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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 104 / Wednesday, June 2, 2021 / Notices The information collected by the FERC725G is required to implement the statutory provisions of section 215
of the Federal Power Act FPA.2
Section 215 of the FPA buttresses the Commissions efforts to strengthen the reliability of the interstate bulk power grid.
The FERC725G information collection currently contains the reporting and recordkeeping requirements for the following Reliability Standards: PRC0022, PRC
0065, PRC0122, PRC0192, PRC
0234, PRC0241, PRC0252, PRC
0261, and PRC0271.
PRC0022 Disturbance Monitoring and Reporting Requirements The purpose is to have adequate data available to facilitate analysis of Bulk Electric System BES Disturb.
PRC0065 Automatic Underfrequency Load Shedding To establish design and documentation requirements for automatic Underfrequency Load Shedding UFLS programs to arrest declining frequency, assist recovery of frequency following underfrequency events and provide last resort system preservation measures.
PRC0122
Schemes
Remedial Action
To ensure that Remedial Action Schemes RAS do not introduce unintentional or unacceptable reliability risks to the Bulk Electric System BES.
PRC0192 Coordination of Generating Unit or Plant Capabilities, Voltage Regulating Controls, and Protection The purpose is to verify coordination of generating unit Facility or synchronous condenser voltage regulating controls, limit functions, equipment capabilities and Protection System settings.
PRC0234
Load-Ability
Transmission Relay
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Protective relay settings shall not limit transmission load-ability; not interfere with system operators ability to take remedial action to protect system reliability and; be set to reliably detect all fault conditions and protect the electrical network from these faults.
PRC0241 Generator Frequency and Voltage Protective Relay Settings The purpose is to ensure Generator Owners set their generator protective relays such that generating units remain connected during defined frequency and voltage excursions.

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PRC0252
Ability
Generator Relay Load-

The purpose is to set load-responsive protective relays associated with generation Facilities at a level to prevent unnecessary tripping of generators during a system disturbance for conditions that do not pose a risk of damage to the associated equipment.
PRC0261 Relay Performance During Stable Power Swings The purpose is to ensure that loadresponsive protective relays are expected to not trip in response to stable power swings during non-Fault conditions.
PRC0271 Coordination of Protection Systems for Performance During Faults The purpose is to maintain the coordination of Protection Systems installed to detect and isolate Faults on Bulk Electric System BES Elements, such that those Protection Systems operate in the intended sequence during Faults.
Each of these Reliability Standards have three components that impose burden upon affected industry:
Requirements e.g., denoted in each Reliability Standard as R1, R2 . . .
Measures e.g., denoted in each Reliability Standard as M1, M2 . . .
Evidence Retention These three components can be reviewed for the Reliability Standards in NERC petitions in FERCs eLibrary system http www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/
elibrary.asp or on NERCs own website www.nerc.com.
Type of Respondents: Generator owners, Planning coordinators, Distribution providers, UFLS-only Distribution Providers, and transmission owners in the Northeast Power Coordinating Council NPCC Region.
Estimate of Annual Burden: 3 Our estimates are based on the NERC
Compliance Registry Summary of Entities as of February 5, 2021.
According to the NERC compliance registry, and Functions as of, which indicates there are registered as GO, PC, DP and TO entities. The individual burden estimates are based on the time needed to gather data, run studies, and analyze study results to design or update the underfrequency load shedding programs. Additionally, documentation and the review of 3 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. See 5 CFR
1320 for additional information on the definition of information collection burden.

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program results by supervisors and management is included in the administrative estimations. These are consistent with estimates for similar tasks in other Commission approved standards.
RD204 PRC0064
The revisions in the proposed Reliability Standards will align these standards with the previously approved changes to the NERC registration criteria 4 by removing reference to entities 5 that are no longer registered with NERC. In proposed Reliability Standard PRC0064, NERC adds the UFLS-only Distribution Provider as an applicable entity. In two instances, NERC has proposed changes that will promote consistent use of the term Planning Coordinator across the Reliability Standards.6
The Commissions request to OMB
will reflect the following:
Addition to the burden associated with UFLS-only distribution providers to proposed in RD204 Reliability Standard PRC0064.7 The petition states that the currently effective standard is applicable to planning coordinators, UFLS entities which may include transmission owners and distribution providers that own, operate, or control UFLS equipment, and transmission owners that own certain elements. In proposed Reliability Standard PRC0064, NERC proposes to add the UFLS-only distribution provider as an applicable UFLS entity.8
Current, Reliability Standard PRC
0065 9 formerly PRC0063
Automatic Underfrequency Load Shedding Commission estimates the annual burden and cost for the information collection as follows:
4 Order on Electric Reliability Organization Risk Based Registration Initiative and Requiring Compliance Filing, 150 FERC 61,213 2015; Order on Compliance Filing, 153 FERC 61,024 2015.
5 NERCs risk-based registration initiative resulted in the removal of the load-serving entity and purchasing-selling entity from the NERC
compliance registry.
6 Standards Alignment with Registration Petition at 7.
7 The burden associated with the Commission approved standard, PRC0063, is included in FERC725G.
8 Standards Alignment with Registration Petition at 13.
9 PRC0065 was approved April 1, 2021 in RM211 which did not trigger the PRA and therefore did not require prior OMB approval. The current version of this standard, PRC0065, was approved by the Commission on April 1, 2021. The only change was a revision to the regional variance for the WECC region for PRC0064 modifications that needs to be approved through OMB.
10 The number of entities is being reduced in order to more clearly identify the applicable entities
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