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OMB Control No: 1902-0252	ICR Reference No: 201702-1902-004
Status: Historical Inactive	Previous ICR Reference No: 201603-1902-006
Agency/Subagency: FERC	Agency Tracking No: FERC-725G
Title: FERC-725G, (NOPR in RM16-20-000), Mandatory Reliability Standards: PRC Reliability Standards
Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Comment filed on proposed rule and continue	Conclusion Date: 08/11/2017
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 02/28/2017
Terms of Clearance: OMB files this comment in accordance with 5 CFR 1320.11(c) of the Paperwork Reduction Act and is withholding approval of this collection at this time. This OMB action is not an approval to conduct or sponsor an information collection under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The agency shall examine public comment in response to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and will include in the supporting statement of the next ICR, to be submitted to OMB at the final rule stage, a description of how the agency has responded to any public comments on the ICR. This action has no effect on any current approvals.

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	05/31/2019	36 Months From Approved	05/31/2019
Responses	7,479	0	7,479
Time Burden (Hours)	526,877	0	526,877
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Abstract: Background: On December 31, 2014, NERC submitted a petition seeking approval of the PRC-026-1 Reliability Standard, as well as the associated implementation plan, and violation risk factors and violation severity levels. NERC avers that Reliability Standard PRC-026-1 satisfies the FERC Order No. 733 directive to develop a new standard that requires the use of protective relay systems that can differentiate between faults and stable power swings. According to NERC, the Reliability Standard sets forth requirements that prevent the unnecessary tripping of bulk electric system elements in response to stable power swings. NERC further explains that the identification of bulk electric system elements with protection systems at-risk of operating as a result of a stable or unstable power swing and subsequent review by the applicable generator owner or transmission owner “provides assurance that relays will continue to be secure for stable power swings if any changes in system impedance occur.” Reliability Standard PRC-026-1 has four requirements and two attachments. NERC explains “provides clarity on which load-responsive protective relay functions are applicable” under the standard. Specifically, Attachment A provides that Reliability Standard PRC-026-1 applies to: -any protective functions which could trip instantaneously or with a time delay of less than 15 cycles on load current (i.e., “load-responsive”)…. According to NERC, the 15 cycle time delay “is representative of an expected power swing having a slow slip rate of 0.67 Hertz (Hz) and is the average time that a stable power swing with that slip rate would enter the relays’ characteristic, reverse direction, and then exit the characteristic before the time delay expired.” NERC states that the proposed standard does not apply to “functions that are either immune to power swings, block power swings, or prevent non-immune protection function operation due to supervision of the function.” The RM15-8-000 Final Rule was submitted to FERC-725G (OMB Control No. 1902-0252; ICR No. 201603-1902-006) which is a permanent information collection. Docket RM16-20 NOPR related to this ICR. The Commission proposes to approve Reliability Standard PRC-012-2 (Remedial Action Schemes) submitted by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation. The purpose of proposed Reliability Standard PRC-012-2 is to ensure that remedial action schemes do not introduce unintentional or unacceptable reliability risks to the bulk electric system.

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:
1902-AF32	Proposed rulemaking	82 FR 9702	02/08/2017

Federal Register Notices & Comments
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? No

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: Yes

Burden Increase Due to: Miscellaneous Actions

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

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement: Proposed Reliability Standard PRC-012-2 sets forth Requirements for remedial action schemes to ensure that remedial action schemes do not introduce unintentional or unacceptable reliability risks to the bulk electric system and are coordinated to provide the service to the system as intended. Reliability Standard PRC-012-2 improves upon the existing standards because it removes ambiguity in NERC’s original “fill-in-the-blank” Reliability Standards by assigning responsibility to appropriate functional entities. It also streamlines and consolidates the RAS Reliability Standards into one clear, effective Reliability Standard.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $5,481

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: Syed Ahmad 202 502-8718

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