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Dated: February 22, 2021.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2021–04021 Filed 2–25–21; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. ER21–1177–000]

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Crossett Solar Energy, LLC;
Supplemental Notice That Initial
Market-Based Rate Filing Includes
Request for Blanket Section 204
Authorization
This is a supplemental notice in the
above-referenced proceeding of Crossett
Solar Energy, LLC’s application for
market-based rate authority, with an
accompanying rate tariff, noting that
such application includes a request for
blanket authorization, under 18 CFR
part 34, of future issuances of securities
and assumptions of liability.
Any person desiring to intervene or to
protest should file with the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426,
in accordance with Rules 211 and 214
of the Commission’s Rules of Practice
and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and
385.214). Anyone filing a motion to
intervene or protest must serve a copy
of that document on the Applicant.
Notice is hereby given that the
deadline for filing protests with regard
to the applicant’s request for blanket
authorization, under 18 CFR part 34, of
future issuances of securities and
assumptions of liability, is March 15,
2021.
The Commission encourages
electronic submission of protests and
interventions in lieu of paper, using the
FERC Online links at http://
www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic
service, persons with internet access
who will eFile a document and/or be
listed as a contact for an intervenor
must create and validate an
eRegistration account using the
eRegistration link. Select the eFiling
link to log on and submit the
intervention or protests.
Persons unable to file electronically
may mail similar pleadings to the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
888 First Street NE, Washington, DC
20426. Hand delivered submissions in
docketed proceedings should be
delivered to Health and Human
Services, 12225 Wilkins Avenue,
Rockville, Maryland 20852.
In addition to publishing the full text
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Register, the Commission provides all
interested persons an opportunity to
view and/or print the contents of this
document via the internet through the
Commission’s Home Page (http://
www.ferc.gov) using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link.
Enter the docket number excluding the
last three digits in the docket number
field to access the document. At this
time, the Commission has suspended
access to the Commission’s Public
Reference Room, due to the
proclamation declaring a National
Emergency concerning the Novel
Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19), issued
by the President on March 13, 2020. For
assistance, contact the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission at
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call
toll-free, (886) 208–3676 or TYY, (202)
502–8659.
Dated: February 22, 2021.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. EF21–1–000]

Western Area Power Administration;
Notice of Filing
Take notice that on February 16, 2021,
Western Area Power Administration
submitted tariff filing: Formula Rates for
Western Area Power AdministrationRate Order No. WAPA–194, to be
effective 3/25/2021.
Any person desiring to intervene or to
protest this filing must file in
accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of
the Commission’s Rules of Practice and
Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214).
Protests will be considered by the
Commission in determining the
appropriate action to be taken, but will
not serve to make protestants parties to
the proceeding. Any person wishing to
become a party must file a notice of
intervention or motion to intervene, as
appropriate. Such notices, motions, or
protests must be filed on or before the
comment date. On or before the
comment date, it is not necessary to
serve motions to intervene or protests
on persons other than the Applicant.
The Commission strongly encourages
electronic filings of comments, protests
and interventions in lieu of paper using
the ‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://
www.ferc.gov. Persons unable to file
electronically may mail similar
pleadings to the Federal Energy

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Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street
NE, Washington, DC 20426. Hand
delivered submissions in docketed
proceedings should be delivered to
Health and Human Services, 12225
Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, Maryland
20852.
In addition to publishing the full text
of this document in the Federal
Register, the Commission provides all
interested persons an opportunity to
view and/or print the contents of this
document via the internet through the
Commission’s Home Page (http://
ferc.gov) using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link.
Enter the docket number excluding the
last three digits in the docket number
field to access the document. At this
time, the Commission has suspended
access to the Commission’s Public
Reference Room, due to the
proclamation declaring a National
Emergency concerning the Novel
Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19), issued
by the President on March 13, 2020. For
assistance, contact the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission at
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call
toll-free, (886) 208–3676 or TYY, (202)
502–8659.
Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern
Time on March 18, 2021.
Dated: February 22, 2021.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. RD21–2–000]

Commission Information Collection
Activities (FERC–725B2); Comment
Request
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 revisions to the
reporting and recordkeeping
requirements proposed for Reliability
Standards CIP–013–2 (Cyber Security—
Supply Chain Risk Management), CIP–
005–7 (Cyber Security—Electronic
Security Perimeter(s)), and CIP–010–4
(Cyber Security—Configuration Change
Management and Vulnerability

SUMMARY:

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Assessments) in Docket No. RD21–2–
000. The burden for the requirements
will be included in FERC–725B2
(Mandatory Reliability Standards for
Critical Infrastructure Protection [CIP]
Reliability Standards).
DATES: Comments on the collection of
information are due APRIL 27, 2021.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
(identified by Docket No. RD21–2–000)
by any of the following methods:
• eFiling at Commission’s Website:
http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/
efiling.asp
• U.S. Postal Service (USPS): Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426.
• Other Carriers/Couriers: Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225
Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, Maryland
20852.
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).
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 and
telephone at (202) 502–8663.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: FERC–725B2, Mandatory
Reliability Standards for Critical
Infrastructure Protection [CIP]
Reliability Standards.1
OMB Control No.: 1902–0304.

Type of Request: Approval of
proposed changes as described in
Docket No. RD21–2–000.
Abstract: The FERC–725B2 contains
the following information collection
elements.
Pursuant to Reliability Standard CIP–
013–2 Requirement R1, responsible
entities should update their supply
chain risk management plans to include
Electronic Access Control or Monitoring
Systems and Physical Access Control
Systems. The act of implementing the
modified plans and procedures may
result in additional documentation, as
required by Reliability Standard CIP–
013–2, Requirement R2. In addition to
the above one-time paperwork
requirements, pursuant to Reliability
Standard CIP–013–1, Requirement R3,
responsible entities are required to
review their supply chain risk
management plan and associated
procedures every 15 months.
Also, implementation of the technical
requirements in Reliability Standard
CIP–005–7, Requirement R3.1 and
Requirement R3.2 is likely to result in
initial documentation burden.
Reliability Standard CIP–010–4,
Requirement R1.6 will require
modification of certain procedures, as
well as initial implementation and
documentation of said procedures. The
compliance-related requirements of the
above-mentioned standards will
continue on an ongoing basis.
If the modified Reliability Standards
become effective by April 1, 2021, the
effective date of the approved Reliability
Standards will be October 1, 2022.
The NERC petition was filed with the
Commission on December 14, 2020. The
docket was noticed on January 7 with a
21-day comment/intervention period,

ending on January 28, 2021. No
comments or interventions were
received.
Type of Respondent: Businesses or
other for-profit institutions; not-forprofit institutions
Estimate of Annual Burden: 2 The
Commission estimates the total annual
burden and cost 3 for this information
collection in the table below. For hourly
cost (for wages and benefits) for the
reporting requirements, we estimate that
• 2% of the time is spent by Electrical
Engineers (code 17–2071, at $70.19/hr.),
• 15% of the time is spent by Legal
(code 23–0000, at $142.65/hr.),
• 31.5% of the time is spent by
Information Security Analysts
(Occupation Code 15–1122, at $71.47/
hr.),
• 10% of the time is spent by
Computer and Information Systems
Managers (Occupation Code: 11–3021,
at $101.58/hr.),
• 10% of the time is spent by
Management (Occupation Code: 11–
0000, at $97.15/hr.), and
• 31.5% of the time is spent by
Management Analyst (Code: 43–0000 at
$66.23/hr.). Therefore, for reporting
requirements, we use the weighted
hourly cost (for wages and benefits) of
$86.05.
For recordkeeping requirements, for
hourly cost (for wages and benefits), we
are using $41.03 for Information and
Record Clerks (code 43–4199).
The proposed standards are not
changing the reporting or recordkeeping
requirements, however the proposed
standards are expanding the types of
assets to which the reporting and
recordkeeping requirements apply.

FERC–725B2, ESTIMATED ADDITIONAL ANNUAL BURDEN DUE TO DOCKET NO. RD21–21
Type and number of
respondents 4

Type of reporting or
recordkeeping
requirement

Annual
number of
respondents

Annual
number of
responses per
respondent

Total number of
annual responses

Average annual burden
hours & cost ($) per
response

Estimated total annual
burden hrs. & cost
($)

(A)

(B)

(A) × (B) = (C)

D

(C) × (D)

Reliability Standard CIP–013–2

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343 (BA, DP, GO, GOP,
RC, TO, and TOP).

Reporting, Implementation (one-time in Year
1).

1 The reporting and recordkeeping requirements
proposed in Docket No. RD21–2–000 would
normally be included in FERC–725B (OMB Control
No. 1902–0248). However another unrelated item
under FERC–725B is pending review by the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB), and only one
item per OMB Control No. can be pending review
at a time.
We are submitting the additional requirements
(and related burden estimates) described in Docket
No. RD21–2–000 to OMB under the interim
information collection number FERC–725B2 in
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1

343

725B continues to cover the current requirements
of the standards, before implementation of the
additional requirements of Docket No. RD21–2–000.
2 ‘‘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
1320.3.
3 Costs (for wages and benefits) are based on wage
figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for
May 2019 (at https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/

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136 hrs.; $11,702.80 ......

46,648 hrs.;
$4,014,060.40

naics2_22.htm) and benefits information issued
March 19,2020 (at https://www.bls.gov/
news.release/ecec.nr0.htm).
4 There are 1,494 unique registered entities in the
NERC compliance registry as of February 5, 2021.
Of this total, we estimate that 343 entities
(Balancing Authority [BA], Distribution Provider
[DP], Generator Owner [GO], Generator Operator
[GOP], Reliability Coordinator [RC], Transmission
Owner [TO], and Transmission Operator [TOP])
will face an increased paperwork burden due to
Docket No. RD21–2.

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FERC–725B2, ESTIMATED ADDITIONAL ANNUAL BURDEN DUE TO DOCKET NO. RD21–21—Continued

Type and number of
respondents 4

343 (BA, DP, GO, GOP,
RC, TO, and TOP).
343 (BA, DP, GO, GOP,
RC, TO, and TOP).
Sub-Total for CIP–
013–2.

Type of reporting or
recordkeeping
requirement

Annual
number of
respondents

Annual
number of
responses per
respondent

Total number of
annual responses

Average annual burden
hours & cost ($) per
response

Estimated total annual
burden hrs. & cost
($)

(A)

(B)

(A) × (B) = (C)

D

(C) × (D)

Reporting (ongoing starting in Year 2).
Recordkeeping (ongoing
starting in Year 1).
.........................................

343

1

343

30 hrs.; $2,581.50 ..........

10,290 hrs.; $885,454.50

343

1

343

5 hrs.; $205.15 ...............

1,715 hrs.; $70,366.45

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

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

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

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

58,653 hrs.;
$4,969,881.35

Reliability Standard CIP–005–7
343 (BA, DP, GO, GOP,
RC, TO, and TOP).
343 (BA, DP, GO, GOP,
RC, TO, and TOP).
Sub-Total for CIP–
005–7.

Reporting, Implementation (one-time in Year
1).
Recordkeeping (ongoing
starting in Year 1).
.........................................

343

1

343

12 hrs.; $1,032.60 ..........

4,116 hrs.; $354,181.80

343

1

343

3 hrs.; $123.09 ...............

1,029 hrs.; $42,219.87

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

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

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

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

5,145 hrs.; $396,401.67

Reliability Standard CIP–010–4
343 (BA, DP, GO, GOP,
RC, TO, and TOP).
343 (BA, DP, GO, GOP,
RC, TO, and TOP).
Sub-Total for CIP–
010–4.
Total Annual
Burden Hrs.
and Cost, due
to RD21–2.

Reporting, Implementation (one-time in Yr. 1).
Recordkeeping (ongoing
starting in Year 1).

343

1

343

12 hrs.; $1,032.60 ..........

4116 hrs.; $354,181.80

343

1

343

3 hrs,; $123.09? .............

1,029 hrs.; $42,219.87

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

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

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

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

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

5,145 hrs.; $396,401.67

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

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

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

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

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

68,943 hrs.;
$5,762,684.69

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: February 22, 2021.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
Combined Notice of Filings

fercgensearch.asp) by querying the
docket number.
Any person desiring to intervene or
protest in any of the above proceedings
must file in accordance with Rules 211
and 214 of the Commission’s
Regulations (18 CFR 385.211 and
385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern
time on the specified comment date.
Protests may be considered, but
intervention is necessary to become a
party to the proceeding.
eFiling is encouraged. More detailed
information relating to filing
requirements, interventions, protests,
service, and qualifying facilities filings
can be found at: http://www.ferc.gov/
docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For
other information, call (866) 208–3676
(toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659.

Take notice that the Commission has
received the following Natural Gas
Pipeline Rate and Refund Report filings:
Docket Numbers: RP21–503–000.
Applicants: National Fuel Gas Supply
Corporation.
Description: National Fuel Gas Supply
Corporation submits tariff filing per
154.203: Fuel Tracker Per GT&C Section
41 to be effective 4/1/2021 under RP21–
503.
Filed Date: 02/19/2021.
Accession Number: 20210219–5077.
Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 3/3/21.
Docket Numbers: RP21–504–000.
Applicants: Empire Pipeline, Inc.
Dated: February 22, 2021.
Description: Empire Pipeline, Inc.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
submits tariff filing per 154.203: Empire
Deputy Secretary.
Fuel Tracker per GT&C 23.6 to be
[FR Doc. 2021–04026 Filed 2–25–21; 8:45 am]
effective 4/1/2021 under RP21–504.
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Filed Date: 02/19/2021.
Accession Number: 20210219–5081.
Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 3/3/21.
The filings are accessible in the
Commission’s eLibrary system (https://
elibrary.ferc.gov/idmws/search/

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