[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 48 (Tuesday, March 12, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Page 8851]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-04441]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

 Energy Information Administration


Proposed Agency Information Collection

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

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: EIA submitted an information collection request for extending, 
with changes, the Oil and Gas Reserves Survey Program pursuant to the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The information collection requests a 
three-year extension of Form EIA-64A, Annual Report of the Origin of 
Natural Gas Liquids Production; Form EIA-23L, Annual Report of Domestic 
Oil and Gas Reserves; and Form EIA-23S, Annual Survey of Domestic Oil 
and Gas Reserves, Summary Level Report. The information collected is 
used to develop accurate national and regional estimates of proved 
reserves of domestic crude oil and natural gas.

DATES: Comments regarding this collection must be received on or before 
April 11, 2019. If you anticipate any difficulties in submitting your 
comments by the deadline, contact the DOE Desk Officer at (202) 395-
0710.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should be sent to the DOE Desk Officer: 
Brandon DeBruhl, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office 
of Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10102, 
735 17th Street NW, Washington, DC, 20503. 
[email protected]; And to Steven G. Grape, U.S. Energy 
Information Administration, Mail Stop EI-24, Forrestal Building 1000 
Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20585, [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steven G. Grape, (202) 586-1868, email 
at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This information collection request 
contains:
    (1) OMB No. 1905-0057;
    (2) Information Collection Request Title: Oil and Gas Reserves 
System;
    (3) Type of Request: Three-year extension with changes.
    (4) Purpose: Forms EIA-23L and EIA-23S provide accurate national 
and regional data on the proved reserves of crude oil, natural gas, and 
natural gas liquids (NGL). Form EIA-64A provides data that are used to 
estimate natural gas plant liquids production and reserves by state and 
federal offshore regions.
    (4a) Changes to Information Collection:
    Changes to Form EIA-23L:
    [ssquf] Coalbed methane is deleted as a response category choice 
for Type Code reported in section 2. Fields previously classified as 
coalbed methane will be merged into the conventional gas category.
    Changes to Form EIA-64A:
    [ssquf] Collect the total outlet volume of residue natural gas and 
the volume of residue natural gas sent to a pipeline.
    [ssquf] Collect the amount of electricity consumed annually at the 
natural gas plant (a growing percentage of natural gas processing 
plants are 100% electrically-powered rather than consuming any of the 
natural gas received for processing as fuel, because of air quality 
restrictions imposed on sources of combustion emissions).
    [ssquf] Collect an annual total of natural gas liquids by 
components or products produced at the natural gas processing plant in 
Section 3 of Form EIA-64A, rather than requesting only total plant NGL 
volume reported in Line 4.8.
    [ssquf] Delete Item 5.0 Gas Shrinkage Resulting from Natural Gas
    Liquids Extracted. Operators no longer need to calculate their own 
estimate of the volumes of gas shrinkage in millions of cubic feet 
(MMCF) resulting from the removal of natural gas liquids from the 
natural gas received at the plant. The shrinkage volumes will now be 
calculated automatically by EIA using the component data from Section 
3.
    (5) Annual Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,600 total 
respondents:
    Form EIA-23Lconsist of 500 respondents.
    Form EIA-23S consist of 500 respondents.
    Form EIA-64A consist of 600 respondents.
    (6) Annual Estimated Number of Responses: 1,600 total responses.
    (7) Annual Estimated Number of Burden Hours: 28,800 hours.
    (8) Annual Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: The 
cost of burden hours to the respondents is estimated to be $ 2,131,776 
(28,800 burden hours times $74.02 per hour). EIA estimates that there 
are no additional costs to respondents associated with the surveys 
other than the cost associated with the burden hours.

    Statutory Authority: 15 U.S.C. 772(b).

    Signed in Washington, DC, on March 5, 2019.
Nanda Srinivasan,
Director, Office of Survey Development and Statistical Integration, 
U.S. Energy Information Administration.
[FR Doc. 2019-04441 Filed 3-11-19; 8:45 am]
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