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1NERC Petition at 3. 

2 Id. at 3. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments may be 

sent to William Booth by email at 

William.booth@eia.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument and instructions should be 

directed to William Booth at 

William.booth@eia.gov. The draft form 

and instructions are available at http:// 

www.eia.gov/survey/changes/ 

electricity/. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

information collection request contains: 

(1) OMB No.: 1905–0208; 

(2) Information Collection Request 

Title: Quarterly Electricity Imports and 

Exports Report; 

(3) Type of Request: Extension, with 

changes, of a currently approved 

collection; 

(4) Purpose: Form EIA–111 collects U. 

S. electricity import and export data. 

The data are used to get an accurate 

measure of the flow of electricity into 

and out of the United States. The import 

and export data are reported by U.S. 

purchasers, sellers and transmitters of 

wholesale electricity, including persons 

authorized by Order to export electric 

energy from the United States to foreign 

countries, persons authorized by 

Presidential Permit to construct, 

operate, maintain, or connect electric 

power transmission lines that cross the 

U.S. international border, and U.S. 

Balancing Authorities that are directly 

interconnected with foreign Balancing 

Authorities. Such entities are to report 

monthly flows of electric energy 

received or delivered across the border, 

the cost associated with the 

transactions, and actual and 

implemented interchange. The data 

collected on this form may appear in 

various EIA publications. 

(4a) Proposed Changes to Information 

Collection: The data element ‘‘Transfer 

Facility’s Presidential Permit numbers’’ 

is changed to ‘‘Transmission Provider/

Transfer Facility(ies)’’ and the section 

for reporting Actual Interchange is 

expanded to collect monthly metered 

cross border flow over Presidential 

Permit holders facilities that do not 

involve interchange. 

(5) Annual Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 158; 

(6) Annual Estimated Number of 

Total Responses: 632; 

(7) Annual Estimated Number of 

Burden Hours: 948; 

(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: EIA 

estimates that there are no additional 

costs to respondents associated with the 

surveys other than the costs associated 

with the burden hours. 

Statutory Authority: Section 13(b) of the 

Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974, 

Pub L. 93–275, codified at 15 U.S.C. 772(b). 

Issued in Washington, DC, on January 29, 

2015. 

Nanda Srinivasan, 

Director, Office of Survey Development and 

Statistical Integration, U. S. Energy 

Information Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2015–02158 Filed 2–3–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. RD14–12–000] 

Proposed Agency Information 

Collection 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Comment request. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

requirements of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 

3507(a)(1)(D), the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (Commission or 

FERC) is submitting the FERC–725D 

information collection in Docket No. 

RD14–12–000 to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review of the information collection 

requirements. Any interested person 

may file comments directly with OMB 

and should address a copy of those 

comments to the Commission as 

explained below. The Commission 

issued a Notice in the Federal Register 

(79 FR 68426, 11/17/2014) requesting 

public comments. FERC received no 

comments in response to that notice and 

is making the notation in its submission 

to OMB. 

DATES: Comments on the collection of 

information are due by March 6, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB 

should be sent via email to the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs: 

oira_submission@omb.gov, Attention: 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 

Desk Officer and should be identified by 

FERC–725D (OMB Control Number 

1902–0247), The OMB Desk Officer may 

also be reached via telephone at 202– 

395–0710. 

A copy of the comments should also 

be sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, identified by the Docket 

No. RD14–12–000, by either of the 

following methods: 

• eFiling at Commission’s Web site: 

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

efiling.asp. 

• Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier: 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

Secretary of the Commission, 888 First 

Street NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

Instructions: All submissions must be 

formatted and filed in accordance with 

submission guidelines at: http://

www.ferc.gov/help/submissionguide.asp. 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: 

Ellen Brown may be reached by email 

at DataClearance@FERC.gov, telephone 

at (202) 502–8663, and fax at (202) 273– 

0873. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

information collection changes in 

Docket No. RD14–12–000 relate to the 

Reliability Standards FAC–001–2 

(Facility Interconnection Requirements) 

and FAC–002–2 (Facility 

Interconnection Studies), developed by 

the North American Electric Reliability 

Corporation (NERC), and submitted to 

the Commission for approval. The 

Commission received NERC’s petition to 

approve the proposed Reliability 

Standards on August 22, 2014. 

NERC summarizes the FAC group of 

standards as follows: 

The Facility Design, Connections, and 

Maintenance (‘‘FAC’’) Reliability Standards 

address topics such as facility 

interconnection requirements, facility 

ratings, system operating limits, and transfer 

capabilities.1

In its petition, NERC also summarizes 

the proposed Reliability Standards’ 

applicability and requirements: 

Proposed Reliability Standard FAC–001–2 

requires that Transmission Owners and 

applicable Generator Owners document and 

make Facility interconnection requirements 

available so that entities seeking to 

interconnect have the necessary information. 

Proposed Reliability Standard FAC–002–2 

ensures that the reliability impact of 

interconnecting new or materially modified 

Facilities is studied. Collectively, proposed 

Reliability Standards FAC–001–2 and FAC– 

002–2 ensure that there is appropriate 

coordination and communication regarding 

the interconnection of Facilities, which 

improves the reliability of the Bulk-Power 

System.2

Finally, NERC also states that the 

proposed Reliability Standards improve 

reliability, clarify requirement language 

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3 Id. at 4. 

4The affected entities for FAC–001–2 are 

Transmission Owners (TO) and applicable 

Generator Owners (GO). The affected entities for 

FAC–002–2 are Transmission Planners (TP), 

Planning Coordinators (PC), Generator Owners 

(GO), Transmission Owners (TO), Distribution 

Providers (DP), and Load-Serving Entities (LSE). 

Note that Planning Coordinator (PC) is the new 

name for Planning Authority—a term still used in 

NERC’s Compliance Registry. 

5The burden for the preceding versions of the 

standards being replaced was included in: (a) 

FERC–725M (OMB Control No. 1902–0263) for 

FAC–001–1, and (b) FERC–725A (OMB Control No. 

1902–0244) for FAC–002–1. The corresponding 

burden will be transferred from FERC–725M and 

FERC–725A to FERC–725D. 

6The number of respondents is based on the 

NERC Compliance Registry as of September 24, 

2014. Although 2,163 entities are registered as TO, 

DP, LSE, or GO, we expect at the most 216 entities 

(ten percent) will seek to interconnect and go 

through the study phase that may require 

coordination in any given year. 

7The estimates for cost per hour are derived as 

follows: 

• $72.92/hour, the average of the salary plus 

benefits for a manager ($84.96/hour) and an 

electrical engineer ($60.87/hour), from Bureau of 

Labor and Statistics at http://bls.gov/oes/current/

naics3_221000.htm, as of 9/4/2014 

• $29.01/hour, based on a Commission staff 

study of record retention burden cost. 

and eliminate redundant or unnecessary 

requirements.3

Burden Statement: Commission staff 

analyzed the proposed and currently 

enforced Reliability Standards and has 

concluded that proposed Reliability 

Standards merely clarify or eliminate 

redundancies and thus, the information 

collection requirements have not 

changed. Accordingly, the net overall 

burden and respondent universe 4

remain unchanged, when compared to 

the burden of the existing standards 

being replaced.5

The Commission intends to submit a 

request for approval to OMB under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) related 

to the proposed Reliability Standards. 

For PRA purposes, the information 

collection requirements in proposed 

Reliability Standards FAC–001–2 and 

FAC–002–2 are identified as FERC– 

725D and OMB Control Number 1902– 

0247. 

The annual reporting burden for the 

implementation of Reliability Standards 

FAC–001–2 and FAC–002–2 is 

estimated as follows. 

FERC–725D, MODIFICATIONS IN RD14–12 

Number and type of 

respondent 6

Annual 

number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Total number 

of responses 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(hours) 

Total annual 

burden (hours) 

Total annual 

cost 7

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

FAC–001–2 

Documentation & updates .. GO 5 ................................... 1 5 16 80 $5,833.60 

TO 332 ............................... 1 332 16 5,312 387,351.04 

Record Retention ................ GO 5 ................................... 1 5 1 5 145.05 

TO 332 ............................... 1 332 1 332 9,631.32 

FAC–002–2 

Study ................................... PC, TP 183 ........................ 1 183 32 5,856 427,019.52 

Record Retention ................ PC, TP 183 ........................ 1 183 1 183 5,308.83 

Coordination ........................ TO, DP, LSE, GO 216 ....... 1 216 16 3456 252,011.52 

Record Retention ................ TO, DP, LSE, GO 216 ....... 1 216 1 216 6,266.16 

Total ............................. ............................................. ........................ ........................ ........................ ........................ 1,093,567.04 

Dated: January 28, 2015. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2015–02112 Filed 2–3–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. IC14–16–000] 

Commission Information Collection 

Activities (FERC–537, FERC–725F, and 

FERC–725I); Comment Request 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Comment request. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

requirements of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 

3507(a)(1)(D), the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (Commission or 

FERC) is submitting its information 

collections FERC–537 (Gas Pipeline 

Certificates: Construction, Acquisition 

and Abandonment), FERC–725F 

(Mandatory Reliability Standards for 

Nuclear Plant Interface Coordination), 

and FERC–725I (Mandatory Reliability 

Standards for the Northeast Power 

Coordinating Council), to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review of the information collection 

requirements. Any interested person 

may file comments directly with OMB 

and should address a copy of those 

comments to the Commission as 

explained below. The Commission 

previously issued a Notice in the 

Federal Register (79 FR 61068, 10/9/

2014) requesting public comments. The 

Commission received no comments on 

the FERC–537, FERC–725F, and FERC– 

725I and is making this notation in its 

submittal to OMB. 

DATES: Comments on the collections of 

information are due by March 6, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB, 

identified by the OMB Control Nos. 

1902–0060 (FERC–537), 1902–0249 

(FERC–725F), and 1902–0258 (FERC– 

725I) should be sent via email to the 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs: oira_submission@omb.gov, 

Attention: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission Desk Officer. The Desk 

Officer may also be reached via 

telephone at 202–395–0710. 

A copy of the comments should also 

be sent to the Commission, in Docket 

No. IC14–16–000, by either of the 

following methods: 

• eFiling at Commission’s Web site: 

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

efiling.asp. 

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