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1The Commission defines burden 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, reference 5 Code of 

Federal Regulations 1320.3. 

2Persons that meet the definition of a holding 

company as provided by § 366.1 as of February 8, 

2006 shall notify the Commission of their status as 

a holding company no later than June 15, 2006. 

Holding companies formed after February 8, 2006 

shall notify the Commission of their status as a 

holding company, no later than the latter of June 

Continued 

extension to its collection of 

information titled: Budget Justification, 

OMB No. 1910–5162. The proposed 

collection will establish application 

consistency for numerous Grant and 

Cooperative Agreement application 

packages from potential and chosen 

recipients. This effort will also 

streamline processes and provide 

applicants with a clear and 

straightforward tool to assist with 

project budgeting. In addition it will 

endow DOE reviewers with adequate 

information to determine if proposed 

costs are allowable, allocable, and 

reasonable. 

DATES: Comments regarding this 

collection must be received on or before 

February 17, 2015. 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 DOE Desk Officer at 

OMB of your intention to make a 

submission as soon as possible. The 

Desk Officer can be reached at 202–395– 

4650. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be sent to: 

DOE Desk Officer, Office of Information 

and Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget, New 

Executive Office Building, Room 

10102, 735 17th Street NW., 

Washington, DC 20503. 

And to: 

U.S. Department of Energy, Golden 

Field Office, 15013 Denver West 

Parkway Golden, CO 80401–3111, 

Attn: James Cash. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions may be directed to James 

Cash at (720) 356–1456 or by email at 

james.cash@ee.doe.gov. The information 

collection instrument titled, Budget 

Justification, may also be viewed at 

http://www1.eere.energy.gov/financing/

resources.html. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

information collection request contains: 

(1) OMB No.: 1910–5162, Budget 

Justification; 

(2) Information Collection Request 

Title: Budget Justification; 

(3) Type of Request: Renewal; 

(4) Purpose: This collection of 

information is necessary in order for 

DOE to identify allowable, allocable, 

and reasonable recipient project costs 

eligible for Grants and Cooperative 

Agreements under EERE programs; 

(5) Annual Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 400; 

(6) Annual Estimated Number of 

Total Responses: 400; 

(7) Annual Estimated Number of 

Burden Hours: 24 hours, per response; 

(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $899.04 

per one time response; 

(9) Authority: 10 CFR 600.112. 

Issued in Golden, CO, on December 27, 

2014. 

James Cash, 

Contracting Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2015–00603 Filed 1–15–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. IC15–2–000] 

Commission Information Collection 

Activities: FERC–65, FERC–65A, 

FERC–65B, FERC–585, and FERC–921; 

Consolidated Comment Request; 

Extension 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of information 

collections and request for comments. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

requirements of the Paperwork 

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

3506(c)(2)(A), the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (Commission or 

FERC) is soliciting public comment on 

the requirements and burden 1 of the 

information collections described 

below. Please note that this is the first 

time FERC has issued a consolidated 

notice involving otherwise unrelated 

information collections. 

DATES: Comments on the collections of 

information are due March 17, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

(identified by Docket No. IC15–2–000) 

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. 

Please reference the specific 

collection number and/or title in your 

comments. 

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: 

Type of Request: Three-year extension 

of the information collection 

requirements for all collections 

described below with no changes to the 

current reporting requirements. Please 

note that each collection is distinct from 

the next. 

Comments: Comments are invited on: 

(1) Whether the 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 

estimates of the burden and cost of the 

collections of information, including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance 

the quality, utility and clarity of the 

information collections; and (4) ways to 

minimize the burden of the collections 

of information on those who are to 

respond, including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

FERC–65 (Notice of Holding Company 

Status), FERC–65A (Exemption 

Notification of Holding Company 

Status), and FERC–65B (Waiver 

Notification of Holding Company 

Status) 

OMB Control No.: 1902–0218. 

Abstract: Pursuant to Section 366.4 of 

the Commission’s rules and regulations, 

persons who meet the definition of a 

holding company shall provide the 

Commission notification of holding 

company status. 

The FERC–65 is a one-time 

informational filing outlined in the 

Commission’s regulations at 18 Code of 

Federal Regulations (CFR) 366.4. The 

FERC–65 must be submitted within 30 

days of becoming a holding company2. 


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15, 2006 or 30 days after they become holding 

companies. 3The estimates for cost per response are derived 

using the following formula: Average Burden Hours 

per Response * 70.50 per Hour = Average Cost per 

Response. The Cost per hour figure is the 2015 

FERC average salary plus benefits. 

4 60 FR 4859 (25 Jan 1995). 

5 70 FR 35028 (16 Jun 2005). 

While the Commission does not require 

the information to be reported in a 

specific format, the filing needs to 

consist of the name of the holding 

company, the name of public utilities, 

the name of natural gas companies in 

the holding company system, and the 

names of service companies. In 

addition, the Commission requires the 

filing to include the names of specialpurpose subsidiaries (which provide 

non-power goods and services) and the 

names of all affiliates and subsidiaries 

(and their corporate interrelationship) to 

each other. Filings may be submitted in 

hardcopy or electronically through the 

Commission’s eFiling system. 

FERC–65A (Exemption Notification of 

Holding Company Status) 

While noting the previously outlined 

requirements of the FERC–65, the 

Commission has allowed for an 

exemption from the requirement of 

providing the Commission with a 

FERC–65 if the books, accounts, 

memoranda, and other records of any 

person are not relevant to the 

jurisdictional rates of a public utility or 

natural gas company; or if any class of 

transactions is not relevant to the 

jurisdictional rates of a public utility or 

natural gas company. Persons seeking 

this exemption file the FERC–65A, 

which must include a form of notice 

suitable for publication in the Federal 

Register. Those who file a FERC–65A in 

good faith will have a temporary 

exemption upon filing, after 60 days if 

the Commission has taken no action, the 

exemption will be deemed granted. 

Commission regulations within 18 CFR 

366.3 describe the criteria in more 

specificity. 

FERC–65B (Waiver Notification of 

Holding Company Status) 

If an entity meets the requirements in 

18 CFR 366.3(c), they may file a FERC– 

65B waiver notification pursuant to the 

procedures outlined in 18 CFR 366.4. 

Specifically, the Commission waives the 

requirement of providing it with a 

FERC–65 for any holding company with 

respect to one or more of the following: 

(1) Single-state holding company 

systems; (2) holding companies that 

own generating facilities that total 100 

MW or less in size and are used 

fundamentally for their own load or for 

sales to affiliated end-users; or (3) 

investors in independent transmissiononly companies. Filings may be made in 

hardcopy or electronically through the 

Commission’s Web site. 

Type of Respondent: Public utility 

companies, natural gas companies, 

electric wholesale generators, foreign 

utility holding companies. 

Estimate of Annual Burden: The 

Commission estimates the annual public 

reporting burden for the information 

collection as: 

FERC–65 (NOTIFICATION OF HOLDING COMPANY STATUS), FERC–65A (EXEMPTION NOTIFICATION OF HOLDING

COMPANY STATUS), AND FERC–65B (WAIVER NOTIFICATION OF HOLDING COMPANY STATUS) 

Number of 

respondents 

Annual 

number of 

responses 

per 

respondent 

Total 

number of 

responses 

Average 

burden & 

cost per 

response 3

Total annual 

burden hours 

& total 

annual cost 

Cost per 

respondent 

($) 

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

FERC–65 ................................................. 8 1 8 3, $216 24, $1728 216 

FERC–65A ............................................... 1 1 1 1, $72 1, $72 72 

FERC–65B ............................................... 0 1 0 1, $72 0, $0 0 

Total .................................................. ........................ ........................ 9 ........................ 25, $1,800 ........................

FERC–585 (Reporting of Electric 

Shortages and Contingency Plans 

Under PURPA 206) 

OMB Control No.: 1902–0138. 

Abstract: The information collected 

under the requirements of FERC–585, 

‘‘Reporting of Electric Energy Shortages 

and Contingency Plans under PURPA’’, 

is used by the Commission to 

implement the statutory provisions of 

section 206 of the Public Utility 

Regulatory Policies Act of 1979 

(PURPA) Public Law 95–617, 92 Stat. 

3117. Section 206 of PURPA amended 

the Federal Power Act (FPA) by adding 

a new subsection (g) to section 202, 

under which the Commission by rule, 

was to require each public utility to (1) 

report to the Commission and 

appropriate state regulatory authorities 

of any anticipated shortages of electric 

energy or capacity which would affect 

the utility’s capability to serve its 

wholesale customers; and (2) report to 

the Commission and any appropriate 

state regulatory authority contingency 

plan that would outline what 

circumstances might give rise to such 

occurrences. 

In Order No. 575,4 the Commission 

modified the reporting requirements in 

18 CFR 294.101(b) to provide that, if a 

public utility includes in its rates 

schedule, provisions that: (a) During 

electric energy and capacity shortages it 

will treat firm power wholesale 

customers without undue 

discrimination or preference; and (b) it 

will report any modifications to its 

contingency plan for accommodating 

shortages within 15 days to the 

appropriate state regulatory agency and 

to the affected wholesale customers, 

then the utility need not file with the 

Commission an additional statement of 

contingency plan for accommodating 

such shortages. This revision merely 

changed the reporting mechanism; the 

public utility’s contingency plan would 

be located in its filed rate rather than in 

a separate document. 

In Order No. 659,5 the Commission 

modified the reporting requirements in 

18 CFR 294.101(e) to provide that the 

means by which public utilities must 

comply with the requirements to report 

shortages and anticipated shortages is to 

submit this information electronically 

using the Office of Electric Reliability’s 

pager system at emergency@ferc.gov in 

lieu of submitting an original and two 

copies with the Secretary of the 

Commission. 

The Commission uses the information 

to evaluate and formulate an 


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6Per Final Rule RM–11–17–000 regionally 

organized markets would not be required to collect 

any additional data from market participants; 

requiring regional organized markets to provide 

data to the Commission that is already collected. 

7The estimates for cost per response are derived 

using the following formula: Average Burden Hours 

per Response * $100.30 per Hour = Average Cost 

per Response. 

appropriate option for action in the 

event an unanticipated shortage is 

reported and/or materializes. Without 

this information, the Commission and 

State agencies would be unable to: (1) 

examine and approve or modify utility 

actions, (2) prepare a response to 

anticipated disruptions in electric 

energy, and (3) ensure equitable 

treatment of all public utility customers 

under the shortage situations. The 

Commission implements these filing 

requirements in the Code of Federal 

Regulations (CFR) under 18 CFR part 

294. 

Type of Respondent: Public utilities. 

Estimate of Annual Burden: The 

Commission estimates the annual public 

reporting burden for the information 

collection as: 

FERC–585 (REPORTING OF ELECTRIC SHORTAGES AND CONTINGENCY PLANS UNDER PURPA 206) 

Number of 

respondents 

Annual 

number of 

responses 

per 

respondent 

Total 

number of 

responses 

Average 

burden & 

cost per 

response 3

Total annual 

burden hours 

& total 

annual cost 

Cost per 

respondent 

($) 

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

Contingency Plan ..................................... 1 1 1 73, $5,256 73, $5,256 5,256 

Capacity Shortage ................................... 1 1 1 0.25, $18 0.25, $18 18 

Total .................................................. ........................ ........................ ........................ ........................ 73.25, $5,274 5,274 

FERC–921 (Ongoing Electronic Delivery 

of Data From Regional Transmission 

Organization and Independent System 

Operators) 

OMB Control No.: 1902–0257. 

Abstract: The collection of data in the 

FERC–921 is an effort by the 

Commission to detect potential anticompetitive or manipulative behavior or 

ineffective market rules by requiring 

Regional Transmission Organizations 

(RTO) and Independent System 

Operators (ISO) 6 to electronically 

submit, on a continuous basis, data 

relating to physical and virtual offers 

and bids, market awards, resource 

outputs, marginal cost estimates, shift 

factors, financial transmission rights, 

internal bilateral contracts, uplift, and 

interchange pricing. Individual datasets 

that the Commission is requesting may 

be produced or retained by the market 

monitoring units (MMUs). The 

Commission directed each RTO and ISO 

either to: (1) Request such data from its 

MMU, so that the RTO or ISO can 

deliver such data to the Commission; or 

(2) request its MMU to deliver such data 

directly to the Commission. Any burden 

associated with the delivery of such 

data is counted as burden on the RTO 

or ISO. 

Type of Respondent: Regional 

transmission organizations and 

independent system operators. 

Estimate of Annual Burden: The 

Commission estimates the annual public 

reporting burden for the information 

collection as: 

FERC–921 (ONGOING ELECTRONIC DELIVERY OF DATA FROM REGIONAL TRANSMISSION ORGANIZATIONS AND

INDEPENDENT SYSTEM OPERATORS) 

Number of 

respondents 

Annual 

number of 

responses 

per 

respondent 

Total 

number of 

responses 

Average 

burden & 

cost per 

response 7

Total annual 

recurring 

operating 

burden hours 

& cost 

Cost per 

respondent 

($) 

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

6 1 6 98, $9,830 588, $58,980 $9,830 

Dated: January 9, 2015. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2015–00573 Filed 1–15–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 14657–000] 

Appalachian Mountain Club; Notice of 

Application Tendered for Filing With 

the Commission and Soliciting 

Additional Study Requests 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: Original 

Minor License. 

b. Project No.: 14657–000. 

c. Date filed: December 29, 2014. 

d. Applicant: Appalachian Mountain 

Club. 

e. Name of Project: Zealand Falls 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: On Whitehall Brook, in 

the Town of Bethlehem, Grafton County, 

New Hampshire. The project would 

occupy 0.66 acres of federal land 

managed by the U.S. Forest Service. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 


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