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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 29 / Tuesday, February 16, 2021 / Notices
enacted into law.1 EPAct 2005 added a new section 215 to the FPA, which required 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 the ERO
subject to Commission oversight, or the Commission can 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, North American Electric Reliability Corporation NERC, as the ERO. 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.
On November 19, 2007, NERC filed its petition for Commission approval of the Nuclear Plant Interface Coordination Reliability Standard, designated NUC
0011. In Order No. 716, issued October
FERC725F

New or Modifications to Existing Agreements Reporting.
New or Modifications to Existing Agreements Record Keeping.

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16, 2008, the Commission approved the standard while also directing certain revisions.4 Revised Reliability Standard, NUC0012, was filed with the Commission by NERC in August 2009
and subsequently approved by the Commission January 21, 2010.5 On November 4, 2014, in Docket No. RD14
13, the Commission approved revised Reliability Standard NUC0013.6 On February 21, 2020 NERC filed a petition in Docket No. RD204 to revise Reliability Standard NUC0013 to NUC00014.
The purpose of Reliability Standard NUC0014 is to require coordination between nuclear plant generator operators and transmission entities for the purpose of ensuring nuclear plant safe operation and shutdown. 7 The Nuclear Reliability Standard applies to nuclear plant generator operators generally nuclear power plant owners and operators, including licensees and transmission entities, defined in the Reliability Standard as including a nuclear plants suppliers of off-site power and related transmission and Annual number of responses per respondent
Number of respondents
Total number of responses
distribution services. To account for the variations in nuclear plant design and grid interconnection characteristics, the Reliability Standard defines transmission entities as all entities that are responsible for providing services related to Nuclear Plant Interface Requirements NPIRs, and lists eleven types of functional entities heretofore described as transmission entities that could provide services related to NPIRs.8
FERC725F information collection requirements include establishing and maintaining interface agreements, including record retention requirements. These agreements are not filed with FERC, but with the appropriate entities as established by the Reliability Standard.
Type of Respondent: Nuclear operators, nuclear plants, transmission entities Estimate of Annual Burden: 9 The Commission estimates the average annual burden and cost 10 for this information collection as follows:

Average burden hrs.
& cost per response $ rounded
Total annual burden hrs.
& total annual cost $ rounded
Cost per respondent $ rounded
1

2

1 2 = 3

4

3 4 = 5

5 1

57 nuclear plants + 114
transmission entities 11.
57 nuclear plants + 114
transmission entities.

2

342

66.67 hrs.; $5,694

22,801 hrs.; $1,947,433

$11,388

2

342

6.67 hrs.; $232

2,281 hrs.; $79,356

464.07

12 342

25,082 hrs.; 13
$2,026,789.

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 agencys estimate of the burden and cost of the collection of information, including the validity of
1 Energy Policy Act of 2005, Public Law 10958, Title XII, Subtitle A, 119 Stat. 594, 941 2005, 16
U.S.C. 824o.
2 16 U.S.C. 824oe3.
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 rehg, Order No.
672A, FERC Stats. & Regs. 31,212 2006.
4 Mandatory Reliability Standard for Nuclear Plant Interface Coordination, Order No. 716, 125
FERC 61,065, at P 189 & n.90 2008, order on rehg, Order No. 716A, 126 FERC 61,122 2009.
5 North American Electric Reliability Corporation, 130 FERC 61,051 2010. When the revised Reliability Standard was approved, the Commission did not go to OMB for approval. It is assumed that the changes made did not substantively affect the information collection and therefore a formal submission to OMB was not needed.
6 The Letter Order is posted at https
elibrary.ferc.gov/idmws/common/OpenNat.asp?
fileID=13675845.

7 See Reliability Standard NUC0014 at http
www.nerc.com/files/NUC-001-4.pdf.
8 The list of functional entities consists of transmission operators, transmission owners, transmission planners, transmission service providers, balancing authorities, reliability coordinators, planning authorities, distribution providers, load-serving entities, generator owners, and generator operators.
9 Burden is defined as 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. Refer to 5
CFR 1320.3 for additional information.
10 The wage and benefit figures are based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics BLS data at https
www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics2_22.htm for May 2019 for Sector 22, Utilities. The benefits figure is based on BLS data as of May 2020 http
www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.nr0.htm. The estimated hourly cost for wages plus benefits for reporting requirements is $85.41/hour, based on the average for an electrical engineer occupation code 172071, $70.19/hour, legal occupation code 23
0000, $142.65/hour, and office and administrative
staff occupation code 430000, $43.38/hour. The estimated hourly cost wages plus benefits for record keeping is $34.79/hour for a file clerk occupation code 434071.
11 This figure of 120 transmission entities is based on the assumption that each agreement will be between 1 nuclear plant and 2 transmission entities 57 2 = 114. However, there is some double counting in this figure because some transmission entities may be party to multiple agreements with multiple nuclear plants. The double counting does not affect the burden estimate, and the correct number of unique respondents will be reported to OMB.
12 The 171 respondents affected by the reporting requirements are also affected by the recordkeeping requirements.
13 The reporting requirements have not changed.
The decrease in the number of respondents is due to: a Normal fluctuations in industry e.g., companies merging and splitting, and coming into and going out of business, and b no new agreements being issued due to the lack of new nuclear plants being developed.

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