[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 190 (Friday, September 29, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58521-58522]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-25005]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Energy Information Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request

AGENCY: Energy Information Administration (EIA), Department of Energy 
(DOE).

ACTION: Agency information collection activities: submission for OMB 
review; Comment request.

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SUMMARY: The EIA has submitted the energy information collections 
listed at the end of this notice to the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) for review and a three-year extension under section 3507(h)(1) of 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et 
seq).

DATES: Comments must be filed on or before October 30, 2000. If you 
anticipate that you will be submitting comments but find it difficult 
to do so within that period, you should contact the OMB Desk Officer 
for DOE listed below as soon as possible.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to the OMB Desk Officer for DOE, Office of 
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 
726 Jackson Place NW., Washington, DC 20503. The OMB DOE Desk Officer 
may be telephoned at (202) 395-3084. (A copy of your comments should 
also be provided to EIA's Statistics and Methods Group at the address 
below.)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information 
should be directed to Grace Sutherland, Statistics and Methods Group, 
(EI-70), Forrestal Building, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC 
20585-0670.

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Ms. Sutherland may be contacted by telephone at (202) 426-1068, FAX at 
(202) 426-1081, or e-mail at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This section contains the following 
information about the energy information collections submitted to OMB 
for review: (1) The collection numbers and title; (2) the sponsor 
(i.e., the Department of Energy component); (3) the current OMB docket 
number (if applicable); (4) the type of request (i.e, new, revision, 
extension, or reinstatement); (5) response obligation (i.e., mandatory, 
voluntary, or required to obtain or retain benefits); (6) a description 
of the need for and proposed use of the information; (7) a categorical 
description of the likely respondents; and (8) 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).
    1. Forms EIA-14, 182, 782A/B/C, 821, 856, 863, 877, 878, and 888, 
``Petroleum Marketing Program.''
    2. Energy Information Administration.
    3. OMB Number 1905-0174.
    4. Three-year extension.
    5. Mandatory.
    6. EIA's Petroleum Marketing Program collects basic data necessary 
to meet EIA's legislative mandates as well as the needs of EIA's public 
and private customers. Data collected include costs, sales, prices, and 
distribution of crude oil and petroleum products. The data are used for 
analyses, publications, and multifuel reports. Respondents are 
refiners, first purchasers, gas plant operators, resellers/retailers, 
motor gasoline wholesalers, suppliers, distributors and importers.
    7. Business or other for-profit.
    8. 125,513 (33,914 respondents  x  4 responses per year  x  .93 
hours).

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

    Issued in Washington, D.C., September 22, 2000.
Jay H. Casselberry,
Agency Clearance Officer, Statistics and Methods Group, Energy 
Information Administration.
[FR Doc. 00-25005 Filed 9-28-00; 8:45 am]
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