[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 233 (Monday, December 4, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 75684]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-30768]



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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: Submission for OMB review; comment request.

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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 review and reinstatement 
under section 3506(c) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 
104-13).
    The entry contains the following information: (1) The collection 
numbers and title; (2) a summary of the collection of information, 
including the sponsor (i.e., the Department of Energy component), 
current OMB document number (if applicable), type of request (i.e, new, 
revision, extension, or reinstatement), and response obligation (i.e., 
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 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 OMB DOE Desk Officer may be 
telephoned at (202) 395-7318. (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 N.W., Washington, D.C. 20503. (Comments 
should also be addressed to the 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. Ms. Sutherland may be contacted by telephone at (202) 287-
1712, FAX at (202) 287-1705, or e-mail at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The energy information collection submitted 
to OMB for review was:
    1. Forms EIA-457 A/G ``Residential Energy Consumption Surveys''.
    2. Energy Information Administration; OMB Number 1905-0092;. 
Reinstatement with revisions of currently approved collections; 
Mandatory.
    3. EIA's Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) 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 
energy consumption and expenditures and related subjects for the 
household sector of the U.S. economy during the 2001 calendar year.
    4. Individuals, Federal, State, and local Government as well as 
Business or other for-profit.
    5. 2,842 hours (.55 hours per response  x  .33 responses per year 
x  15,535 respondents).
    Responses per year'' is prorated over requested three-year approval 
period.

    Statutory Authority: Section 3506(c) of the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13).

    Issued in Washington, D.C., November 28, 2000.
Jay H. Casselberry,
Agency Clearance Officer, Statistics and Methods Group, Energy 
Information Administration.
[FR Doc. 00-30768 Filed 12-1-00; 8:45 am]
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