94-4632. Agency Information Collections Under Review by the Office of Management and Budget

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Energy Information Administration

 

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

AGENCY: Energy Information Administration, DOE.

ACTION: Notice of requests submitted for review by the Office of 
Management and Budget.

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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 provisions 
of the Paperwork Reduction Act (Pub. L. 96-511, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et 
seq.). The listing does not include collections of information 
contained in new or revised regulations which are to be submitted under 
section 3504(h) 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) The sponsor of 
the collection; (2) Collection number(s); (3) Current OMB docket number 
(if applicable); (4) Collection title; (5) Type of request, e.g., new, 
revision, extension, or reinstatement; (6) Frequency of collection; (7) 
Response obligation, i.e., mandatory, voluntary, or required to obtain 
or retain benefit; (8) Affected public; (9) An estimate of the number 
of respondents per report period; (10) An estimate of the number of 
responses per respondent annually; (11) An estimate of the average 
hours per response; (12) The estimated total annual respondent burden; 
and (13) A brief abstract describing the proposed collection and the 
respondents.

DATES: Comments must be filed on or before March 31, 1994. 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 NW., Washington, DC 20503. (Comments should 
also be addressed to the Office of Statistical Standards at the address 
below.)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND COPIES OF RELEVANT MATERIALS CONTACT: Jay 
Casselberry, Office of Statistical Standards, (EI-73), Forrestal 
Building, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC 20585. Mr. 
Casselberry may be telephoned at [phone].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The first energy information collection 
submitted to OMB for review was:
    1. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
    2. FERC-544.
    3. 1902-0153.
    4. Gas Pipeline Rates: Rate Change (Formal).
    5. Extension.
    6. On occasion.
    7. Mandatory.
    8. Businesses or other for-profit.
    9. 40 respondents.
    10. 1 response.
    11. 4,582.5 hours per response.
    12. 183,300 hours.
    13. The filing is required by the Commission to determine whether 
or not jurisdictional natural gas rates are ``unjust or unreasonable or 
unjustly discriminatory or unduly preferential.'' If after preliminary 
review the rate filings are set for formal hearing, the data under 
FERC-544 are collected.
    The second energy information collection submitted to OMB for 
review was:
    1. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
    2. FERC-546.
    3. 1902-0155.
    4. Certificated Rate Filings: Gas Pipeline Rates.
    5. Extension.
    6. On occasion.
    7. Mandatory.
    8. Businesses or other for-profit.
    9. 100 respondents.
    10. 4 responses.
    11. 40 hours per response.
    12. 163,000 hours.
    13. Data collected in tariff filings to implement certificated new/
revised service for the transportation and/or sale of natural gas by 
jurisdictional pipelines. The data are used by the Commision to 
establish a basis for determining just and reasonable rates that should 
be charged.

    Statutory Authority: Section 2(a) of the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1980, (Pub. L. 96-511), which amended chapter 35 of title 44 
United States Code (See 44 U.S.C. 3506(a) and (c)(1)).

    Issued in Washington, DC, February 18, 1994.
Yvonne M. Bishop,
Director, Statistical Standards, Energy Information Administration.
[FR Doc. 94-4632 Filed 2-28-94; 8:45 am]
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