30008 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 103 / Friday, May 28, 2010 / Notices 

1Promoting Wholesale Competition Through 

Open Access Non-discriminatory Transmission 

Services by Public Utilities; Recovery of Stranded 

Costs by Public Utilities and Transmitting Utilities, 

Order No. 888, 61 FR 21540 (May 10, 1996), FERC 

Stats. & Regs. ¶ 31,036 (1996), order on reh’g, Order 

No. 888–A, 62 FR 12274 (Mar. 14, 1997), FERC 

Stats. & Regs. ¶ 31,048 (1997), order on reh’g, Order 

No. 888–B, 81 FERC ¶ 61,248 (1997), order on reh’g, 

Order No. 888–C, 82 FERC ¶ 61,046 (1998), aff’d 

in relevant part sub nom. Transmission Access 

Policy Study Group v. FERC, 225 F.3d 667 (DC Cir. 

2000), aff’d sub nom. New York v. FERC, 535 U.S. 

1 (2002). 

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Correction 

On page 28745 of the May 21 NIA, we 

requested that applicants submit a short 

e-mail as a notice of intent to apply by 

June 1 to allow us to develop a more 

efficient process for reviewing grant 

applications. We incorrectly stated, 

however, that the ‘‘short e-mail should 

provide (1) the applicant organization’s 

name and address, (2) the type of grant 

for which the applicant intends to 

apply, (3) the one absolute priority the 

applicant intends to address, and (4) all 

competitive preference priorities the 

applicant intends to address.’’ We are 

correcting the May 21 NIA to provide 

applicants with the correct information 

about what the notice of intent to apply 

should include. 

On page 28745, first column, first 

paragraph, under the heading Notice of 

Intent to Apply, the third sentence is 

corrected to read ‘‘This short e-mail 

should provide the applicant 

organization’s name and address and 

whether the applicant intends to apply 

for the Evaluation or Main TIF 

competition.’’ 

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Labor, Health and Human Services, and 

Education, and Related Agencies 

Appropriations Act, 2008, Division G, Title 

III, Pub. L. 110–161; Departments of Labor, 

Health and Human Services, and Education, 

and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 

2010, Division D, Title III, Pub. L. 111–117; 

and the American Recovery and 

Reinvestment Act of 2009, Division A, Title 

VIII, Pub. L. 111–5. 

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Dated: May 25, 2010. 

Thelma Mele ́ndez de Santa Ana, 

Assistant Secretary for Elementary and 

Secondary Education. 

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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket Nos. IC10–917–000 and IC10–918– 

000] 

Commission Information Collection 

Activities; Comment Request; 

Extension 

May 20, 2010. 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed information 

collections and request for comments. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

requirements of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A) (2006), (Pub. L. 

104–13), the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission (Commission or FERC) is 

soliciting public comment on the 

proposed information collections 

described below. 

DATES: Comments in consideration of 

the collections of information are due 

July 27, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be filed 

either electronically (eFiled) or in paper 

format, and should refer to Docket Nos. 

IC10–917–000 and IC10–918–000. For 

comments that only pertain to one of the 

collections, specify the appropriate 

collection and related docket number. 

Documents must be prepared in an 

acceptable filing format and in 

compliance with Commission 

submission guidelines at http://www.

ferc.gov/help/submission-guide.asp. 

eFiling instructions are available at: 

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

asp. First time users must follow 

eRegister instructions at: http://www.

ferc.gov/docs-filing/eregistration.asp, to 

establish a user name and password 

before eFiling. The Commission will 

send an automatic acknowledgement to 

the sender’s e-mail address upon receipt 

of eFiled comments. Commenters 

making an eFiling should not make a 

paper filing. Commenters that are not 

able to file electronically must send an 

original and two (2) paper copies of 

their comments to: Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, Secretary of the 

Commission, 888 First Street, NE., 

Washington, DC 20426. 

Users interested in receiving 

automatic notification of activity in this 

docket may do so through eSubscription 

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

esubscription.asp. In addition, all 

comments and FERC issuances may be 

viewed, printed or downloaded 

remotely through FERC’s eLibrary at: 

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

asp, by searching on Docket Nos. IC10– 

917 and IC10–918. For user assistance, 

contact FERC Online Support by e-mail 

at ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov, or by 

phone, toll-free, at: (866) 208–3676, or 

(202) 502–8659 for TTY. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ellen Brown may be reached by e-mail 

at DataClearance@ferc.gov, telephone at 

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

0873. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

February 17, 2007, the Commission 

issued Order No. 890 to address and 

remedy opportunities for undue 

discrimination under the pro forma 

Open Access Transmission Tariff 

(OATT) adopted in 1996 by Order No. 

888.1 Through Order No. 890, the 

Commission: 

(1) Adopted pro forma OATT 

provisions necessary to keep imbalance 

charges closely related to incremental 

costs; 

(2) Increased nondiscriminatory 

access to the grid by requiring public 

utilities, working through the North 

American Electric Reliability 

Corporation (NERC), to develop 

consistent methodologies for available 

transfer capability (ATC) calculation 

and to publish those methodologies to 

increase transparency. 

(3) Required an open, transparent, and 

coordinated transmission planning 

process thereby increasing the ability of 

customers to access new generating 

resources and promote efficient 

utilization of transmission. 

(4) Gave the right to customers to 

request from transmission providers, 

studies addressing congestion and/or 

integration of new resource loads in 

areas of the transmission system where 

they have encountered transmission 

problems due to congestion or where 

they believe upgrades and other 

investments may be necessary to reduce 


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2NAESB is the North American Energy Standards 

Board. 3 Mandatory Reliability Standards for the 

Calculation of Available Transfer Capability, 

Capacity Benefit Margins, Transmission Reliability 

Margins, Total Transfer Capability, and Existing 

Transmission Commitments and Mandatory 

Reliability Standards for the Bulk-Power System, 

Order No. 729, 74 FR 64884 (Dec. 3, 2009) 129 

FERC ¶ 61,155. 

The FERC–725A requirements (Mandatory 

Reliability Standards for the Bulk-Power System, 

which now includes the utilities’ implementation) 

are separate and are not a subject of this Notice in 

Docket Nos. IC10–917 and IC10–918. The FERC– 

725A reporting and recordkeeping requirements in 

Order 729 (Docket No. RM08–19, et. al.) were 

approved by OMB (in ICR Number 200912–1902– 

005) on 3/12/2010. 

congestion and to integrate new 

resources. 

(5) Required both the transmission 

provider’s merchant function and 

network customers to include a 

statement with each application for 

network service or to designate a new 

network resource that attests, for each 

network resource identified, that the 

transmission customer owns or has 

committed to purchase the designated 

network resource and the designated 

network resource comports with the 

requirements for designated network 

resources. The network customer 

includes this attestation in the 

customer’s comment section of the 

request when it confirms the request on 

the Open Access Same-Time 

Information System (OASIS). 

(6) Required with regard to capacity 

reassignment that: (a) All sales or 

assignments of capacity be conducted 

through or otherwise posted on the 

transmission provider’s OASIS on or 

before the date the reassigned service 

commences; (b) assignees of 

transmission capacity execute a service 

agreement prior to the date on which 

the reassigned service commences; and 

(c) transmission providers aggregate and 

summarize in an electric quarterly 

report the data contained in these 

service agreements. 

(7) Adopted an operational penalties 

annual filing that provides information 

regarding the penalty revenue the 

transmission provider has received and 

distributed. 

(8) Required creditworthiness 

information to be included in a 

transmission provider’s OATT. 

Attachment L must specify the 

qualitative and quantitative criteria that 

the transmission provider uses to 

determine the level of secured and 

unsecured credit required. 

The Commission required a NERC/ 

NAESB2 team to draft and review Order 

No. 890 reliability standards and 

business practices. The team was to 

solicit comment from each utility on 

developed standards and practices and 

utilities were to implement each, after 

Commission approval. Public utilities, 

working through NERC, were to revise 

reliability standards to require the 

exchange of data and coordination 

among transmission providers and, 

working through NAESB, were to 

develop complementary business 

practices. 

Required OASIS postings included: 

(1) Explanations for changes in ATC 

values; 

(2) Capacity benefit margin (CBM) 

reevaluations and quarterly postings; 

(3) OASIS metrics and accepted/ 

denied requests; 

(4) Planning redispatch offers and 

reliability redispatch data; 

(5) Curtailment data; 

(6) Planning and system impact 

studies; 

(7) Metrics for system impact studies; 

(8) All rules. 

Incorporating the Order No. 890 

standards into the Commission’s 

regulations benefits wholesale electric 

customers by streamlining utility 

business practices, transactional 

processes, and OASIS procedures, and 

by adopting a formal ongoing process 

for reviewing and upgrading the 

Commission’s OASIS standards and 

other electric industry business 

practices. These practices and 

procedures benefit from the 

implementation of generic industry 

standards. 

The Commission’s Order No. 890 

regulations can be found in 18 CFR 

35.28 (pro forma tariff requirements), 

and 37.6 and 37.7 (OASIS 

requirements). 

Action: The Commission is requesting 

a three-year extension of the current 

FERC–917 and FERC–918 (Order No. 

890) reporting requirements, with no 

change to the existing requirements. 

Burden Statement: FERC–917 and 

FERC–918 are both included in OMB 

Control Number 1902–0233. The 

estimated annual public reporting 

burdens for FERC–917 (requirements in 

18 CFR 35.28) and FERC–918 

(requirements in 18 CFR 37.6 and 37.7) 

are reduced from the original estimates 

made three years ago. The reductions 

are due to the incorporation and 

completion of: (1) One-time pro forma 

tariff changes by utilities in existence at 

that time; (2) completed development 

and comment solicitation of the 

required NERC/NAESB reliability 

standards and business practices; and 

(3) the transfer of burden associated 

with the implementation of some of the 

NERC/NAESB business practices, in 

Order No. 729, issued November 11, 

2009,3 to the Commission’s FERC–725A 

information collection (OMB Control 

Number 1902–0244). The estimated 

annual figures follow. 

FERC Information collection Annual No. of 

respondents 

Average No. 

of reponses 

per respondent 

Average burden hours per 

response 

Total annual 

burden hours 

(1) (2) (3) (1) × (2) × (3) 

18 CFR 35.28 (FERC–917) 

Conforming tariff changes ............................................................................... 6 1 25 150 

Revision of Imbalance Charges ....................................................................... 6 1 5 30 

ATC revisions .................................................................................................. 6 1 40 240 

Planning (Attachment K) .................................................................................. 134 1 100 13,400 

Congestion studies .......................................................................................... 134 1 300 40,200 

Attestation of network resource commitment .................................................. 134 1 1 134 

Capacity reassignment .................................................................................... 134 1 100 13,400 

Operational Penalty annual filing ..................................................................... 134 1 10 1,340 

Creditworthiness—include criteria in the tariff ................................................. 6 1 40 240 

FERC–917—Sub Total Part 35 ................................................................ ........................ ........................ ........................ 69,134 


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4Using the hourly rate figures of the Bureau of 

Labor Statistics, occupational series and market 

rates as applicable, the hourly rate is a composite 

of the respondents who will be responsible for 

implementing and responding to the collection of 

information (support staff, engineering, and legal). 

FERC Information collection Annual No. of 

respondents 

Average No. 

of reponses 

per respondent 

Average burden hours per 

response 

Total annual 

burden hours 

(1) (2) (3) (1) × (2) × (3) 

18 CFR 37.6 & 37.7 (FERC–918) 

ATC-related standards: 

NERC/NAESB Team to develop .............................................................. 0 0 0 0 

Review and comment by utility ................................................................. 0 0 0 0 

Implementation by each utility 3 ................................................................ 0 0 0 3 0 

Mandatory data exchanges ...................................................................... 134 1 80 10,720 

Explanation of change of ATC values ............................................................. 134 1 100 13,400 

Reevaluate CBM and post quarterly ............................................................... 134 1 20 2,680 

Post OASIS metrics; requests accepted/denied ............................................. 134 1 90 12,060 

Post planning redispatch offers and reliability redispatch data ....................... 134 1 20 2,680 

Post curtailment data ....................................................................................... 134 1 10 1,340 

Post Planning and System Impact Studies ..................................................... 134 1 5 670 

Posting of metrics for System Impact Studies ................................................ 134 1 100 13,400 

Post all rules to OASIS .................................................................................... 134 1 5 670 

FERC–918—Sub Total of Part 37 Reporting Requirements ................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 57,620 

FERC–918—Recordkeeping Requirements ............................................. 134 1 40 5,360 

FERC–918—Sub Total of Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements ........................ ........................ ........................ 62,980 

Total FERC–917 and FERC–918 (Part 35 + Part 37, Reporting 

and Recordkeeping Requirements) ............................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 132,114 

Total combined annual burden for 

FERC–917 and FERC–918 is 132,114 

hours (126,754 reporting hours + 5,360 

recordkeeping hours). This is a 

reduction of 24,922 hours from the 

combined FERC–917 and FERC–918 

burden OMB previously approved. 

Total combined estimated annual cost 

for FERC–917 and FERC–918 is 

$21,941,076.4 This includes: 

(1) Reporting costs of $14,449,956; 

(126,754 hours @ $114 an hour (average 

cost of attorney ($200 per hour), 

consultant ($150), technical ($80), and 

administrative support ($25)) and 

(2) Recordkeeping (labor and storage) 

costs of $7,491,120; (labor = $91,120; 

5,360 hours × $17/hour (file/record 

clerk @ $17 an hour) and off-site storage 

costs = $7,400,000; (8,000 sq. ft. × $925/ 

sq. ft.). 

The reporting burden includes the 

total time, effort, or financial resources 

expended to generate, maintain, retain, 

disclose, or provide the information 

including: (1) Reviewing instructions; 

(2) developing, acquiring, installing, and 

utilizing technology and systems for the 

purposes of collecting, validating, 

verifying, processing, maintaining, 

disclosing, and providing information; 

(3) adjusting the existing ways to 

comply with any previously applicable 

instructions and requirements; (4) 

training personnel to respond to the 

collections of information; (5) searching 

data sources; (6) completing and 

reviewing the collections of 

information; and (7) transmitting or 

otherwise disclosing the information. 

The estimate of cost for respondents 

is based upon salaries for professional 

and clerical support, as well as direct 

and indirect overhead costs. Direct costs 

include all costs directly attributable to 

providing this information, such as 

administrative costs and the cost for 

information technology. Indirect or 

overhead costs are costs incurred by an 

organization in support of its mission. 

These costs apply to activities which 

benefit the whole organization rather 

than any one particular function or 

activity. 

Comments are invited on: (1) Whether 

the proposed collections of information 

are 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 of the proposed 

collections of information, including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance 

the quality, utility and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (4) 

ways to minimize the burden of the 

collections of information on those who 

are to respond, including the use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of responses. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2010–12853 Filed 5–27–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. AD10–12–000] 

Improving Market and Planning 

Efficiency Through Improved Software; 

Notice of Agenda and Procedures for 

Staff Technical Conference 

May 20, 2010. 

This notice establishes the agenda and 

procedures for the staff technical 

conference to be held on June 2, 2010 

and June 3, 2010, to discuss issues 

related to unit commitment software. 

The technical conference will be held 

from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (EDT) on June 

2, 2010, and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (EDT) 

on June 3, 2010 at the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426, in 

the Commission Meeting Room. All 

interested persons are invited to attend, 

and registration is not required. 

The agenda for this conference is 

attached. The presentations will be 

technical in nature, and approximately 

20 minutes in length with 5 to 10 

minutes for questions. Equipment will 


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