Document ID: FERC-2020-0058-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Update on Market-Based Rate Database: Data Collection for Analytics and Surveillance and Market-Based Rate Purposes
Posted Date: 2020-01-16T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 11 (Thursday, January 16, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 2736]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-00622]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. RM16-17-000]

Data Collection for Analytics and Surveillance and Market-Based 
Rate Purposes; Notice Providing Update on Market-Based Rate Database

    On July 18, 2019, the Commission issued a final rule in Docket No. 
RM16-17-000 that, among other things, adopted a proposal to collect 
market-based rate information through a relational database (MBR 
Database).\1\ The final rule indicated that:
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    \1\ Data Collection for Analytics and Surveillance and Market-
Based Rate Purposes, Order No. 860, 168 FERC 61,039 (2019).

    After issuance of this final rule, documentation for the 
relational database will be posted to the Commission's website, 
including XML, XSD, the MBR Data Dictionary, and a test environment 
user guide. Additionally, after issuance of this final rule, a basic 
relational database test environment will be available to submitters 
and software developers. The Commission intends to add to the new 
test environment features on a prioritized, scheduled basis until 
complete. We note that the Commission will inform the public of when 
releases will be made publicly available. This will allow internal 
and external development to occur contemporaneously as new features 
are made available for outside testing.\2\
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    \2\ Id. P 309.

    Consistent with the final rule, please be advised that updated 
versions of the XML, XSD, and MBR Data Dictionary are available on the 
Commission's website.
    Additionally, please be advised that the test environment for the 
MBR Database is now available and can be accessed on the MBR Database 
web page. At launch, this test environment will be available to users 
that are eRegistered with the Commission. eRegistered users will be 
able to submit test XML submissions into the database, as well as 
create FERC generated IDs (GID) and Asset IDs. Please note that this is 
a test environment and that all submissions into the database--
specifically XMLs and all created GIDs and Asset IDs--will not be part 
of the official record and will be cleared from the database before it 
officially goes live. Further, as indicated in the final rule, the 
Commission intends to add features to this test environment 
periodically until complete.\3\ Interested parties can obtain notice of 
these new features by monitoring the market-based rate page on the 
Commission's website. The Commission will issue an additional notice 
prior to clearing the database shortly before the database goes live.
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    \3\ Id.
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    Lastly, please be advised that Company Registration has been 
updated to reflect MBR as a filing type. Unlike GIDs and Asset IDs, any 
updates to Company Registration will remain permanent. Entities that 
will need to make submissions to the database (i.e., all entities that 
have market-based rate authority) must include MBR as a filing type and 
assign account managers to make the submissions.
    For more information about the MBR Database, please send an email 
to MBRDatabase@ferc.gov.

    Dated: January 10, 2020.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2020-00622 Filed 1-15-20; 8:45 am]
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