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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 151 / Tuesday, August 10, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
RM961042 FINAL RULE STANDARDS FOR BUSINESS PRACTICES OF INTERSTATE NATURAL GAS PIPELINES
Number of respondents 38

Annual number of responses per respondent
Total number of responses
Average burden hr. per response
Total annual burden hours &
total annual cost 39

Annual costs per respondent
1

2

12 = 3

4

34 = 5

5/1 = 6

FERC545 one-time

178

1

178

10 hrs.; $1,010

FERC549C one-time

178

1

178

100 hrs.;
$10,100.

Total

356

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The one-time burden for both the FERC545 and FERC549C will take place in Year 1 and will be averaged over three years:
FERC545: 1,780 hours 3 = 593 hours/
year over three years FERC549C: 17,800 hours 3 = 5,933
hours/year over three years The number of responses is also averaged over three years for both the FERC545 and FERC549C:
FERC545: 178 responses 3 = 59
responses/year FERC549C: 178 responses 3 = 59
responses/year The responses and burden for Years 13 will total respectively as follows:
Year 1: 59 responses; 593 hours FERC
545; 5,933 hours FERC549C
Year 2: 59 responses; 593 hours FERC
545; 5,933 hours FERC549C
Year 3: 59 responses; 593 hours FERC
545; 5,933 hours FERC549C
Title: FERC545, Gas Pipeline Rates:
Rates Change Non-Formal; FERC
549C, Standards for Business Practices of Interstate Natural Gas Pipelines.
Action: Proposed information collections.
38 The number of respondents is the number of entities in which a change in burden from the current standards to the proposed exists, not the total number of entities from the current or proposed standards that are applicable.
39 The estimated hourly cost salary plus benefits provided in this section is based on the salary figures for May 2019 posted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the Utilities sector available at https
www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics3_221000.htm and scaled to reflect benefits using the relative importance of employer costs for employee compensation from June 2020 available at https
www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.nr0.htm. The hourly estimates for salary plus benefits are:
Computer and Information Systems Manager Occupation Code: 113021, $101.58
Computer and Information Analysts Occupation Code: 151210, $87.42
Electrical Engineer Occupation Code: 172071, $70.19
Legal Occupation Code: 230000, $142.65
The average hourly cost salary plus benefits, weighting all of these skill sets evenly, is $100.50.
We round it to $101/hour.

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OMB Control Nos.: 19020154 FERC
545, 19020174 FERC549C.
Respondents: Business or other for profit e.g., Natural Gas Pipelines, applicable to only a few small businesses.
Frequency of Responses: One-time implementation related to business procedures, capital/start-up.
Necessity of Information: In response to the recommendations in the Sandia report, the revisions in this Final Rule to the Commissions regulations will upgrade current business practices and communication standards by updating the Quadrant EDM Related Standards and IET Related Standards to specifically: 1 Require the implementation of fixes or patches for known vulnerabilities as soon as reasonably practicable in coordination with other trading partners; 2 specify notification timelines to provide notice to trading partners of any systems or software that have not been updated and the potential impact of using the vulnerable system; 3 include both specific and broad adoptions of system security measures and specific notification and coordination during outages with affected trading partners;
4 maintain a minimum encryption strength of 128 bits; 5 specify that OpenPGP should be used to create public and private keys for privacy and digital signature applications; 6
specify HTTPS whenever secure communication is required to protect information in transit and support overall privacy needs; 7 use the largest feasible key length consistent with implementation of current business processes; 8 state that secure websites should employ individual user credentials; and 9 encourage security assessments and coordination between customers, vendors, and trading partners.
43. Further, in response to industry requests or through the normal course of WGQ activities, the revisions in this
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1,780 hrs.;
$179,780.
17,800 hrs.;
$1,797,800.
19,580 hrs.;
$1,977,580.

$1,010
$10,100

Final Rule to the Commissions regulations will upgrade current business practices and communication standards by specifically: 1 Updating the Nominations Related Standards to allow a Service Requester to determine which rights of the contract its segmentation nomination is using; 2
updating the Quadrant EDM Related Standards to i define a NAESB
standard time frame for information to be retained on a pipelines Informational Postings website, ii allow for processing functions at the line item level on Customer Activities websites and allow for the use of icons and/or graphical control elements for navigation and/or processing functions, and iii make minor revisions designed to add clarity, update the minimum technical characteristics to account for changes in technology since the previous version Version 3.1 of the WGQ standards, and update the minimum and suggested operating systems and web browsers that entities should support; 3 updating multiple sets of standards to remove references to the term gigacalories and add the term gigajoules as the standard quantity for nominations, confirmations, and scheduling in Mexico; and 4
revising the NAESB WGQ data sets or other technical implementation documentation while not resulting in modifications to the underlying business practice standards. The package of standards also includes minor corrections. The implementation of these data requirements will provide additional transparency to Informational Postings websites and will improve communication standards. The implementation of these standards and regulations will promote the additional efficiency and reliability of the natural gas industries operations thereby helping the Commission to carry out its responsibilities under the NGA. In addition, the Commissions Office of
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