response to the Commission’s
directive in Order No. 835 to develop
modifications to Reliability Standard
BAL–002–2, Requirement R1 to require
balancing authorities or reserve sharing

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groups: (1) To notify the reliability
coordinator of the conditions set forth in
Requirement R1, Part 1.3.1 preventing it
from complying with the 15-minute
ACE recovery period; and (2) to provide
the reliability coordinator with its ACE
recovery plan, including a target
recovery time.1 The NERC petition
states ‘‘the proposed modifications to
Reliability Standard BAL–002–3 also
intend to clarify that communication
with the reliability coordinator (RC)
should proceed in accordance with
Energy Emergency Alert procedures
within the EOP Reliability Standards.2
This communication is performed under
the currently-effective Reliability
Standard BAL–002–2 (as part of the
operating procedures and processes).
The communications (and related
burden) are already covered under
FERC–725R, and the additional
information is de minimis. Therefore
the Commission is not modifying the
burden estimate for each response and
is submitting this to OMB as a nonmaterial or non-substantive change to a
currently approved collection.
The Office of Electric Reliability
approved the NERC proposal in a
Delegated Order on September 25, 2018.
Type of Respondents: Balancing
authorities and reserve sharing groups
Estimate of Annual Burden: 3
According to the NERC Compliance
Registry as of 8/24/2018, there are 99
balancing authorities in the United
States. The Commission bases
individual burden estimates on the time
needed for balancing authorities to
develop tools needed to facilitate
reporting that are required in the
Reliability Standard. The
communications (and related burden)
1 Disturbance Control Standard—Contingency
Reserve for Recovery from a Balancing Contigency
Event Reliability Standard, Order No. 835, 158
FERC 61,030, at P 37 (2017).
2 NERC Petition at 3.
3 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 information collection burden, refer
to 5 Code of Federal Regulations 1320.3.

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are already covered under FERC–725R,
so the Commission is not modifying the
burden estimate for each response.

However, to reflect normal fluctuations
in industry, we are adjusting the
number of respondents (to 99, rather

than 105) for Reliability Standard BAL–
002–3, as shown below.

FERC–725R, ESTIMATE FOR RELIABILITY STANDARD BAL–002–3, AS APPROVED IN DOCKET NO. RD18–7 4 5
Number of
respondents

Annual number
of responses
per respondent

Total number of
responses

(1)

(2)

(1) * (2) = (3)

BA/RSG: 6

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

Cost per
respondent
($)

(4)

(3) * (4) = (5)

(5) ÷ (1)

Develop and
Maintain annually,
Operating Process
and Operating Plans.
BA/RSG: Record Retention.

99

1

99

87

hrs.; $842.32 ......

792 hrs.; $83,390 ....

842.32

99

1

99

4 hrs.; $158.72 ........

396 hrs.; $15,713 ....

158.72

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

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

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

198

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

1,188 hrs.; $99,103.

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.

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Average burden
hours & cost per
response
($)

4 Reliability Standard BAL–002–3 applies to
balancing authorities and reserve sharing groups.
However, the burden associated with the balancing
authorities complying with Requirements R1and R3
is not included in this table because that burden
doesn’t change and the Commission already
accounted for it under Commission-approved
Reliability Standard BAL–002–1.
Other components of FERC–725R which are not
affected by Docket No. RD18–7 are not addressed
in the table.
5 The estimated hourly cost (wages plus benefits)
is based on Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
information (available at http://www.bls.gov/oes/
current/naics2_22.htm and, for benefits, https://
www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.nr0.htm).
The hourly cost (wages plus benefits) for
developing and maintaining operating process and
plans is $105.29 and is an average for an electrical
engineer (Occupation code 17–2071, $66.90/hour)
and Legal (Occupation code 23–0000, $ $143.68).
The hourly cost (wages plus benefits) for record
retention is $39.68 for information and record
clerks (Occupation code 43–4199).
6 BA = Balancing Authority; RSG = Reserve
Sharing Group.
7 This figure of 8 hours/response is an average of
the hourly burden per response for Years 1–3. Year
1 burden: 12 hours per response; Years 2–3, each:
6 hours/response. The average annual burden for
Years 1–3 is 8 hours/response (or [12 hours + 6
hours + 6 hours ] ÷ 3).

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Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. ER19–1183–000]

Brickyard Hills Project, LLC;
Supplemental Notice That Initial
Market-Based Rate Filing Includes
Request for Blanket Section 204
Authorization
This is a supplemental notice in the
above-referenced proceeding of
Brickyard Hills Project, 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 March 25,
2019.
The Commission encourages
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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
electronic review in the Commission’s
Public Reference Room in Washington,
DC. There is an eSubscription link on
the website that enables subscribers to
receive email notification when a
document is added to a subscribed
docket(s). For assistance with any FERC
Online service, please email
[email protected]. or call
(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call
(202) 502–8659.
Dated: March 5, 2019.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019–04315 Filed 3–8–19; 8:45 am]
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