# Data Collection for Analytics and Surveillance and Market-Based Rate Purposes
> **US Department of Energy** · Final rule. · Published 2019-07-26 · Effective 2020-10-01 · 84 FR 36390
## Document
- **Document number:** 2019-15714
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** US Department of Energy
- **Federal Register citation:** 84 FR 36390
- **CFR reference:** 18 CFR 35
- **Publication date:** 2019-07-26
- **Effective date:** 2020-10-01
- **Energy docket:** Docket No. RM16-17-000
## Abstract

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) is revising its regulations governing market-based rates for public utilities. The Commission will collect certain information currently filed in the electric market-based rate program in a consolidated and streamlined manner through a relational database. The relational database construct modernizes the Commission's data collection processes, eliminates duplications, and renders information collected through its market-based rate program usable and accessible for the Commission. The Commission will not adopt the proposal from the NOPR to collect Connected Entity data from market-based rate Sellers and entities trading virtual or holding financial transmission rights in this final rule. With respect to the market-based rate program, the Commission will adopt changes that reduce and clarify the scope of ownership information that Sellers must provide as part of their market-based rate filings. In addition, the Commission will modify its regulations to change the information required in a Seller's asset appendix as well as the format through which such information must be submitted. The revised regulations will require a Seller to update the relational database on a monthly basis to reflect any changes that have occurred but will also extend the change in status filing requirement to a quarterly filing obligation. Finally, the Commission will modify its regulations to eliminate the requirement that Sellers submit corporate organizational charts.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/07/26/2019-15714/data-collection-for-analytics-and-surveillance-and-market-based-rate-purposes)
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