[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 76 (Wednesday, April 19, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20957-20958]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-9906]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Energy Information Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Emergency 
Review by the Office of Management and Budget

AGENCY: Energy Information Administration, Department of Energy.

SUMMARY: The Energy Information Administration (EIA) has submitted the 
energy information collection listed at the end of this notice to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for emergency processing under 
provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13) (44 
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) by Friday, April 21, 2000. The reason for this 
emergency clearance request is to obtain data needed for responding to 
requests from the Secretary of Energy and Congress on the impact of 
interruptible natural gas contracts, which affected home heating oil 
supplies in the Northeastern United States during January and February 
2000.
    The Supplementary Information contains the following: (1) The 
collection number and title; (2) a summary of the collection of 
information, which includes the sponsor (i.e., the DOE component), 
current OMB document number (where applicable), type of request (new,

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revision, extension, or reinstatement), response obligation (mandatory, 
voluntary, or required to obtain or retain benefits); (3) a description 
of the need and proposed use of the information; (4) a description of 
the likely respondents; and (5) an estimate of the total annual 
reporting burden (i.e., the estimated number of likely respondents 
times the proposed frequency of response per year times the average 
hours per response).

DATES: Comments must be filed by April 20, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Address comments to Mr. Erik Godwin, Department of Energy 
Desk Officer, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of 
Management and Budget, 726 Jackson Place NW, Washington, DC 20503. (Mr. 
Godwin may be reached by telephone at (202) 395-3084. Comments should 
also be addressed to the Statistics and Methods Group at the address 
immediately below.)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information 
should be directed to Herbert Miller, Statistics and Methods Group, 
(EI-70), Forrestal Building, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC 
20585-0670. Mr. Miller may be contacted by telephone at (202) 426-1103, 
FAX at (202) 426-1081, or e-mail at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The energy information collection submitted 
to OMB for review was:
    1. EIA-903, ``Natural Gas Service Interruptions in the Northeast 
during January and February 2000.''
    2. The Energy Information Administration plans to collect 
information from 25 companies which deliver natural gas (i.e., have 
natural gas service arrangements) to consumers in the Northeast.
    The form consists of six parts. Part I contains identification 
data; Part II, information on selected characteristics of interruptible 
service arrangements provided to end-use customers; Part III, names and 
contact information for customers with interruptible service agreements 
who were interrupted; Part IV, baseline monthly and weekly information 
for those categories of service which were interrupted during December 
1999, and January and February 2000; Part V, names and contact 
information for customers with firm service agreements who were 
interrupted; and Part VI, names and contact information for customers 
that declined natural gas service when interruptions were ended and 
natural gas service was offered/available in the report State. This is 
a new survey and a new OMB number is being requested. The response 
obligation will be mandatory.
    3. The data are needed to respond to a request from the Secretary 
of Energy and Congress to jointly conduct a study on the impact of 
interruptible contracts on home heating oil supplies in the Northeast, 
during January and February 2000.
    4. Respondents will be 25 natural gas companies who deliver natural 
gas to consumers.
    5. The reporting burden is expected to be 500 hours. (25 
respondents  x  1 response  x  20 hours).

    Statutory Authority: Section 3507(j)(1) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. No. 104-13).

    Issued in Washington, DC, April 17, 2000.
Nancy J. Kirkendall,
Acting Director, Statistics and Methods Group, Energy Information 
Administration.
[FR Doc. 00-9906 Filed 4-18-00; 8:45 am]
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