[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 16 (Thursday, January 24, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3485-3486]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-1743]


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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 (Public Law 104-13) (44 U.S.C. 3501 
et seq).

DATES: Comments must be filed on or before February 25, 2002. 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 Bryon Allen, OMB Desk Officer for DOE, 
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and 
Budget. To ensure receipt of the comments by the due date, submission 
by FAX (202-395-7285) or e-mail ([email protected]) is recommended. 
The mailing address is 726 Jackson Place NW., Washington, DC 20503. The 
OMB DOE Desk Officer may be telephoned at (202) 395-3087. (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 Herbert Miller. To ensure receipt of the comments 
by the due date, submission by FAX (202-287-1705) or e-mail 
([email protected]) is recommended. The mailing address is 
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) 287-1711.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This section contains the following 
information about the energy information collection 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-1, 3, 5, 6A, 6Q, 7A, and 20, ``Coal Program Package.''
    2. Energy Information Administration.
    3. OMB Number 1905-0167.
    4. Revision and three-year approval requested--Data currently 
collected on Forms EIA-3A and EIA-5A will be collected by adding 
appropriate data elements to Forms EIA-3 and EIA-5, which will allow 
EIA to drop the annual surveys, EIA-3A and EIA-5A. EIA is adding an 
additional data element to section J. Mining Location, namely, the 
datum (or geospatial referencing system) that is used in determining 
the latitude and longitude locations which will not be held 
confidential.
    5. Mandatory.
    6. The coal surveys collect data on coal production, consumption, 
stocks, prices, imports and exports. Data are published in various EIA 
publications. Respondents are manufacturing plants, producers of coke, 
purchasers and distributors of coal, coal mining operators, and coal-
consuming electric utilities.
    7. Business or other for-profit; Federal Government; State, Local 
or Tribal Government.
    8. 9,247 hours (3,440 respondents  x  1.5 responses per year  x  
1.78 hours per response).

    Statutory Authority: Section 3507(h)(1) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. No. 104-13) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq).

    Issued in Washington, DC, January 10, 2002.
Jay H. Casselberry,
Agency Clearance Officer, Statistics and Methods Group, Energy 
Information Administration.
[FR Doc. 02-1743 Filed 1-23-02; 8:45 am]
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