[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 141 (Friday, July 23, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43159-43160]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-18080]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Energy Information Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request

AGENCY: U.S. 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

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Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey 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 August 23, 2010. 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 (202-
395-7285) or e-mail to [email protected] is recommended. 
The mailing address is 725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503. The 
OMB 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 Alethea Jennings. 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, 1000 Independence Ave., SW., Washington, DC 
20585-0670. Ms. Jennings may be contacted by telephone at (202) 586-
5879.

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; (8) estimated number of 
respondents and (9) 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 EIA-846, ``Manufacturers Energy Consumption Survey.''
    2. Energy Information Administration.
    3. OMB Number 1905-0169.
    4. Three-year extension to an existing approved request.
    5. Mandatory.
    6. Form EIA-846 will be used to collect data on energy consumption 
and related subjects for the manufacturing sector of the U.S. economy. 
In addition to being used for the National Energy Modeling System, the 
MECS is used to augment a database on the manufacturing sector. 
Respondents are manufacturing establishments.
    7. Business or other for-profit.
    8. 15,500.
    9. 47,584 (15,500 respondents x 1 response per year x 9.21 hours 
per response). With a three-year approval, the burden is prorated over 
the three-year period and averaged from a total of 142,751 hours.
    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:  Sec. 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, July 19, 2010.
Stephanie Brown,
Director, Statistics and Methods Group, Energy Information 
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2010-18080 Filed 7-22-10; 8:45 am]
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