FERC-725E, (Final Rule for
RM19-20) Mandatory Reliability Standards for the Western Electric
Coordinating Council
Revision of a currently approved collection
No
Regular
05/04/2021
Requested
Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
09/30/2021
1,248
1,733
1,917
2,218
0
0
3 year renewal and revisions for Final
Rule Regional Reliability Standards generally require entities to
document compliance with substantive requirements, retain
documentation, and submit reports to WECC. The following standards
will be continuing without change: • BAL-004-WECC-03 (Automatic
Time Error Correction) requires balancing authorities to document
that time error corrections and primary inadvertent interchange
payback were conducted according to the requirements in the
standard. • FAC-501-WECC-2 (Transmission Maintenance) requires
transmission owners with certain transmission paths to have a
transmission maintenance and inspection plan and to document
maintenance and inspection activities according to the plan. •
VAR-501-WECC-3.1 (Power System Stabilizer [PSS]) requires generator
owners and operators to ensure the Western Interconnection is
operated in a coordinated manner by establishing the performance
criteria for WECC power system stabilizers. The Commission is
submitting this request to OMB to extend those requirements with no
change for three years. The Commission’s request to OMB also
reflects the following: • Implement the regional Reliability
Standard BAL-002-WECC-3 (addressed in Docket No. RM19-20), and •
Adjustments to the burden estimates due to changes in the NERC
Compliance Registry for regional Reliability Standards
BAL-002-WECC-3 (Contingency Reserve) and IRO-006-WECC-3 (Qualified
Path Unscheduled Flow (USF) Relief). OPR is to make changes to The
Purpose of BAL-002-WECC-2a Contingency Reserve is: “To specify the
quantity and types of Contingency Reserve required to ensure
reliability under normal and abnormal conditions.” Of the eight
NERC Reliability Principles, this standard addresses Reliability
Principle 1, which states: “Interconnected bulk power systems shall
be planned and operated in a coordinated manner to perform reliably
under normal and abnormal conditions as defined in the NERC
Standards.”
US Code:
16
USC 824o Name of Law: Federal Power Act
The changes in burden are due
to the need for applicable entities to revise documentation,
already required by the current WECC regional Reliability Standard
BAL-002-WECC-2a, to reflect the retirement of Requirement R2 in the
proposed WECC regional Reliability Standard BAL-002-WECC-3. Also,
adjustments to the burden estimates are needed due to changes in
the NERC Compliance Registry for regional Reliability Standards
BAL-002-WECC-3 and IRO-006-WECC-3. The table in the supporting
statement on question #15 describes the new and continuing
information collection requirements and the associated burden for
FERC-725E. The Commission is also removing 1746 one-time burden
hours associated with the requirements in Docket No. RD17-5 for
regional Reliability Standard VAR-501-WECC-3. The one-time burden
has been completed and will now be administratively removed on
submittal to OMB. The annual responses and annual burden in the
current OMB-approved inventory is 1,733 responses and 2,218 hours
respectively. The estimates are the average total number of annual
responses and corresponding burden hours for years 1, 2 and 3,
divided by three, giving the average annual estimate for Years
1-3.
$6,475
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Susan Morris 202
502-6803
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.