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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.
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.
DATES:

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;

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(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.
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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
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, Energy.
ACTION: Notice of information
collections and request for comments.
AGENCY:

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
SUMMARY:

1 The

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.

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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.
2 Persons 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
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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 .................................................
FERC–65A ...............................................
FERC–65B ...............................................

8
1
0

1
1
1

8
1
0

3, $216
1, $72
1, $72

24, $1728
1, $72
0, $0

216
72
0

Total ..................................................

........................

........................

9

........................

25, $1,800

........................

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,

15, 2006 or 30 days after they become holding
companies.
3 The 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).

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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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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

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

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 .....................................
Capacity Shortage ...................................

1
1

1
1

1
1

73, $5,256
0.25, $18

73, $5,256
0.25, $18

5,256
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.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission

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

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[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.
6 Per Final Rule RM–11–17–000 regionally
organized markets would not be required to collect
any additional data from market participants;

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requiring regional organized markets to provide
data to the Commission that is already collected.
7 The estimates for cost per response are derived
using the following formula: Average Burden Hours

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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).
per Response * $100.30 per Hour = Average Cost
per Response.

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