In accordance
with 5 CFR 1320, the information collection is approved for three
years.
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
05/31/2019
36 Months From Approved
05/31/2016
115
0
110
18,400
0
17,600
0
0
0
The Energy Policy Act of 1992 provided
the Commission authority with which it may mandate bulk power
transmission owners to provide access to their transmission grids
to third parties when requested. This allowed transmission systems
to be more accessible to outside customers. In spite of the added
accessibility, transmission owners retained a flexibility of
service that transmission customers did not also receive. Moreover,
timely permission to use the transmission grid did not occur since
the Commission had to review requests on a case-by-case basis. To
remedy these problems, the Commission issued Order No. 888 . Order
No. 888 required utilities owning bulk power transmission
facilities to treat any of their own wholesale and purchases of
energy over their own transmission facilities under the same
transmission tariffs they apply to others. The Energy Policy Act of
2005 further granted significant new responsibilities and authority
to discharge these responsibilities by modifying the Federal Power
Act (FPA), the Natural Gas Act, and the Public Utility Regulatory
Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA). These new responsibilities included
(but not limited to): Overseeing the reliability of the nation's
electricity transmission grid; Implementing new tolls (including
penalty authority) to prevent market manipulation; Providing rate
incentives to promote electric transmission investment;
Supplementing state transmission siting efforts in national
interest electric transmission corridors and; Reviewing certain
holding company mergers and acquisitions involving electric utility
facilities as well as certain public utility acquisitions of
generating facilities. FPA Section 213 requires each transmitting
utility that operates integrated transmission system facilities
rated above 100 kilovolts (kV) to submit annually: Contact
information for the FERC-715; Base case power flow data (if it
does not participate in the development and use of regional power
flow data); Transmission system maps and diagrams used by the
respondent for transmission planning; A detailed description of
the transmission planning reliability criteria used to evaluate
system performance for time frames and planning horizons used in
regional and corporate planning; A detailed description of the
respondent's transmission planning assessment practices (including,
but not limited to, how reliability criteria are applied and the
steps taken in performing transmission planning studies); and A
detailed evaluation of the respondent's anticipated system
performance as measured against its stated reliability criteria
using its stated assessment practices.
The requirements within
FERC-715 did not change. Thus, there is no significant change in
burden from the last date of submittal. The increase in the number
of filers is due primarily to yearly fluctuations in filing
activity. Filers can elect to collaborate and to submit a single,
regional filing in lieu of multiple company-specific filings or to
report changes in an entity’s reporting status.
$12,368
No
No
No
No
No
Uncollected
Stephanie schmidt 202
502-6568
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.