Attachment C to Supporting Statement (Burden & Cost Comparison)

FERC-505 Attachment C

The following information provides a comparison of the estimated annual burden and cost in the existing OMB approval with this request for a 3-year extension.

FERC-505	Number of Respondents Annually (1)	Number of Responses Per Respondent (2)	Average Burden Hours Per Response (3)	Total Annual Burden Hours (1)x(2)x(3)	Annual Private Sector Costs ($)	Annual Costs to Federal Gov’t. ($)
Current clearance, approved by OMB through 10/31/20091	5	1	7,780	38,900	$1,937,500	$0 2
This request for OMB approval through 10/31/2012 3	16	1	3,673.875	58,782	$3,569,142.70	$5,518,251
Difference (this extension request minus figures for existing OMB approval)Error: Reference source not found, Error: Reference source not found	+11	0	-4,106.125	+19,882	The new figures are based on data from actual filers.Error: Reference source not found See responses to Questions 12, 13, and 15.	See response to Question 14.

1 The OMB approval for clearance through 10/31/2009 contained these estimates.

2 The estimate for cost to the federal government in the supporting statement from 2006 includes only the cost of information clearance ($6,289.00), although the ROCIS system indicates $0. As stated in the supporting statement from 2006, the “Analysis of Data (FERC hydropower licensing[)] program is reimbursed by licensees pursuant to Section 10(e) of the Federal Power Act”.

The estimate for cost to the federal government in this request, submitted in 2009, includes average annual estimates for:

○ processing time, that continues to be reimbursed by licensees, and

• information clearance ($1,480).

3 Per sections 4.41 (e) (9), 4.51 (e) (7) and 4.61 (c) (3), applicants are now required to submit their total cost of collection; these figures were used in determining the average burden hours. The information presented here is based on actual FYs 2007 and 2008 filings. Fourteen filers of FERC-505 provided cost data; their total annual cost for the collection was $3,123,000 (giving an average of $223,071 per response).