FERC-919, [SIL component], Electric Rate Schedule Filings: Market Based Rates for Wholesale Sales of Electric Energy, Capacity and Ancillary Services by Public Utilities
ICR 201105-1902-006
OMB: 1902-0234
Federal Form Document
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FERC-919, [SIL component],
Electric Rate Schedule Filings: Market Based Rates for Wholesale
Sales of Electric Energy, Capacity and Ancillary Services by Public
Utilities
No
material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved
collection
In accordance
with 5 CFR 1320, the non-substantive change to the required
reporting of Simultaneous Transmission Import Limit (SIL) values is
approved.
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
03/31/2014
03/31/2014
03/31/2014
709
0
709
61,630
0
61,630
0
0
0
FERC is requesting OMB approval of a
non-substantive change to the required reporting of Simultaneous
Transmission Import Limit (SIL) values, as described below. SIL
studies are a part of the Commission's reporting requirements
included in FERC-919 and have OMB approval under OMB Control No.
1902-0234. Order No. 697 (issued 6/21/2007, in Docket RM04-7-000)
and subsequent orders contain SIL study requirements. The SIL study
is one of many inputs into the initial and triennial market power
studies, and while a significant number of MBR sellers rely on such
studies, only a small portion of MBR sellers actually prepare such
studies each year. Based on feedback from industry and the
completion of the first post-Order No. 697 three-year cycle of
updated market power analyses, FERC has consolidated previous
Commission direction for calculating SIL values into one document
(order issued 6/17/2011, and attached under Supplemental
Documents). With the consolidated direction, FERC has issued a
required, standardized reporting format for certain transmission
studies and a table to facilitate sellers' reporting of the
components of the SIL values. The consolidated direction and
standardized formats are expected to reduce: -industry questions,
filing burden, and delays and costs associated with the need to
correct and re-file materials; -FERC staff time required for review
of the filings; and -the time other members of the public spend
analyzing the filed data. [However, at this time, FERC is not
revising the burden estimates.] No data elements are being changed
from those already approved by OMB. The following is general
background on FERC-919. Compliance with Federal Power Act (FPA)
sections 205 and 206 make collection of this information necessary.
Specifically, Section 205 of the FPA requires just and reasonable
rates and charges. Section 206 allows the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (FERC or Commission) to revoke a seller's market-based
rate authorization if it determines that the seller may have gained
market power since its original authorization to charge market
based rates. The information collected under FERC-919 (OMB Control
No. 1902-0234), "Market Based Rates for Wholesale Sales of Electric
Energy, Capacity and Ancillary Services by Public Utilities",
allows the Commission to meet its statutory responsibilities by
providing it with the following: initial market power analyses to
qualify for authority to charge market based rates, triennial
market power analysis in category 2 seller updates as required in
18 CFR 35.37(a) quarterly land acquisition reports, as required in
18 CFR 35.42(d) and change in status reports as required in 18 CFR
35.42(a) Appendix B. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will
use information collected under FERC-919 to ensure that
market-based rates charged by public utilities are just and
reasonable, as Congress has mandated it to do. Respondents include
all utilities seeking for initial or continued authorization to
charge market-based rates.
The filing requirements have
not changed. However, some of the burden estimates have changed,
and FERC is breaking out the previous comprehensive IC into
several, more detailed IC's to provide more information on the
types of reporting requirements included in the FERC-919. The July
2010 notice and the November 2010 notice mistakenly announced there
were only 40 quarterly land acquisition reports filed annually.
That notice said the FERC had received 400 change in status
reports. These filing counts were inadvertently transposed: the
initial estimate as of July 2010 was that FERC received about 400
land acquisition reports each year and 40 change in status reports.
The FERC has changed the burden associated with the FERC-919 change
in status reports to 34.75 hours per response. When the Commission
directed the filing of changes in status in Order No. 652, the
Commission found the ongoing burden associated with change in
status filings to be de minimis. As a result of that determination,
the Commission did not attribute a burden estimate to this activity
at that time; therefore, no authorization from OMB was needed for
that data collection. In examining various aspects of its
market-based rate program in Order No. 697, FERC compiled all
market-based rate data requirements into the FERC-919. Although the
consolidation of market-based rate data requirements in the
FERC-919 included change in status filings, FERC did not estimate
new burden hours for the change in status filings based on the
assumption they were still a de minimis activity as determined in
Order No. 652. In the July 2010, 60-day Federal Register Notice for
the FERC-919 FERC estimated that the Appendix B addition to change
in status filings would take one hour to complete. The comments
FERC received to its July 2010 notice for renewing the FERC-919
suggested FERCs estimate of one hour to compile and submit change
in status filings was too low. The estimate of 34.75 hours per
response is based on FERCs reviewing and analyzing
change-in-status filings filed during the previous 3-year
collection cycle. FERC has also changed burden and cost estimates
from the July 2010 Notice for the FERC-919 market power analyses in
new applications for market based rates because these analyses
require the expertise of specialized professionals such as
consultant economists, electrical engineers and lawyers whose
average salary estimate is higher than the salary for professional
FERC identified in the July 2010 Notice. Additionally, FERC
increased the burden hours per response for the FERC-919 triennial
market power analysis in category 2 seller updates to 250 hours per
response: market power analyses in these filings showed a
complexity approaching that of initial applications for market
based rate authority. The net result of the above adjustments, as
well as a reduction in the number of respondents, is a reduction in
the number of responses and a reduction in the annual time burden.
The reduction in the number of respondents is the result of an
updated estimate in the number of filers under FERC-919. FERC
estimates the total number of filings expected under the FERC-919
to remain about the same as it has been for the last 3 years.
$2,621,134
No
No
No
No
No
Uncollected
Norma McOmber 202
502-8022
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
eRequest to OMB for approval of a NonSubstantive 6-17-2011.doc
919 30 dy FR 2010.pdf
FERC-919, Market power analysis in new applications for market-based rates