[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 239 (Wednesday, December 12, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64220-64221]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-30748]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


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

AGENCY: Department of Energy.

ACTION: Submission for OMB review; comment request.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy (DOE), pursuant to section 
3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, intends to extend 
for three years, an information collection package with the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB).
    The package covers collections of information concerning the public 
and the management and administration of DOE's Government-owned/
contractor-operated facilities (GOCOs), off-site contractors, and the 
public. The information is used by Departmental management to exercise 
management oversight with respect to the implementation of applicable 
statutory and contractual requirements and obligations. The collection 
of this information is critical to ensure that the Government has 
sufficient information to judge the degree to which contractors meet 
contractual requirements; that public funds are being spent in the 
manner intended; and that fraud, waste, and abuse are immediately 
detected and eliminated.

DATES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed 
collections of information must be submitted to the OMB Desk Officer, 
within January 11, 2002. If you anticipate that you will be submitting 
comments, but find it difficult to do so within the period of time 
allowed by this Notice, please advise the OMB Desk Officer of your 
intention to make a submission as soon as possible. The Desk Officer 
may be telephoned at (202) 395-3087. In addition, please notify the DOE 
contact listed in this Notice.

ADDRESSES: Address comments to the DOE Desk Officer, Office of 
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 
New Executive Office Building, Room 10102, 725 17th Street, NW, 
Washington, DC 20503. (Comments should also be addressed to Susan L. 
Frey, Director, Records Management Division, Office of the Deputy 
Associate CIO for Cyber Security [IM-11], Office of the Chief 
Information Officer, U.S. Department of Energy, Germantown, MD 20874-
1290.)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for copies of the 
Department's Paperwork Reduction Act Submission should be directed to 
Michael B. Raizen, Office of Procurement and Assistance

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Policy (ME-61), U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC 20585, (202) 
586-8189. Any other information should be directed to Ms. Susan L. 
Frey, (see above address), by telephone at (301) 903-3666 or e-mail at 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This package contains: (1) Current OMB No. 
1910-4100; (2) Package Title: Procurement; (3)Summary: Request for a 
three-year extension, which covers mandatory responses; (4) Purpose: 
This information is required by DOE to ensure that programmatic and 
administrative management requirements and resources are managed 
efficiently and effectively and to exercise management oversight over 
DOE M&O contractors of the Department's GOCO facilities, and off-site 
contractors. (5) Type of Respondents: DOE management and operating 
contractors; off-site contractors, and the public; (6) Estimated Number 
of Responses: 3,811; Estimated number of Burden Hours: 1,086,529. This 
estimate is the sum of the burden reported by Departmental Elements and 
the Field Organizations as compiled from their respective contractors 
or estimated by expert personnel familiar with these collections. 
Computations are based on the number of respondents times the annual 
reporting frequency times the hours per each response.

    Statutory Authority: Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13).

    Issued in Washington, DC on December 5, 2001.
Loretta D. Bryant,
Acting Director, Records Management Division, Office of Deputy 
Associate CIO for Cyber Security, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer.
[FR Doc. 01-30748 Filed 12-11-01; 8:45 am]
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