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First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426, 

in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 

of the Commission’s Rules of Practice 

and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and 

385.214). Anyone filing a motion to 

intervene or protest must serve a copy 

of that document on the Applicant. 

Notice is hereby given that the 

deadline for filing protests with regard 

to the applicant’s request for blanket 

authorization, under 18 CFR part 34, of 

future issuances of securities and 

assumptions of liability, is January 10, 

2024. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper, using the 

FERC Online links at http://

www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic 

service, persons with internet access 

who will eFile a document and/or be 

listed as a contact for an intervenor 

must create and validate an 

eRegistration account using the 

eRegistration link. Select the eFiling 

link to log on and submit the 

intervention or protests. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

may mail similar pleadings to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 

20426. Hand delivered submissions in 

docketed proceedings should be 

delivered to Health and Human 

Services, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, 

Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

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 (http://

www.ferc.gov). From the Commission’s 

Home Page on the internet, this 

information is available on eLibrary. 

The full text of this document is 

available on eLibrary in PDF and 

Microsoft Word format for viewing, 

printing, and/or downloading. To access 

this document in eLibrary, type the 

docket number excluding the last three 

digits of this document in the docket 

number field. 

User assistance is available for 

eLibrary and the Commission’s website 

during normal business hours from 

FERC Online Support at 202–502–6652 

(toll free at 1–866–208–3676) or email at 

ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov, or the 

Public Reference Room at (202) 502– 

8371, TTY (202) 502–8659. Email the 

Public Reference Room at 

public.referenceroom@ferc.gov. 

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: December 21, 2023. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Deputy Secretary. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. NJ24–5–000] 

City of Azusa, California; Notice of 

Filing 

Take notice that on December 20, 

2023, City of Azusa, California submits 

tariff filing: City of Azusa 2024 

Transmission Revenue Balancing 

Account Adjustment and Existing 

Transmission Contract Update to be 

effective 1/1/2024. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest this filing must file in 

accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of 

the Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214). 

Protests will be considered by the 

Commission in determining the 

appropriate action to be taken but will 

not serve to make protestants parties to 

the proceeding. Any person wishing to 

become a party must file a notice of 

intervention or motion to intervene, as 

appropriate. Such notices, motions, or 

protests must be filed on or before the 

comment date. On or before the 

comment date, it is not necessary to 

serve motions to intervene or protests 

on persons other than the Applicant. 

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 (http://

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 Public 

Reference Room, due to the 

proclamation declaring a National 

Emergency concerning the Novel 

Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19), issued 

by the President on March 13, 2020. For 

assistance, contact the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

toll-free, (886) 208–3676 or TYY, (202) 

502–8659. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filings of comments, protests 

and interventions in lieu of paper using 

the ‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://

www.ferc.gov. Persons unable to file 

electronically may mail similar 

pleadings to the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street 

NE, Washington, DC 20426. Hand 

delivered submissions in docketed 

proceedings should be delivered to 

Health and Human Services, 12225 

Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 

20852. 

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. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. eastern time on 

January 10, 2024. 

Dated: December 21, 2023. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Deputy Secretary. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. IC24–4–000] 

Commission Information Collection 

Activities (FERC–725A(1C)); Comment 

Request; Extension 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of extension 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 proposed 

extension pf the information collection, 

FERC–725A(1C), Mandatory Reliability 

Standards for Bulk-Power System: 


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1The Delegated Letter Order is available in the 

Commission’s eLibrary at https://elibrary.ferc.gov/ 

idmws/common/OpenNat.asp?fileID=14560616. 

2Burden 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 Code of Federal 

Regulations 1320.3. 

3Our estimates are based on the NERC 

Compliance Registry of 11/14/2023, which 

indicates there are 165 unique entities registered as 

TOPs and 98 unique entities registered as BAs 

within the United States. One entity may be 

registered as having several roles. 

4The hourly cost figures, for salary plus benefits, 

for the reliability standards are based on Bureau of 

Labor Statistics (BLS) information (at http://

www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics2_22.htm and 

https://www.bls.gov/ecec/data.htm), as of 

September 2023. The data for reporting 

requirements are for an electrical engineer (code 

17–2071): $70.55/hour ($54.83 mean hourly wage 

plus $15.72 hourly benefits. The data for 

recordkeeping requirements are for an information 

and record clerk (code 43–4199): $39.56/hour 

($29.67 mean hourly wage plus $9.89 hourly 

benefits). 

Reliability Standard TOP–001–5 (OMB 

Control No. 1902–0298). 

DATES: Comments on the collection of 

information are due February 26, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Please submit your 

comments to the Commission 

(identified by Docket No. IC) by one of 

the following methods: 

• eFiling at Commission’s Website: 

http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

efiling.asp; 

• U.S. Postal Service Mail: Persons 

unable to file electronically may mail 

similar pleadings to the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street 

NE, Washington, DC 20426. 

• Effective 7/1/2020, delivery of 

filings other than by eFiling or the U.S. 

Postal Service should be delivered to 

Health and Human Services, 12225 

Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 

20852. 

Instructions: All 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) 208–3676 (toll-free), or 

(202) 502–8659 for TTY. 

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/docsfiling/docs-filing.asp. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jean 

Sonneman may be reached by email at 

DataClearance@FERC.gov, telephone at 

(202) 502–6362. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: FERC–725A(1C) (Mandatory 

Reliability Standards for Bulk-Power 

System: Reliability Standard TOP–001– 

4). 

OMB Control No.: 1902–0298. 

Type of Request: Extension to the 

information collection, with no changes 

to the reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements. 

Abstract: In a petition dated March 6, 

2017, the North American Electric 

Reliability Corporation (‘‘NERC’’) 

requested Commission approval for 

proposed Reliability Standard TOP– 

001–4 (Transmission Operations). NERC 

stated that the proposed Reliability 

Standard addresses the Commission 

directives in Order No. 817 related to: 

(i) transmission operator monitoring of 

non-bulk electric system (‘‘BES’’) 

facilities; (ii) redundancy and diverse 

routing of transmission operator, 

balancing authority, and reliability 

coordinator data exchange capabilities; 

and (iii) testing of alternative or less 

frequently used data exchange 

capabilities’’. In an order on April 17, 

2017,1 the implementation of Reliability 

Standard TOP–001–4 and the retirement 

of Reliability Standard TOP–001–3 was 

approved. Reliability Standard TOP– 

001–5 is the currently effective version 

of the standard as of April 1, 2021, at 

the same time Reliability Standard 

TOP–001–4 was retired. The 

Commission now seeks to extend the 

information collection activities 

associated with Reliability Standard 

TOP–001–5. 

It is also noted that we are updating 

appliable entities to accurately reflect 

for this renewal it applies to 

transmission operators (TOP) and 

balancing authorities (BA), in the 

previous renewal the incorrect number 

of TOPs was used and we are changing 

it from 321 to 165. 

Type of Respondents: Transmission 

Operators (TOP) and Balancing 

Authorities (BA). 

Estimate of Annual Burden: 2 The 

Commission estimates the annual public 

reporting burden and cost as follows. 

Information collection 

requirements 

Number of respondents 

& type of 

entity 3

Annual 

number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Total 

number of 

responses 

Average 

burden hours & 

cost per 

response 

($) 

Total annual burden 

hours & total annual 

cost 

($) 

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

Reporting (R10, R20, & R21), ongoing .............. 165 (TOP) .................... 1 165 3 hrs.; $211.65 ............ 495 hrs.; $34,922.25. 

Recordkeeping, ongoing ..................................... 165 (TOP) .................... 1 165 2 hrs.; $79.12 .............. 330 hrs.; $13,054.80. 

TOP Sub-Totals ........................................... ...................................... ........................ ........................ 5 hrs.; $290.77 ............ 825 hrs.; $47,977.05. 

Reporting (R23 & R24), ongoing ........................ 98 (BA) ........................ 1 98 2 hrs.; $141.10 ............ 196 hrs.; $13,827.80. 

Recordkeeping, ongoing ..................................... 98 (BA) ........................ 1 98 4 hrs.; $158.24 ............ 392 hrs.; $15,507.52. 

BA Sub-Totals ............................................. ...................................... ........................ ........................ 6hrs.; $299.34 .............. 588 hrs.; $29,335.32. 

FERC–725A(1C) ongoing total ............ ...................................... ........................ ........................ ...................................... 1,413 hrs.; $773,312.37 

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 

estimates 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: December 21, 2023. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Deputy Secretary. 

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