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Filed Date: 10/4/23. 

Accession Number: 20231004–5135. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 10/25/23. 

Docket Numbers: ER24–28–000. 

Applicants: Interstate Power and 

Light Company. 

Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: IPLLouise Solar LBA Agreement to be 

effective 12/3/2023. 

Filed Date: 10/5/23. 

Accession Number: 20231005–5053. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 10/26/23. 

Docket Numbers: ER24–29–000. 

Applicants: PacifiCorp. 

Description: Tariff Amendment: 

Termination of UAMPS Const Agmt 

Lehi Carter BTM Resource Modeling to 

be effective 12/5/2023. 

Filed Date: 10/5/23. 

Accession Number: 20231005–5059. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 10/26/23. 

Docket Numbers: ER24–30–000. 

Applicants: Midcontinent 

Independent System Operator, Inc. 

Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: 

2023–10–05_SA 3765 Termination of 

NIPSCO-Dunns Bridge E&P (J1333 J1334 

J1335) to be effective 10/6/2023. 

Filed Date: 10/5/23. 

Accession Number: 20231005–5073. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 10/26/23. 

Docket Numbers: ER24–31–000. 

Applicants: Midcontinent 

Independent System Operator, Inc. 

Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: 

2023–10–05_SA 3324 Termination of 

Chandler Solar Project-ATC GIA (J849) 

to be effective 7/18/2022. 

Filed Date: 10/5/23. 

Accession Number: 20231005–5074. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 10/26/23. 

Docket Numbers: ER24–32–000. 

Applicants: Tri-State Generation and 

Transmission Association, Inc. 

Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: 

Amendment to Rate Schedule FERC No. 

2 to be effective 12/4/2023. 

Filed Date: 10/5/23. 

Accession Number: 20231005–5077. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 10/26/23. 

Docket Numbers: ER24–33–000. 

Applicants: Tri-State Generation and 

Transmission Association, Inc. 

Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: 

Amendment to Rate Schedule FERC No. 

67 to be effective 12/4/2023. 

Filed Date: 10/5/23. 

Accession Number: 20231005–5085. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 10/26/23. 

Docket Numbers: ER24–34–000. 

Applicants: Proxima Solar, LLC. 

Description: Baseline eTariff Filing: 

Proxima Solar, LLC Application for 

Market-Based Rate Authorization to be 

effective 12/5/2023. 

Filed Date: 10/5/23. 

Accession Number: 20231005–5108. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 10/26/23. 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following electric securities 

filings: 

Docket Numbers: ES24–4–000. 

Applicants: Commonwealth Edison 

Company. 

Description: Application Under 

Section 204 of The Federal Power Act 

for Authorization of The Issuance of 

Securities of Commonwealth Edison 

Company. 

Filed Date: 10/2/23. 

Accession Number: 20231002–5385. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 10/23/23. 

Docket Numbers: ES24–5–000. 

Applicants: PECO Energy Company. 

Description: Application Under 

Section 204 of the Federal Power Act for 

Authorization to Issue Securities of 

PECO Energy Company. 

Filed Date: 10/2/23. 

Accession Number: 20231002–5386. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 10/23/23. 

The filings are accessible in the 

Commission’s eLibrary system (https://

elibrary.ferc.gov/idmws/search/ 

fercgensearch.asp) by querying the 

docket number. 

Any person desiring to intervene, to 

protest, or to answer a complaint in any 

of the above proceedings must file in 

accordance with Rules 211, 214, or 206 

of the Commission’s Regulations (18 

CFR 385.211, 385.214, or 385.206) on or 

before 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on the 

specified comment date. Protests may be 

considered, but intervention is 

necessary to become a party to the 

proceeding. 

eFiling is encouraged. More detailed 

information relating to filing 

requirements, interventions, protests, 

service, and qualifying facilities filings 

can be found at: http://www.ferc.gov/ 

docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For 

other information, call (866) 208–3676 

(toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659. 

The Commission’s Office of Public 

Participation (OPP) supports meaningful 

public engagement and participation in 

Commission proceedings. OPP can help 

members of the public, including 

landowners, environmental justice 

communities, Tribal members and 

others, access publicly available 

information and navigate Commission 

processes. For public inquiries and 

assistance with making filings such as 

interventions, comments, or requests for 

rehearing, the public is encouraged to 

contact OPP at (202) 502–6595 or OPP@

ferc.gov. 

Dated: October 5, 2023. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2023–22555 Filed 10–12–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. IC23–14–000] 

Commission Information Collection 

Activity (FERC–717); Comment 

Request; Extension 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection 

and request for comments. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

requirements of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission 

(Commission or FERC) is soliciting 

public comment on the revision of the 

currently approved information 

collection, FERC–717 (Standards for 

Business Practices and Communication 

Protocols for Public Utilities). 

DATES: Comments on the collections of 

information are due December 12, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit your 

comments (identified by Docket No. 

IC23–14–000) on FERC–717 by one of 

the following methods: 

Electronic filing through https://

www.ferc.gov is preferred. 

• Electronic Filing: Documents must 

be filed in acceptable native 

applications and print-to-PDF, but not 

in scanned or picture format. 

• For those unable to file 

electronically, comments may be filed 

by USPS mail or by hand (including 

courier) delivery: 

Æ Mail via U.S. Postal Service Only: 

Addressed to: Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, Secretary of the 

Commission, 888 First Street NE, 

Washington, DC 20426. 

Æ Hand (Including Courier) Delivery: 

Deliver to: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, 

Rockville, MD 20852. 

Instructions: All submissions must be 

formatted and filed in accordance with 

submission guidelines at: https://

www.ferc.gov. For user assistance, 

contact FERC Online Support by email 

at ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov, or by 

phone at (866) 208–3676 (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 https://www.ferc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ellen Brown may be reached by email 

at DataClearance@FERC.gov, or by 

telephone at (202) 502–8663. 

Title: FERC–717, Standards for 

Business Practices and Communication 

Protocols for Public Utilities. 


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1As defined at 18 CFR 37.3(a), a ‘‘Transmission 

Provider’’ is any public utility that owns, operates, 

or controls facilities used for the transmission of 

electricity in interstate commerce. 

2As defined at 18 CFR 37.3(c), a ‘‘Responsible 

Party’’ is the Transmission Provider or an agent to 

whom the Transmission Provider has delegated the 

responsibility of meeting any of the requirements of 

18 CFR part 37. 

3As defined at 18 CFR 37.3(b), a ‘‘Transmission 

Customer’’ is any eligible customer (or its 

designated agent) that can or does execute a 

transmission service agreement or can or does 

receive transmission service. 

4As defined at 18 CFR 37.3(d), a ‘‘Reseller’’ is any 

Transmission Customer who offers to sell 

transmission capacity it has purchased. 

5The standard protocols are included in the 

Standards for Business Practices and 

Communication Protocols for Public Utilities 

adopted by the Wholesale Electric Quadrant (WEQ) 

of the North American Energy Standards Board 

(NAESB). The Commission adopted the protocols 

by reference in 18 CFR 38.1(b)(2)(iv) in a final rule 

at 86 FR 29491 (June 2, 2021). The protocols remain 

effective at present. 

6As defined at 18 CFR 37.6(b)(1): (1) ATC is the 

transfer capability remaining in the physical 

transmission network for further commercial 

activity over and above already committed uses, or 

such definition as contained in Commissionapproved Reliability Standards. (2) TTC is the 

amount of electric power that can be moved or 

transferred reliably from one area to another area of 

the interconnected transmission systems by way of 

all transmission lines (or paths) between those areas 

under specified system conditions, or such 

definition as contained in Commission-approved 

Reliability Standards. 

7As defined at 18 CFR 37.6(b)(1)(vii), ‘‘Capacity 

Benefit Margin’’ means the amount of TTC 

preserved by the Transmission Provider for loadserving entities, whose loads are located on that 

Transmission Provider’s system, to enable access by 

the load-serving entities to generation from 

interconnected systems to meet generation 

reliability requirements, or such definition as 

contained in Commission-approved Reliability 

Standards. 

8As defined at 18 CFR 37.6(b)(1)(viii), 

‘‘Transmission Reliability Margin’’ is the amount of 

TTC necessary to provide reasonable assurance that 

the interconnected transmission network will be 

secure, or such definition as contained in 

Commission-approved Reliability Standards. 

9As defined at 18 CFR 37.6(b)(1)(i), ‘‘Posted 

Path’’ means any control area to control area 

interconnection; any path for which service is 

OMB Control No.: 1902–0173. 

Type of Request: Three-year approval 

of the FERC–717 information collection 

requirements with deletion of one-time 

burdens previously approved by the 

Office of Management and Budget. 

Abstract: Section 205 of the Federal 

Power Act (FPA) (16 U.S.C. 824d) 

requires that all rates and charges for the 

transmission or sale of electric energy 

and all rules and regulations affecting or 

pertaining to such rates and charges be 

just and reasonable. Section 206 of the 

FPA (16 U.S.C. 824e) authorizes FERC 

to initiate a proceeding to address any 

‘‘rate, charge or classification’’ related to 

the transmission or sale of electricity 

that the agency determines is ‘‘unjust, 

unreasonable, unduly discriminatory or 

preferential.’’ 

Commission regulations at 18 CFR 

35.28 and 18 CFR part 37 are in 

accordance with FPA Sections 205 and 

206. The regulation at 18 CFR 35.28 

applies to any public utility that owns, 

operates, or controls interstate 

transmission facilities and any nonpublic utility seeking voluntary 

compliance with jurisdictional 

transmission tariff reciprocity 

conditions. These entities must offer 

transmission service on an open and 

non-discriminatory basis pursuant to a 

pro forma Open Access Transmission 

Tariff (OATT). Part 37 applies to any 

public utility that owns, operates, or 

controls facilities used for the 

transmission of electric energy in 

interstate commerce and to transactions 

performed under the pro forma OATT 

established under 18 CFR 35.28. As 

stated at 18 CFR 37.2, the purpose of 18 

CFR part 37 is to ensure that potential 

customers of open access transmission 

service receive access to information 

that will enable them to obtain 

transmission service on a nondiscriminatory basis from any 

Transmission Provider.1 The regulations 

in 18 CFR part 37 provide standards of 

conduct and require the Transmission 

Provider (or its agent) to create and 

operate an Open Access Same-Time 

Information System (OASIS) that gives 

all users of the open access transmission 

system access to the same information. 

The collection of information in 

accordance with FERC–717 is necessary 

for the implementation of OASIS. The 

regulation at 18 CFR 37.6 lists the 

information that Transportation 

Providers or Responsible Parties 2 must 

calculate and post on OASIS. Paragraph 

(a) of section 37.6 provides that the 

information posted on OASIS must be 

in such detail and the OASIS must have 

such capabilities as to allow 

Transmission Customers 3 to: 

(1) Make requests for transmission 

services offered by Transmission 

Providers, Resellers 4 and other 

providers of ancillary services, request 

the designation of a network resource, 

and request the termination of the 

designation of a network resource; 

(2) View and download in standard 

formats, using standard protocols,5

information regarding the transmission 

system necessary to enable prudent 

business decision making; 

(3) Post, view, upload and download 

information regarding available 

products and desired services; 

(4) Clearly identify the degree to 

which transmission service requests or 

schedules were denied or interrupted; 

(5) Obtain access, in electronic format, 

to information to support available 

transmission capability calculations and 

historical transmission service requests 

and schedules for various audit 

purposes; and 

(6) Make file transfers and automated 

computer-to-computer file transfers and 

queries as defined by the Standards and 

Communications Protocols Document. 

Calculation Methods, Availability of 

Information, and Requests 

The regulation at 18 CFR 37.6(b)(2) 

provides that information used to 

calculate any posting of ATC and TTC6

must be dated and time-stamped and all 

calculations shall be performed 

according to consistently applied 

methodologies referenced in the 

Transmission Provider’s transmission 

tariff and shall be based on 

Commission-approved Reliability 

Standards, business practice and 

electronic communication standards, 

and related implementation documents, 

as well as current industry practices, 

standards and criteria. Such 

calculations shall be conducted in a 

manner that is transparent, consistent 

with anticipated system conditions and 

outages for the relevant timeframe, and 

not unduly discriminatory or 

preferential. 

On request, the Responsible Party 

must make all data used to calculate 

ATC, TTC, Capacity Benefit Margin,7

and Transmission Reliability Margin 8

for any constrained posted paths 

publicly available in electronic form 

within one week of the posting. The 

information is required to be provided 

only in the electronic format in which 

it was created, along with any necessary 

decoding instructions, at a cost limited 

to the cost of reproducing the material. 

This information is to be retained for six 

months after the applicable posting 

period. 

System planning studies, facilities 

studies, and specific network impact 

studies performed for customers or the 

Transmission Provider’s own network 

resources are to be made publicly 

available in electronic form on request 

and a list of such studies must be posted 

on the OASIS. A study is required to be 

provided only in the electronic format 

in which it was created, along with any 

necessary decoding instructions, at a 

cost limited to the cost of reproducing 

the material. These studies are to be 

retained for five years. 

Posting Requirements 

Paragraph (b)(3) of 18 CFR 37.6 

requires Transmission Providers to 

calculate and post the ATC, TTC, CBM, 

and TRM in megawatts for each Posted 

Path.9 Paragraph (c) of 18 CFR 37.6 


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denied, curtailed, or interrupted for more than 24 

hours in the past 12 months; and any path for 

which a customer requests to have ATC or TTC 

posted. For this last category, the posting must 

continue for 180 days and thereafter until 180 days 

have elapsed from the most recent request for 

service over the requested path. For purposes of this 

definition, an hour includes any part of an hour 

during which service was denied, curtailed, or 

interrupted. 10Burden 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. For further 

explanation of what is included in the information 

collection burden, refer to 5 CFR 1320.3. 

11The Commission staff thinks that the average 

respondent for this collection is similarly situated 

to the Commission, in terms of salary plus benefits. 

Based upon FERC’s FY 2022 annual average of 

$199,867 (for salary plus benefits), and the average 

hourly cost is $96/hour. 

requires Transmission Providers to post 

prices and a summary of the terms and 

conditions associated with all 

transmission products offered to 

Transmission Customers. Paragraph (d) 

of 18 CFR 37.6 requires Transmission 

Providers to post any ancillary service 

required to be provided or offered under 

the pro forma OATT. 

Standards of Conduct 

The Commission established 

Standards of Conduct at 18 CFR 37.4 

requiring that personnel engaged in 

transmission system operations function 

independently from personnel engaged 

in marketing functions. The Standards 

of Conduct were designed to prevent 

employees of a public utility (or any of 

its affiliates) engaged in marketing 

functions from preferential access to 

OASIS-related information or from 

engaging in unduly discriminatory 

business practices. Companies were 

required to separate their transmission 

operations/reliability functions from 

their marketing/merchant functions and 

prevent system operators from 

providing merchant employees and 

employees of affiliates with 

transmission-related information not 

available to all customers at the same 

time through public posting on the 

OASIS. 

Type of Respondents: Transmission 

Providers. 

Estimate of Annual Burden: 10 The 

previous information collection request 

(ICR Reference No. 202002–1902–006) 

in the year 2020 was approved by OMB 

with a one-time burden that was 

expected to be completed in Year One. 

As averaged over a three-year period, 

the annual responses were estimated as 

165 annually, 10 hours per response, 

and total hours of 1,650 hours. These 

burdens are not included in this 

information collection request because 

all respondents have complied with that 

one-time burden. The removal of those 

burdens constitutes a program change. 

The estimated annual number of 

responses for the ongoing information 

collection activity are adjusted in this 

information collection request from 162 

to 216, an increase of 54 responses. 

Based on a review of the information 

collection since our last submission, we 

have determined this change in number 

of responses is due to changes in the 

regulated industry. 

The current burden estimates are 

shown in the following table. 

BURDEN ESTIMATES FOR FERC–717, STANDARDS FOR BUSINESS PRACTICES AND COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS FOR

PUBLIC UTILITIES

Information collection requirement Number of 

respondents 

Annual number 

of responses 

per respondent 

Total number 

of responses 

Average burden 

hours & cost 

per response 11

Total annual 

burden hours & 

total annual cost 

(1) (2) (1) * (2) = (3) (4) (3) * (4) = (5) 

Open Access Same-Time Information 

(OASIS).

216 1 216 30 hrs.; $2,880 ........ 6,480 hrs.; 

$622,080. 

Comments: 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 agency’s estimate 

of the burden and cost of the collection 

of information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(3) 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: October 5, 2023. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2023–22551 Filed 10–12–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP23–547–000] 

Honeoye Storage Corporation; Notice 

of Application and Establishing 

Intervention Deadline 

Take notice that on September 22, 

2023, Honeoye Storage Corporation 

(Honeoye), 4511 Egypt Road, 

Canandaigua, NY, 14424, filed an 

application under section 7(b) of the 

Natural Gas Act (NGA), and part 157 of 

the Commission’s regulations requesting 

authorization to abandon certain 

certificated natural gas storage capacity 

at Honeoye’s natural gas storage facility 

in Canandaigua, New York. Specifically, 

Honeoye seeks authority to abandon 

974,400 Dth of previously certificated 

storage capacity which would reduce its 

total capacity of the Honeoye storage 

facility from 11,701,900 Dth to 

10,727,500 Dth; and to reduce its 

Maximum Daily Withdrawal Quantity 

by 3,880 Dth from 55,880 Dth to 52,000 

Dth. Honeoye states that the reduced 

Maximum Allowable Operating 

Pressure of its gathering system requires 

it to reduce the firm storage capacity 

and maximum daily deliverability of the 

Honeoye storage field and to reset the 

relationship between working gas 

capacity and base/cushion gas capacity 

in the Honeoye storage field, all as more 

fully set forth in the application which 

is on file with the Commission and open 

for public inspection. 

In addition to publishing the full text 

of this document in the Federal 

Register, the Commission provides all 

interested persons an opportunity to 

view and/or print the contents of this 

document via the internet through the 

Commission’s Home Page 

(www.ferc.gov) using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ 

link. Enter the docket number excluding 

the last three digits in the docket 

number field to access the document. At 

this time, the Commission has 

suspended access to the Commission’s 


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