94-7109. 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, Energy.

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. No. 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 April 25, 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-542.
    3. 1902-0070.
    4. Gas Pipeline Rates: Rate Tracking (Non-Formal).
    5. Extension.
    6. On occasion.
    7. Mandatory.
    8. Businesses or other for-profit.
    9. 50 respondents.
    10. 4 responses.
    11. 175 hours per response.
    12. 35,000 hours.
    13. FERC-542 is required by the Commission to determine if an 
interstate pipeline's rates comply with the requirement that the rates/
charges are just and reasonable, and nondiscriminatory or unduly 
preferential.
    The second energy information collection submitted to OMB for 
review was:
    1. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
    2. FERC-543.
    3. 1902-0152.
    4. Gas Pipeline Rates: Rate Tracking (Formal).
    5. Extension.
    6. On occasion.
    7. Mandatory.
    8. Businesses or other for-profit.
    9. 4 respondents.
    10. 1 response.
    11. 1,030 hours per response.
    12. 4,120 hours.
    13. FERC-543 is required by the Commission to determine if an 
interstate pipeline's rates comply with the requirement that the rates/
charges are just and reasonable, and nondiscriminatory or unduly 
preferential. This is a follow-on to FERC-542.

    Statutory Authority: Section 2(a) of the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1980, (Pub. L. No. 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, March 17, 1994.
Yvonne M. Bishop,
Director, Statistical Standards, Energy Information Administration.
[FR Doc. 94-7109 Filed 3-24-94; 8:45 am]
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