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electronic review in the Commission’s
Public Reference Room in Washington,
DC. There is an eSubscription link on
the website that enables subscribers to
receive email notification when a
document is added to a subscribed
docket(s). For assistance with any FERC
Online service, please email
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. or call
(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call
(202) 502–8659.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019–05486 Filed 3–21–19; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. IC19–18–000]

Commission Information Collection
Activities (Ferc–740); Comment
Request; Extension
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of 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 the currently
approved information collection, FERC–
740 (Availability of E-Tag Information to
Commission Staff).
DATES: Comments on the collection of
information are due by May 21, 2019.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
(identified by Docket No. IC19–18–000)
by either of the following methods:
• eFiling at Commission’s Website:
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
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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–740, Availability of E-Tag
Information to Commission Staff.
OMB Control No.: 1902–0254.
Type of Request: Three-year extension
of the FERC–740 information collection
requirements with no changes to the
current reporting requirements.
Abstract: In Order 771,1 the FERC–
740 information collection (providing
Commission staff access to e-Tag data)
was implemented to provide the
Commission, Market Monitoring Units,
Regional Transmission Organizations,
and Independent System Operators with
information that allows them to perform
market surveillance and analysis more
effectively. The e-Tag information is
necessary to understand the use of the
interconnected electricity grid,
particularly transactions occurring at
interchanges. Due to the nature of the
electric grid, an individual transaction’s
impact on an interchange cannot be
assessed adequately in all cases without
information from all connected systems,
which is included in the e-Tags. The
details of the physical path of a
transaction included in the e-Tags helps
the Commission to monitor, in
particular, interchange transactions
more effectively, detect and prevent
price manipulation over interchanges,
and improve the efficient and orderly
use of the transmission grid. For
example, the e-Tag data allows the
Commission to identify transmission
reservations as they go from one market
to another and link the market
participants involved in that
transaction.
Order No. 771 provided the
Commission access to e-Tags by
requiring that Purchasing-Selling
Entities 2 (PSEs) and Balancing
Authorities (BAs), list the Commission
on the ‘‘CC’’ list of e-Tags so that the
1 Order 771 was issued in Docket No. RM11–12
(77 FR 76367, 12/28/2012).
2 A Purchasing-Selling Entity is the entity that
purchases or sells, and takes title to, energy,
capacity, and Interconnected Operations Services.
Purchasing-Selling Entities may be affiliated or
unaffiliated merchants and may or may not own
generating facilities. Purchasing-Selling Entities are
typically E-Tag Authors.

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Commission can receive a copy of the eTags (the ‘‘’CC’ list requirement’’). The
Commission accesses the e-Tags by
contracting with a commercial vendor,
OATI.
In early 2014, the North American
Energy Standards Board (NAESB)
incorporated the ‘‘CC’’ list requirement
on e-Tags as part of the tagging process.3
Even before NAESB added the FERC
requirement to the tagging standards,
the ‘‘CC’’ list requirement had already
been programmed into the industry
standard tagging software so as to make
the inclusion of FERC in the ‘‘CC’’ list
automatic, where appropriate.
The Commission expects that PSEs
and BAs will continue to use existing,
automated procedures to create and
validate the e-Tags in a way that
provides the Commission with access to
them. In the rare event that a new BA
would need to alert e-Tag administrators
that certain tags it generates qualify for
exemption under the Commission’s
regulations (e.g., transmissions from a
new non-U.S. BA into another non-U.S.
BA using a path that does not go
through a U.S. BA), this administrative
function would be expected to require
less than an hour of effort total from
both the BA and an e-Tag administrator
to include the BA on the exemption list.
New exempt BAs occur less frequently
than every year, but for the purpose of
estimation we will conservatively
assume one appears each year creating
an additional burden and cost
associated with the Commission’s
FERC–740 of one hour and $65.68.4
Type of Respondents: PurchasingSelling Entities and Balancing
Authorities.
Estimate of Annual Burden: 5 The
Commission estimates the burden and
cost for FERC–740 as follows based on
the distinct e-Tags submitted to the
Commission in 2017 (the most recent
full year available).
3 NAESB Electronic Tagging Functional
Specifications, Version 1.8.2.
4 The estimated hourly cost (wages plus benefits)
provided in this section is based on the figures for
May 2017 posted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
for the Utilities sector (available at https://
www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics2_22.htm), assuming:
15 minutes legal (code 23–0000), at $143.68/hour
45 minutes information and record clerk (code
43–4199), at $39.68/hour.
5 ‘‘Burden’’ is 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, refer to Title 5 Code of Federal Regulations
Part 1320.

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FERC–740

Number of
respondents

Annual number
of responses
per respondent

Total number
of responses

Average burden
hours & cost
per response

Total annual burden
hours & total
annual cost

Cost per
respondent
($)

(1)

(2)

(1) * (2) = (3)

(4)

(3) * (4) = (5)

(5) ÷ (1)

Automatic, so 0 burden
and cost.
Automatic, so 0 burden
and cost.
1 hr.; $65.68 ...................

Automatic, so 0 burden
and cost.
Automatic, so 0 burden
and cost.
$65.68.

1 hr.; $65.68 ...................

$65.68.

Purchasing-Selling Entities (e-Tag Authors).
Balancing Authorities ......

355

4,482 (rounded) ....

1,591,208

81

19,645 (rounded) ..

1,591,208

1

1 ...........................

1

Automatic, so 0 burden
and cost.
Automatic, so 0 burden
and cost.
1 hr.; $65.68 ...................

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

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

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

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

New Balancing Authority
[as noted above].
Total .........................

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: March 18, 2019.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019–05494 Filed 3–21–19; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717–01–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–OAR–2007–1121; FRL–9988–33–
OEI]

Information Collection Request
Submitted to OMB for Review and
Approval; Comment Request; Diesel
Fuel Regulations (40 CFR Part 80,
Subpart I) (Renewal)
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) has submitted an
information collection request (ICR),
Diesel Fuel Regulations (EPA ICR
Number 1718.11, OMB Control Number
2060–0308), to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a
proposed extension of the ICR, which is
currently approved through March 31,
2019. Public comments were previously
requested via the Federal Register on
September 4, 2018 during a 60-day
comment period. This notice allows for
an additional 30 days for public

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comments. A fuller description of the
ICR is given below, including its
estimated burden and cost to the public.
An agency may not conduct or sponsor
and a person is not required to respond
to a collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
DATES: Additional comments may be
submitted on or before April 22, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–
OAR–2007–1121, to (1) EPA online
using www.regulations.gov (our
preferred method), by email to a-and-rdocket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA
Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T,
1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW,
Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB via
email to oira_submission@omb.eop.gov.
Address comments to OMB Desk Officer
for EPA.
EPA’s policy is that all comments
received will be included in the public
docket without change including any
personal information provided, unless
the comment includes profanity, threats,
information claimed to be Confidential
Business Information (CBI) or other
information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
James W. Caldwell, Compliance
Division, Office of Transportation and
Air Quality, 6405A, Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460;
telephone number: 202–343–9303; fax
number: 202–343–2802; email address:
caldwell.jim@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Supporting documents, which explain
in detail the information that the EPA
will be collecting, are available in the
public docket for this ICR. The docket
can be viewed online at
www.regulations.gov or in person at the
EPA Docket Center, WJC West, Room
3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW,
Washington, DC. The telephone number
for the Docket Center is 202–566–1744.
For additional information about EPA’s
public docket, visit http://www.epa.gov/
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Abstract: This ICR renewal is related
to EPA’s diesel fuel regulations under
40 CFR part 80, subpart I, applicable to
highway (motor vehicle) diesel fuel and
non-road, locomotive and marine diesel
fuel (NRLM), Emission Control Area
(ECA) marine fuel, and heating oil. Most
of the information collected under this
ICR is used to evaluate compliance with
the requirements of the regulations.
Motor vehicle diesel fuel and just about
all NRLM diesel fuel now meet a 15 part
per million sulfur standard. The
activities associated with this ICR
include: Registration (new refiners and
importers, updates to existing
registrations); submission of corrections
to prior compliance reports; granting of
research and development exemptions;
generation and retention of quality
assurance records; general
recordkeeping; batch testing for sulfur
content; and the production of product
transfer documents and pump labels.
Form Numbers:
DSF0100 Form: Diesel Fuel Sulfur
Credit Banking & Generation Report
DSF0200 Form: Diesel Fuel Sulfur
Credit Transfer Report
ECA0300 Form: ECA Marine Fuel Sulfur
Precision Demonstration
DSF0302 Form: Diesel Fuel Sulfur
Facility Summary Report
DSF0401 Form: Diesel Fuel Sulfur Batch
Report
DSF0504 Form: Designate & Track
Handoff Report
DSF0601 Form: Designate & Track Total
Volume Report
DSF0700 Form: Designate & Track
Facility Compliance Calculation
Report
DSE0700 Form: Designate & Track
Entity Compliance Calculation Report
DSE0900 Form: Motor Vehicle Diesel
Fuel Sulfur Pre-Compliance Report
DSF0951 Form: NRLM Diesel Fuel
Sulfur Pre-Compliance Report
Respondents/affected entities: Parties
involved with diesel fuels.
Respondent’s obligation to respond:
Mandatory.
Estimated number of respondents:
7,900 (total).
Frequency of response: On occasion.

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