[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 189 (Monday, September 29, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56567-56568]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-22785]


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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 revision 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, 2008. 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 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

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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. EIA-176, EIA-191, EIA-757, EIA-857, EIA-895, EIA-910, and EIA-
912.
    2. Energy Information Administration.
    3. OMB Number 1905-0175.
    4. Revision and 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. 50,749.
    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. Chapter 35).

    Issued in Washington, DC, September 23, 2008.
Stephanie Brown,
Director, Statistics and Methods Group, Energy Information 
Administration.
[FR Doc. E8-22785 Filed 9-26-08; 8:45 am]
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