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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
28, 2020.
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
may mail similar pleadings to the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
888 First Street NE, Washington, DC
20426. Hand delivered submissions in
docketed proceedings should be
delivered to Health and Human
Services, 12225 Wilkins Avenue,
Rockville, Maryland 20852.
In addition to publishing the full text
of this document in the Federal
Register, the Commission provides all
interested persons an opportunity to
view and/or print the contents of this
document via the internet through the
Commission’s Home Page (http://
ferc.gov) using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link.
Enter the docket number excluding the
last three digits in the docket number
field to access the document. At this
time, the Commission has suspended
access to the Commission’s Public
Reference Room, due to the
proclamation declaring a National
Emergency concerning the Novel
Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19), issued
by the President on March 13, 2020. For
assistance, contact the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission at
[email protected] or call
toll-free, (886) 208–3676 or TYY, (202)
502–8659.

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Dated: September 8, 2020.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2020–20167 Filed 9–11–20; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. CP20–518–000]

PennEast Pipeline Company, LLC;
Notice of Petition for Declaratory Order
Take notice that on August 31, 2020,
pursuant to Rule 207(a)(2) of the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission’s
(Commission) Rules of Practice and
Procedure, Robert Kaiser (Petitioner)
hereby submits a petition for declaratory
order (Petition) requesting the
Commission issue a declaratory order
putting a hold on PennEast Pipeline
Company, LLC’s (PennEast) eminent
domain authority until PennEast has
received the necessary permits and
authorizations to commence
construction and requesting an
exemption from the filing fee, as more
fully explained in the petition.
Any person desiring to intervene or to
protest this filing must file in
accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of
the Commission’s Rules of Practice and
Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214).
Protests will be considered by the
Commission in determining the
appropriate action to be taken, but will
not serve to make protestants parties to
the proceeding. Any person wishing to
become a party must file a notice of
intervention or motion to intervene, as
appropriate. Such notices, motions, or
protests must be filed on or before the
comment date. Anyone filing a motion
to intervene or protest must serve a copy
of that document on the Petitioner.
The Commission encourages
electronic submission of protests and
interventions in lieu of paper using the
‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://www.ferc.gov.
Persons unable to file electronically may
mail similar pleadings to the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20426.
Hand delivered submissions in
docketed proceedings should be
delivered to Health and Human
Services, 12225 Wilkins Avenue,
Rockville, Maryland 20852.
In addition to publishing the full text
of this document in the Federal
Register, the Commission provides all
interested persons an opportunity to
view and/or print the contents of this
document via the internet through the
Commission’s Home Page (http://
ferc.gov) using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link.

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Enter the docket number excluding the
last three digits in the docket number
field to access the document. At this
time, the Commission has suspended
access to the Commission’s Public
Reference Room, due to the
proclamation declaring a National
Emergency concerning the Novel
Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19), issued
by the President on March 13, 2020. For
assistance, contact the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission at
[email protected] or call
toll-free, (886) 208–3676 or TYY, (202)
502–8659.
Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern time
on September 30, 2020.
Dated: September 8, 2020.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2020–20168 Filed 9–11–20; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. IC20–25–000]

Commission Information Collection
Activities (Ferc–717); Comment
Request; Extension
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, Energy.
ACTION: Notice of extension 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 extension to the
information collection, FERC–717
(Standards for Business Practices and
Communication Protocols for Public
Utilities) which will be submitted to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for a review of the information
collection requirements.
DATES: Comments on the collection of
information are due November 13, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Please submit a copy of
your comments to the Commission
(identified by Docket No. IC20–25–000)
by one of the following methods:
• eFiling at Commission’s website:
http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/
efiling.asp.
• U.S. Postal Service Mail: Persons
unable to file electronically may mail
similar pleadings to the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street
NE, Washington, DC 20426.
• Effective 7/1/2020, delivery of
filings other than by eFiling or the U.S.
SUMMARY:

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Postal Service should be delivered to
Health and Human Services, 12225
Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, Maryland
20852.
Instructions: All submissions must be
formatted and filed in accordance with
submission guidelines at: http://
www.ferc.gov. 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], telephone at
(202) 502–8663.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: FERC–717, Standards for
Business Practices and Communication
Protocols for Public Utilities.
OMB Control No.: 1902–0173.
Type of Request: Three-year approval
of the FERC–717 information collection
requirements with no changes to the
current reporting requirements.1
Abstract: The Commission directs all
public utilities that own, control or
operate facilities for transmitting energy
in interstate commerce to provide
certain types of information regarding
their transmission operations on an
Open Access Same-time Information
System (OASIS). The Commission does
not believe that open-access

nondiscriminatory transmission services
can be completely realized until it
removes real-world obstacles that
prevent transmission customers from
competing effectively with the
Transmission Provider. One of the
obstacles is unequal access to
transmission information. The
Commission believes that transmission
customers must have simultaneous
access to the same information available
to the Transmission Provider if truly
nondiscriminatory transmission services
are to be a reality.
The Commission also established
Standards of Conduct requiring that
personnel engaged in transmission
system operations function
independently from personnel engaged
in marketing functions. The Standards
of Conduct were designed to prevent
employees of a public utility (or any of
its affiliates) engaged in marketing
functions from preferential access to
OASIS-related information or from
engaging in unduly discriminatory
business practices. Companies were
required to separate their transmission
operations/reliability functions from
their marketing/merchant functions and
prevent system operators from
providing merchant employees and
employees of affiliates with
transmission-related information not
available to all customers at the same
time through public posting on the
OASIS.
Type of Respondents: Transmission
Owners and Transmission Operators.

Estimate of Annual Burden 2: The
Commission estimates an adjustment in
the annual public reporting burden for
the FERC–717. The adjustment is due to
Transmission Providers being allowed
to file responses jointly or individually.
The Transmission Provider may
delegate this responsibility to a
Responsible Party such as another
Transmission Provider, an Independent
System Operator, a Regional
Transmission Group, or a Regional
Reliability Council. The number
comprise two separate entities:
Transmission Owners and Transmission
Operators. The responses submitted are
our best estimate of the Transmission
Operators and remaining individual
Transmission Owners. The rationale is
that some Transmission Owners have
elected to turn over operational control
of their collective transmission systems
to Transmission Operators, including
RTOs/ISOs (as authorized in 18 CFR
37.5). These Transmission Operators
offer OASIS access to the collective
systems facilitating a single OASIS
transmission request serving multiple
transmission systems. As a result of
these efficiency gains, the lower
respondent count is appropriate.
As a result of the efficiency gains, and
an overestimate of the respondents in
our past requests, we are submitting a
more accurate number of respondents.
The estimate below reflects the work
associated with the current information
collection requirements:

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Information collection requirements

Number of
respondents

Annual
number of
responses per
respondent

Total number
of responses

(1)

(2)

(1) * (2) = (3)

Average burden hours &
cost per response 4
(4)

Total annual burden hours
&
total annual cost
(3) * (4) = (5)

FERC–717 .....................................................................
FERC–717 (compliance with standards, one-time) 5 ....

162
165

1
1

162
165

30 hrs.; $2,490 ..................
10 hrs.; 6 $830 ...................

4,860 hrs.; $403,380.
1,650 hrs.; $136,950.

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

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

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

327

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

6,510 hrs.; $540,330.

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

1 This collection notice does not address the
NOPR for RM05–29 and RM05–30.
2 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.
3 This collection includes the one-time burden
(over a 3 year period of time) for the Final Rule

RM05–25,05–26,05–27 [ICR Reference No: 202002–
1902–006]
4 The Commission staff thinks that the average
respondent for this collection is similarly situated
to the Commission, in terms of salary plus benefits.
Based upon FERC’s FY 2020 annual average of
$172,329, (for salary plus benefits), the average
hourly cost is $83/hour.
5 FERC–717 corresponds to OMB Control No.
1902–0173 that identifies the information collection

associated with Standards for Business Practices
and Communication Protocols for Public Utilities.
6 The 30-hour estimate was developed in Docket
No. RM05–5–013, when the Commission prepared
its estimate of the scope of work involved in
transitioning to the NAESB Version 002.1 Business
Practice Standards. See Order No. 676–E, 129 FERC
61,162 at P 134. (FERC–717, 165 * 30 = 4,950 hrs./
3 = 1,650 hrs./year)

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of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Dated: September 8, 2020.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2020–20166 Filed 9–11–20; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. IC20–10–000]

Commission Information Collections
Activities (Ferc Form Nos. 2 And 2–A);
Comment Request; Extension; Errata
Notice
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Errata notice for information
collections 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 currently approved
information collections, FERC Form No.
2 (Annual Report for Major Natural Gas
Companies) and FERC Form No. 2–A
(Annual Report for Non-Major Natural
Gas Companies). This notice corrects
and replaces the 30-day notice
published on July 20, 2020. The 60-day
notice was published on April 30, 2020
and the initial 30-day notice published
on July 20, 2020. The intial 30-day
notice erroneously omitted the burden
associated with a Final rule approved
September 9, 2019. In order to correct
the previously published notices, FERC
is providing the opportunity for an
additional 30-day comment period.
DATES: Comments on the collections of
information are due October 14, 2020.
ADDRESSES: You may submit written
comments on FERC Form Nos. 2 and 2–
A to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) through
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain,
Attention: Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission Desk Officer. Please
identify the OMB control numbers
(1902–0028 and 1902–0030) in the
subject line. Your comments should be
sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice in the Federal Register.
Please submit copies of your
comments to the Commission
(identified by Docket No. IC20–10–000)
by one of the following methods:
• eFiling at Commission’s Website:
http://www.ferc.gov.

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• U.S. Postal Service Mail: Persons
unable to file electronically may mail
similar pleadings to the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street
NE, Washington, DC 20426.
• Effective 7/1/2020, delivery of
filings other than by eFiling or the U.S.
Postal Service should be delivered to
Health and Human Services, 12225
Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, Maryland
20852.
Instructions: All submissions must be
formatted and filed in accordance with
submission guidelines at: https://
www.ferc.gov/filing-instructions. For
user assistance, contact FERC Online
Support by email at ferconlinesupport@
ferc.gov, or by phone at: (866) 208–3676
(toll-free).
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] and
telephone at (202) 502–8663.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: FERC Form No. 2, Annual
Report for Major Natural Gas
Companies, and FERC Form No. 2–A,
Annual Report for Non-Major Natural
Gas Companies.
OMB Control Nos.: 1902–0028 (FERC
Form No. 2), and 1902–0030 (FERC
Form No. 2–A)
Type of Request: Three-year extension
of the FERC Form No. 2 and FERC Form
No. 2–A information collections
requirements without a change to the
current reporting and recordkeeping
requirements.
Abstract: Pursuant to sections 8, 10
and 14 of the Natural Gas Act (NGA),
(15 U.S.C. 717g, 717i, and 717m), the
Commission is authorized to conduct
investigations and collect and record
data, and to prescribe rules and
regulations concerning accounts,
records and memoranda as necessary or
appropriate for purposes of
administering the NGA. The
Commission may prescribe a system of
accounts for jurisdictional companies
and, after notice and opportunity for
hearing, may determine the accounts in
which particular outlays and receipts
will be entered, charged or credited.
The Commission collects FERC Form
Nos. 2 and 2–A information as
prescribed in 18 CFR 260.1 and 18 CFR
260.2. These forms provide information
concerning a company’s current
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Accounts (USofA).1 FERC Form No. 2 is
filed by ‘‘Major’’ natural gas companies
that have combined natural gas
transported or stored for a fee that
exceeds 50 million Dekatherms in each
of the three previous calendar years.
FERC Form No. 2–A is filed by ‘‘NonMajor’’ natural gas companies that do
not meet the filing threshold for the
FERC Form No. 2, but have total gas
sales or volume transactions that
exceeds 200,000 Dekatherms in each of
the three previous calendar years.2
The forms provide information
concerning a company’s financial and
operational information. The forms
contain schedules which include a basic
set of financial statements: Comparative
Balance Sheet, Statement of Income and
Retained Earnings, Statement of Cash
Flows, and the Statement of
Comprehensive Income and Hedging
Activities. Supporting schedules
containing supplementary information
are filed, including revenues and the
related quantities of products sold or
transported; account balances for
various operating and maintenance
expenses; selected plant cost data; and
other information.
The information collected assists the
Commission in the administration of its
jurisdictional responsibilities and is
used by Commission staff, state
regulatory agencies, customers, financial
analysts and others in the review of the
financial condition of regulated
companies. The information is also used
in various rate proceedings, industry
analyses and in the Commission’s audit
programs and as appropriate, for the
computation of annual charges. The
information is made available to the
public, interveners and all interested
parties to assist in the proceedings
before the Commission. For financial
information to be useful to the
Commission, it must be understandable,
relevant, reliable and timely. The Form
Nos. 2 and 2–A financial statements are
prepared in accordance with the
Commission’s USofA and related
regulations, and provide data that
enables the Commission to develop and
monitor cost-based rates, analyze costs
of different services and classes of
assets, and compare costs across lines of
business. The use of the USofA permits
natural gas companies to account for
1 See 18 CFR part 201 (Uniform System of
Accounts Prescribed for Natural Gas Companies
Subject to the Provisions of the Natural Gas Act).
2 FERC Form Nos. 2 and 2–A are part of the
‘‘Forms Refresh’’ effort, which is a separate activity
and not addressed here. See Revisions to the Filing
Process for Commission Forms, 166 FERC ¶ 61,027
(2019) (started in Docket No. AD15–11–000 and
ongoing in Docket No. RM19–12–000). OMB issued
its decisions on the Forms Refresh Final Rule in
Docket No. RM19–12–000 on June 27, 2019.

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