[Federal Register: December 6, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 233)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Energy Information Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
AGENCY: Energy Information Administration (EIA), Department of Energy
(DOE).
ACTION: Agency information collection activities: submission for OMB
review; comment request.
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SUMMARY: The EIA has submitted the Energy Information Administration's
Natural Gas Data Collection Program Package collections to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and a three-year extension
under section 3507(h)(1) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub.
L. 104-13) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).
DATES: Comments must be filed by January 5, 2006. If you anticipate
that you will be submitting comments but find it difficult to do so
within that period, you should contact the OMB Desk Officer for DOE
listed below as soon as possible.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to the OMB Desk Officer for DOE, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget,
726 Jackson Place NW., Washington, DC 20503. The OMB DOE Desk Officer
may be telephoned at (202) 395-3084. (A copy of your comments should
also be provided to EIA's Statistics and Methods Group at the address
below.)
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information
should be directed to Kara Norman, Statistics and Methods Group, (EI-
70), Forrestal Building, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC
20585-0670. Kara Norman may be contacted by telephone at (202) 287-
1902, FAX at (202) 287-1705, or e-mail at kara.norman@eia.doe.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This section contains the following
information about the energy information collections submitted to OMB
for review: (1) The collection numbers and title; (2) the sponsor
(i.e., the Department of Energy component); (3) the current OMB docket
number (if applicable); (4) the type of request (i.e,
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new, revision, extension, or reinstatement); (5) response obligation
(i.e., mandatory, voluntary, or required to obtain or retain benefits);
(6) a description of the need for and proposed use of the information;
(7) a categorical description of the likely respondents; and (8) an
estimate of the total annual reporting burden (i.e., the estimated
number of likely respondents times the proposed frequency of response
per year times the average hours per response).
1. EIA-176, EIA-191, EIA-857, EIA-895, EIA-910, and EIA-912.
2. Energy Information Administration.
3. OMB Number 1905-0175.
4. Three-year extension.
5. All forms are mandatory except EIA-895, which is voluntary.
6. The purpose of the Natural Gas Data Collection Program Package
is to collect basic and detailed data to meet EIA's mandates and energy
data users' needs. Adequate evaluation of the industry requires
production, processing, transmission, distribution, storage, marketing,
consumption, and price data. The data collected by EIA on these forms
are unique. While somewhat similar or related data may be available
from private and/or industry sources, as well as from other Federal
agencies, such data are not reasonable alternatives for the data
provided by the Natural Gas Data Collection Program Package survey
forms. Data from the forms in the Natural Gas Data Collection Program
Package are published in the Annual Energy Outlook, Annual Energy
Review, Natural Gas Annual, Natural Gas Monthly, Natural Gas Weekly
Market Update Report, Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report, Monthly Energy
Review, Short-Term Energy Outlook, State Energy Data Report, and
numerous other EIA publications.
7. Business or other for-profit.
8. 53,284.
Statutory Authority: Section 3507(h)(1) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13).
Issued in Washington, DC, November 30, 2005.
Jay H. Casselberry,
Agency Clearance Officer, Energy Information Administration.
[FR Doc. E5-6903 Filed 12-5-05; 8:45 am]
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