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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 130 / Monday, July 12, 2021 / Notices
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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, telephone at 202 5028663.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: FERC917, Electric Transmission Facilities and FERC918, Standards for Business Practices and Communication Protocols for Public Utilities.
OMB Control No.: 19020233.
Type of Request: Three-year extension of the FERC917 and FERC918
information collection requirements with no changes to the reporting requirements.
Type of Respondents: Public utilities transmission providers.
Abstract: On February 17, 2007, the Commission issued Order No. 890 to address and remedy opportunities for undue discrimination under the pro forma Open Access Transmission Tariff OATT adopted in 1996 by Order No.
888.1 Through Order No. 890, the Commission:
1. Adopted pro forma OATT
provisions necessary to keep imbalance charges closely related to incremental costs.
2. Increased nondiscriminatory access to the grid by requiring public utilities, working through the North American Electric Reliability Corporation NERC, to develop consistent methodologies for available transfer capability ATC
calculation and to publish those methodologies to increase transparency.
3. Required an open, transparent, and coordinated transmission planning process thereby increasing the ability of customers to access new generating resources and promote efficient utilization of transmission.
4. Gave the right to customers to request from transmission providers, 1 Promoting Wholesale Competition Through Open Access Non-discriminatory Transmission Services by Public Utilities; Recovery of Stranded Costs by Public Utilities and Transmitting Utilities, Order No. 888, 61 FR 21540 May 10, 1996, FERC
Stats. & Regs. 31,036 1996, order on rehg, Order No. 888A, 62 FR 12274 Mar. 14, 1997, FERC
Stats. & Regs. 31,048 1997, order on rehg, Order No. 888B, 81 FERC 61,248 1997, order on rehg, Order No. 888C, 82 FERC 61,046 1998, affd in relevant part sub nom. Transmission Access Policy Study Group v. FERC, 225 F.3d 667 D.C. Cir. 2000, affd sub nom. New York v. FERC, 535 U.S. 1
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studies addressing congestion and/or integration of new resource loads in areas of the transmission system where they have encountered transmission problems due to congestion or where they believe upgrades and other investments may be necessary to reduce congestion and to integrate new resources.
5. Required both the transmission providers merchant function and network customers to include a statement with each application for network service or to designate a new network resource that attests, for each network resource identified, that the transmission customer owns or has committed to purchase the designated network resource and the designated network resource comports with the requirements for designated network resources. The network customer includes this attestation in the customers comment section of the request when it confirms the request on the Open Access Same-Time Information System OASIS.
6. Required with regard to capacity reassignment that: a All sales or assignments of capacity be conducted through or otherwise posted on the transmission providers OASIS on or before the date the reassigned service commences; b assignees of transmission capacity execute a service agreement prior to the date on which the reassigned service commences; and c transmission providers aggregate and summarize in an electric quarterly report the data contained in these service agreements.
7. Adopted an operational penalties annual filing that provides information regarding the penalty revenue the transmission provider has received and distributed.
8. Required creditworthiness information to be included in a transmission providers OATT.
Attachment L must specify the qualitative and quantitative criteria that the transmission provider uses to determine the level of secured and unsecured credit required.
The Commission required a NERC/
NAESB 2 team to draft and review Order No. 890 reliability standards and business practices. The team was to solicit comment from each utility on developed standards and practices and utilities were to implement each, after Commission approval. Public utilities, working through NERC, were to revise reliability standards to require the exchange of data and coordination among transmission providers and, 2 NAESB is the North American Energy Standards Board.

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working through NAESB, were to develop complementary business practices. Required OASIS postings included:
1. Explanations for changes in ATC
values;
2. Capacity benefit margin CBM
reevaluations and quarterly postings;
3. OASIS metrics and accepted/
denied requests;
4. Planning redispatch offers and reliability redispatch data;
5. Curtailment data;
6. Planning and system impact studies;
7. Metrics for system impact studies;
and 8. All rules.
Incorporating the Order No. 890
standards into the Commissions regulations benefits wholesale electric customers by streamlining utility business practices, transactional processes, and OASIS procedures, and by adopting a formal ongoing process for reviewing and upgrading the Commissions OASIS standards and other electric industry business practices. These practices and procedures benefit from the implementation of generic industry standards.
The Commissions Order No. 890
regulations can be found in 18 CFR
35.28 pro forma tariff requirements, and 37.6 and 37.7 OASIS
requirements. 18 CFR 35.28b states:
Audit data must remain available for download on the OASIS for 90 days, except ATC/TTC postings that must remain available for download on the OASIS for 20 days. The audit data are to be retained and made available upon request for download for five years from the date when they are first posted in the same electronic form as used when they originally were posted on the OASIS.
Estimate of Annual Burden: 3 The Commission estimates the annual public reporting burden for the information collections as follows. Please note, the zeroes for respondents and responses are based on having no filings of this type over the past four years. In addition, we estimate no filings during the next three years. The requirements remain in the regulations and are included as part of OMB Control Number 19020233.
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. For further explanation of what is included in the information collection burden, refer to 5 CFR part 1320.

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