3650 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 13 / Friday, January 19, 2024 / Notices 

7NERC Compliance Registry (September 22, 

2023), available at https://www.nerc.com/pa/comp/ 

Registration%20and%20Certification%20DL/ 

NERC_Compliance_Registry_Matrix_Excel.xlsx. 

8The hourly cost estimates are based on wage 

data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for May 

2022 (at https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics2_

22.htm) and benefits data for Dec. 2022 (issued 

March 2023, at https://www.bls.gov/news.release/

ecec.nr0.htm). The hourly costs (for wages and 

benefits) for reporting are: Electrical Engineer 

(Occupation code 17–2071), $77.29. The hourly 

costs (for wages and benefits) for evidence retention 

are: Information and Record Clerk (Occupation code 

43–4199), $56.14. 

22, 2023, which indicates that in the 

United States there are 98 registered 

balancing authorities, 8 registered 

reserve sharing group (RSG) and 1 

frequency response sharing group 

(FRSG).7

Estimates for the average annual 

burden and cost 8 follow. 

FERC–725R 

Function 

Number & 

type of 

respondents 

Number of 

annual 

responses 

per 

respondent 

Total number 

of annual 

responses 

Average 

burden hours 

& cost 

($) per 

response 

Total annual 

burden hours & 

total annual cost 

($) 

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

BAL–001–2: 

BA Reporting Requirements .................................................. 98 1 98 8 hrs.; $618.32 ... 784 hrs.; $60,595.36. 

BA Recordkeeping Requirements ......................................... 98 1 98 4 hrs.; $224.56 ... 392 hrs.; $22,006.88. 

BAL–002–3: 

BA & RSG Reporting Requirements ..................................... 106 1 106 8 hrs.; $618.32 ... 848 hrs.; $65,541.92. 

BA & RSG Recordkeeping Requirements ............................. 106 1 106 4 hrs.; $224.56 ... 424 hrs.; $23,803.36. 

BAL–003–2: 

BA & FRSG Reporting Requirements ................................... 99 28 2,772 8 hrs.; $618.32 ... 22,176 hrs.; $1,713,983.04. 

BA & FRSG Recordkeeping Requirements .......................... 99 1 99 2 hrs.; $112.28 ... 198 hrs.; $11,115.72. 

BAL–005–1: 

BA Reporting Requirements .................................................. 98 1 98 1 hr.; $77.29 ....... 98 hrs.; $7,574.42. 

BA Recordkeeping Requirements ......................................... 98 1 98 1 hr.; $56.14 ....... 98 hrs.; $5,501.72. 

Sub-Total for Reporting Requirements .......................... .................... .................... ........................ ............................. 23,906 hrs.; $1,847,694.74. 

Sub-Total for Recordkeeping Requirements .................. .................... .................... ........................ ............................. 1,112 hrs.; $62,427.68. 

Total for FERC–725R .............................................. .................... .................... ........................ ............................. 25,018 hrs.; $1,910,122.42. 

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: January 12, 2024. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–01038 Filed 1–18–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Western Area Power Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Extension 

AGENCY: Western Area Power 

Administration, DOE. 

ACTION: Submission for Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) review; 

comment request. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy 

(DOE) has submitted an information 

collection request to the OMB for 

extension under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The 

information collection requests a 3-year 

extension of Western Area Power 

Administration’s (WAPA) Applicant 

Profile Data (APD), OMB Control 

Number 1910–5136. The proposed 

collection is necessary for the proper 

performance of WAPA’s functions. 

WAPA markets a limited amount of 

Federal hydropower. Due to the high 

demand for WAPA’s power, WAPA 

needs the ability to collect information 

under the information collection request 

in order to evaluate who may receive an 

allocation of Federal power pursuant to 

specific marketing plans. This APD 

public process only determines the 

information WAPA will collect in its 

information collection request. The 

actual allocation of Federal power will 

be conducted through a separate 

marketing plan process outside the 

scope of this APD process. 

DATES: Comments regarding this 

collection must be received on or before 

February 20, 2024. If you anticipate that 

you will be submitting comments but 

find it difficult to do so within the 

period of time allowed by this notice, 

please advise the OMB Desk Officer of 

your intention to make a submission as 

soon as possible. The Desk Officer may 

be telephoned at (202) 395–4718. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under Review—Open for 

Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Please contact Mr. Christopher Magee, 

Records and Information Management 

Program Manager, Western Area Power 

Administration, PO Box 281213, 

Lakewood, CO 80228, telephone (720) 

962–7139, or email cmagee@wapa.gov. 

The proposed APD form is available on 

WAPA’s website at https://

www.wapa.gov/power-marketing/ 

applicant-profile-data/. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

information collection request contains: 

(1) OMB No.: 1910–5136; (2) 

Information Collection Request Title: 

Western Area Power Administration 

(WAPA) Applicant Profile Data; (3) 

Type of Review: Renewal; (4) Purpose: 

WAPA is collecting—and will continue 


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1Order Confirming and Approving Rate Schedule 

on a Final Basis, FERC Docket No. EF14–8–000, 149 

FERC ¶ 62,196 (2014). 

2Order Confirming and Approving Rate Schedule 

on a Final Basis, FERC Docket No. EF14–8–001, 167 

FERC ¶ 62,188 (2019). 

3 50 FR 37835 (Sept. 18, 1985) and 84 FR 5347 

(Feb. 21, 2019). 

to collect—the data under its APD to 

properly perform its function of 

marketing a limited amount of Federal 

hydropower. The information WAPA 

collects is voluntary. Due to the high 

demand for WAPA’s power and limited 

amount of available power, WAPA will 

use the information collected in the 

APD—and has used the information 

collected under the current OMBapproved control number—pursuant to 

its marketing plans, to determine an 

applicant’s eligibility for an allocation 

of Federal power. As a result, the 

information WAPA collects under its 

APD is both necessary and useful. 

WAPA notes the Paperwork 

Reduction Act is the process whereby 

WAPA obtains approval from OMB to 

collect information from the public. It is 

a legal requirement WAPA must comply 

with before requesting an interested 

party submit an application for power. 

The Paperwork Reduction Act process is 

not the process in which interested 

parties apply for a new allocation of 

Federal power. The allocation of power 

from WAPA is outside the scope of this 

process and is completed in a separate 

marketing plan process by each WAPA 

region, when required; (5) Annual 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 33; 

(6) Annual Estimated Number of Total 

Responses: 33; (7) Annual Estimated 

Number of Burden Hours: 248; and (8) 

Annual Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $36,944. 

Statutory Authority: The Reclamation 

Act of 1902 established the Federal 

reclamation program. See Ch. 1093, 32 

Stat. 388 (1902), as amended and 

supplemented. The basic principle of 

the Reclamation Act of 1902 was that 

the United States, through the Secretary 

of the Interior, would build and operate 

irrigation works from the proceeds of 

public land sales in sixteen arid 

Western states (a seventeenth, Texas, 

was added in 1906). The Reclamation 

Project Act of 1939 expanded the 

purposes of the reclamation program 

and specified certain terms for contracts 

that the Secretary of the Interior enters 

into to furnish water and power. See Ch. 

418, 53 Stat. 1187 (1939), as amended 

and supplemented. Section 5 of the 

Flood Control Act of 1944, as amended, 

is read in pari materia with the 

Reclamation Laws with respect to 

WAPA. See Ch. 665, 58 Stat. 887, as 

amended and supplemented. In 1977, 

section 302 of the Department of Energy 

Organization Act transferred the power 

marketing functions of the Department 

of the Interior to the Secretary of Energy, 

acting by and through a separate 

Administrator for WAPA. See 42 U.S.C. 

7152 (a)(1)(D). Under this authority, 

WAPA markets Federal hydropower. 

Signing Authority 

This document of the Department of 

Energy was signed on January 12, 2024, 

by Tracey LeBeau Administrator, 

pursuant to delegated authority from the 

Secretary of Energy. That document, 

with the original signature and date, is 

maintained by DOE. For administrative 

purposes only, and in compliance with 

requirements of the Office of the Federal 

Register, the undersigned DOE Federal 

Register Liaison Officer has been 

authorized to sign and submit the 

document in electronic format for 

publication, as an official document of 

the Department of Energy. This 

administrative process in no way alters 

the legal effect of this document upon 

publication in the Federal Register. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on January 16, 

2024. 

Treena V. Garrett, 

Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. 

Department of Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2024–01013 Filed 1–18–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Western Area Power Administration 

Central Arizona Project, Colorado 

River Storage Project, Loveland Area 

Projects, Pacific Northwest-Pacific 

Southwest Intertie Project, and ParkerDavis Project—Rate Order No. WAPA– 

215 

AGENCY: Western Area Power 

Administration, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed extension of 

the formula rates for use under 

WestConnect Regional Non-Firm 

Transmission Service. 

SUMMARY: The Colorado River Storage 

Project Management Center (CRSP MC), 

Desert Southwest Region (DSW), and 

Rocky Mountain Region (RM) of the 

Western Area Power Administration 

(WAPA) propose extending the existing 

formula rates under Rate Schedule WC– 

8, without any changes, for on-peak and 

off-peak non-firm transmission service 

provided under the WestConnect Pointto-Point Regional Transmission Service 

Participation Agreement (WestConnect 

PA) through September 30, 2026. The 

existing formula rates expire on May 31, 

2024. 

DATES: A consultation and comment 

period will begin January 19, 2024 and 

end February 2, 2024. Written 

comments will be accepted any time 

during the consultation and comment 

period. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

requests to be informed of Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) 

actions concerning the proposed 

extension to be submitted by WAPA to 

FERC for approval should be sent to: 

Barton V. Barnhart, Regional Manager, 

Rocky Mountain Region, Western Area 

Power Administration, 5555 East 

Crossroads Boulevard, Loveland, CO 

80538–8986, or email: laptransadj@

wapa.gov. Information about the 

proposed formula rate extension and 

written comments will be posted to 

WAPA’s website at: www.wapa.gov/ 

about-wapa/regions/dsw/powermarketing/westconnect. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Tamala D. Gheller, CRSP Rates Manager, 

(970) 702–8826 or email: gheller@

wapa.gov; Tina Ramsey, DSW Rates 

Manager, (602) 605–2525 or email: 

dswpwrmrk@wapa.gov; or Sheila D. 

Cook, RM Rates Manager, (970) 685– 

9562 or email: laptransadj@wapa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

WestConnect consists of a group of 

electric utilities which provide hourly, 

non-firm transmission service in the 

Western Interconnection to eliminate 

pancaking of transmission charges, 

which is the practice of charging a 

transmission customer separately for the 

use of each utility’s transmission 

system. The WestConnect membership, 

including WAPA and investor-owned 

and consumer-owned utilities, 

encompasses an interconnected 

electrical grid stretching from western 

Nebraska to southern California and 

from Wyoming to the United StatesMexico border. 

On December 15, 2014, FERC 

confirmed and approved Rate Schedule 

WC–8, under Rate Order No. WAPA– 

163, effective June 1, 2014, through May 

31, 2019.1 On June 20, 2019, FERC 

confirmed and approved the extension 

of Rate Schedule WC–8, under Rate 

Order No. WAPA–187, effective June 1, 

2019, through May 31, 2024.2

In accordance with 10 CFR 903.23(a),3

CRSP MC, DSW, and RM are proposing 

to extend the existing formula rates 

under Rate Schedule WC–8 for the 

period of June 1, 2024, through 

September 30, 2026. The existing 

formula rates are viewable on WAPA’s 

website at: www.wapa.gov/about-wapa/ 

regions/dsw/power-marketing/ 

westconnect. The existing formula rates 


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