[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 22 (Thursday, February 3, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5638-5639]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-2082]


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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 Coal Survey Program 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 March 7, 2005. 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 Grace Sutherland. 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. Ms. Sutherland may be 
contacted by telephone at (202) 287-1712.

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, 4, 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--The EIA-3 will add a 
schedule to collect data from coal synfuel plants on the quantity of 
coal synfuel distributed or sold by type of end-use consumer and 
destination state. The EIA-5 will expand transport mode options to 
include two additional categories: (1) Transport by ship on the Great 
Lakes and (2) transport by tramway or conveyor. The EIA-6A will add a 
new consumer type, Coal Synfuel plants for reporting coal distributed 
to coal synfuel plants. The EIA-7A will collapse two consumer classes: 
coal mining companies and coal dealers for reporting open market sales 
since the individual classes are not published; rather they are 
published as aggregate data.
    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. 7,957 hours.

    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 27, 2005.
Jay H. Casselberry,
Agency Clearance Officer, Statistics and Methods Group, Energy 
Information Administration.
[FR Doc. 05-2082 Filed 2-2-05; 8:45 am]
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