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Dated: August 8, 2017.
Kimberly M. Richey,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Special
Education and Rehabilitative Services.
[FR Doc. 2017–17014 Filed 8–10–17; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4000–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. IC17–13–000]

Commission Information Collection
Activities (FERC–717); Comment
Request; Revision and Extension
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of revised information
collection and request for comments.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission
(Commission or FERC) is soliciting
public comment on a revision to the
information collection, FERC–717,
(Open Access Same-Time Information
System and Standards for Business
Practices and Communication Protocol)
which will be submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for a
review of the information collection
requirements.

SUMMARY:

Comments on the collection of
information are due October 10, 2017.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by Docket No. IC17–13–000
by either of the following methods:

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DATES:

1 Burden is defined as the total time, effort, or
financial resources expended by persons to
generate, maintain, retain, or disclose or provide

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• 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.
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
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:
Title: FERC–717, Open Access SameTime information System and Standards
for Business Practices & Communication
Protocols.
OMB Control No.: 1902–0173.
Type of Request: Three-year approval
of the FERC–717 information collection
requirements with no changes to the
current reporting requirements.
Abstract: The Commission directs all
public utilities that own, control or
operate facilities for transmitting energy
in interstate commerce to provide
certain types of information regarding
their transmission operations on an
Open Access Same-time Information
System (OASIS). The Commission does
not believe that open-access
nondiscriminatory transmission services
can be completely realized until it
removes real-world obstacles that
prevent transmission customers from
competing effectively with the
Transmission Provider. One of the
obstacles is unequal access to
transmission information. The
Commission believes that transmission
customers must have simultaneous
access to the same information available
to the Transmission Provider if truly
nondiscriminatory transmission services
are to be a reality.
The Commission also established
Standards of Conduct requiring that
personnel engaged in transmission

system operations function
independently from personnel engaged
in marketing functions. The Standards
of Conduct were designed to prevent
employees of a public utility (or any of
its affiliates) engaged in marketing
functions from preferential access to
OASIS-related information or from
engaging in unduly discriminatory
business practices. Companies were
required to separate their transmission
operations/reliability functions from
their marketing/merchant functions and
prevent system operators from
providing merchant employees and
employees of affiliates with
transmission-related information not
available to all customers at the same
time through public posting on the
OASIS.
Type of Respondents: Transmission
Owners and Transmission Operators.
Estimate of Annual Burden: 1 The
Commission estimates a reduction in
the annual public reporting burden for
the FERC–717. The numbers comport
two separate entities: Transmission
Owners and Transmission Operators.
The respondent estimate provide
corresponds to 170 Transmission
Operators. The rational is that many
Transmission Owners have elected to
turn over operational control of their
collective transmission systems to
Transmission Operators, including
RTOs/IS0s (as authorized in 18 CFR
37.5). These Transmission Operators
offer OASIS access to the collective
systems facilitating a single OASIS
transmission request serving multiple
transmission systems. As a result of
these efficiency gains, the lower
respondent count is appropriate. For
completeness, we ascribe the reduction
in Transmission Owners to mergers and
acquisitions occurring during the time
periods examined.
Many Transmission Owners have
turned over operational control of their
collective transmission systems to
Transmission Operators, including
RTOs/ISOs. As a result of the efficiency
gains, and an overestimate of the
respondents in our past request, we are
submitting a more accurate number of
respondents. The changes in business
practice standards from version to
version requires a different number of
hours each time a respondent submits
there response. The estimate below
reflects the work associated with the
most recent version of the standards:

information to or for a Federal agency. For further
explanation of what is included in the information

collection burden, refer to 5 Code of Federal
Regulations 1320.3.

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FERC–717, OPEN ACCESS SAME-TIME INFORMATION SYSTEM AND STANDARDS FOR BUSINESS PRACTICES &
COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS

Information collection requirements

Number of
respondents

Annual
number of
responses
per
respondent

Total number
of
responses

Average
burden hours
and cost per
response 2

Total annual
burden hours
and
total annual
cost

(1)

(2)

(1) * (2) = (3)

(4)

(3) * (4) = (5)

FERC–717 ...........................................................................

Comments: Comments are invited on:
(1) Whether the collection of
information is 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 estimate
of the burden and cost of the collection
of information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(3) ways to enhance the quality, utility
and clarity of the information collection;
and (4) ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Dated: August 7, 2017.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017–16959 Filed 8–10–17; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission

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Combined Notice of Filings #2
Take notice that the Commission
received the following electric rate
filings:
Docket Numbers: ER13–1966–001.
Applicants: NRG Wholesale
Generation LP.
Description: Compliance filing:
Informational Filing Regarding Planned
Transfer to be effective N/A.
Filed Date: 8/7/17.
Accession Number: 20170807–5112.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 8/28/17.
Docket Numbers: ER15–2572–004.
Applicants: GenOn Energy
Management, LLC.
Description: Compliance filing:
Informational Filing Regarding Planned
Transfer to be effective N/A.
2 The Commission staff thinks that the average
respondent for this collection is similarly situated
to the Commission, in terms of salary plus benefits.
Based upon FERC’s 2017 annual average of
$158,754 (for salary plus benefits), the average
hourly cost is $76.50/hour.

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Filed Date: 8/7/17.
Accession Number: 20170807–5108.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 8/28/17.
Docket Numbers: ER15–2573–004.
Applicants: GenOn Energy
Management, LLC.
Description: Compliance filing:
Informational Filing Regarding Planned
Transfer to be effective N/A.
Filed Date: 8/7/17.
Accession Number: 20170807–5109.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 8/28/17.
Docket Numbers: ER16–209–004.
Applicants: Southwest Power Pool,
Inc.
Description: Compliance filing:
Central Power Electric Cooperative
Formula Rate Compliance Filing to be
effective 1/1/2016.
Filed Date: 8/7/17.
Accession Number: 20170807–5144.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 8/28/17.
Docket Numbers: ER16–1774–003.
Applicants: Southwest Power Pool,
Inc.
Description: Compliance filing:
Western Farmers Electric Cooperative
Formula Rate Compliance Filing to be
effective 7/1/2016.
Filed Date: 8/7/17.
Accession Number: 20170807–5152.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 8/28/17.
Docket Numbers: ER16–2665–003.
Applicants: NRG Power Midwest LP.
Description: Compliance filing:
Informational Filing Regarding Planned
Transfer to be effective N/A.
Filed Date: 8/7/17.
Accession Number: 20170807–5111.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 8/28/17.
Docket Numbers: ER17–274–002.
Applicants: GenOn Energy
Management, LLC.
Description: Compliance filing:
Informational Filing Regarding Planned
Transfer to be effective N/A.
Filed Date: 8/7/17.
Accession Number: 20170807–5110.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 8/28/17.
Docket Numbers: ER17–1342–001.
Applicants: Duke Energy Florida,
LLC, Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC.
Description: Compliance filing:
Correct Loss Factor Tariff Records to be
effective 5/1/2017.

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$2,295

5,100
$390,150

Filed Date: 8/7/17.
Accession Number: 20170807–5077.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 8/28/17.
Docket Numbers: ER17–2250–000.
Applicants: Midcontinent
Independent System Operator, Inc.
Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing:
2017–08–07_SA 2523 ITC-Pheasant Run
4th Revised GIA (J075 J466) to be
effective 7/24/2017.
Filed Date: 8/7/17.
Accession Number: 20170807–5078.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 8/28/17.
Docket Numbers: ER17–2251–000.
Applicants: GenOn Energy
Management, LLC.
Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: Rate
Schedule FERC No. 1 to be effective
9/1/2017.
Filed Date: 8/7/17.
Accession Number: 20170807–5093.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 8/28/17.
Docket Numbers: ER17–2252–000.
Applicants: NRG Power Marketing
LLC.
Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: Rate
Schedule FERC No. 1 to be effective
9/1/2017.
Filed Date: 8/7/17.
Accession Number: 20170807–5094.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 8/28/17.
Docket Numbers: ER17–2253–000.
Applicants: NorthWestern
Corporation.
Description: NorthWestern
Corporation submits Average System
Cost Filing for Sales of Electric Power to
the Bonneville Power Administration,
FY 2018–2019.
Filed Date: 8/7/17.
Accession Number: 20170807–5121.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 8/28/17.
Docket Numbers: ER17–2254–000.
Applicants: Southern California
Edison Company.
Description: Tariff Cancellation:
Notices of Cancellation IFA & DSA Mid
Valley Landfill Project SA Nos. 73 & 74
to be effective 12/3/2017.
Filed Date: 8/7/17.
Accession Number: 20170807–5127.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 8/28/17.
Docket Numbers: ER17–2255–000.
Applicants: PJM Interconnection,
L.L.C.

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