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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 22 / Thursday, February 4, 2021 / Rules and Regulations collection requirements contemplated by proposed rules including deletion, revision, or implementation of new requirements.58 Upon approval of a collection of information, OMB will assign an OMB control number and an expiration date. Respondents subject to the filing requirements of a rule will not be penalized for failing to respond to the collection of information unless the collection of information displays a valid OMB control number.
Public Reporting Burden: The Commission is revising its regulations implementing PURPA. The revision
utility. 56 These requirements apply to fuel cell systems subject to the revised regulations adopted in this final rule.
VI. Information Collection Statement 37. The Paperwork Reduction Act 57
requires each federal agency to seek and obtain the Office of Management and Budgets OMB approval before undertaking a collection of information including reporting, record keeping, and public disclosure requirements directed to ten or more persons or contained in a rule of general applicability. OMB regulations require approval of certain information
provides that useful thermal energy outputs will now include the thermal energy that is used by a fuel cell system with an integrated steam hydrocarbon reformation process for production of fuel for electricity generation. Below, the table includes estimated changes to the burden and cost of the FERC Form No. 556A 59 due to this final rule. As demonstrated by the table, we believe that some respondents may file multiple Form No.
556As in order to avail themselves of the revision in the regulations adopted above.60

FERC556A, CERTIFICATION OF QUALIFYING FACILITY STATUS FOR A SMALL POWER PRODUCTION OR COGENERATION
FACILITY,CHANGES DUE TO FINAL RULE IN DOCKET NOS. RM212000 AND RM2020000 61
Facility type
Cogeneration Facility 1
MW 62.
Cogeneration Facility > 1
MW.
Cogeneration Facility > 1
MW.

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FERC
556A, TOTAL
ADDITIONAL
BURDEN
AND
COST
DUE
TO final rule in RM21
2 and RM20
20.

Filing type
Number of respondents
Annual number of responses per respondent
Total number of responses
Average burden hours & cost per response
Total annual burden hours &
total annual cost
Annual cost per respondent $

1

2

1 2 = 3

4

3 4 = 5

5 1

Self-certification.

5

63 600

3,000

1.5 hrs.; $124.50

4,500 hrs.; $373,500

Self-certification.

5

20

100

1.5 hrs.; $124.50

1,500 hrs.; $12,450

2,490

Application for FERC certification.

5

1

5

50 hrs.; $4,150

250 hrs.; $20,750

4,150

15

3,105

6,250 hrs.; $406,700

$74,700

Title: FERC556A Certification of Qualifying Facility QF Status for a
Small Power Production or Cogeneration Facility
While FuelCell Energy also states that, to date, it has over 250 MW of fuel cells
56 18 CFR 292.205d2. See also Energy Policy Act of 2005, Public Law 10958, 1253, 119 Stat.
594, 96770 2005; Order No. 671, 114 FERC
61,102, order on rehg, Order No. 671A, 115
FERC 61,225.
57 44 U.S.C. 350121.
58 See 5 CFR 1320.11.
59 The change to the FERC556 to reflect the change in the regulations adopted by this final rule is being submitted under a temporary interim information collection number, FERC556A OMB
Control No. 19020316 because another change to FERC556 OMB Control No. 19020075 is pending OMB review and only one change per OMB Control No. can be pending for OMB review at a time.

60 The changes to the FERC Form No. 556 adopted in Order No. 872 are pending OMB review under ICR 2020061902004. Those changes are separate and are not affected by or addressed in this final rule.
61 The figures in this table reflect estimated changes to the current OMB-approved inventory for the FERC Form No. 556. Commission Information Collection Activities FERC556; Comment Request; Extension, Docket No. IC1916000
issued May 15, 2019 and approved by OMB on November 18, 2019. The above table only reflects cogeneration facilities because small power production facilities will not be affected by the changes in this final rule. The Commission staff believes that the industry is similarly situated to the
Commission in terms of wages and benefits.
Therefore, cost estimates are based on FERCs 2020
average hourly wage and benefits of $83.00/hour.
62 Such facilities are not required to file but have the choice whether to do so.
63 Bloom Energy has stated they have 600
facilities, each with an average size of 0.6 MW, see Bloom Energy Petition at 14, which, if they all were in fact to file, would result in as many as 600 selfcertifications of below-1 MW facilities. The Commission accordingly will adopt a conservative approach and estimate 600 such responses over the course of a year, which is especially conservative given that the Commissions regulations do not require below-1 MW facilities to submit selfcertifications.

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