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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 150 / Monday, August 9, 2021 / Notices
regulating controls, limit functions, equipment capabilities and Protection System settings.
PRC0234 Transmission Relay Load-Ability 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.
PRC0252 Generator Relay LoadAbility 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 North American Electric Reliability Commission 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 underfrequency load shedding UFLS
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.
The following table outline net changes in burden hours and responses as a result of Docket No. RD204.

RD204 NET CHANGES FOR FERC725G, OMB CONTROL NO. 19020252
PRC regional reliability standards
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PRC0064 Automatic Underfrequency Load Shedding Reporting Requirementprogram decrease 10.
PRC0064 Automatic Underfrequency Load Shedding Evidence Retentionprogram decrease 14.
PRC0064 Automatic Underfrequency Load Shedding R1R7, R11
R15 Reporting Requirementprogram increase & clarification 11.
PRC0064 Automatic Underfrequency Load Shedding R1R7, R11
R15 Evidence Retention-program increase & clarification 14.
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.
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.

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of respondents
Average annual number of responses per respondent
Average annual total number of responses
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80 TO & DP

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80 TO & DP

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64

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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.

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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.

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