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OMB Control No: 1902-0258	ICR Reference No: 201307-1902-014
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 201112-1902-005
Agency/Subagency: FERC	Agency Tracking No: FERC-725I
Title: FERC-725I, Mandatory Reliability Standards for the Northeast Power Coordinating Council
Type of Information Collection: No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 08/15/2013
	Date Received in OIRA: 08/14/2013
Terms of Clearance: In accordance with 5 CFR 1320, the terms of the previous clearance remain in effect. It is requested that FERC submit a discontinue request for the FERC-725L collection (OMB Control Number 1902-0261) as the burden for this collection has been moved into the FERC-725I (OMB Control Number 1902-0258).

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	03/31/2015	03/31/2015	03/31/2015
Responses	2,131	0	1,994
Time Burden (Hours)	13,273	0	10,525
Cost Burden (Dollars)	750,000	0	750,000

Abstract: The proposed information collection relates to the FERC-approved Reliability Standards, PRC-002-NPCC-01 & PRC-006-NPCC-01. The PRC-002-NPCC-01 Reliability Standards require transmission owners and generator owners to provide recording capability necessary to monitor the response of the Bulk-Power System to system disturbances, including scheduled and unscheduled outages; requires each reliability coordinator to establish requirements for its area's dynamic disturbance recording needs; and establishes disturbance data reporting requirements. The information collection requirements in these Reliability Standards are under FERC collection, FERC-725I. The PRC-006-NPCC-01 Reliability Standards applies to generator owners, planning coordinators, distribution providers, and transmission owners in the Northeast Power Coordinating Council Region and is designed to ensure the development of an effective automatic underfrequency load shedding (UFLS) program to preserve the security and integrity of the Bulk-Power System during declining system frequency events in coordination with the NERC continent-wide UFLS Reliability Standard PRC-006-1.

Authorizing Statute(s): US Code: 16 USC 824o Name of Law: Federal Power Act

Citations for New Statutory Requirements: None

Associated Rulemaking Information
RIN:	Stage of Rulemaking:	Federal Register Citation:	Date:
	Not associated with rulemaking

Federal Register Notices & Comments
60-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	76 FR 66057	10/25/2011
30-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	77 FR 3752	01/25/2012
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? No

Number of Information Collection (IC) in this ICR: 2

IC Title	Form No.	Form Name
FERC-725I (PRC-002-NPCC-01)
FERC-725I (PRC-006-NPCC-01)

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved	Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate
Annual Number of Responses	2,131	1,994	137
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	13,273	10,525	2,748
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	750,000	750,000	0

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Increase Due to:

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement: Currently, FERC-725L (OMB Control No. 1902-0261) accounts for the information collection burden associated with Mandatory Reliability Standards for the Northeast Power Coordinating Council (NPCC) Region. However, FERC-725I (OMB Control No. 1902-0258) also contains information collection burden associated with the NPCC. The Commission requests OMB approval to add the burden associated with FERC-725L to the existing burden in FERC-725I since both collections account for the information collection burden of Reliability Standards in NPCC. Later, FERC will request to remove the NPCC related burden hours from the FERC-725L. Currently, FERC divides all burden associated with a particular reliability region to be incorporated under the same OMB Control Number.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $1,575

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? No

Is the Supporting Statement intended to be a Privacy Impact Assessment required by the E-Government Act of 2002? No

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? Uncollected

Agency Contact: Kevin Ryan 202 502-6840 kevin.ryan@ferc.gov

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