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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 163 / Thursday, August 26, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
into the relational database, the docket number of the order granting the ultimate upstream affiliate a section 203a2 blanket authorization, the identifier of the upstream affiliates whose securities were acquired pursuant to the section 203a2 blanket authorization, and the type of identifier reported. These revisions would not impose any additional reporting requirements for Sellers whose ultimate upstream affiliates do not hold their
voting securities pursuant to section 203a2 blanket authorizations.
31. There are approximately 2,647
Sellers that will submit information into the relational database. Six institutional investors currently have section 203a2 blanket authorizations, which collectively own approximately 110
upstream affiliates that themselves own Sellers. In the March Notice, the Commission estimated an average of four Sellers affected for every upstream affiliate, equaling 440 total sellers. This
order reaffirms the estimate of the number of Sellers impacted by the revisions herein.
Burden Estimate: The estimated burden and cost 48 for the requirements in this order are as follows. Information on estimated burden from Order No. 860
is displayed for background only.
32. The following table summarizes the average estimated annual burden and cost 49 changes due to March Notice and includes, for background only, the estimate from Order No. 860:

A.

B.

C.

D.

E.

F.

G.

H.

Respondent/incremental burden category
Number of respondents
Number of responses per respondent
Number of responses B C

Burden hours per response
Hourly cost $ per response
Total annual burden hours D E

Total cost $ F G

I

I

I

I

I

First Year, proposed incremental cost associated with the collection of reporting connections to an entity whose securities were acquired pursuant to a blanket authorization Increase due to the March Notice Impacted Sellers, as implemented in this Order.

440

1

440

50 2

88.54

880

77,915.20.

Ongoing beginning in Year 2 collection of reporting connections to an entity whose securities were acquired pursuant to a blanket authorization Impacted Sellers, as implemented in this Order.
Total Burden for Impacted Sellers in this Order.

440

1

440

68

88.54

29,920

2,649,116.80.

440

1

440

70

88.54

30,800

2,727,032.00.

I

I

I

I

I

Impacted Sellers have an offsetting decrease in reporting requirements compared to those required to be reported in Order 860
Reduction in Burden of Order 860 Reporting Requirements for Impacted Sellers 51.

440

I

I

I

70 former estimate, being replaced.

I

88.54

I

30,800 former estimate, being replaced.

2,727,032.00 former estimate, being replaced.

Therefore, there is no net change for impacted Sellers in burden due to these revisions.52

IV. Environmental Analysis
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440

1

analysis, and dissemination.55
Therefore, environmental analysis is unnecessary and has not been performed.

substantial number of small entities. In lieu of preparing a regulatory flexibility analysis, an agency may certify that a proposed rule will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities.

33. The Commission is required to prepare an Environmental Assessment or an Environmental Impact Statement for any action that may have a significant adverse effect on the human environment.53 The Commission has categorically excluded certain actions from these requirements as not having a significant effect on the human environment.54 The actions proposed here fall within a categorical exclusion in the Commissions regulations, i.e., they involve information gathering,
34. The Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980 RFA 56 generally requires a description and analysis of rules that will have significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities. The RFA mandates consideration of regulatory alternatives that accomplish the stated objectives of a proposed rule and minimize any significant economic impact on a
35. The Small Business Administrations SBA Office of Size Standards develops the numerical definition of a small business.57 The SBA size standard for electric utilities is based on the number of employees, including affiliates.58 Under SBAs
48 The estimated hourly cost burden for respondents$88.54is the average of mean hourly wages from May 2020 Bureau of Labor Statistics BLS data at http www.bls.gov/oes/
current/oes_nat.htm, and BLS benefits data at http www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.nr0.htm for the following occupations: Legal Occupations 23
0000 $142.25, Computer and Information Systems Managers 113021 $103.61, Computer and Mathematical Occupations 150000 $65.73, and Information and Record Clerks 434199 $42.57.
49 The following table displays BLS cost calculations from 2020 which updated the March Notices estimates from the initial 2019 data.

50 The two hours represents the additional time required to address the three new fields.
51 Order No. 860, 168 FERC 61,039 at P 323.
52 We estimate that the additional burden 440
hours due to these revisions of reporting this information will not have a net change in overall burden because sellers will no longer be affiliated through common ultimate upstream affiliates with blanket authorizations, as contemplated in Order Nos. 860 and 860A. We conservatively estimate that the net change on the impacted sellers reporting this information will be zero. The net additional cost calculations were determined by
subtracting the total burden for impacted sellers for these revisions from the estimated burden in Order No. 860 which results in no change in burden.
53 Reguls. Implementing the Natl Envtl Poly Act, Order No. 486, 52 FR 47897 Dec. 17, 1987, FERC
Stats. & Regs. 30,783 1987 cross-referenced at 41
FERC 61,284.
54 Id.
55 18 CFR 380.4.
56 5 U.S.C. 601612.
57 13 CFR 121.101.
58 Id.

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