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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 152 / Wednesday, August 11, 2021 / Notices Mail via U.S. Postal Service Only:
Addressed to: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Secretary of the Commission, 888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426.
Hand including courier delivery:
Deliver to: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, MD 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 ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov, or by phone at 866 2083676 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 DataClearance@FERC.gov, or by telephone at 202 5028663.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

FERC725G1
Title: Mandatory Reliability Standards for the Bulk-Power System: Reliability Standard PRC0046.
OMB Control No.: 19020284.
Type of Request: Three-year extension of the FERC725G1 information collection requirements.
Abstract: The Commission collects information under FERC725G1 in accordance with section 215 of the Federal Power Act FPA 1 and 18 CFR
parts 39 and 40. Section 215 of the FPA
gives the Commission and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation as the Commissionapproved Electric Reliability Organization to establish and enforce reliability standards for all users, owners, and operators of the bulk-power system.2 Once approved, the Reliability Standards may be enforced by the Electric Reliability Organization subject
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to Commission oversight, or by the Commission independently.3
Reliability Standard PRC0046
requires transmission owners, generator owners, and distribution providers to identify and correct causes of misoperations of certain protection systems for bulk-power system elements. It also requires retention of evidence of misoperations for a minimum of 12 calendar months.
Types of Respondents: Transmission Owners, Generator Owners, and Distribution Providers for FERC725G1.
Transmission Owners and Distribution Providers for FERC725G4.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimate of Annual Burden: The Commission estimates 703 responses annually, and per-response burdens of 16.5 hours and $1,435.50.4 The total estimated burdens per year are 703
responses, 11,599.5 hours, and $1,009,156.50. These burdens are itemized in the following table:

FERC725G1ANNUAL ESTIMATES OF RESPONDENTS BURDENS
Number of respondents
Annual number of responses per respondent
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B.

703

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U.S.C. 824o.
defined at 16 U.S.C. 824oa1 and 18 CFR
39.1, the term bulk-power system means facilities and control systems necessary for operating an interconnected electric energy transmission network or any portion thereof, and electric energy from generating facilities needed to maintain transmission system reliability. The term does not include facilities used in the local distribution of electric energy.
3 16 U.S.C. 824oe.
4 Using the May 14, 2021 NERC compliance registration information for entities that are Generator Owners, Transmission Owners, and Distribution Providers in the U.S., the number of potential respondents is 1,405, taking into account overlap between functions. However, not every entity will have a misoperation event during a year.
Based on our previous experience with this information collection, we are estimating that
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16.5 hrs.; $1,435.50

11,599.5 hrs.; $1,009,156.50

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FERC725G4
Title: Mandatory Reliability Standards: Reliability Standard PRC
0102 Undervoltage Load Shedding.
OMB Control No.: 19020282.
Type of Request: Three-year extension of the FERC725G4 information collection requirements.6
Abstract: The Commission collects information under FERC725G4 in
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$1,435.50

accordance with section 215 of the FPA
and 18 CFR parts 39 and 40. Reliability Standard PRC0102 requires respondents to submit date-stamped documentation of their compliance with the relevant UVLS Program.7
Types of Respondents: UVLS
Entities.8
Frequency of Response: On occasion.

Estimate of Annual Burden: The Commission estimates 25 responses annually, and per-response burdens of 48 hours and $4,176.9 The total estimated burdens per year are 25
responses, 1,200 hours, and $104,400.
These burdens are itemized in the following table:

approximately half of the 1,405 potential respondents annually will have a reportable misoperation, i.e., 703 responses per year for FERC
725G1.
5 Commission staff estimates that the average industry hourly cost for this information collection is approximated by the current FERC 2021 average hourly costs for wages and benefits, i.e., $87.00/
hour.
6 If OMB renews FERC725G4, the Commission subsequently may consider requesting that OMB
combine that information collection activity with FERC725G1. Such action would be administrative only and would not indicate the discontinuation of the information collection requirements in FERC
725G4.
7 Load shedding means disconnecting consumers from the grid to prevent demand from exceeding supply, which can cause widespread grid collapse. A UVLS Program provides for automatic
load shedding, utilizing voltage inputs, in specific circumstances and locations.
8 UVLS Entities, as defined at the NERC
website at https www.nerc.com/pa/Stand/
Reliability%20Standards/PRC-010-2.pdf, are distribution providers and transmission owners responsible for the ownership, operation, or control of UVLS equipment, as required by a UVLS
Program.
9 Using the May 14, 2021 NERC compliance registration information for entities that are Transmission Owners and Distribution Providers in the U.S., the number of potential respondents is 494, taking into account overlap between functions. However, not every entity has an undervoltage load shedding program.
Approximately five percent of the potential respondents have such a program. Therefore, we estimate 25 responses per year for FERC725G4.

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