[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 131 (Monday, July 11, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39762-39763]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-13543]


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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 with revisions 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 August 10, 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 John Asalone, 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) 395-4650. 
(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 Kara Norman. To ensure timely receipt of any 
comments sent to EIA, submission by FAX (202-287-1705) or e-mail 
([email protected]) is recommended. Kara Norman's mailing address 
is Statistics and Methods Group (EI-70), Forrestal Building, U.S. 
Department of Energy, Washington, DC 20585-0670. Kara Norman may be 
contacted by telephone at (202) 287-1902.

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. Form OE-417, ``Electric Emergency Incident and Disturbance 
Report''.
    2. Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability/OE.
    3. OMB Number 1901-0288.
    4. Revision and three-year approval requested.
    5. Mandatory.
    6. Form OE-417 collects information on electric emergency incidents 
and disturbances for DOE's use in fulfilling its overall national 
security and other energy management responsibilities. The information 
will also be used by DOE for analytical purposes. All electric 
utilities, including those that operate Control Area Operator functions 
and Reliability Authority functions, will be required to supply 
information when an incident or disturbance meets a reporting 
threshold.
    Since the pre-survey consultation notice was published, the program 
will request respondents to report outages that affect 50,000 customers 
or more. This was a revision based on public

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comments that claimed a reduction to report outages that affect 25,000 
customers or more would be too burdensome.
    7. Business or other for-profit; State, local or tribal government.
    8. 4,322 hours.

    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, June 21, 2005.
Jay H. Casselberry,
Agency Clearance Officer, Energy Information Administration.
[FR Doc. 05-13543 Filed 7-8-05; 8:45 am]
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