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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Energy Information Administration
Agency Information Collection
Extension
U.S. Energy Information
Administration (EIA), U.S. Department
of Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

SUMMARY: EIA submitted an information
collection request for extension as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995. The information collection
requests a three-year extension of Form
OE–417 Electric Emergency Incident
and Disturbance Report, OMB Control
Number 1901–0288. Form OE–417
collects information for DOE to monitor
electric emergency incidents and
disturbances in the United States
(including all 50 States, the District of
Columbia, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin
Islands, and the U.S. Territories). The
information collected allows DOE to
conduct post-incident reviews
examining significant interruptions of

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electric power or threats to the national
electric system.
DATES: Comments on this information
collection must be received no later
than December 7, 2020. Written
comments and recommendations for the
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to https://www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain. Find this
particular information collection by
selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day
Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or
by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Matthew Tarduogno, U.S. Department of
Energy, matthew.tardugono@
hq.doe.gov, 202–586–2892. The forms
and instructions are available online at:
https://www.oe.netl.doe.gov/
oe417.aspx.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
information collection request contains
(1) OMB No.: 1901–0288;
(2) Information Collection Request
Title: Electric Emergency Incident and
Disturbance Report;
(3) Type of Request: Three-year
extension with changes;
(4) Purpose: DOE uses Form OE–417
Electric Emergency Incident and
Disturbance Report to monitor electric
emergency incidents and disturbances
in the United States (including all 50
States, the District of Columbia, Puerto
Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, and the U.S.
Territories) and to investigate significant
interruptions of electric power or threats
to the electric system reliability. Form
OE–417 also enables DOE to meet the
Department’s national security
responsibilities as the coordinating
agency for Emergency Support Function
(ESF) #12—Energy, under the National
Response Framework, and the SectorSpecific Agency for the energy sector,
pursuant to Presidential Policy Directive
21—Critical Infrastructure Security and
Resilience, Presidential Policy Directive
41—United States Cyber Incident
Coordination, and the Fixing Americas
Surface Transportation (FAST) Act,
Public Law 114–94. The information
may also be shared with other nonregulatory federal agencies assisting in
emergency response and recovery
operations, or investigating the causes of
an incident or disturbance to the
national electric system. Public
summaries are published on Form OE–
417 web page at https://
www.oe.netl.doe.gov/oe417.aspx on a
monthly basis to keep the public
informed.
(4a) Changes to Information
Collection: DOE is changing the form
number from Form OE–417 to Form
DOE–417. The other changes to Form

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OE–417 align the reporting
requirements with the recently
approved North American Electric
Reliability Corporation (NERC) CIP–
008–6 Reliability Standard, which
established new definitions for a Cyber
Security Incident and a Reportable
Cyber Security Incident. CIP–008–6 also
expanded the reporting requirements;
including expanding the applicable
systems to report on and adding new
reporting requirements for attempted
compromises of high and medium
impact BES cyber systems and their
associated electronic access control or
monitoring systems. The continued
alignment between Form OE–417 and
NERC reporting requirements helps
minimize confusion among industry
stakeholders about where and how to
file reports and enable industry
stakeholders to train personnel to report
using a single form. By incorporating
the requirements established by NERC
CIP–008–6 Reliability Standard in Form
OE–417, entities may only be required
to submit Form OE–417. This change
reduces the reporting burden for the
electric power industry. Additional
changes to Form OE–417 clarify
reporting criteria and allow respondents
to select potentially applicable
exceptions under the Freedom of
Information Act. While submitters may
mark information as potentially exempt,
whether information is or is not exempt
as part of a FOIA response will be
determined by the Department at the
time of processing the FOIA request. See
DOE’s FOIA regulations at 10 CFR part
1004 for more information. Three
changes were made to the form and one
addition was made to the directions
based on comments received during the
60-day public comment period. A
summary of these and other changes to
Form OE–417 is provided below:
• Changed the lettering or name of
the form from ‘‘Form OE–417’’ to ‘‘Form
DOE–417’’
• Added new reporting requirements
from the North American Electric
Reliability Corporation (NERC) CIP–
008–6 Standard to reduce the combined
burden on respondents reporting to
NERC and DOE and streamline
responses. It is expected that for NERC
reporting entities registered in the
United States; NERC will accept use of
Form OE–417 to meet the submittal
requirements that will be established by
CIP–008–6 to the Department of
Homeland Security and the Electricity
Information Sharing and Analysis
Center
• Updated the ‘‘Response Due’’
criteria with new line numbers and
added the following:

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Æ If criterion 2 is met, also submit the
Cyber Attributes on line T in Schedule
2.’’
Æ ‘‘By the end of the next calendar
day after a determination, submit
Schedule 1 and lines N—S and the
Cyber Attributes on line T in Schedule
2 as an Attempted Cyber Compromise if
criterion 14 is met.’’
Æ ‘‘If multiple criterion are met by an
incident, Schedule 1 and any
additionally required information (as
noted above), must be submitted within
timeframe established by the criteria
with the shortest reporting timeline.’’
Æ ‘‘For criterion 14 only, updates can
be submitted within 7 calendar days of
a determination of new or changed
attribute information.’’
• Renumbered reporting criteria due
to the new reporting requirements.
• To align with reporting
requirements established by the NERC
CIP–008–06 standard:
Æ Reworded Criteria 2 to ‘‘Reportable
Cyber Security Incident’’
Æ Added new Criteria 3 ‘‘Cyber event
that is not a Reportable Cyber Security
Incident that causes interruptions of
electrical system operations.’’
• To align with reporting
requirements established by the NERC
CIP–008–06 standard
Æ Added ‘‘Attempted Cyber
Compromise’’ Alert Type to be filed
within 1-Day
Æ Added corresponding criteria
‘‘Cyber Security Incident that was an
attempt to compromise a High or
Medium Impact Bulk Electric System
Cyber System or their associated
Electronic Access Control or Monitoring
Systems’’
• Updated Line Numbers throughout
Schedule 1 and Schedule 2
• Added self-identified FOIA
Exemption criteria for respondents to
identify whether the respondent
considers the information in Schedule 1
Lines C & D may be exempt FOIA due
to the following:
Æ ‘‘Privileged or confidential
information, e.g., trade secrets,
commercial, or financial information’’
Æ ‘‘Critical Electric Infrastructure
Information’’
Æ ‘‘Other information exempt from
FOIA’’
• Added self-identified FOIA
Exemption criteria for respondents to
identify whether information in
Schedule 2 may be exempt FOIA due to
the following:
Æ ‘‘Privileged or confidential
information, e.g., trade secrets,
commercial, or financial information’’
Æ ‘‘Critical Electric Infrastructure
Information’’
Æ ‘‘Other information exempt from
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• Added the following to the
direction to the Narrative Section
‘‘Cyber Attributes: For cyber events,
including attempted cyber
compromises, provide the following
attributes (at a minimum): (1) The
functional impact, (2) the attack vector
used, and (3) the level of intrusion that
was achieved or attempted.’’
• Added the DHS CISA Central or
their successor(s) to Line W.
• Added ‘‘For respondents that have
reporting requirements under EOP–004,
criteria 6, 7, and 15–26 satisfy the EOP–
004 reporting if shared with NERC by
DOE. For respondents that have
reporting requirements under CIP–008,
criteria 2 and 14 satisfy the CIP–008
reporting if shared with the E–ISAC and
DHS CISA Central by DOE. For DOE to
share the form, the appropriate boxes
must be selected under Schedule 2, line
W. If a particular incident meets both
EOP–004 and CIP–008 requirements,
then the respondent can file separate
DOE–417 reports, if they only want
certain information to be shared by DOE
with NERC, the E–ISAC, and DHS CISA
Central. DOE will share all of the
information provided on the form with
the entities selected in Schedule 2, line
W’’ to the instructions.
(5) Annual Estimated Number of
Respondents: 2,514.
(6) Annual Estimated Number of
Total Responses: 250.
(7) Annual Estimated Number of
Burden Hours: 5,455.
(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $437,164
(5,455 burden hours times $80.14 per
hour). EIA estimates that respondents
will have no additional costs associated
with the survey other than the burden
hours.
Comments are invited on whether or
not: (a) The proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of agency functions,
including whether the information will
have a practical utility; (b) EIA’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information, including the
validity of the methodology and
assumptions used, is accurate; (c) EIA
can improve the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information it will collect;
and (d) EIA can minimize the burden of
the collection of information on
respondents, such as automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Statutory Authority: 15 U.S.C. 772(b),
764(b); 764(a); and 790a and 42 U.S.C.
7101 et seq. and the Public Utility
Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (16
U.S.C. 2601, Public Law 93–275).
Signing Authority: This document of
the Department of Energy was signed on

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October 22, 2020, by Nicholas
Andersen, Deputy Assistant Secretary,
Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security,
and Emergency Response, pursuant to
delegated authority from the Secretary
of Energy. That document with the
original signature and date is
maintained by DOE. For administrative
purposes only, and in compliance with
requirements of the Office of the Federal
Register, the undersigned DOE Federal
Register Liaison Officer has been
authorized to sign and submit the
document in electronic format for
publication, as an official document of
the Department of Energy. This
administrative process in no way alters
the legal effect of this document upon
publication in the Federal Register.
Signed in Washington, DC, on November 3,
2020.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S.
Department of Energy.
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Hicks, Bradley H.; Notice of Filing
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