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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 104 / Wednesday, June 2, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
communications between transportation service providers and gas-fired power plants. The standards include requirements for communicating anticipated power generation fuel for the upcoming day as well as any operating problems that might hinder gas-fired power plants from receiving contractual gas quantities.
63. The WEQ012 Public Key Infrastructure PKI Business Practice Standards establish the cybersecurity framework for parties partaking in transactions via a transmission providers OASIS or e-Tagging system.
The NAESB PKI framework secures wholesale electric market electronic commercial communications via encryption of data and the electronic authentication of parties to a transaction through the use of a digital certificate issued by a NAESB certified certificate authority. The standards define the requirements for parties utilizing the digital certificates issued by the NAESB
certificate authorities.
64. The WEQ013 OASIS
Implementation Guide Business Practice Standards detail the implementation of the OASIS Business Practice Standards.
The standards detail requirements related to point-to-point OASIS
transaction processing, OASIS template implementation, preemption and rightof-first-refusal processing, NITS
application and modification of service processing, and secondary network transmission service.
65. The WEQ015 Measurement and Verification of Wholesale Electricity Demand Response Business Practice Standards define a common framework for transparency, consistency, and accountability applicable to the measurement and verification of wholesale electric market demand response practices. The standards describe performance evaluation methodology and criteria for the use of equipment, technology, and procedures to quantify the demand reduction valuethe measurement of reduced electrical usage by a demand resource.
66. The WEQ021 Measurement and Verification of Energy Efficiency Products Business Practice Standards define a common framework for transparency, consistency, and accountability applicable to the measurement and verification of wholesale electric market energy efficiency practices. The standards establish energy efficiency measurement and verification criteria and define requirements for energy efficiency resource providers for the measurement and verification of energy efficiency products and services offered in the wholesale electric markets.

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67. The WEQ022 EIR Business Practice Standards define the business requirements for entities utilizing the NAESB managed EIR, a wholesale electric industry tool that serves as the central repository for information needed in the scheduling of transmission through electronic transactions. The standards describe the roles within EIR, registration requirements, and cybersecurity.
68. The WEQ023 Modeling Business Practice Standards specify the requirements for calculation of ATCs and AFCs using the methodology selected. In the event of a conflict between these Business Practice Standards and the Transmission Service Providers tariff or FERC approved seams agreements, the tariff or FERC
approved seams agreements shall have precedence.76
69. Copies of the standards incorporated by reference may be obtained from NAESB, whose offices are located at 801 Travis Street, Suite 1675, Houston, TX 77002, Phone: 713 356
0060. NAESBs website can be accessed at https www.naesb.org. Once COVID
restrictions are lifted, copies of the standards may be inspected at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Public Reference and Files Maintenance Branch, 888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426, Phone: 202
5028371, https www.ferc.gov.
70. NAESB is a private, consensus standards developer that develops voluntary wholesale and retail standards related to the energy industry.
The procedures utilized by NAESB
make its standards reasonably available to those affected by the Commissions regulations.77 Participants can join 76 The suites of NAESB business practice standards we are not incorporating by reference in this final rule are: 1 The WEQ009 Standards of Conduct for Electric Transmission Providers, which NAESB has eliminated as they duplicate the Commissions regulations; 2 the WEQ010
Contracts Related Business Practice Standards that establish model contracts for the wholesale electric industry, which the Commission has not incorporated as they are not mandatory; 3 the WEQ014 WEQ/WGQ eTariff Related Business Practice Standards, which provide an implementation guide describing the various mechanisms, data tables, code values/reference tables, and technical specifications used in the submission of electronic tariff filings to the Commission, which the Commission has not incorporated as these submittals are governed by the Commissions eTariff regulations; and 4 the WEQ016, WEQ017, WEQ018, WEQ019, and WEQ020 Business Practice Standards that were developed as part of the Smart Grid implementation and which the Commission adopted as nonmandatory guidance in 18 CFR 2.27 2019. See Order No. 676H, 148 FERC 61,205; Order No.
676I, 170 FERC 61,062, at n.102.
77 As a private, consensus standards developer, NAESB needs the funds obtained from its membership fees and sales of its Individual
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NAESB, for an annual membership cost of $8,000, which entitles them to full participation in NAESB and enables them to obtain these standards at no additional cost.78 Non-members may obtain the Individual Standards Manual or Booklet for $250 per manual or booklet.79 Non-members also may obtain the complete set of Business Practice Standards on USB flash drive for $2,000. NAESB also provides a free electronic read-only version of the standards for a three-business day period or, in the case of a regulatory comment period, through the end of the comment period.80 In addition, NAESB
considers requests for waivers of the charges on a case-by-case basis based on need.
VI. Information Collection Statement 71. The following collection of information contained in this final rule is subject to review by the Office of Management and Budget OMB under section 3507d of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
3507d.81 OMBs regulations require approval of certain information collection requirements imposed by agency rules.82 Upon approval of a collections of information, OMB will assign an OMB control number and an expiration date. Respondents subject to the filing requirements of this rule will not be penalized for failing to respond to these collections of information unless the collections of information display a valid OMB control number.
72. The Commission solicits comments on the Commissions need for this information, whether the information will have practical utility, the accuracy of the provided burden estimates, ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected, and any suggested methods for minimizing respondents burden, including the use of automated information techniques.
73. The following burden estimate is based on the projected costs for the industry to implement the new and revised business practice standards Standards Manual or Booklet to finance the organization. The parties affected by these Commission regulations generally are highly sophisticated and have the means to acquire the information they need to effectively participate in Commission proceedings.
78 NAESB, NAESB Membership Application, https www.naesb.org/pdf4/naesbapp.pdf.
79 NAESB, NAESB Materials Order Form, https
www.naesb.org/pdf/ordrform.pdf.
80 Procedures for non-members to evaluate work products before purchasing are available at https
www.naesb.org/misc/NAESB_Nonmember_
Evaluation.pdf.
81 44 U.S.C. 3507d.
82 5 CFR 1320.11.

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