In accoradance
with 5 CFR 1320, the information collection is approved for three
years.
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
02/28/2019
36 Months From Approved
05/31/2016
11,275
0
11,016
246,830
0
246,312
0
0
0
The Commission set forth the EQR
filing requirements in Order No. 2001 (in RM01-8-000, issued April
25, 2002). Order No. 2001 required public utilities to
electronically file EQRs summarizing transaction information for
short-term and long-term cost-based sales and market-based rate
sales and the contractual terms and conditions in their agreements
for all jurisdictional services. The Commission established the EQR
reporting requirements to help ensure the collection of information
needed to perform its regulatory functions over transmission and
sales, while making data more useful to the public and allowing
public utilities to better fulfill their responsibility under FPA
section 205(c) to have rates on file in a convenient form and
place. In RM12-3, FERC is amending its process and the system by
which filings are made. FERC adopts a web-based approach to filing
EQRs that will allow a public or non-public utility to file an EQR
directly through FERC's website, either through a web interface or
by submitting an Extensible Mark-Up Language-formatted file. By
adopting a process with two options for filing EQRs, FERC seeks to
provide the flexibility needed to accommodate a public or
non-public utility's technical preference. The Commission also
requires a public or non-public utility to identify itself with a
company identification number rather than the existing
software-based EQR identifier. The changes to the process for
filing EQRs will apply to EQR filings beginning with the third
quarter 2013 EQR, which will provide data for July through
September 2013.
In Order No. 697, the
Commission provided standard tariff provisions that sellers must
include in their market-based rate tariffs to the extent they are
applicable based on the services provided by the seller, including
a provision for sales of ancillary services as a third-party
provider. The Commission hereby revises the “Third Party Provider”
ancillary services provision to change the reference to “Regulation
and Frequency Response Service” to “Regulation Service” and to add
a reference to “Primary Frequency Response Service.” The new
language is as follows: Third-party ancillary services: Seller
offers [include all of the following that the seller is offering:
Regulation Service, Reactive Supply and Voltage Control Service,
Energy and Generator Imbalance Service, Operating Reserve-Spinning,
Operating Reserve-Supplemental, and Primary Frequency Response
Service]. Sales will not include the following: (1) sales to an RTO
or an ISO, i.e., where that entity has no ability to self-supply
ancillary services but instead depends on third parties; and (2)
sales to a traditional, franchised public utility affiliated with
the third-party supplier, or sales where the underlying
transmission service is on the system of the public utility
affiliated with the third-party supplier. Sales of Operating
Reserve-Spinning and Operating Reserve-Supplemental will not
include sales to a public utility that is purchasing ancillary
services to satisfy its own open access transmission tariff
requirements to offer ancillary services to its own customers,
except where the Commission has granted authorization. Sales of
Regulation Service and Reactive Supply and Voltage Control Service
will not include sales to a public utility that is purchasing
ancillary services to satisfy its own open access transmission
tariff requirements to offer ancillary services to its own
customers, except at rates not to exceed the buying public utility
transmission provider’s OATT rate for the same service or where the
Commission has granted authorization. The Commission finds that a
seller that already has market-based rate authority as of the
effective date of this Final Rule would be authorized as of that
date to make sales of primary frequency response service at
market-based rates. Such a seller would be required to revise the
third-party provider ancillary services provision of its
market-based rate tariff to reflect that it wishes to make sales of
primary frequency response service at market-based rates. However,
while this authorization is effective for sellers with existing
market-based rate authority as of the effective date of this Final
Rule, in order to reduce their burden the Commission permits such
sellers to wait to file this tariff revision until the next time
they make a market-based rate filing [FERC-516], such as a notice
of change in status filing or a triennial update. Consistent with
the existing requirements of Order No. 2001, any entity selling
primary frequency response service will need to report such sales
in the Electric Quarterly Report [FERC-920], and the Commission
will update its Electric Quarterly Report system to include a
specific product name option for primary frequency response
service. As a result of the Final Rule in RM15-2, there is a
one-time (phased-in) increase in the burden for both the FERC-516
and FERC-920 information collections.
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.
RM15-2Final Rule_Supp State_516-920_2-18-16.docx
RM15-2FinalRUle_news release_20151119-3102.pdf
One-time, phased in over 3 years, due to Final Rule in RM15-2