96-25880. Agency Information Collection Under Review by the Office of Management and Budget

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 197 (Wednesday, October 9, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 52926]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-25880]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Energy Information Administration


Agency Information Collection Under Review by the Office of 
Management and Budget

AGENCY: Energy Information Administration, Department of Energy.

ACTION: Submission for OMB review; comment request.

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SUMMARY: The Energy Information Administration (EIA) has submitted the 
energy information collection(s) listed at the end of this notice to 
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review under section 
3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13). 
The listing does not include collections of information contained in 
new or revised regulations which are to be submitted under section 
3507(d)(1)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act, nor management and 
procurement assistance requirements collected by the Department of 
Energy (DOE).
    Each entry contains the following information: (1) Collection 
number and title; (2) summary of the collection of information 
(includes sponsor (the DOE component)), current OMB document number (if 
applicable), type of request (new, revision, extension, or 
reinstatement); response obligation (mandatory, voluntary, or required 
to obtain or retain benefits); (3) a description of the need and 
proposed use of the information; (4) description of the likely 
respondents; and (5) estimate of total annual reporting burden (average 
hours per response  x  proposed frequency of response per year  x  
estimated number of likely respondents.)

DATES: Comments must be filed on or before November 8, 1996. If you 
anticipate that you will be submitting comments but find it difficult 
to do so within the time allowed by this notice, you should advise the 
OMB DOE Desk Officer listed below of your intention to do so as soon as 
possible. The Desk Officer may be telephoned at [phone]. (Also, 
please notify the EIA contact listed below.)

ADDRESSES: Address comments to the Department of Energy Desk Officer, 
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and 
Budget, 726 Jackson Place N.W., Washington, D.C. 20503. (Comments 
should also be addressed to the Office of Statistical Standards at the 
address below.)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information 
should be directed to Jay Casselberry, Office of Statistical Standards, 
(EI-73), Forrestal Building, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, 
D.C. 20585. Mr. Casselberry may be telephoned at [phone], FAX 
[phone], or e-mail at [e-mail].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The energy information collection submitted 
to OMB for review was:
    1. EIA-176, 191, 191S, 857, 857S, and 895 ``Natural Gas Program 
Package'';
    2. Energy Information Administration, OMB No. 1905-0175, Extension 
with changes (i.e., discontinue Form EIA-627 and modify Form EIA-895 to 
collect annual reporting of monthly natural gas wellhead prices), 
Mandatory for all forms except EIA-895 which is voluntary;
    3. The Natural Gas Program Package forms collect basic and detailed 
natural gas production, processing, transmission, storage, consumption 
and price data. The data are published by the Energy Information 
Administration and are used by both public and private energy industry 
analysts.
    Significant change from EIA's request for public comments on May 
20, 1996 (61 FR 25212) are: (1) Form EIA-191 data will continue to be 
treated as confidential and (2) the proposed new Form EIA-901, 
``Monthly Report of Natural Gas Marketers,'' has been postponed. Based 
on industry meetings, a pretest of the Form EIA-901, and public 
comments on the earlier notice, EIA has decided the Form EIA-901 needs 
further development/testing and will not be submitted to OMB at this 
time. EIA remains committed to development of a survey designed to 
address the need to improve its natural gas price data and plans to 
submit such a survey to OMB for approval in 1997;
    4. Businesses and others for-profit involved in the natural gas 
production through sales cycle as well as State governments;
    5. 44,046 hours (5.370 hours average per response  x  4.256 average 
responses per year  x  1927 respondents).

    Statutory Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3506(a)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13).

    Issued in Washington, DC, October 2, 1996.
Yvonne M. Bishop,
Director, Office of Statistical Standards, Energy Information 
Administration.
[FR Doc. 96-25880 Filed 10-8-96; 8:45 am]
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