The Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (Commission or FERC) requests that the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) review and approve modifications to the
FERC-725S (Mandatory Reliability Standards: Emergency Preparedness
and Operations (EOP) Reliability Standards) under OMB Control No.
1902-0270 for a three-year period. he EOP Standards are currently
located in the FERC-725S (OMB Control No. 1902-0270) collection. In
Docket No. RD25-7-000, the Commission proposes to replace the
current OMB approved Reliability Standard EOP-012-2 with proposed
Reliability Standard EOP-012-3. Proposed Requirements R1 through R5
and R7 through R9 are carried over and modified from a prior
version of the Standard. Proposed Requirement R6 and Attachment 1
are new. The proposed Standard creates a mechanism for NERC to
receive, review, evaluate, and confirm validity of each Generator
Cold Weather Constraint as well as corrective action extension
requests from generator owners beyond the maximum timeframe. In
addition, the proposed Standard implements more frequent reviews of
the Generator Cold Weather Constraint declarations to verify they
remain valid. The proposed Standard also adds Attachment 1 and
modifies the Generator Cold Weather Constraint definition to
address concerns related to ambiguity of the defined
terms.
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USC 824o Name of Law: The Energy Policy Act of 2005
In Docket No. RD25-7-000, NERC
petitioned the Commission for approval of revisions to the EOP
standards from EOP-012-2 to EOP-012-3. Due to the revision, the
Commission is removing its estimates for EOP-012-2 and replacing
them with our estimates for EOP-012-3. Thus, the removal includes
all of the one-time costs associated with EOP-012-2. This results
in a total reduction of -1210 responses and -6,050 hours which were
the onetime costs. Further, the addition of +1,314 responses and
+5,256 burden hrs. associated with EOP-012-3 caused a decrease in
the total Program change by Agency discretion of -300 responses and
-1,602 hours.
$7,978
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
David O'Conner 202
502-6695
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.
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EOP-011-4 Annualized Ongoing (RD24-1-000)