2024-21890. Commission Information Collection Activities (FERC-537); Comment Request; Extension

FERC-537 (Gas Pipeline Certificates: Construction, Acquisition, and Abandonment) ³

	Number of respondents	Annual number of responses per respondent	Total number of responses	Average burden & cost per response 4	Total annual burden hours & total annual cost	Cost per respondent ($)
	(1)	(2)	(1) * (2) = (3)	(4)	(3) * (4) = (5)	(5) ÷ (1) 5
18 CFR 157.5-.11 (Interstate Certificate and Abandonment Applications)	31	1.39	* 43	500 hrs.; $50,000	21,500 hrs; $2,150,000	$69,355
18 CFR 157.53 (Pipeline Purging/Testing Exemptions)	1	1	1	50 hrs.; 5,000	50 hrs.; 5,000	5,000
18 CFR 157.201-.209; 157.211; 157.214-.218 (Blanket Certificates Prior to Notice Filings)	30	2.125	63.75	200 hrs.; 20,000	12,750 hrs.; 1,275,000	42,500
18 CFR 157.201-.209; 157.211; 157.214-.218 (Blanket Certificates—Annual Reports)	176	1	176	50 hrs.; 5,000	8,800hrs.; 880,000	5,000
18 CFR 284.11 (NGPA Section 311 Construction—Annual Reports)	75	1	75	50 hrs.; 5,000	3,750 hrs.; 375,000	5,000
18 CFR 284.8 6 (Request for Waiver of Capacity Release Regulations)	31	1.39	* 43	10 hrs.: 1,000	430 hrs.; 43,000	1,390
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18 CFR 284.13(e) and 284.126(a) (Interstate and Intrastate Bypass Notice)	2	1	2	30 hrs.; 3,000	60 hrs.; 6,000	3,000
18 CFR 284.221 (Blanket Certificates)	1	1	1	100 hrs.; 10,000	100 hrs.; 10,000	10,000
18 CFR 284.224 (Hinshaw Blanket Certificates)	2	1	2	75 hrs.; 7,500	150 hrs.; 15,000	7,500
18 CFR 157.5-.11; 157.13-.20 (Non-facility Certificate or Abandonment Applications	11	1.36	15	75 hrs.; 7,500	1,125 hrs.; 112,500	10,227
Project based; Labor wages	22	1	22	15 hrs. 1,500	330 hrs. 33,000	1,500
Total			* 444		49,045 hrs.; 4,539,000
* Rounded.