95-7976. Agency Information Collection Under Review by the Office of Management and Budget

[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 62 (Friday, March 31, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16631-16632]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-7976]



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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: Notice of request 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.). This 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 
assistance requirements collected by the Department of Energy (DOE)
    Each entry contains the following information: (1) The sponsor of 
the collection (the DOE component or Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission (FERC)); (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) Response 
obligation, i.e., mandatory, voluntary, or required to obtain or retain 
benefit; (7) Affected public; (8) An estimate of the number of 
respondents per report period; (9) An estimate of the number of 
responses per respondent annually; (10) An estimate of the average 
hours per response; (11) The estimated total annual respondent burden; 
and (12) A brief abstract describing the proposed collection and the 
respondents.

DATES: Comments must be filed on or before May 1, 1995. 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 CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or copies of the forms and 
instructions should be directed to Norma White, Office of Statistical 
Standards, (EI-73), Forrestal Building, U.S. Department of Energy, 
Washington, DC 20585. Ms. White may be telephoned at [phone].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The energy information collection submitted 
to OMB for review was:

 1. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
 2. FERC-555
 3. 1902-0098
 4. Preservation of Records of Public Utilities and Licenses, Natural 
Gas Companies and Oil Pipeline Companies
 5. Extension
 6. Mandatory
 7. Business or other for-profit
 8. 500 responses
 9. 1 response
10. 24,400 hours per response
11. 1,200,000 hours
12. The records retention regulations establish retention periods and 
necessary guidelines and requirements to sustain retention of 
applicable records for the 500 regulated public utilities, natural gas 
and oil pipeline companies subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal 
Energy Regulatory Commission.

    Statutory Authority: Sec. 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).

    [[Page 16632]] Issued in Washington, D.C., March 25, 1995.
Yvonee M. Bishop,
Director, Office of Statistical Standards, Energy Information 
Administration.
[FR Doc. 95-7976 Filed 3-30-95; 8:45 am]
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