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1 16 U.S.C. 824o(e)(4). 

2 16 U.S.C. 824o(a)(7) and (e)(4). 

issues. Agenda: Introduction; Board 

Business: Election of Chair and Vice 

Chair for 2024, Swearing in of 

Presidential Appointees, Approval of 

the ‘‘2024 Rules of the US Military 

Academy Board of Visitors,’’ Approval 

of the Minutes from the July 2023 

Meeting, select Summer meeting date; 

Superintendent’s Remarks; Open 

Discussion; Developing Leaders of 

Character; Promoting a Professional 

Climate; and Continuously 

Transforming Toward Preeminence. 

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James W. Satterwhite Jr., 

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. RD24–2–000] 

Commission Information Collection 

Activities (FERC–725E); Comment 

Request; Revision and Extension 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice for revision and 

extension 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 and 

extension to the information collection, 

FERC–725E (Mandatory Reliability 

Standards for the Western Electric 

Coordinating Council). 

DATES: Comments on the collection of 

information are due April 8, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit your 

comments (identified by Docket No. 

RD24–2–000) on FERC–725E 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: Jean 

Sonneman may be reached by email at 

DataClearance@FERC.gov, telephone at 

(202) 502–6362. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: FERC–725E, Mandatory 

Reliability Standards for the Western 

Electric Coordinating Council (WECC). 

OMB Control No.: 1902–0246. 

Type of Request: Revision and 

extension to the FERC–725E 

information collection requirements. 

Abstract: FERC–725E is the 

information collection that is required 

to implement the statutory provisions of 

section 215 of the Federal Power Act 

(FPA) (16 U.S.C. 824o). Section 215 of 

the FPA buttresses the Commission’s 

efforts to strengthen the reliability of the 

interstate grid through the grant of new 

authority by providing for a system of 

mandatory Reliability Standards 

developed by the Electric Reliability 

Organization (ERO). Reliability 

Standards that the ERO proposes to the 

Commission may include Reliability 

Standards that are proposed to the ERO 

by a Regional Entity.1 A Regional Entity 

is an entity that has been approved by 

the Commission to enforce Reliability 

Standards under delegated authority 

from the ERO.2 On June 8, 2008, the 

Commission approved eight regional 


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3N. Am. Electric Reliability Corp., 119 FERC 

¶ 61,260 (2007). 4BAL–002–WECC–2 is included in the OMBapproved inventory for FERC–725E. On November 

9, 2016, NERC and WECC submitted a joint petition 

for approval of an interpretation of BAL–002– 

WECC–2, to be designated BAL–002–WECC–2a. 

BAL–002–WECC–2a was approved by order in 

Docket No. RD17–3–000 on January 24, 2017. The 

Order determined: ‘‘The proposed interpretation 

provides clarification regarding the types of 

resources that may be used to satisfy Contingency 

Reserve requirements in regional Reliability 

Standard BAL–002–WECC–2.’’ BAL–002–WECC–2a 

did not trigger the Paperwork Reduction Act and 

did not affect the burden estimate. BAL–002– 

WECC–2a is being included in this Notice and the 

Commission’s submittal to OMB as part of the 

FERC–725E. BAL–002–WECC–3 became effective 

June 28, 2021, under docket RM19–20–000 in Order 

No. 876, replacing BAL–002–WECC–2a. 

5BAL–004–WECC–3 was approved under docket 

RD18–2–000 on May 30, 2018. 

6FAC–501–WECC–2 was approved under docket 

RD18–5–000 on May 30, 2018. 7On December 20, 2013, NERC and WECC 

submitted a joint petition for approval of IRO–006– 

WECC–2 and retirement of IRO–006–WECC–1. 

IRO–006–WECC–2 was approved by order in 

Docket No. RD14–9–000 on May 13, 2014. IRO– 

006–WECC–3 was approved by order in Docket No. 

RD19–4–000 on May 10, 2019. Because the 

reporting burden for IRO–006–WECC–3 did not 

increase for entities that operate within the Western 

Interconnection, FERC submitted the order to OMB 

for information only. The burden related to IRO– 

006–WECC–3 does not differ from the burden of 

IRO–006–WECC–2, which is included in the OMBapproved inventory. IRO–006–WECC–3 is being 

included in this Notice and the Commission’s 

submittal to OMB as part of FERC–725E. 

8Burden 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. 

9The number of respondents is derived from the 

NERC Compliance Registry as of December 15, 

2023. 

10For VAR–501–WECC–4, the 2023 hourly cost 

(for salary plus benefits) uses the figures from the 

Bureau of Labor Statistics for three positions 

involved in the reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements. These figures include salary (http:// 

bls.gov/oes/current/naics2_22.htm) and benefits 

(http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.nr0.htm) and 

are: 

1. Manager: $106.33/hour 

2. Engineer: $77.29/hour 

3. Information and Record Clerk: $56.14/hour 

The hourly cost for the reporting requirements 

($91.81) is an average of the cost of a manager and 

engineer. The hourly cost for recordkeeping 

requirements uses the cost of an Information and 

Record Clerk ($56.14/hour). 

Reliability Standards submitted by the 

ERO that were proposed by WECC.3

WECC promotes bulk electric system 

reliability in the Western 

Interconnection. WECC is the Regional 

Entity responsible for compliance 

monitoring and enforcement. In 

addition, WECC provides an 

environment for the development of 

Reliability Standards and the 

coordination of the operating and 

planning activities of its members as set 

forth in the WECC Bylaws. 

There are several regional Reliability 

Standards in the WECC region. These 

regional Reliability Standards generally 

require entities to document compliance 

with substantive requirements, retain 

documentation, and submit reports to 

WECC. 

In RD24–2–000, standard VAR–501– 

WECC–3.1 is being updated for syntax 

and the proposed changes have been 

deemed non-substantive. The currently 

approved VAR–501–WECC–3.1 is being 

replaced by VAR–501–WECC–4. The 

changes include updates to document 

numbering, the removal and 

replacement of obsolete language, and 

removal of redundant language. 

For the purposes of the extension, the 

following standards will remain 

unchanged: 

• BAL–002–WECC–3 (Contingency 

Reserve) 4 requires balancing authorities 

and reserve sharing groups to document 

compliance with the contingency 

reserve requirements described in the 

standard. 

• BAL–004–WECC–3 (Automatic 

Time Error Correction) 5 requires 

balancing authorities to document that 

time error corrections and primary 

inadvertent interchange payback were 

conducted according to the 

requirements in the standard. 

• FAC–501–WECC–2 (Transmission 

Maintenance) 6 requires transmission 

owners with certain transmission paths 

to have a transmission maintenance and 

inspection plan and to document 

maintenance and inspection activities 

according to the plan. 

• IRO–006–WECC–3 (Qualified 

Transfer Path Unscheduled Flow (USF) 

Relief) 7 requires balancing authorities 

and reliability coordinators to document 

actions taken to mitigate unscheduled 

flow. 

• VAR–501–WECC–4 (Power System 

Stabilizers (PSS)) requires the Western 

Interconnection is operated in a 

coordinated manner under normal and 

abnormal conditions by establishing the 

performance criteria for WECC power 

system stabilizers. 

Type of Respondents: Balancing 

authorities, reserve sharing groups, 

transmission owners, reliability 

coordinators, transmission operators, 

generator operators and generator 

owners. 

Estimate of Annual Burden: 8 We 

provide the tables below with burden 

estimates which show the current 

burden estimates which include the 

ongoing burden associated with 

reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements, which are not changing in 

RD24–2–000. Further, the change in 

RD24–2–000 is considered nonsubstantive, therefore, the Commission 

is estimating that there is no change in 

the burden estimates from the currently 

approved estimates. 

In Table 1, the Commission highlights 

the burden estimates for the VAR–501– 

WECC–4 (updated in Docket no. RD24– 

2–000). In Table 2, the Commission 

estimates the total estimated burden for 

the entirety of the FERC 725E collection. 

FERC–725E, MANDATORY RELIABILITY STANDARDS FOR THE WESTERN ELECTRIC COORDINATING COUNCIL, CHANGES IN

DOCKET NO. RD24–2–000 

Entity Number of 

respondents 9

Annual 

number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Annual 

number of 

responses 

Average burden 

hrs. & cost 10 per 

response 

($) 

Total annual burden 

hours & total annual 

cost 

($) 

Cost per 

respondent 

($) 

(1) (2) (1) * (2) = (3) (4) (3) * (4) = (5) (5) ÷ (1) = (6) 

Standard VAR–501–WECC–4 

Reporting Requirements 

Generator Owners and/or 

Operators annual ........ 311 2 622 1 hr.; $91.81 622 hrs.; $57,105.82 $183.62 

Recordkeeping Requirements 

Generator Owners and/or 

Operators annual ........ 311 2 622 0.5 hrs.; 28.07 311 hrs.; $17,459.54 56.14 


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11The number of respondents is derived from the 

NERC Compliance Registry as of December 15, 

2023, and represent unique US register entities in 

the WECC regional area. 

FERC–725E, MANDATORY RELIABILITY STANDARDS FOR THE WESTERN ELECTRIC COORDINATING COUNCIL, CHANGES IN

DOCKET NO. RD24–2–000—Continued 

Entity Number of 

respondents 9

Annual 

number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Annual 

number of 

responses 

Average burden 

hrs. & cost 10 per 

response 

($) 

Total annual burden 

hours & total annual 

cost 

($) 

Cost per 

respondent 

($) 

(1) (2) (1) * (2) = (3) (4) (3) * (4) = (5) (5) ÷ (1) = (6) 

Burden Annual for 

VAR–501–WECC– 

4 ........................... ........................ ........................ ........................ .............................. 933 hrs.; $74,565.36 ........................

Net Burden for FERC–725E, for 

Submittal to OMB. The table below 

describes the new and continuing 

information collection requirements and 

the associated burden for FERC–725E. 

(The burden in Table 2 refers to burden 

associated with VAR–501–WECC–4, 

BAL–002–WECC–3, BAL–004–WECC–3, 

FAC–501–WECC–2, and IRO–006– 

WECC–3). 

FERC–725E, MANDATORY RELIABILITY STANDARDS FOR THE WESTERN ELECTRIC COORDINATING COUNCIL

[Continuing information collection requirements] 

Entity Number of 

respondents 11

Annual 

number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Annual 

number of 

responses 

Average burden 

hrs. & cost 

per response 

($) 

Total annual burden 

hours & total 

annual cost 

($) 

Cost per 

respondent 

($) 

(1) (2) (1) * (2) = (3) (4) (3) * (4) = (5) (5) ÷ (1) = (6) 

Reporting Requirements 

Balancing Authorities ............. 34 1 34 21 hrs., $1,928.01 714 hrs., $65,552.34 $1,928.01 

Transmission Owners that operate qualified transfer 

paths ................................... 5 3 15 40 hrs., 3,672.40 600 hrs., 55,086.00 11,017.20 

Reliability Coordinators .......... 2 1 2 1 hr., 91.81 2 hr., 183.62 91.81 

Reserve Sharing Group ......... 2 1 2 1 hr., 91.81 2 hrs., 183.62 91.81 

Generator Owners and/or Operators annual for VAR– 

501–WECC–4 ..................... 311 2 622 1 hr.; 91.81 622 hrs.; 57,105.82 183.62 

Total Annual Reporting Requirements for FERC–725E ...................................................................... 1,940 hrs.; 

$178,111.40 

........................

Recordkeeping Requirements 

Balancing Authorities ............. 34 1 34 2.1 hrs., 117.89 71.4 hrs., 4,008.40 117.89 

Balancing Authorities (IRO– 

006) .................................... 34 1 34 1 hr., 56.14 34 hrs., 1,908.76 56.14 

Reliability Coordinator ............ 2 1 2 1 hr.; 56.14 2 hr.; 112.28 56.14 

Generator Owners and/or Operators annual for VAR– 

501–WECC–4 ..................... 311 2 622 0.5 hrs.; 28.07 311 hrs.; 17,459.54 56.14 

Total Annual Recordkeeping for FERC–725E ..................................................................................... 418.4 hrs.; 

$23,488.98 

........................

Total Annual Burden for FERC–725E .................................................................................................. 2,358.4 hrs.; 

$201,600.38 

........................

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 31, 2024. 

Debbie-Anne Reese, 

Acting Secretary. 

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