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1 16 U.S.C. 824o. 

2 Id. 824o(c) and (d). 

3 Id. 824o(e). 

4North American Electric Reliability Corp., 116 

FERC ¶ 61,062 (ERO Certification Order), order on 

reh’g and compliance, 117 FERC ¶ 61,126 (2006), 

order on compliance, 118 FERC ¶ 61,190, order on 

reh’g, 119 FERC ¶ 61,046 (2007), rev. denied sub 

nom. Alcoa Inc. v. FERC, 564 F.3d 1342 (D.C. Cir. 

2009). 

5 Mandatory Reliability Standards for the BulkPower System, Order No. 693, FERC Stats. and Regs. 

¶ 31,242, order on reh’g, Order No. 693–A, 120 

FERC ¶ 61,053 (2007). 

6 Id. at PP 1550–1551. 

7 Id. at P 1451. 

8 Id. at P 1456. 

9Proposed Reliability Standard PRC–002–2 is not 

attached to this Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. 

The proposed Reliability Standard is available on 

the Commission’s eLibrary document retrieval 

system in Docket No. RM15–4–00 and is posted on 

NERC’s Web site, available at http://www.nerc.com. 

10NERC Petition at 15. 

11 Id. at 13. NERC defines a ‘‘Disturbance’’ as: ‘‘(1) 

an unplanned event that produces an abnormal 

system condition; (2) any perturbation to the 

electric system; [or] (3) the unexpected change in 

[area control error] that is caused by the sudden 

failure of generation or interruption of load.’’ Id. 

(quoting Glossary of Terms Used in NERC 

Reliability Standards at 30). 

12 Id. at 15. 

13 Id. at 14–15. 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

18 CFR Part 40 

[Docket No. RM15–4–000] 

Disturbance Monitoring and Reporting 

Requirements Reliability Standard 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission proposes to 

approve Reliability Standard PRC–002– 

2 (Disturbance Monitoring and 

Reporting Requirements) submitted by 

the North American Electric Reliability 

Corporation. The purpose of proposed 

Reliability Standard PRC–002–2 is to 

have adequate data available to facilitate 

analysis of bulk electric system 

disturbances. 

DATES: Comments are due June 22, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Comments, identified by 

docket number, may be filed in the 

following ways: 

• Electronic Filing through http://

www.ferc.gov. Documents created 

electronically using word processing 

software should be filed in native 

applications or print-to-PDF format and 

not in a scanned format. 

• Mail/Hand Delivery: Those unable 

to file electronically may mail or handdeliver comments to: Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, Secretary of the 

Commission, 888 First Street NE., 

Washington, DC 20426. 

Instructions: For detailed instructions 

on submitting comments and additional 

information on the rulemaking process, 

see the Comment Procedures Section of 

this document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Juan R. Villar (Technical Information), 

Office of Electric Reliability, Division 

of Reliability Standards and Security, 

888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 

20426, Telephone: (202) 536–2930, 

Juan.Villar@ferc.gov. 

Alan Rukin (Legal Information), Office 

of the General Counsel, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE., Washington, DC 

20426, Telephone: (202) 502–8502, 

Alan.Rukin@ferc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 1. 

Pursuant to section 215 of the Federal 

Power Act (FPA), the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (Commission) 

proposes to approve proposed 

Reliability Standard PRC–002–2 

(Disturbance Monitoring and Reporting 

Requirements).1 The North American 

Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), 

the Commission-certified Electric 

Reliability Organization (ERO), 

submitted proposed Reliability Standard 

PRC–002–2 for approval. The purpose of 

proposed Reliability Standard PRC– 

002–2 is to have adequate data available 

to facilitate analysis of bulk electric 

system disturbances. In addition, the 

Commission proposes to approve the 

associated violation risk factors and 

violation severity levels, 

implementation plan, and effective date 

proposed by NERC. 

I. Background 

A. Section 215 and Mandatory 

Reliability Standards 

2. Section 215 of the FPA requires a 

Commission-certified ERO to develop 

mandatory and enforceable Reliability 

Standards, subject to Commission 

review and approval.2 Once approved, 

the Reliability Standards may be 

enforced by the ERO subject to 

Commission oversight, or by the 

Commission independently.3 In 2006, 

the Commission certified NERC as the 

ERO pursuant to FPA section 215.4

B. Order No. 693 

3. On March 16, 2007, the 

Commission issued Order No. 693, 

approving 83 of the 107 Reliability 

Standards filed by NERC, including 

Reliability Standard PRC–018–1.5

Reliability Standard PRC–018–1 

requires the installation of disturbance 

monitoring equipment and the reporting 

of disturbance data in accordance with 

comprehensive requirements.6

4. In Order No. 693, the Commission 

determined that proposed Reliability 

Standard PRC–002–1 was a ‘‘fill-in-theblank’’ Reliability Standard because it 

required Regional Reliability 

Organizations to establish requirements 

for installation of disturbance 

monitoring equipment and report 

disturbance data to facilitate analyses of 

events and verify system models.7 The 

Commission stated that it would not 

approve or remand proposed Reliability 

Standard PRC–002–1 until NERC 

submitted additional necessary 

information to the Commission.8

C. NERC Petition and Proposed 

Reliability Standard PRC–002–2 

5. On December 15, 2014, NERC 

submitted a petition seeking 

Commission approval of proposed 

Reliability Standard PRC–002–2.9 NERC 

contends that proposed Reliability 

Standard PRC–002–2 is just, reasonable, 

not unduly discriminatory or 

preferential, and in the public interest. 

NERC explains that the proposed 

Reliability Standard consolidates the 

requirements of unapproved Reliability 

Standard PRC–002–1 and currentlyeffective Reliability Standard PRC–018– 

1.10

6. NERC states that it is important to 

monitor and analyze disturbances to 

plan and operate the Bulk-Power 

System to avoid instability, separation 

and cascading failures.11 NERC 

maintains that the proposed Reliability 

Standard improves reliability by 

providing personnel with necessary data 

to enable more effective post event 

analysis, which can also be used to 

verify system models.12 Moreover, 

NERC explains that the proposed 

Reliability Standard ‘‘focuses on 

ensuring that the requisite data is 

captured and the Requirements 

constitute a results-based approach to 

capturing data.’’ 13

7. NERC states that, in the United 

States, proposed Reliability Standard 

PRC–002–2 will apply to planning 

coordinators in the Eastern 

Interconnection, planning coordinators 

or the reliability coordinator in the 

Electric Reliability Council of Texas 

(ERCOT) Interconnection, and the 

reliability coordinator in the Western 

Interconnection, which are collectively 

referred to as ‘‘Responsible Entities.’’ 

The proposed Reliability Standard will 

also apply to transmission owners and 

generation owners. 

8. NERC states that proposed 

Reliability Standard PRC–002–2 


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14NERC Petition at 35–36 (quoting U.S.-Canada 

Power System Outage Task Force, Final Report on 

the August 14, 2003 Blackout in the United States 

and Canada: Causes and Recommendations at 162 

(Apr. 2004), available at http://energy.gov/sites/

prod/files/oeprod/DocumentsandMedia/

BlackoutFinal-Web.pdf). 

15 Id. at Ex. B (Implementation Plan). 

16As noted above, the Commission in Order No. 

693 did not approve proposed Reliability Standard 

PRC–002–1 but, rather, took no action on the 

Reliability Standard pending the receipt of 

additional information. Order No. 693, FERC Stats. 

and Regs. ¶ 31,242 at P 1456. Approval of 

Reliability Standard PRC–002–2, as proposed 

herein, will render PRC–002–1 ‘‘retired,’’ i.e., 

withdrawn, and no longer pending before the 

Commission. 

17Order No. 693, FERC Stats. and Regs. ¶ 31,242 

at P 1456 (‘‘the ERO should consider whether 

greater consistency can be achieved’’ regarding 

disturbance monitoring and reporting). 

18 44 U.S.C. 3507(d). 

19 5 CFR 1320.11. 

20As discussed above, proposed Reliability 

Standard PRC–002–2 defines the term ‘‘Responsible 

Entity’’ to include planning coordinators in the 

Eastern Interconnection, the reliability coordinator 

in the Western Interconnection, and planning 

coordinators or the reliability coordinator in the 

ERCOT Interconnection. 

21 In the burden table, engineering is abbreviated 

as ‘‘Eng.’’ and record keeping is abbreviated as 

‘‘R.K.’’ 

includes 12 Requirements. Requirement 

R1 requires transmission owners: (1) To 

identify bulk electric system buses, e.g., 

substations, for which sequence of event 

recording and fault record data is 

required; (2) to notify other owners of 

bulk electric system elements connected 

to those particular bulk electric system 

buses where sequence of event 

recording and fault record data will be 

necessary; and (3) to re-evaluate all bulk 

electric system buses every five years. 

Requirement R2 requires transmission 

owners and generation owners to collect 

sequence of event data. Requirement R3 

and Requirement R4 require 

transmission owners and generation 

owners to collect fault recording data 

and parameters of that data. 

Requirement R5 through Requirement 

R9 lay out thresholds where dynamic 

disturbance recording data are required 

and provide more specifics on its 

collection. Requirement R10 requires 

transmission owners and generation 

owners to time synchronize the 

recordings. According to NERC, 

Requirement R10 provides the 

synchronization requirements in 

response to Recommendation No. 28 

from the final report on the August 2003 

blackout issued by the U.S.-Canada 

Power System Outage Task Force 

(Blackout Report).14 Requirement R11 

requires transmission owners and 

generation owners to provide sequence 

of event recording, fault recording and 

dynamic disturbance recording data 

upon request and establishes specific 

guidelines to ensure that data can be 

used in the analysis of events. 

Requirement R12 requires transmission 

owners and generation owners to restore 

the recording capability of the 

equipment used to record disturbances, 

if this capability is interrupted. 

9. NERC proposes an implementation 

plan that includes an effective date for 

proposed Reliability Standard PRC– 

002–2 that is the first day of the first 

calendar quarter that is six months after 

the date that the Commission approves 

the standard. Concurrent with the 

effective date, the implementation plan 

calls for the retirement of currentlyeffective Reliability Standard PRC–018– 

1 and ‘‘pending’’ Reliability Standard 

PRC–002–1.15

II. Discussion 

10. Pursuant to section 215(d)(2) of 

the FPA, the Commission proposes to 

approve proposed Reliability Standard 

PRC–002–2 as just, reasonable, not 

unduly discriminatory or preferential, 

and in the public interest. The 

Commission also proposes to approve 

the associated violation risk factors and 

violation severity levels, 

implementation plan, and effective date 

proposed by NERC. Further, the 

Commission proposes to approve the 

retirement of ‘‘pending’’ Reliability 

Standard PRC–002–1 and currentlyeffective Reliability Standard PRC–018– 

1, as proposed by NERC.16

11. Proposed Reliability Standard 

PRC–002–2 enhances reliability by 

imposing mandatory requirements 

concerning the monitoring and 

reporting of disturbances. Proposed 

Reliability Standard PRC–002–2 

provides greater continent-wide 

consistency regarding collection 

methods for data used in the analysis of 

disturbances on the Bulk-Power System. 

Specifically, proposed Reliability 

Standard PRC–002–2 enhances 

reliability by consistently requiring 

covered entities to collect timesynchronized information and to report 

disturbances on the Bulk-Power System. 

Accordingly, proposed Reliability 

Standard PRC–002–2 satisfies the 

relevant directive in Order No. 693.17 In 

addition, we agree with NERC that 

Reliability Standard PRC–018–1 can be 

retired due to its consolidation with 

proposed Reliability Standard PRC– 

002–2. 

III. Information Collection Statement 

12. The collection of information 

addressed in this Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking is subject to review by the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) under section 3507(d) of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.18

OMB’s regulations require approval of 

certain information collection 

requirements imposed by agency 

rules.19 Upon approval of a collection(s) 

of information, OMB will assign an 

OMB control number and an expiration 

date. Respondents subject to the filing 

requirements of a rule will not be 

penalized for failing to respond to these 

collections of information unless the 

collections of information display a 

valid OMB control number. 

13. We solicit comments on the need 

for this information, whether the 

information will have practical utility, 

the accuracy of the burden estimates, 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be collected 

or retained, and any suggested methods 

for minimizing respondents’ burden, 

including the use of automated 

information techniques. Specifically, 

the Commission asks that any revised 

burden or cost estimates submitted by 

commenters be supported by sufficient 

detail to understand how the estimates 

are generated. 

14. Public Reporting Burden: The 

number of respondents below is based 

on an examination of the NERC 

compliance registry for transmission 

owners and generation owners and the 

estimation of how many entities from 

that registry will be affected. At the time 

of Commission review of proposed 

Reliability Standard PRC–002–2, 330 

transmission owners and 914 generation 

owners in the United States are 

registered in the NERC compliance 

registry. The Commission estimates that 

two-thirds (216) of these registered 

transmission owners will need to 

comply with at least one of the 

requirements contained in proposed 

Reliability Standard PRC–002–2. The 

Commission notes that many generation 

sites share a common generation owner. 

Due to the nature of this task, it is likely 

generator owners will manage this 

information aggregation task using a 

centralized staff. Therefore, we estimate 

that one-third of the generation owners 

(305) will have to meet the requirements 

contained in proposed Reliability 

Standard PRC–002–2. Finally, the 

Commission finds the number of 

‘‘Responsible Entities’’ 20 in the United 

States to equal fifty, based on the NERC 

compliance registry. The following table 

illustrates the burden to be applied to 

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22The estimates for cost per response are derived 

using the following formula: Burden Hours per 

Response * $/hour = Cost per Response. The 

$65.34/hour figure for an engineer and the $33.42/ 

hour figure for a record clerk are based on the 

average salary plus benefits data from Bureau of 

Labor Statistics. 

23The Commission estimates that 10% (or 52) of 

the 521 registered entities will have to restore 

recording capability or institute a corrective action 

plan (CAP) each year. 

24FERC–725G2 is temporarily being used because 

FERC–725G (OMB Control No. 1902–0252) is 

currently pending review at OMB. 

Requirement and respondent 

category for PRC–002–2 

Number of 

respondents 

Annual 

number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Total number 

of responses 

Average burden hours & cost 

per response 22

Annual burden hours & total 

annual cost 

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

R1. Each Transmission 

Owner.

324 1 324 (Eng.) 24 hrs. ($1,568.16); 

(R.K.) 12 hrs. ($401.04).

11,664 hrs. (7776 Eng., 3888 

R.K.); $638,020.80 

($508,083.84 Eng., 

$129,936.96 R.K.) 

R2. Each Transmission 

Owner and Generator 

Owner.

521 1 521 (Eng.) 10 hrs. ($653.40); 

(R.K.) 4 hrs. ($133.68).

7,294 hrs. (5210 Eng., 2084 

R.K.); 

$410,068.68 ($340,421.40 

Eng., $69,647.28 R.K.) 

R3 & R4. Each Transmission 

Owner and Generator 

Owner.

521 1 521 (Eng.) 10 hrs. ($653.40); 

(R.K.) 4 hrs. ($133.68).

7,294 hrs. (5210 Eng., 2084 

R.K.); 

$410,068.68 ($340,421.40 

Eng., $69,647.28 R.K.) 

R5. Each Responsible Entity 50 1 50 (Eng.) 24 hrs. ($1,568.16); 

(R.K.) 12 hrs. ($401.04).

1,800 hrs. (1200 Eng., 600 

R.K.); 

$98,460 ($78,408 Eng., 

$20,052 R.K.) 

R6. Each Transmission 

Owner.

216 1 216 (Eng.) 10 hrs. ($653.40); 

(R.K.) 4 hrs. ($133.68).

3,024 hrs. (2160 Eng., 864 

R.K.); 

$170,009.28 ($141,134.40 

Eng., $28,874.88 R.K.) 

R7. Each Generator Owner ... 305 1 305 (Eng.) 10 hrs. ($653.40); 

(R.K.) 4 hrs. ($133.68).

4,270 hrs. (3050 Eng., 1220 

R.K.); 

$240,059.40 ($199,287 Eng., 

$40,772.40 R.K.) 

R8. Each Transmission 

Owner and Generator 

Owner.

521 1 521 (Eng.) 10 hrs. ($653.40); 

(R.K.) 4 hrs. ($133.68).

7,294 hrs. (5210 Eng., 2084 

R.K.); 

$410,068.68 ($340,421.40 

Eng., $69,647.28 R.K.) 

R9. Each Transmission 

Owner and Generator 

Owner.

521 1 521 (Eng.) 10 hrs. ($653.40); 

(R.K.) 4 hrs. ($133.68).

7,294 hrs. (5210 Eng., 2084 

R.K.); 

$410,068.68 ($340,421.40 

Eng., $69,647.28 R.K.) 

R10. Each Transmission 

Owner and Generator 

Owner.

521 1 521 (Eng.) 10 hrs. ($653.40); 

(R.K.) 4 hrs. ($133.68).

7,294 hrs. (5210 Eng., 2084 

R.K.); 

$410,068.68 ($340,421.40 

Eng., $69,647.28 R.K.) 

R11. Each Transmission 

Owner and Generator 

Owner.

521 1 521 (Eng.) 8 hrs. ($522.72); 

(R.K.) 4 hrs. ($133.68).

6,252 hrs. (4168 Eng., 2084 

R.K.); 

$341,984.4 ($272,337.12 

Eng., $69,647.28 R.K.) 

R12. Each Transmission 

Owner and Generator 

Owner 23.

52 1 52 (Eng.) 10 hrs. ($653.40); 

(R.K.) 4 hrs. ($133.68).

728 hrs. (520 Eng., 208 

R.K.); 

$40,928.16 ($33,976.80 

Eng., $6,951.36 R.K.) 

Total ............................... ........................ ........................ ........................ ............................................... 64,208 hrs. (44,924 Eng., 

19,284 R.K.); 

$3,579,805.44 

($2,935,334.16 Eng., 

$644,471.28 R.K.) 

Title: FERC–725G2 24 Disturbance 

Monitoring and Reporting 

Requirements. 

Action: Revision to existing 

collection. 

OMB Control No: To be determined. 

Respondents: Business or other for 

profit, and not for profit institutions. 

Frequency of Responses: Annually. 

Necessity of the Information: 

Proposed Reliability Standard PRC– 

002–2 sets forth requirements for 

disturbance monitoring and reporting 

requirements that will ensure adequate 

data are available to facilitate analysis of 

bulk electric system disturbances. 

Internal review: The Commission has 

assured itself, by means of its internal 

review, that there is specific, objective 

support for the burden estimates 

associated with the information 

requirements. 

15. Interested persons may obtain 

information on the reporting 

requirements by contacting the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, Office 

of the Executive Director, 888 First 


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25Regulations Implementing the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, Order No. 486, 

52 FR 47897 (Dec. 17, 1987), FERC Stats. & Regs. 

Preambles 1986–1990 ¶ 30,783 (1987). 

26 18 CFR 380.4(a)(2)(ii). 

27 5 U.S.C. 601–612. 

28See NERC Petition Ex. G (Record of 

Development) at 257 of pdf file, providing link to: 

NERC Cost Effective Analysis Process (CEAP) Pilot 

for NERC Project 2007–11—Disturbance 

Monitoring—PRC–002–2 at 8 (Apr. 9, 2014). 

Street NE., Washington, DC 20426 

[Attention: Ellen Brown, email: 

DataClearance@ferc.gov, phone: (202) 

502–8663, fax: (202) 273–0873]. 

16. Comments concerning the 

information collection proposed in this 

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and the 

associated burden estimates, should be 

sent to the Commission in this docket 

and may also be sent to the Office of 

Management and Budget, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs 

[Attention: Desk Officer for the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission]. For 

security reasons, comments should be 

sent by email to OMB at the following 

email address: oira_submission@

omb.eop.gov. Please reference FERC– 

725G2 and the docket numbers of this 

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Docket 

No. RM15–4–000) in your submission. 

IV. Environmental Analysis 

17. The Commission is required to 

prepare an Environmental Assessment 

or an Environmental Impact Statement 

for any action that may have a 

significant adverse effect on the human 

environment.25 This action has been 

categorically excluded under section 

380.4(a)(2)(ii) of the Commission’s 

regulations, addressing the collection of 

information.26

V. Regulatory Flexibility Act 

18. The Regulatory Flexibility Act of 

1980 (RFA) 27 generally requires a 

description and analysis of proposed 

rules that will have significant 

economic impact on a substantial 

number of small entities. 

19. The Small Business 

Administration (SBA) revised its size 

standards (effective January 22, 2014) 

for electric utilities from a standard 

based on megawatt hours to a standard 

based on the number of employees, 

including affiliates. Under SBA’s new 

standards, some transmission owners 

and generation owners will possibly fall 

under the following category and 

associated size threshold: Electric bulk 

power transmission and control at 500 

employees; hydroelectric power 

generation at 500 employees; fossil fuel 

electric power generation at 750 

employees; nuclear electric power 

generation at 750 employees. 

20. The Commission estimates that 

the number of applicable small entities 

will be minimal due to the gross million 

volt amps (MVA) thresholds embedded 

into proposed Reliability Standard PRC– 

002–2, which focus information 

collection on bulk electric system 

facilities having Interconnection-wide 

impacts worthy of collecting. The 

proposed Reliability Standard applies to 

approximately 526 entities in the United 

States. The Commission estimates, 

applying the MVA thresholds above, 

that approximately 52 (or 10 percent of 

the 521) are small entities. The 

Commission estimates for these small 

entities, proposed Reliability Standard 

PRC–002–2 Requirement R1 may need 

to be evaluated and documented every 

five years with costs of $9,847 for each 

evaluation. From this set of small 

entities, the Commission estimates that 

five percent, or only two or three small 

entities, may be affected by the other 

requirements, i.e., Requirements R2 

through R12, of proposed Reliability 

Standard PRC–002–2. Based on a prior 

industry-sponsored survey, annual 

compliance costs will average 

$100,000–$160,000 for entities subject 

to these requirements.28 Accordingly, 

the Commission certifies that the 

proposed Reliability Standard will not 

have a significant economic impact on 

a substantial number of small entities. 

VI. Comment Procedures 

21. The Commission invites interested 

persons to submit comments on the 

matters and issues proposed in this 

notice to be adopted, including any 

related matters or alternative proposals 

that commenters may wish to discuss. 

Comments are due June 22, 2015. 

Comments must refer to Docket No. 

RM15–4–000, and must include the 

commenter’s name, the organization 

they represent, if applicable, and their 

address in their comments. 

22. The Commission encourages 

comments to be filed electronically via 

the eFiling link on the Commission’s 

Web site at http://www.ferc.gov. The 

Commission accepts most standard 

word processing formats. Documents 

created electronically using word 

processing software should be filed in 

native applications or print-to-PDF 

format and not in a scanned format. 

Commenters filing electronically do not 

need to make a paper filing. 

23. Commenters that are not able to 

file comments electronically must send 

an original of their comments to: 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

Secretary of the Commission, 888 First 

Street NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

24. All comments will be placed in 

the Commission’s public files and may 

be viewed, printed, or downloaded 

remotely as described in the Document 

Availability section below. Commenters 

on this proposal are not required to 

serve copies of their comments on other 

commenters. 

VII. Document Availability 

25. 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) and in the Commission’s 

Public Reference Room during normal 

business hours (8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Eastern time) at 888 First Street NE., 

Room 2A, Washington, DC 20426. 

26. 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 of this 

document, excluding the last three 

digits in the docket number field. 

27. User assistance is available for 

eLibrary and the Commission’s Web site 

during normal business hours from the 

Commission’s 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. 

By direction of the Commission. 

Issued: April 16, 2015. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2015–09219 Filed 4–21–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

18 CFR Part 40 

[Docket No. RM15–9–000] 

Protection System, Automatic 

Reclosing, and Sudden Pressure 

Relaying Maintenance Reliability 

Standard 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal Power 

Act, the Commission proposes to 

approve a revised Reliability Standard, 


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