[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 185 (Friday, September 25, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48946-48947]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-23185]


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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 Residential Energy Consumption 
Survey to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and a 
reinstatement 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 October 26, 2009. 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) 395-4638. (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, 1000 
Independence Ave, SW., 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-457 A/G ``Residential Energy Consumption Survey.''
    2. Energy Information Administration.
    3. OMB Number 1905-0092.
    4. Reinstatement.
    5. Mandatory.
    6. EIA's Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) collects 
basic data necessary to meet EIA's legislative mandates as well as the 
energy consumption and expenditures and related subjects for the 
household sector of the U.S. economy.
    7. Individuals, Federal, State, and local Government as well as 
Business or other for-profit.
    8. 8,784 annual burden hours.

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    After the pre-survey consultation 60-day Federal Register notice 
was published on page 8075 on February 23, 2009, EIA received funds in 
order to include weatherization and energy efficiency program 
participation questions on the survey.
    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 13(b) of the Federal Energy 
Administration Act of 1974, Pub. L. 93-275, codified at 15 U.S.C. 
772(b).

    Issued in Washington, DC, September 21, 2009.
Stephanie Brown,
Director, Statistics and Methods Group, Agency Clearance Officer Energy 
Information Administration.
[FR Doc. E9-23185 Filed 9-24-09; 8:45 am]
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