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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 18 / Friday, January 29, 2021 / Proposed Rules
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unless the collection of information displays a valid OMB control number.
19. The information collection in this NOPR is FERC725, Certification of Electric Reliability Organization. The OMB Control Number is 19020225. As required by the PRA, the collection of information that would be revised in this proposed rule is being submitted to OMB for review under 44 U.S.C.
3507d.
20. The Commission solicits comments on the Commissions need for the proposed revision of the information collection, whether the information will have practical utility, the accuracy of the burden estimates, ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected or retained, and any suggested methods for minimizing respondents burden, including the use of automated information techniques. All burden estimates are discussed in this NOPR
and in the Paperwork Reduction Act supporting statement.
21. Interested persons may submit questions about this information collection by contacting Ellen Brown, Office of the Executive Director, at DataClearance@ferc.gov, or 202 502
8663. Please send comments concerning the collection of information and the associated burden estimates to: Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget Attention: Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission Desk Officer. Due to security concerns, comments should be sent directly to www.reginfo.gov/public/
do/PRAMain. Comments submitted to OMB should be sent within 60 days of publication of this notice in the Federal Register and refer to FERC725 and OMB Control No. 19020225.
22. Please submit to the Commission copies of comments concerning the collection of information and the associated burden estimates identified by Docket No. RM2112000 by any of the following methods:
eFiling at Commissions Website:
http www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/
efiling.asp;
U.S. Postal Service Mail: Persons unable to file electronically may mail similar pleadings to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426; or Effective July 1, 2020, filings not submitted via eFiling or the U.S. Postal Service may be delivered to: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, c/o Health and Human Services, 12225
Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
23. The following discussion describes and analyzes the existing collection of information associated with 18 CFR 39.3c FERC725, OMB
Control Number 19020225, as it would be modified by this proposed rule.
Necessity of the Information: The information collected from the ERO or
Regional Entities under the requirements of FERC725 is used by the Commission to implement the statutory provisions of section 215 of the FPA and implemented by the Commission in accordance with 18 CFR
part 39.
Public Reporting Burden: The NOPR would result in program changes in the Self-Assessment information activities in FERC725 due to the proposed requirement to submit selfassessments every 3 years. At present, self-assessments are required every 5
years.
24. The annualized number of responses for each self-assessment would be revised from 0.2 per year to 0.33 per year. As shown below, RM21
12000 would result in a total of 2.31
responses for self-assessments annually.
The Commission has also reduced the number of Regional Entities from seven to six.
25. The Commission calculates the average annual burden and cost 27 in accordance with data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For hourly cost for wages and benefits, we estimate that 70
percent of the time is spent by Electrical Engineers code 172071, at $66.90/hr., 20 percent of the time is spent by Legal code 230000, at $143.68/hr., and 10
percent by Office and Administrative Support code 430000, at $41.34/hr..
The weighted hourly cost for wages and benefits is $79.70.

Number of responses per respondent
Total number of responses col. C col.
D

Average burden hours and cost $
per response rounded
Estimated total annual burden hrs.
and cost $
rounded col. E col. F

D.

E.

F.

G.

Type of respondent
Type of response
Number of respondents
A.

B.

C.

Electric Reliability Organization.
Regional Entities

Self-Assessment

1

0.33

0.33

4,160 hrs.; $331,552

1,373 hrs.; $109,412.

Self-Assessment

6

0.33

1.98

4,160 hrs.; $331,552

8,237 hrs.; $656,473.

Total Burden Hrs. and Cost.

7

2.31

9,610 hrs.; $765,885.

IV. Environmental Analysis 26. 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.28 The Commission has categorically excluded certain actions from this requirement as not having a significant effect on the human
environment. Included in the exclusion are rules that are clarifying, corrective, or procedural or that do not substantially change the effect of the regulations being amended.29 The actions proposed here fall within this categorical exclusion in the Commissions regulations.

V. Regulatory Flexibility Act Certification 27. The Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980 RFA 30 generally requires a description and analysis of proposed rules that will have significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities.
28. By only proposing to direct NERC, the Commission-certified ERO, to
27 The hourly cost estimates are based on wage data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for May 2019 BLS, Occupational Employment Statistics May 2019, https www.bls.gov/oes/current/
naics2_22.htm and benefits data for September
2020 BLS, Employer Costs for Employee Compensation Summary Dec. 17, 2020, https
www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.nr0.htm.
28 Regulations Implementing the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, Order No. 486,
52 FR 47897 Dec. 17, 1987, FERC Stats. & Regs.
30,783 1987 cross-referenced at 41 FERC
61,284.
29 18 CFR 380.4a2ii.
30 5 U.S.C 601612.

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