[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 172 (Thursday, September 5, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56825-56826]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-22600]


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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 collection 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 by October 7, 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

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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. EIA-176, 191, 857, 895, 910 and 912, ``Natural Gas Data 
Collection Program Package''
    2. Energy Information Administration
    3. OMB Number 1905-0175
    4. Three-year approval requested--In addition to the changes to the 
surveys outlined in the Federal Register notice published February 25, 
2002, on pages 8530--8532, EIA is also requesting that companies file 
electronically, either by fax or e-mail, unless they lack the 
technology.
    5. Mandatory (Form EIA-895 is voluntary)
    6. The Natural Gas Data Collection Program Package forms collect 
basic and detailed natural gas production, processing, transmission, 
storage, deliveries, and price data. The data are published by the EIA 
and are used by both public and private analysts. Respondents include 
natural gas pipeline companies, distributors, storage operators, 
marketers, processing plant operators, and State agencies.
    7. Business or other for-profit; State, Local or Tribal Government
    8. 45,464 hours ( 2,047 respondents x 6.14 responses per year x 3.6 
hours per response).

    Statutory Authority: Section 3507(h)(1) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13)(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq).

    Issued in Washington, DC, August 28, 2002.
Jay H. Casselberry,
Agency Clearance Officer, Statistics and Methods Group, Energy 
Information Administration.
[FR Doc. 02-22600 Filed 9-4-02; 8:45 am]
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