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Brookfield Renewable, 184 Elm Street,
Potsdam, NY 13676, (315) 267–1036.
i. FERC Contact: Mr. Steven Sachs,
(202) 502–8666, [email protected].
j. Deadline for filing comments,
motions to intervene, and protests is 30
days from the issuance of this notice by
the Commission. The Commission
strongly encourages electronic filing.
Please file comments, motions to
intervene, and protests using the
Commission’s eFiling system at http://
www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp.
Commenters can submit brief comments
up to 6,000 characters, without prior
registration, using the eComment system
at http://www.ferc.gov/doc-sfiling/
ecomment.asp. You must include your
name and contact information at the end
of your comments. For assistance,
please contact FERC Online Support at
[email protected], (866)
208–3676 (toll free), or (202) 502–8659
(TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, you
may submit a paper copy. 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. The first page of
any filing should include docket
number P–2320–077. The Commission’s
Rules of Practice and Procedure require
all intervenors filing documents with
the Commission to serve a copy of that
document on each person on the official
service list for the project. Further, if an
intervenor files comments or documents
with the Commission relating to the
merits of an issue that may affect the
responsibilities of a particular resource
agency, they must also serve a copy of
the document on that resource agency.
k. Description of Request: The
applicant intends to construct a new
concrete and steel trashrack structure
upstream of the intake on the dam at the
Colton development. The trashrack
structure would be approximately 75
feet long, would extend from the right
side of the intake to the left (west) bank
of the reservoir at the access road, and
would include a trashrack with a 1-inch
clear bar spacing. The applicant intends
to replace the existing trashrack, located
directly on the intake, with a rack using
a 3-inch clear bar spacing. The applicant
does not propose any change to project
operation as a result of the
modifications and would maintain
normal reservoir elevations and release
the required environmental and
recreational flows during construction,

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which is scheduled to take place from
July through September 2022.
l. 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. For
assistance, contact FERC at
[email protected] or call
toll-free, (886) 208–3676 or TYY, (202)
502–8659.
m. Individuals desiring to be included
on the Commission’s mailing list should
so indicate by writing to the Secretary
of the Commission.
n. Comments, Motions To Intervene,
or Protests: Anyone may submit
comments, a motion to intervene, or a
protest in accordance with the
requirements of Rules of Practice and
Procedure, 18 CFR 385.210, .211, .214.
In determining the appropriate action to
take, the Commission will consider all
protests or other comments filed, but
only those who file a motion to
intervene in accordance with the
Commission’s Rules may become a
party to the proceeding. Any comments,
motions to intervene, or protests must
be received on or before the specified
comment date for the particular
application.
o. Filing and Service of Responsive
Documents: Any filing must (1) bear in
all capital letters the title
‘‘COMMENTS’’, ‘‘MOTION TO
INTERVENE’’, or ‘‘PROTEST’’ as
applicable; (2) set forth in the heading
the name of the applicant and the
project number(s) of the application to
which the filing responds; (3) furnish
the name, address, and telephone
number of the person intervening or
protesting; and (4) otherwise comply
with the requirements of 18 CFR
385.2001 through 385.2005. All
comments, motions to intervene, or
protests must set forth their evidentiary
basis. A copy of all other filings in
reference to this application must be
accompanied by proof of service on all
persons listed in the service list
prepared by the Commission in this
proceeding, in accordance with 18 CFR
385.2010.
Dated: February 24, 2022.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket Nos. RD22–1–000 and IC22–7–000]

Commission Information Collection
Activities (FERC–725K); Comment
Request; Extension
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of revisions to an
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 comments on the requested
renewal and revision of FERC–725K
(Mandatory Reliability Standard for the
SERC Region).
DATES: Comments on the collection of
information are due May 3, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Send written comments on
FERC–725K to the Commission. You
may submit copies of your comments by
one of the following methods:
Electronic filing through http://
www.ferc.gov, is preferred.
• Electronic Filing: Documents must
be filed in acceptable native
applications and print-to-PDF, but not
in scanned or picture format.
• For those unable to file
electronically, comments may be filed
by USPS mail or by hand (including
courier) delivery.
Æ Mail via U.S. Postal Service Only
Addressed to: Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, Secretary of the
Commission, 888 First Street NE,
Washington, DC 20426.
Æ Hand (including courier) delivery
to: Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, 12225 Wilkins Avenue,
Rockville, MD 20852.
Instructions: 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 [email protected], 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 https://www.ferc.gov/ferconline/overview.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Please contact Ellen Brown who may be
reached by email at DataClearance@
FERC.gov, or telephone at (202) 502–
8663.
SUMMARY:

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: FERC–725K, Mandatory
Reliability Standard for the SERC
Region.
OMB Control No.: 1902–0260.
Type of Request: Request for comment
on the revised information collection
requirements resulting from Docket No.
RD22–1–000 1 and the three-year
extension of FERC–725K.
Abstract: Section 215 of the Federal
Power Act (FPA) 2 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
Standards may be enforced by NERC,
subject to Commission oversight, or by
the Commission independently.
Reliability Standards that NERC
proposes to the Commission may
include Reliability Standards that are
proposed by a Regional Entity to be
effective in that region. In Order No.
672, the Commission noted that:
As a general matter, we will accept the
following two types of regional differences,
provided they are otherwise just, reasonable,
not unduly discriminatory or preferential and
in the public interest, as required under the
statute: (1) A regional difference that is more
stringent than the continent-wide Reliability
Standard, including a regional difference that
addresses matters that the continent-wide
Reliability Standard does not; and (2) a
regional Reliability Standard that is
necessitated by a physical difference in the
Bulk-Power System.

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When NERC reviews a regional
Reliability Standard that would be
applicable on an interconnection-wide
basis and that has been proposed by a
Regional Entity organized on an
interconnection-wide basis, NERC must
rebuttably presume that the regional
Reliability Standard is just, reasonable,
not unduly discriminatory or
preferential, and in the public interest.3
In turn, the Commission must give ‘‘due
weight’’ to the technical expertise of
NERC and of a Regional Entity
organized on an interconnection-wide
basis.4
As stated in the NERC Petition, in
2008, SERC commenced work on
Reliability Standard PRC–006–SERC–
01. NERC also began work on revising
PRC–006–0 at a continent-wide level.
The SERC standard has been developed
1 Delegated Letter Order approving Joint Petition
requesting to update the regional Reliability
Standard PRC–006–SERC–03 under RD22–1 (dated
12/14/2021) filed by the North American Electric
Reliability Corporation (https://elibrary.ferc.gov/
eLibrary/filelist?accession_num=20220218-3010).
2 16 U.S.C. 824o.
3 16 U.S.C. 824o(d)(3).
4 Id. § 824o(d)(2).

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to be consistent with the NERC UFLS
standard. PRC–006–SERC–02 was
developed due to periodic review of the
standard and PRC–006–1 clearly defines
the roles and responsibilities of parties
to whom the standard applies.
On February 18, 2022 FERC issued
the Delegated Letter Order in Docket No.
RD22–1–000 approving the NERC
petition’s request (Joint Petition of the
North American Electric Reliability
Corporation and SERC Reliability
Corporation for Approval of Proposed
Regional Reliability Standard PRC–006–
SERC–03), which modifies the
information collection of FERC–725K.
The collection follows the NERC
Petition request in Docket No. RD22–1–
000 which proposes to update the
reliability standard for the SERC region
from PRC–006–SERC–02 to PRC–006–
SERC–03. As stated in the NERC
Petition submitted on December 14,
2021, the updated reliability standard
provides additional flexibility for
planning coordinators to adjust island
boundaries to perform more accurate
studies; address the transition of the
Florida Reliability Coordinating Council
(FRCC) registered entities to SERC
following the dissolution of the FRCC
on July 1, 2019; and to clarify technical
requirements within the UFLS settings
that are unique to the Florida peninsula.
When FRCC was dissolved and the
registered entities located in the Florida
peninsula would eventually became
subject to SERC’s regional Reliability
Standard PRC–006–SERC–02.
The PRC–006–1 standard identifies
the Planning Coordinator (PC) as the
entity responsible for developing
underfrequency load shedding (UFLS)
schemes within their PC area. The
regional standard (PRC–006–SERC–03)
adds specificity not contained in the
NERC standard for a UFLS scheme in
the SERC Region. The added specificity
that PRC–006–SERC–03 provides
effectively mitigates the consequences
of an underfrequency event.
The purpose of regional Reliability
Standard PRC–006–SERC–03 is to
establish consistent and coordinated
requirements for the design,
implementation, and analysis of
automatic UFLS programs among all
SERC applicable entities. The regional
Reliability Standard PRC–006–SERC–03
incorporates revisions to: (i) Provide
more flexibility for Planning
Coordinators to adjust island boundaries
in order to perform more accurate and
complete studies; (ii) address the
transition of Florida Reliability
Coordinating Council (‘‘FRCC’’)
registered entities to SERC following the
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on July 1, 2019; 5 (iii) clarify a technical
term used in the regional Reliability
Standard; and (iv) align requirement
language with the current continentwide NERC Reliability Standard, PRC–
006–5.
Currently effective regional Reliability
Standard PRC–006–SERC–02 was
approved by the Commission on
October 16, 2017 6 and became effective
for registered entities in the SERC region
on January 1, 2018. Following the
addition of FRCC’s registered entities to
SERC in 2019, SERC initiated a project
to review PRC–006–SERC–02. SERC’s
Dynamics Working Group identified the
need to revise the regional Reliability
Standard to account for UFLS settings
that are unique to the Florida peninsula.
As part of this project, SERC also
identified other opportunities to
enhance the regional standard.
SERC proposed to modify its UFLS
Standard, PRC–006–SERC–02.
Requirements R1 and R7 of the
currently effective standard are removed
in the updated regional Reliability PRC–
006–SERC–03, but the numbering for
the remaining Requirements is
unchanged in the interest of
administrative convenience.7
SERC proposed to remove
Requirement R1, which says:
Each Planning Coordinator shall include
its SERC subregion as an identified island in
the criteria (required by the NERC PRC
standard on UFLS) for selecting portions of
the BPS that may form islands.8

SERC proposed the retirement of
Requirement R7, which sets specific
data requirements for Planning
Coordinators (PCs) to provide SERC.
SERC no longer plans to maintain a
database of this information; therefore,
it proposed to retire R7, that removes
the requirement for SERC to maintain a
UFLS database. SERC notes that this
requirement is no longer needed
because the continent-wide UFLS
standard requires PCs to maintain a
UFLS database.
Type of Respondents: Entities
registered with the North American
Electric Reliability Corporation within
the SERC region.
Estimate of Annual Burden: 9 Our
estimate below regarding the number of
5 Letter Order Approving the Joint Petition
Requesting Certain Approvals in connection with
the Dissolution of FRCC, 167 FERC ¶ 61,095, (2019).
6 North American Electric Reliability Corporation
(NERC), Docket No. RD17–9–000 (Oct. 16, 2017)
(delegated letter order).
7 NERC petition identified on page 8.
8 NERC petition identified on page 9.
9 ‘‘Burden’’ is defined as the total time, effort, or
financial resources expended by persons to
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respondents is based on the NERC
compliance registry as of January 7,
2022. According to the NERC
compliance registry, there are 28
planning coordinators (PC) and 175
generator owners (GO) within the SERC
Region. The individual burden
estimates are based on the time needed
for planning coordinators and generator
operators to meet the requirements of
both the regional SERC requirement and
the national reliability requirements.

The estimates include the costs to
document and store data, run studies,
assess UFLS design, and analyze results
from design, development, and updating
of the UFLS programs to be compliant
with the SERC and NERC standards.
Additionally, generator owners must
provide a detailed set of data and
documentation to SERC within 30 days
of a request to facilitate post event
analysis of frequency disturbances.
These burden estimates are consistent

with estimates for similar tasks in other
Commission-approved Reliability
Standards.
There are two burden tables below,
the first showing the reduction in
burden following RD22–1–000, and the
second showing the estimated burden of
the collection. The Commission
estimates the annual reporting burden
and cost for the Reliability Standard
PRC–006–SERC–3 as:

FERC–725K, MODIFICATIONS DUE TO DLO IN DOCKET NO. RD22–1
[Reduction in burden]
Reliability standard and associated
requirement

Number of
respondents

Annual
number of
responses per
respondent

Total
number of
responses

Average
burden &
cost per
response

Total
annual burden
& total
annual cost

Cost per
respondent
($)

(1)

(2)

(1) * (2) = (3)

(4)

(3) * (4) = (5)

(5) ÷ (1)

PRC–006–SERC–3
PCs: Provide Documentation and
Data to SERC.

28

1

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

16 hrs.; $1,392 ...........

448 hrs.; $38,976 .................

Total Reduction due to RD22–
1.

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

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

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

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

448 hrs.; $38,976.

$1,392

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[Renewal]
Number of
respondents 10

Annual
number of
responses per
respondent

Total
number of
responses

Average
burden &
cost per
response 11

Total
annual burden
hours & total
annual cost

Cost per
respondent
($)

(1)

(2)

(1) * (2) = (3)

(4)

(3) * (4) = (5)

(5) ÷ (1)

PCs: Design and Document Automatic UFLS Program.
GOs: Provide Documentation and
Data to SERC.
GOs: Record Retention ..................

28

1

28

8 hrs.; $696.00 ...........

224 hrs.; $19,488.00 ............

$696.00

175

1

175

16 hrs.; $1,392.00 ......

2,800 hrs.; $243,600.00 .......

1,392.00

175

1

175

4 hrs.; $348.00 ...........

700 hrs.; $60,900 .................

348.00

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

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

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

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

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

3,724 hrs.; $323,988.

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.

Dated: February 24, 2022.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.

information to or for a Federal agency. For further
explanation of what is included in the information
collection burden, reference 5 Code of Federal
Regulations 1320.3.
10 Between previous information collection there
is an increase in the number of PCs and GOs which

largely reflect entities from the former FRCC and
SPP regions now applicable PRC–006–SERC–03.
11 The estimated hourly cost (salary plus benefits)
provided in this section is based on the salary
figures and benefits of the average 2021 FERC FTE
costs ($180,703 per year, or $87.00 per hour), which

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 4784–106]

Topsham Hydro Partners Limited
Partnership (L.P.); Notice of Settlement
Agreement and Soliciting Comments
Take notice that the following
settlement agreement has been filed

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with the Commission and is available
for public inspection.
a. Type of Application: Settlement
Agreement.
b. Project No.: 4784–106.
c. Date filed: February 18, 2022.
d. Applicant: Topsham Hydro
Partners Limited Partnership (L.P.).
e. Name of Project: Pejepscot
Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: On the Androscoggin
River in Sagadahoc, Cumberland, and
Androscoggin Counties in the village of
Pejepscot and the town of Topsham,
Maine. The project does not affect
federal lands.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Rule 602 of the
Commission’s Rules of Practice and
Procedure, 18 CFR 385.602.
we estimate is comparable for salary plus benefits
costs of a utilities staff.

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