[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 188 (Friday, September 28, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55193-55194]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-19256]


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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 Electric Power 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., at 3507(h)(1)).

DATES: Comments must be filed by October 29, 2007. 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 at 
202-395-7285 or e-mail to [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) 395-7345. (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 (202-586-5271) or e-mail 
([email protected]) is also 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) 586-6264.

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-411, 860, 860M, 861 and 923, ``Electric Power 
Program.''
    2. Energy Information Administration.
    3. OMB Number 1905-0129.
    4. Three-year extension.
    5. Mandatory.
    6. The Electric Power Surveys collect electric power information 
including capacity, generation, fuel consumption, fuel receipts, fuel 
stocks, and prices, along with financial information. Respondents 
include both regulated and unregulated entities that comprise the U.S. 
electric power industry. Electric power data collected are used by the 
Department of Energy for analysis and forecasting. Data are published 
in various EIA reports.
    7. Business or other for profit, Federal Government, state, local 
or tribal government.
    8. Total burden of 98,722 hours.
    The information collections submitted for OMB approval have some 
changes

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from the proposed information collections made available for the public 
comment. The materials submitted to OMB are available for your review 
as noted previously.
    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. No. 104-13) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq., 
at 3507(h)(1)).

    Issued in Washington, DC, September 21, 2007.
Jay H. Casselberry,
Agency Clearance Officer, Energy Information Administration.
[FR Doc. E7-19256 Filed 9-27-07; 8:45 am]
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