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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 229 / Thursday, December 2, 2021 / Notices
Commission, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, MD 20852.
Instructions OMB submissions must be formatted and filed in accordance with submission guidelines at www.reginfo.gov/public/
do/PRAMain; Using the search function under the Currently Under Review field, select Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; click submit and select comment to the right of the subject collection.
FERC submissions must be formatted and filed in accordance with submission guidelines at: http www.ferc.gov. For user assistance, contact FERC Online Support by email at ferconlinesupport@
ferc.gov, or by phone at: 866 2083676
toll-free.
Docket: Users interested in receiving automatic notification of activity in this docket or in viewing/downloading comments and issuances in this docket may do so at http www.ferc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ellen Brown may be reached by email at DataClearance@FERC.gov and telephone at 202 5028663.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: FERC Form 580 Interrogatory on Fuel and Energy Purchase Practices
Pursuant to Section 205 of the Federal Power Act.
OMB Control No.: 19020137.
Type of Request: Three-year extension of the FERC Form 580 with no substantive changes to the current reporting requirements. Administrative changes to update the form are being made, as described below.
Abstract: The Commission collects FERC Form 580 information every other year as required under Section 205f2
of the FPA,1 which provides that the Commission must review, not less frequently than every 2 years, practices under automatic adjustment clauses AACs.2 As required by FPA section 205f2, the Commission uses the information collected through the FERC
Form 580 interrogatory to review utility purchase and cost recovery practices under AACs in order to ensure efficient use of resources.3 The Commission uses the information to evaluate costs in individual rate filings and to supplement periodic utility audits. The public also uses the information in this manner. Without the FERC Form 580
interrogatory, the Commission would not have the requisite information available to conduct the necessary review the FPA mandates.

Type of Respondents: The filing must be submitted by all FERC-jurisdictional utilities owning and/or operating at least one steam-electric generating station of 50 MW or greater capacity or having a majority ownership interest in a jointly-owned steam-electric generating station of at least 50 MW. A
jurisdictional utility without a costbased tariff on file with the Commission is not required to file the form.
Administrative Updates to the FERC
Form 580: Continuing on from the data collection that was requested from October 2020, the Commission will be issuing a request in 2022 for similar data that was authorized in the last renewal for FERC Form 580.4 The request will solicit the same information as the previous request, except that the years will be changed from 20182019 to 20202021. In this case, the updated year designations will appear in questions 2 through 8 of FERC Form 580, as well as in question 5 of the Privileged Addendum to the FERC Form 580.
Estimate of Annual Burden.5 The Commission estimates the annual 6
public reporting burden and cost 7 for the information collection as:

FERC FORM 580
Interrogatory on Fuel and Energy Purchase Practices Pursuant to Section 205 of the Federal Power Act Number of respondents
Annual number of responses per respondent
Total number of responses
1

2

1 2 = 3

Total annual burden hours and total annual cost $

Annual cost per respondent $
5 1

4

3 4 = 5

Respondents with FACs 8
Respondents with AACs, but no FACs
Respondents with no AACs and no FACs

24
12
23

0.5
0.5
0.5

12
6 11.5

103 hrs.; $8,961.00
20 hrs.; $1,740.00
2 hrs.; $174.00

1,236.0 hrs.; $107,532.00
120.0 hrs.; $10,440.00
23.0 hrs.; $2,001.00

$4,480.50
870.00
87.00

Total

29.5

1,379.0 hrs.; $119,173.00

Comments are invited on: 1 Whether the collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the Commission, including whether the information will have practical utility; 2 the accuracy of the agencys estimate of the burden and cost of the collection of information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used; 3
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U.S.C. 824df2.
automatic adjustment clause is a provision of a rate schedule which provides for increases or decreases or both, without prior hearing, in rates reflecting increases or decreases or both in costs incurred by an electric utility. For additional information on AACs, see the Frequently Asked Questions FAQs and Desk Reference for FERC
Form 580 on the Commissions website.
3 By using the data in FERC Form 580, the Commission is able to review utility purchase and cost recovery practices and ensure the resources are 2 An
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ways to enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the information collection; and 4 ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are to respond, including the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology.

Dated: November 26, 2021.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese, Deputy Secretary.

in compliance with Commission regulations in 18
CFR 35.14.
4 The current OMB approval ICR 2019081902
015 was issued on April 23, 2020, and expires January 31, 2023. While that approval includes the timeframe for the Commissions next required use of FERC580 in 2022, we are submitting this request in order to update administrative updates FERC Form 580 for the data collection in 2022, and to request renewal of FERC580 for another 3 years.
5 Burden is defined as the total time, effort, or financial resources expended by persons to
generate, maintain, retain, or disclose or provide information to or for a federal agency. See 5 CFR
1320 for additional information on the definition of information collection burden.
6 The FERC Form 580 interrogatory is conducted every two years.
7 Commission staff estimates that the industrys average hourly cost for this information collection is approximated by the FERCs average hourly cost for wages and benefits for 2021, or $87.00/hour.
8 Fuel Adjustment Clause FAC.

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