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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 151 / Tuesday, August 10, 2021 / Rules and Regulations well as any operating problems that might hinder gas-fired power plants from receiving contractual gas quantities.
The Operational Capacity related standards define requirements of the transportation service provider related to the reporting and requesting of a transportation service providers operational capacity, total scheduled quantity, and operationally available capacity.
The Unsubscribed Capacity related standards define requirements of the transportation service provider related to the reporting and requesting of a transportation service providers available unsubscribed capacity.
The Location Data Download related standards define requirements for the use of codes assigned by the transportation service provider for locations and common codes for parties communicating electronically.
31. The Nominations Related Business Practice Standards define the process by which a natural gas service requester with a natural gas transportation contract nominates or requests service from a pipeline or a transportation service provider for the delivery of natural gas.
32. The Flowing Gas Related Business Practice Standards define the business processes related to the communication of entitlement rights of flowing gas at a location, of the entitlement rights on a contractual basis, of the management of imbalances, and of the measurement and gas quality information of the actual flow of gas.
33. The Invoicing Related Business Practice Standards define the process for the communication of charges for services rendered Invoice, communication of details about funds rendered in payment for services rendered Payment Remittance, and communication of the financial status of a customers account Statement of Account.
34. The Quadrant Electronic Delivery Mechanism Related Business Practice Standards define the framework for the electronic dissemination and communication of information between parties in the North American wholesale gas marketplace for Electronic Data Interchange/EDM transfers, batch flat file/EDM transfers, informational postings websites, Electronic Bulletin Boards/EDM, and interactive flat file/
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35. The Capacity Release Related Business Practice Standards define the
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business processes for communication of information related to the selling of all or any portion of a transmission service requesters contract rights.
36. The internet Electronic Transport Related Business Practice Standards define the implementation of various technologies necessary to communicate transactions and other electronic data using standard protocols for electronic commerce over the internet between trading partners.
37. The Commissions regulations provide that copies of the standards incorporated by reference may be obtained from NAESB at https
www.naesb.org// or 713 3560060.
Once the Novel Coronavirus Disease COVID19 restrictions are lifted, copies of the standards may be inspected at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Public Reference Room, 888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426, Phone: 202
5028371, https www.ferc.gov/. At this time, the Commission has suspended access to the Commissions Public Reference Room due to the Presidents March 13, 2020 proclamation declaring a National Emergency concerning COVID19.
38. NAESB is a private consensus standards developer that develops voluntary wholesale and retail standards related to the energy industry.
The procedures used by NAESB make its standards reasonably available to those affected by Commission regulations, which generally is comprised of entities that have the means to acquire the information they need to effectively participate in Commission proceedings. Participants can join 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.
Non-members may obtain the Individual Standards Manual or Booklets for each of the seven Manuals by email for $250
per manual, which in the case of these standards would total $1,750. Nonmembers also may obtain the complete set of Standards Manuals, Booklets, and Contracts 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. In addition, NAESB considers requests for waivers of the charges on a case-by-case basis depending on need.

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V. Information Collection Statement 39. OMB regulations require that OMB approve certain reporting, record keeping, and public disclosure requirements information collection imposed by an agency.35 Therefore, we are submitting this proposed information collection to OMB for review in accordance with section 3507d of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. Upon approval of a collection of information, OMB will assign an OMB control number and an expiration date. Respondents subject to the filing requirements of a rule will not be penalized for failing to respond to these collections of information unless the collection of information displays a valid OMB control number.
40. The Commission solicited comments on the 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. No comments were filed raising any objections to the burden estimate presented in the Version 3.2 NOPR. Accordingly, we will use that same burden estimate in this Final Rule.
41. Public Reporting Burden: The burden estimates for this Final Rule are for one-time implementation of the information collection requirements of this Final Rule including tariff filing, documentation of the process and procedures, and information technology work.
42. The collections of information related to this Final Rule fall under FERC545 Gas Pipeline Rates: Rate Change Non-Formal 36 and FERC
549C Standards for Business Practices of Interstate Natural Gas Pipelines.37
The following estimates of reporting burden are related only to this Final Rule and include the costs to pipelines for compliance with the Commissions directives in this Final Rule. The burden estimates are primarily related to implementing these standards and regulations and will not result in ongoing costs.
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