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OMB Control No: 1902-0261	ICR Reference No: 201603-1902-004
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 201502-1902-005
Agency/Subagency: FERC	Agency Tracking No: FERC-725L
Title: FERC-725L (Order in RD16-1) Mandatory Reliability Standards for the Bulk-Power System: MOD Reliability Standards
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: 05/02/2016
	Date Received in OIRA: 03/14/2016
Terms of Clearance: In accordance with 5 CFR 1320, the information collection is approved for three years with the understanding that FERC will remove the one-time burden of 6,720 hours (from the previous ICR201502-1902-005 and IC for MOD-031-1 Reliability Standard (related to the one-time burden hours)) which were imposed by the Final Rule in RM14-12 upon their estimated completion in 2016.

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	04/30/2018	04/30/2018	04/30/2018
Responses	5,693	0	5,693
Time Burden (Hours)	53,911	0	53,911
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Abstract: The FERC-725L contains the information collection requirements related to Modeling, Data, and Analysis (MOD) Reliability Standards. Order in Docket RD16-1. The proposed Reliability Standard MOD-031-2 achieves the same reliability purpose of the prior version MOD-031-1. This standard provides authority for Bulk-Power System planners and operators to collect demand, energy, and related data to support reliability studies and assessments, and enumerates the responsibilities and obligations of requestors and respondents of that data. In its November 13, 2015 petition, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) states that Reliability Standard MOD-031-2 is an improvement to the existing version of the standard because it clarifies the compliance obligations related to (1) providing data to Regional Entities and (2) responding to a request for data subject to confidentiality restrictions. NERC also states that the improvements to the Reliability Standard are consistent with the Commission directives in Order No. 804. In Order No. 804, the Commission approved Reliability Standard MOD-031. However, the Commission also directed, pursuant to 215(d)(5) of the FPA, that NERC develop a modification to Reliability Standard MOD-031-1 to clarify that planning coordinators and balancing authorities must provide demand and energy data upon request of a Regional Entity, as necessary to support NERC’s development of seasonal and long-term reliability assessments. In a Delegated Letter Order in Docket No. RD16-1, the Commission approved the proposed Reliability Standard MOD-031-2 on 2/18/2016. FERC is not changing the way the collection is being done, and is not modifying the burden, cost or respondents, and sees this as a non-material or non-substantive change to a currently approved collection. Final Rule in RM14-12. The approved MOD-031-1 Reliability Standard provides planners and operators access to actual and forecast demand and energy data, as well as other related information, needed to perform resource adequacy studies. The North American Energy Reliability Corporation (NERC) [approved by FERC to serve as the nation-wide Electric Reliability Organization [ERO]] explains that the proposed Reliability Standard also supports the continued development of the reliability assessments prepared by NERC. NERC states that the approved Reliability Standard improves the Existing MOD C Standards by: (1) streamlining the Reliability Standards to clarify data collection requirements; (2) including transmission planners as applicable entities that must report demand and energy data; (3) requiring applicable entities to report weather normalized annual peak hour actual demand data from the previous year to allow for meaningful comparison with forecasted values; and (4) requiring applicable entities to provide an explanation of how their demand side management forecasts compare to actual demand side management for the prior calendar year and how their peak demand forecasts compare to actual demand for the prior calendar year with due regard to any relevant weather-related variations. Along with approving MOD-031-1 Reliability Standard , the Commission also approves the associated implementation plan, violation risk factors and violation severity levels, and NERC's retirement of the currently effective Reliability Standards MOD-016-1.1, MOD-017-0.1, MOD-018-0, MOD-019-0.1, and MOD-021-1 (existing MOD C Standards). [The standards scheduled for retirement are covered under FERC-725A.]

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

Citations for New Statutory Requirements: None

Associated Rulemaking Information
RIN:	Stage of Rulemaking:	Federal Register Citation:	Date:
1902-AE91	Final or interim final rulemaking	80 FR 9596	02/24/2015

Federal Register Notices & Comments
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? Yes

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved
Annual Number of Responses	5,693	5,693
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	53,911	53,911
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	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:

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $5,193

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: Susan Morris 202 502-6803

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