[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 111 (Friday, June 7, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 29083]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-14405]



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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 the 
energy information collection(s) listed at the end of this notice 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).

DATES: Comments must be filed within 30 days of publication of this 
notice. 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. Ms. White may be telephoned at (202) 
426-1107.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The energy information collection 
submitted to OMB for review was:

    1. Forms EIA-457A-H, Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS).
    2. Sponsor--Energy Information Administration; Docket Number--1905-
0092; Response Obligation--Voluntary and Mandatory; Extension of 
Currently Approved Collection.
    3. The RECS is a triennial survey of U.S. households to estimate 
energy consumption and expenditures and track changes over time. The 
data are widely used throughout the government and the private sector 
for policy analysis and are made available to the public in a variety 
of publications and electronic data files.
    4. Respondents--Individuals or households; Federal Government; and 
State, Local or Tribal Government.
    5. 6,798 total annual burden hours (9430 respondents; 3140 annual 
responses  x  2.165 hours per response).

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

    Issued in Washington, D.C., May 31, 1996.
Yvonne M. Bishop,
Director, Office of Statistical Standards, Energy Information 
Administration.
[FR Doc. 96-14405 Filed 6-6-96; 8:45 am]
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