[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 200 (Tuesday, October 17, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53772-53773]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-25684]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Energy Information Administration


Agency Information Collection Under Review by the Office of 
Management and Budget

AGENCY: Energy Information Administration, Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of request submitted for review by the Office of 
Management and Budget.

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SUMMARY: The Energy Information Administration (EIA) has submitted 
energy information collections to the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) for review under provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995.

DATES: Comments must be filed by no later than November 16, 1995. If 
you anticipate that you will be submitting comments but find it 
difficult to do so within the time allowed by this notice, you should 
advise the OMB DOE Desk Officer listed below of your intention to do so 
as soon as possible. The Desk Officer may be telephoned at (202) 395-
3084. (Also, please notify the EIA contact listed below.)

ADDRESSES: Address comments to the Department of Energy Desk Officer, 
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and 
Budget, 726 Jackson Place, NW, Washington, D.C. 20503. (Comments should 
also be addressed to the Office of Statistical Standards at the address 
below.)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Requests for additional information or copies 
of the forms and instructions should be directed to Norma White, Office 
of Statistical Standards, (EI-73), Forrestal Building, U.S. Department 
of Energy, Washington, D.C. 20585-0670. Ms. White may be telephoned at 
(202) 254-5327.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Energy Information Administration (EIA) 
has submitted the energy information collection(s) listed below to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review under provisions of 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13). The listing does 
not include collections of information contained in new or revised 
regulations which are to be submitted under section 3507(d)(1)(A) of 
the Paperwork Reduction Act, nor management and procurement assistance 
requirements collected by the Department of Energy (DOE).
    Each entry contains the following information: (1) Collection 
number and title; (2) summary of the collection of information 
(includes sponsor; i.e., the DOE component), current OMB document 
number (if applicable), response obligation (mandatory, voluntary, or 
required to obtain or retain benefits), and type of request (new, 
revision, extension, or reinstatement); (3) a description of the need 
and proposed uses of the information; (4) a description of the likely 
respondents; and (5) an estimate of the total annual reporting and 
recordkeeping burden (number of respondents per year times the average 
number of responses per respondent annually times the average burden 
per response).
    The energy information collections submitted to OMB for review 
were:
    1. Forms EIA-412, EIA-759, EIA-826, EIA-860, EIA-861, EIA-867, and 
EIA-900, Electric Power Surveys.
    2. Sponsor--Energy Information Administration; Docket Number--1905-
0129; Response Obligation--Mandatory; and Revision--Significant changes 
in the Electric Power Surveys since the EIA requested comments earlier 
this year are:
    a. The filing date for the Forms EIA-412, EIA-861, and the EIA-867 
will be April 30 of each year following the data reporting calendar 
year.
    b. Monthly reporting on the Form EIA-759, ``Monthly Power Plant 
Report,'' will be required for those operating utilities having at 
least one plant with a nameplate capacity of 25 megawatts or more. All 
other operating utilities will file yearly data on the Form EIA-759 at 
the end of each calendar year.
    c. The Form EIA-861, ``Annual Electric Utility Report,'' and the 
Form EIA-867, ``Annual Nonutility Power Producer Report,'' will 
continue as separate surveys and will not be merged into the originally 
proposed Form EIA-899.
    d. Form EIA-867, ``Annual Nonutility Power Producer Report,'' data 
on Schedules: I, Identification and Certification; II, Facility 
Information; and III, Standard Industrial Classification Code 
Designation; and VII, Notes, relating exclusively to these three 
schedules, will not be considered confidential by the EIA. Data 
reported on Schedules: IV.A, Facility Fuel Information; IV.B, Facility 
Generation Information; V, Facility Environmental Information; VI, 
Electric Generator Information; and VII, Notes, relating exclusively to 
these three schedules will continue to be held as confidential by the 
EIA.
    e. New Form EIA-900, ``Monthly Nonutility Sales for Resale 
Report,'' will be required only from facilities with a nameplate 
capacity of 50 megawatts or more. The survey will collect one item on 
sales of electricity for resale and all data collected will be 
considered confidential by the EIA.
    3. The Electric Power Surveys will collect information on capacity, 
generation, fuel receipts, consumption, fuel stocks, fuel prices, 
electric rates, construction costs, operating income, and revenues of 
electricity companies. Respondents include both electric utilities and 
nonutility electric power producers. Data are used for publication and 
analysis in both the public and private sectors.
    4. State or local governments; businesses or others for profit; and 
Federal agencies or employees.
    5. 66,512 total annual burden hours (7,944 respondents  x  2.24 
responses per respondent per year  x  3.739 hours per response).


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    Statutory Authority: Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. No. 104-13).

    Issued in Washington, DC, October 11, 1995.
John Gross,
Acting Director, Office of Statistical Standards, Energy Information 
Administration.
[FR Doc. 95-25684 Filed 10-16-95; 8:45 am]
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