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Pipelines 1 and 2 for a total of 135.7
miles each;
• increase the diameter of Pipeline 1
from 42 inches to 48 inches and
increase the MAOP of both pipelines
from 1,480 psig to 1,825 psig (Pipeline
2 will remain a 42-inch-diameter
pipeline); and
• increase the transportation capacity
of Pipeline 1 from 2.25 billion cubic feet
per day (Bcf/d) to 2.6 Bcf/d, and
decrease the transportation capacity of
Pipeline 2 from 2.25 Bcf/d to 1.9 Bcf/d,
resulting in the total authorized capacity
of 4.5 Bcf/d remaining unchanged.
The Project Amendment also includes
modifications to the following
aboveground facilities that are
authorized (but as yet unbuilt) along the
Rio Bravo Pipeline right-of-way:
• Eliminate Compressor Station 2 in
Kenedy County;
• eliminate Compressor Station 3
within the Rio Grande LNG Terminal in
Cameron County, except for a meter and
other ancillary facilities within the LNG
Terminal;
• eliminate all facilities associated
with Booster Stations 1 and 2, including
related meter stations, in Kenedy
County; and
• increase the horsepower (hp) at
Compressor Station 1 from 180,000 hp
to 282,000 hp by switching from six
30,000-hp natural gas compressor units
to four 43,000-hp natural gas
compressor units and two 55,000-hp
compressor units.
The Commission mailed a copy of the
Notice of Availability to federal, state,
and local government representatives
and agencies; elected officials;
environmental and public interest
groups; Native American tribes;
potentially affected landowners and
other interested individuals and groups;
and newspapers and libraries in the
project area. The EA is only available in
electronic format. It may be viewed and
downloaded from the FERC’s website
(www.ferc.gov), on the natural gas
environmental documents page (https://
www.ferc.gov/industries-data/naturalgas/environment/environmentaldocuments). In addition, the EA may be
accessed by using the eLibrary link on
the FERC’s website. Click on the
eLibrary link (https://elibrary.ferc.gov/
eLibrary/search), select ‘‘General
Search’’ and enter the docket number in
the ‘‘Docket Number’’ field, excluding
the last three digits (i.e., CP20–481). Be
sure you have selected an appropriate
date range. For assistance, please
contact FERC Online Support at
[email protected] or toll free
at (866) 208–3676, or for TTY, contact
(202) 502–8659.

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The EA is not a decision document.
It presents Commission staff’s
independent analysis of the
environmental issues for the
Commission to consider when
addressing the merits of all issues in
this proceeding. Any person wishing to
comment on the EA may do so. Your
comments should focus on the EA’s
disclosure and discussion of potential
environmental effects, reasonable
alternatives, and measures to avoid or
lessen environmental impacts. The more
specific your comments, the more useful
they will be. To ensure that the
Commission has the opportunity to
consider your comments prior to
making its decision on the Project
Amendment, it is important that we
receive your comments in Washington,
DC on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time
on January 20, 2021.
For your convenience, there are three
methods you can use to file your
comments to the Commission. The
Commission encourages electronic filing
of comments and has staff available to
assist you at (866) 208–3676 or
[email protected]. Please
carefully follow these instructions so
that your comments are properly
recorded.
(1) You can file your comments
electronically using the eComment
feature on the Commission’s website
(www.ferc.gov) under the link to FERC
Online. This is an easy method for
submitting brief, text-only comments on
a project;
(2) You can also file your comments
electronically using the eFiling feature
on the Commission’s website
(www.ferc.gov) under the link to FERC
Online. With eFiling, you can provide
comments in a variety of formats by
attaching them as a file with your
submission. New eFiling users must
first create an account by clicking on
‘‘eRegister.’’ You must select the type of
filing you are making. If you are filing
a comment on a particular project,
please select ‘‘Comment on a Filing’’; or
(3) You can file a paper copy of your
comments by mailing them to the
Commission. Be sure to reference the
project docket number (CP20–481–000)
on your letter. Submissions sent via the
U.S. Postal Service must be addressed
to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington,
DC 20426. Submissions sent via any
other carrier must be addressed to:
Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225
Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, MD 20852.
Filing environmental comments will
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your comments considered. Only
intervenors have the right to seek
rehearing or judicial review of the
Commission’s decision. At this point in
this proceeding, the timeframe for filing
timely intervention requests has
expired. Any person seeking to become
a party to the proceeding must file a
motion to intervene out-of-time
pursuant to Rule 214(b)(3) and (d) of the
Commission’s Rules of Practice and
Procedures (18 CFR 385.214(b)(3) and
(d)) and show good cause why the time
limitation should be waived. Motions to
intervene are more fully described at
https://www.ferc.gov/ferc-online/ferconline/how-guides.
Additional information about the
project is available from the
Commission’s Office of External Affairs,
at (866) 208–FERC, or on the FERC
website (www.ferc.gov) using the
eLibrary link. The eLibrary link also
provides access to the texts of all formal
documents issued by the Commission,
such as orders, notices, and
rulemakings.
In addition, the Commission offers a
free service called eSubscription which
allows you to keep track of all formal
issuances and submittals in specific
dockets. This can reduce the amount of
time you spend researching proceedings
by automatically providing you with
notification of these filings, document
summaries, and direct links to the
documents. Go to https://www.ferc.gov/
ferc-online/overview to register for
eSubscription.
Dated: December 21, 2020.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket Nos. IC20–23–000 and RD20–9–000]

Commission Information Collection
Activities (FERC–725R); Comment
Request; Revision
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of revised 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 renewal with
revisions of currently approved FERC–

SUMMARY:

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725R (Mandatory Reliability Standards:
BAL Reliability Standards). The
Commission is submitting FERC–725R
with revisions 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.
DATES: Comments on the collection of
information are due January 28, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Send written comments on
FERC–725R, as revised, to OMB through
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain,
Attention: Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission Desk Officer. Please
identify the OMB control number
(1902–0268) 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 Nos. IC20–23–000
and RD20–9–000) 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 July 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.

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Instructions
OMB submissions must be formatted
and filed in accordance with submission
guidelines at www.reginfo.gov/public/
do/PRAMain; Using the search function
under the ‘‘Currently Under Review
field,’’ select Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission; click ‘‘submit’’ and select
‘‘comment’’ to the right of the subject
collection.
FERC 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 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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ellen Brown may be reached by email
at [email protected] and
telephone at (202) 502–8663.

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: FERC–725R, Mandatory
Reliability Standards: BAL Reliability
Standards.
OMB Control No.: 1902–0268.
Type of Request: Three-year request
for renewal with revisions of the FERC–
725R information collection (IC)
requirements.
Abstract: On August 8, 2005, Congress
enacted into law the Electricity
Modernization Act of 2005, which is
Title XII, Subtitle A, of the Energy
Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005).1 EPAct
2005 added a new section 215 to the
Federal Power Act (FPA), which
requires a Commission-certified Electric
Reliability Organization (ERO) to
develop mandatory and enforceable
Reliability Standards, which are subject
to Commission review and approval.
Once approved, the Reliability Standard
may be enforced by the ERO subject to
Commission oversight, or the
Commission may independently enforce
Reliability Standards.2
On February 3, 2006, the Commission
issued Order No. 672, implementing
section 215 of the FPA.3 Pursuant to
Order No. 672, the Commission certified
one organization, the North American
Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC),
as the ERO.4 The Reliability Standards
developed by the ERO and approved by
the Commission apply to users, owners
and operators of the Bulk-Power System
as set forth in each Reliability Standard.
Information Collection Components Not
Affected by Docket No. RD20–9–000
On August 28, the Commission
published a notice that it is seeking
renewal of FERC–725R (85 FR 53358).
The Commission invited public
comments, but received none. At
present, FERC–725R includes the
following nation-wide Reliability
Standards that would not be affected by
Docket No. RD20–9–000: 5
1 Energy Policy Act of 2005, Public Law 109–58,
Title XII, Subtitle A, 119 Stat. 594, 941 (codified at
16 U.S.C. 824o).
2 16 U.S.C. 824o(e)(3).
3 Rules Concerning Certification of the Electric
Reliability Organization; and Procedures for the
Establishment, Approval, and Enforcement of
Electric Reliability Standards, Order No. 672, FERC
Stats. & Regs. ¶ 31,204, order on reh’g, Order No.
672–A, FERC Stats. & Regs. ¶ 31,212 (2006).
4 North American Electric Reliability Corp., 116
FERC ¶ 61,062, order on reh’g and compliance, 117
FERC ¶ 61,126 (2006), order on compliance, 118
FERC ¶ 61,190, order on reh’g, 119 FERC ¶ 61,046
(2007), aff’d sub nom. Alcoa Inc. v. FERC, 564 F.3d
1342 (D.C. Cir. 2009).
5 There are also regional BAL Reliability
Standards. They are not included in FERC–725R
and are not discussed here. The regional BAL
Reliability Standards are covered under other OMB
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• BAL–001–2,6 Real Power Balancing
Control Performance. Reliability
Standard BAL–001–2 is designed to
ensure that applicable entities balance
generation and load by maintaining
system frequency within narrow bounds
around a scheduled value, and it
improves reliability by adding a
frequency component to the
measurement of a Balancing Authority’s
Area Control Error (ACE).7
• BAL–002–3,8 Disturbance Control
Standard—Contingency Reserve for
Recovery from a Balancing Contingency
Event. This standard ensures that a
responsible entity, either a balancing
authority or reserve sharing group, is
able to recover from system
contingencies by deploying adequate
reserves to return their Area Control
Error to defined values and replacing
the capacity and energy lost due to
generation or transmission equipment
outages.
• BAL–005–1,9 Balancing Authority
Control. This standard establishes
requirements for acquiring data
necessary to calculate Reporting Area
Control Error (Reporting ACE). The
standard also specifies a minimum
periodicity, accuracy, and availability
requirement for acquisition of the data
and for providing the information to the
System Operator. It requires balancing
authorities to maintain minimum levels
of annual availability of 99.5% for each
balancing authority system for
calculating Reporting ACE.
Information Collection Components
Affected by Docket No. RD20–9–000
On December 19, 2019, NERC
submitted a petition seeking
Commission approval for proposed
Reliability Standard BAL–003–2. On
May 20, 2020, the Commission noticed
the petition in Docket No. RD20–9–000.
Interventions, comments, and protests
were due on or before June 29, 2020.
None were received. The Commission
approved Reliability Standard BAL–
003–2 on July 15, 2020 in a Delegated
Letter Order (DLO).10
On August 26, 2020, the Commission
published a notice of revision of FERC–
725R in Docket No. RD20–9–000 (85 FR
It was approved in Docket No. RM14–10.
Area Control Error is the ‘‘instantaneous
difference between a Balancing Authority’s net
actual and scheduled interchange, taking into
accounts the effects of Frequency Bias, correction
for meter error, and Automatic Time Error
Correction (ATEC), if operating in the ATEC mode.
ATEC is only applicable to Balancing Authorities in
the Western Interconnection.’’ NERC Glossary.
8 It was approved in Docket No. RD18–7.
9 It was approved in Docket No. RM16–13.
10 The DLO is posted in eLibrary at http://
elibrary.ferc.gov/idmws/common/OpenNat.asp?
fileID=15585069.
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and Frequency Response Sharing
Group.
Estimate of Annual Burden: 11 Our
estimate of the number of respondents
affected is based on the NERC
Compliance Registry as of July 17,
2020.12 According to the Compliance
Registry, NERC has registered 97

52584). The Commission received no
comments in response to the notice of
revision. The Commission now seeks
renewal of FERC–725R with the
revisions that the Commission has
approved in Docket No. RD20–9–000.
Type of Respondent: Balancing
Authorities, Response Sharing Group,

Balancing Authorities (BA), 11
Response Sharing Groups (RSG), and 1
Frequency Response Sharing Group
(FRSG) within the United States, as
noted. The burden estimates reflect the
number of affected entities for each
standard. Estimates for the average
annual burden and cost 13 follow.

FERC–725R, AS REVISED BY RD20–9
Function

Number &
type of
respondents

Number
of annual
responses per
respondent

Total
number
of annual
responses

Average burden
hours & cost ($) per
response

Total annual burden hours
& total annual cost ($)

(1)

(2)

(1) × (2) = (3)

(4)

(3) × (4) = (5)

BAL–001–2
BA Reporting Requirements ..................
BA Recordkeeping Requirements ..........

97
97

1
1

97
97

8 hrs.; $561.52 .......
4 hrs.; $164.12 .......

776 hrs.; $54,467.44.
388 hrs.; $15,919.64.

108
108

8 hrs.; $561.52 .......
4 hrs.; $164.12 .......

864 hrs.; $60,644.16.
432 hrs.; $17,724.96.

BAL–002–3
BA & RSG Reporting Requirements ......
BA & RSG Recordkeeping Requirements.

108
108

1
1

BAL–003–2 (as approved in Docket No. RD20–9–000)
BA & FRSG Reporting Requirements ....
BA & FRSG Recordkeeping Requirements.

98
98

28
1

2,744
98

8 hrs.; $561.52 .......
2 hrs.; $82.06 .........

21,952 hrs.; $1,540,810.88.
196 hrs.; $8,041.88.

BAL–005–1
BA Reporting Requirements ..................
BA Recordkeeping Requirements ..........

97
97

1
1

97
97

1 hr.; $70.19 ..........
1 hr.; $41.03 ..........

97 hrs.; $6,808.43.
97 hrs.; $3,979.91.

Sub-Total for Reporting Requirements.

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

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

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

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

23,689 hrs.; $1,662,730.91.

Sub-Total for Recordkeeping Requirements.

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

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

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

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

1,113 hrs.; $45,666.39.

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

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

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

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

24,802 hrs.; $1,708,397.30.

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Total for Ferc–725R (rounded)

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
11 ‘‘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 5 CFR 1320.3.
12 NERC Compliance Registry (July 17, 2020),
available at https://www.nerc.com/pa/comp/

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of automated collr.ection techniques or
other forms of information technology.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY

Dated: December 21, 2020.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.

[EPA–HQ–OLEM–2020–0571; FRL–10017–
09–OLEM]

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Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest
System (‘‘e-Manifest’’) Advisory Board;
Notice of Public Meeting
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) will convene the
Hazardous Waste Electronic System (‘‘e-

SUMMARY:

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NERC_Compliance_Registry_Matrix_Excel.xlsx.
13 The hourly cost estimates are based on wage
data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for May
2019 (at https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics2_
22.htm) and benefits data for Dec. 2019 (issued
March 2020, at https://www.bls.gov/news.release/
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estimated hourly cost is $70.19, based on the wages
and benefits for Occupation Code 17–2071
(Electrical Engineer). For recordkeeping
requirements, the estimated hourly cost is $41.03,
based on the wages and benefits for Occupation
Code 43–4199 (Information and Record Clerk).

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