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Information Collection Request

FERC-920 (Final Rule in RM12-3, EQR System Refresh), Electric Quarterly Report (EQR)

ICR 201302-1902-003 · OMB 1902-0255 · Historical Active

Forms and Documents
Document
Name
Status
Supplementary Document
2013-05-13
Supplementary Document
2013-05-13
Supplementary Document
2013-05-13
Supporting Statement A
2013-05-13
Supplementary Document
2013-02-12
Supplementary Document
2013-02-12
Supplementary Document
2012-11-08
Supplementary Document
2012-11-29
IC Document Collections
IC ID
Document
Title
Status
205763 New
204970
Unchanged
197630 Modified
ICR Details
1902-0255 201302-1902-003
Historical Active 201211-1902-016
FERC FERC-920
FERC-920 (Final Rule in RM12-3, EQR System Refresh), Electric Quarterly Report (EQR)
Revision of a currently approved collection   No
Regular
Approved with change 05/14/2013
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA) 02/13/2013
In accoradance with 5 CFR 1320, the information collection is approved for three years.
  Inventory as of this Action Requested Previously Approved
05/31/2016 36 Months From Approved 02/29/2016
11,016 0 9,180
246,312 0 234,425
0 0 0
The Commission set forth the EQR filing requirements in Order No. 2001 (in RM01-8-000, issued April 25, 2002). Order No. 2001 required public utilities to electronically file EQRs summarizing transaction information for short-term and long-term cost-based sales and market-based rate sales and the contractual terms and conditions in their agreements for all jurisdictional services. The Commission established the EQR reporting requirements to help ensure the collection of information needed to perform its regulatory functions over transmission and sales, while making data more useful to the public and allowing public utilities to better fulfill their responsibility under FPA section 205(c) to have rates on file in a convenient form and place. In RM12-3, FERC is amending its process and the system by which filings are made. FERC adopts a web-based approach to filing EQRs that will allow a public or non-public utility to file an EQR directly through FERC's website, either through a web interface or by submitting an Extensible Mark-Up Language-formatted file. By adopting a process with two options for filing EQRs, FERC seeks to provide the flexibility needed to accommodate a public or non-public utility's technical preference. The Commission also requires a public or non-public utility to identify itself with a company identification number rather than the existing software-based EQR identifier. The changes to the process for filing EQRs will apply to EQR filings beginning with the third quarter 2013 EQR, which will provide data for July through September 2013.
US Code: 16 USC 824t Name of Law: Federal Power Act
   PL: Pub.L. 109 - 58 119 Stat. 594 (2005) Name of Law: EPAct 2005 (Energy Policy Act of 2005)
  
None
1902-AD52 Final or interim final rulemaking 77 FR 71288 11/30/2012
Yes
  Total Approved Previously Approved Change Due to New Statute Change Due to Agency Discretion Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate Change Due to Potential Violation of the PRA
Annual Number of Responses 11,016 9,180 0 1,836 0 0
Annual Time Burden (Hours) 246,312 234,425 0 11,887 0 0
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars) 0 0 0 0 0 0
Yes
Miscellaneous Actions
No
FERC amends its regulations to change the process for filing Electric Quarterly Reports (EQR). Due to technology changes that will render the current filing process outmoded, ineffective, and unsustainable, the Commission will discontinue the use of Commission-distributed software to file an EQR. Instead, the Commission adopts a web-based approach to filing EQRs that will allow a public or non-public utility to file an EQR directly through the Commission's website, either through a web interface or by submitting an Extensible Mark-Up Language-formatted file. By adopting a process with two options for filing EQRs, the Commission seeks to provide the flexibility needed to accommodate a public or non-public utility's technical preference. The Commission also requires a public or non-public utility to identify itself with a company identification number rather than the existing software-based EQR identifier. The changes to the process for filing EQRs will apply to EQR filings beginning with the third quarter 2013 EQR, which will provide data for July through September 2013. The burden changes in the final rule in RM12-3 relate only to the implementation of the new system. That implementation burden is averaged over the first 3 years here. An updated Data Dictionary was attached to Order 768-A in Docket RM10-12-002 and issued 4/18/2013. It is attached under Supplementary Documents and supersedes the Data Dictionary issued in Nov. 2012.
$719,054
No
No
No
No
No
Uncollected
Christina switzer 202 502-6379 Christina.Switzer@ferc.gov
  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.
02/13/2013