[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 152 (Tuesday, August 7, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47048-47049]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-19267]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

U.S. Energy Information Administration


Agency Information Collection Extension

AGENCY: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Department of 
Energy.

ACTION: Notice and request for OMB review and comment.

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SUMMARY: EIA has submitted an information collection request to the OMB 
for extension under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995. The information collection requests a three-year extension of its 
Petroleum Marketing Program, OMB Control Number 1905-0174. The proposed 
collection will collect basic data necessary to meet EIA's legislative 
mandates as well as the needs of EIA's public and private customers. 
Data collected include costs, sales, prices, and distribution of crude 
oil and petroleum products. The data are used for analyses, 
publications, and multi-fuel reports. Respondents are refiners, first 
purchasers, gas plant operators, resellers/retailers, motor gasoline 
wholesalers, suppliers, distributors and importers. EIA intends to 
extend for three years the petroleum marketing survey forms listed 
below:

EIA-14, ``Refiners' Monthly Cost Report''
EIA-182, ``Domestic Crude Oil First Purchase Report''
EIA-782A, ``Refiners'/Gas Plant Operators' Monthly Petroleum Product 
Sales Report''
EIA-782C, ``Monthly Report of Prime Supplier Sales of Petroleum 
Products Sold for Local Consumption''
EIA-821, ``Annual Fuel Oil and Kerosene Sales Report''
EIA-856, ``Monthly Foreign Crude Oil Acquisition Report''
EIA-863, ``Petroleum Product Sales Identification Survey''
EIA-877, ``Winter Heating Fuels Telephone Survey''
EIA-878, ``Motor Gasoline Price Survey''
EIA-888, ``On-Highway Diesel Fuel Price Survey''

DATES: Comments regarding this proposed information collection must be 
received on or before September 6, 2012. If you anticipate that you 
will be submitting comments, but find it difficult to do so within the 
period of time allowed by this notice, please advise the DOE Desk 
Officer at OMB of your intention to make a submission as soon as 
possible. The Desk Officer may be telephoned at 202-395-4718.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should be sent to the DOE Desk Officer, 
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and 
Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10102, 735 17th Street NW., 
Washington, DC 20503; and to Jason Worrall, Office of Survey 
Development and Statistical Integration, U.S. Energy Information 
Administration, Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Ave. SW., U.S. 
Department of Energy, Washington, DC 20585-0670, (202) 586-6075 
(phone).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or 
copies of the information collection instrument and instructions should 
be directed to Jason Worrall at the contact information above. 
Alternatively Mr. Worrall may be emailed at, [email protected]. 
Copies of the information collection instruments and instructions can 
also be viewed at http://www.eia.gov/survey.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This information collection request 
contains: (1) OMB No. 1905-0174; (2) Information Collection Request 
Title: Petroleum Marketing Program; (3) Type of Request: Renewal with 
Change; (4) Purpose: The Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974 (15 
U.S.C. 761 et seq.) and the DOE Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et 
seq.) require EIA to carry out a centralized, comprehensive, and 
unified energy information program. This program collects, evaluates, 
assembles, analyzes, and disseminates information on energy resource 
reserves, production, demand, technology, and related economic and 
statistical information.
    This information is used to assess the adequacy of energy resources 
to meet near and longer term domestic demands.
    EIA's petroleum marketing survey forms collect volumetric and price 
information needed for determining the supply of and demand for crude 
oil and refined petroleum products. These surveys provide a basic set 
of data pertaining to the structure, efficiency, and behavior of 
petroleum markets.
    These data are published by EIA on its Web site, http://www.eia.gov, as well as in publications such as the Monthly Energy 
Review (http://www.eia.gov/

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totalenergy/data/monthly/), Annual Energy Review (http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/), Petroleum Marketing Monthlyhttp://
www.eia.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/petroleum_marketing_monthly/pmm.html), Weekly Petroleum Status Report http://www.eia.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/weekly_petroleum_status_report/wpsr.html), and the International Energy Outlook (http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/ieo/); (5) Annual Estimated Number of 
Respondents: 11,953; (6) Annual Estimated Number of Total Responses: 
106,661; (7) Annual Estimated Number of Burden Hours: 56,186; (8) 
Annual Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: 0. EIA 
estimates that there are no additional costs to respondents associated 
with the surveys other than the costs associated with the burden hours.

    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, on August 1, 2012.
Stephanie Brown,
Director, Office of Survey Development and Statistical Integration, U. 
S. Energy Information Administration.
[FR Doc. 2012-19267 Filed 8-6-12; 8:45 am]
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