[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 150 (Thursday, August 5, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 47430]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-17886]


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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 new survey form EIA-914, ``Monthly 
Natural Gas Production Report'' to the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) for review and a three-year approval 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 September 7, 2004. 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 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) is recommended. The mailing address is 726 Jackson Place, 
NW., Washington, DC 20503. (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.
    1. EIA-914, ``Monthly Natural Gas Production Report''.
    2. Energy Information Administration.
    3. OMB Number--Not applicable.
    4. New.
    5. Mandatory.
    6. The purpose of the survey is to collect monthly data on the 
production of natural gas in seven geographical areas (Texas (including 
State offshore), Louisiana (including State offshore), Oklahoma, New 
Mexico, Wyoming, Federal Gulf of Mexico offshore and Other States 
(defined as all remaining states, except Alaska, in which the operator 
produced natural gas during the report month). Data will be used to 
monitor natural gas supplies. Survey respondents would be a sample of 
well operators.
    Since EIA's main goal is to have timely overall production 
information, at this time the agency is not proposing to collect 
information on gas used for repressuring and reinjection, gas vented 
and flared, fuel used on the lease, or nonhydrocarbons removed on the 
lease, as proposed in the Federal Register on April 23, 2004, pp. 
22019-22025. The proposed data collection would consist of (1) natural 
gas gross withdrawals (wet) and (2) natural gas lease production.
    7. Business or other for-profit.
    8. 15,517 hours.
    Please refer to the supporting statement as well as the proposed 
forms and instructions for more information about the purpose, who must 
report, when to report, where to submit, the elements to be reported, 
detailed instructions, provisions for confidentiality, and uses 
(including possible nonstatistical uses) of the information. For 
instructions on obtaining materials, see the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 
CONTACT section.

    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, July 30, 2004.
Jay H. Casselberry,
Agency Clearance Officer, Statistics and Methods Group, Energy 
Information Administration.
[FR Doc. 04-17886 Filed 8-4-04; 8:45 am]
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