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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 44 / Tuesday, March 9, 2021 / Proposed Rules with the FERC500 and FERC505
information collections, are intended to align the Commissions filing requirements for qualifying conduits with Commission precedent and to align the Commissions filing requirements for major projects greater than 5 MW
and up to and including 10 MW to be consistent with the amended definition
power projects greater than 5 MW and up to and including 10 MW.
18. This proposed rule would modify certain reporting and recordkeeping requirements included in FERC500
OMB Control No 19020058 20 and FERC505 OMB Control No. 1902
0115.21
19. The proposed revisions to the Commissions regulations, associated
of a small hydroelectric power project in the 2013 HREA. Both proposed revisions will represent a slight decrease in the reporting requirements and burden information for FERC500 and FERC505.
20. The estimated burden and cost for the requirements contained in this NOPR follow.

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ANNUAL CHANGES PROPOSED BY THE NOPR IN DOCKET NO. RM2021000
Number of respondents
Number of responses 22
per respondent
Total number of responses
Avg. burden hrs. & cost per response 23

Total annual burden hours & total annual cost
1

2

1 2 = 3

4

3 4 = 5

FERC500
FERC505

3
8

1
1

3
8

320 hours reduction $83.00
10 hours reduction $83.00

960 hours/$79,680 reduction 80 hours/$6,640 reduction
Total

1,040 hours/$86,320 reduction
security concerns, comments should be sent directly to www.reginfo.gov/public/
do/PRAMain. Comments submitted to OMB should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice in the Federal Register and should refer to FERC500
OMB Control No 19020058 and FERC505 OMB Control No. 1902
0115.

21. Titles: FERC500 Application for License/Relicense for Water Projects with More than 5 Megawatt MW
Capacity and FERC505 Small Hydropower Projects and Conduit Facilities including License/Relicense, Exemption, and Qualifying Conduit Facility Determination.
22. Action: Revisions to information collections FERC500 and FERC505.
23. OMB Control Nos.: 19020058
FERC500 and 19020115 FERC
505.
24. Respondents: Municipalities, businesses, private citizens, and forprofit and not-for-profit institutions.
25. Frequency of Information:
Ongoing.
26. Necessity of Information: The revised regulations would remove the Commissions requirement for notices of intent to construct a qualifying conduit to include a profile drawing, consistent with Commission precedent, and would align the Commissions filing requirements for major projects greater than 5 MW and up to and including 10
MW to be consistent with the amended definition of a small hydroelectric power project in the 2013 HREA. The revised regulations would affect only the number of entities that would file applications with the Commission for these two project types, and would reduce information collection requirements.

27. Internal Review: The Commission has reviewed the proposed revisions and has determined that they are necessary. These requirements conform to the Commissions need for efficient information collection, communication, and management within the energy industry. The Commission has assured itself, by means of internal review, that there is specific, objective support for the burden estimates associated with the information collection requirements.
28. Interested persons may obtain information on the reporting requirements by contacting the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission at one of the following methods:
USPS at: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Ellen Brown, Office of the Executive Director, 888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426
Hard copy communication other than USPS: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Ellen Brown, Office of the Executive Director, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 20852
email to DataClearance@ferc.gov phone 202 5028663, or by fax 202
2730873
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
29. The Commission is required to prepare an Environmental Assessment or an Environmental Impact statement for any action that may have a significant effect on the human environment.24 Excluded from this requirement are rules that are clarifying, corrective, or procedural, or that do not substantially change the effect of legislation or the regulations being amended.25 This proposed rule proposes to revise the filing requirements for qualifying conduit projects and revise the filing requirements for license applications for major hydroelectric projects with an installed capacity of 10 MW or less.
Because this proposed rule is procedural and does not substantially change the effect of the regulations being amended, preparation of an Environmental Assessment or Environmental Impact Statement is not required.

20 FERC500 includes the reporting and recordkeeping requirements for Application for License/Relicense for Water Projects with More than 5 Megawatt MW Capacity.
21 FERC505 includes the reporting and recordkeeping requirements for Small Hydropower Projects and Conduit Facilities including License/

Relicense, Exemption, and Qualifying Conduit Facility Determination.
22 We consider the filing of an application or notice of intent to be a response.
23 Commission staff estimates that the industrys skill set and cost for wages and benefits for FERC
500 and FERC505 are approximately the same as the Commissions average cost. The FERC 2020

average salary plus benefits for one FERC full-time equivalent FTE is $172,329/year or $83.00/hour.
24 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.
25 18 CFR 380.4a2ii 2020.

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