[Federal Register: December 21, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 244)]
[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 Form ERA-766R ``Recordkeeping 
Requirements of DOE's General Allocation and Price Rules,'' 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 20, 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 John Asalone, OMB Desk Officer for DOE, 
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and 
Budget. To ensure receipt of the comments by the due date, submission 
by FAX (202-395-7285) or e-mail (John_A._Asalone@omb.eop.gov) is 
recommended. The mailing address is 726 Jackson Place NW., Washington, 
DC 20503. The OMB DOE Desk Officer may be telephoned at (202) 395-4650. 
(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 Grace Sutherland. To ensure receipt of the 
comments by the due date, submission by FAX (202-287-1705) or e-mail 
grace.sutherland@eia.doe.gov) is recommended. The mailing address is 
Statistics and Methods Group (EI-70), Forrestal Building, U.S. 
Department of Energy, Washington, DC 20585-0670. Mrs. Sutherland may be 
contacted by telephone at (202) 287-1712.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This section contains the following 
information about the energy information collection 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., new, revision, 
extension, or

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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. ERA-766R.
    2. General Counsel.
    3. OMB Number 1903-0073.
    4. Three-year approval requested.
    5. Mandatory.
    6. The ERA-766R is the recordkeeping requirements contained in 10 
CFR 210.1 of DOE's General Allocation and Price Rules. The data are 
used to help DOE's General Counsel in its efforts to complete the 
enforcement program with respect to prior petroleum price and 
allocation regulations. No data are submitted; only maintenance of 
records is required.
    7. Business or other for-profit.
    8. 4 hours.

    Statutory Authority: Section 3507(h)(1) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. No. 104-13) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).

    Issued in Washington, DC, December 13, 2005.
Jay H. Casselberry,
Agency Clearance Officer, Energy Information Administration.
 [FR Doc. E5-7612 Filed 12-20-05; 8:45 am]

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