[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 233 (Tuesday, December 6, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72636-72637]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-6903]


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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 Administration's 
Natural Gas Data Collection Program Package collections 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 January 5, 2006. 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 the OMB Desk Officer for DOE, Office of 
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 
726 Jackson Place NW., Washington, DC 20503. The OMB DOE Desk Officer 
may be telephoned at (202) 395-3084. (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, 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, FAX at (202) 287-1705, or e-mail at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This section contains the following 
information about the energy information collections 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,

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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, EIA-191, EIA-857, EIA-895, EIA-910, and EIA-912.
    2. Energy Information Administration.
    3. OMB Number 1905-0175.
    4. Three-year extension.
    5. All forms are mandatory except EIA-895, which is voluntary.
    6. The purpose of the Natural Gas Data Collection Program Package 
is to collect basic and detailed data to meet EIA's mandates and energy 
data users' needs. Adequate evaluation of the industry requires 
production, processing, transmission, distribution, storage, marketing, 
consumption, and price data. The data collected by EIA on these forms 
are unique. While somewhat similar or related data may be available 
from private and/or industry sources, as well as from other Federal 
agencies, such data are not reasonable alternatives for the data 
provided by the Natural Gas Data Collection Program Package survey 
forms. Data from the forms in the Natural Gas Data Collection Program 
Package are published in the Annual Energy Outlook, Annual Energy 
Review, Natural Gas Annual, Natural Gas Monthly, Natural Gas Weekly 
Market Update Report, Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report, Monthly Energy 
Review, Short-Term Energy Outlook, State Energy Data Report, and 
numerous other EIA publications.
    7. Business or other for-profit.
    8. 53,284.

    Statutory Authority: Section 3507(h)(1) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13).

    Issued in Washington, DC, November 30, 2005.
Jay H. Casselberry,
Agency Clearance Officer, Energy Information Administration.
 [FR Doc. E5-6903 Filed 12-5-05; 8:45 am]
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