[Federal Register: February 11, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 28)]
[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 Coal Program Package to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) for revision 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., at 3507(h)(1)).
DATES: Comments must be filed by March 12, 2008. 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 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 at
(202) 395-7285 or e-mail to Nathan_J._Frey@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) 395-7345.
(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 (202-586-5271) or e-mail
grace.sutherland@eia.doe.gov) is also recommended. The mailing address
is Statistics and Methods Group (EI-70), Forrestal Building, U.S.
Department of Energy, Washington, DC 20585-0670. Ms. Sutherland may be
contacted by telephone at (202) 586-6264.
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 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. Forms EIA-1, 3, 4, 5, 6Q, 7A, 8A and 20, ``Coal Program
Package.''
2. Energy Information Administration.
3. OMB Number 1905-0167.
4. Revision and three-year extension.
5. Mandatory.
6. The coal surveys collect data on coal production, consumption,
stocks, prices, imports and exports. Data are published in various EIA
publications. Respondents are manufacturing plants, producers of coke,
purchasers and distributors of coal, coal mining operators, and coal-
consuming electric utilities.
7. Business or other for-profit; Federal Government; State, Local
or Tribal Government.
8. 4,474 hours.
Due to the changing structure of the electric power industry over
the course of the last several years, the EIA-20 standby survey will
include independent power producers in the event of an emergency, thus
activating the use of the survey to provide information on the primary
sources of electric power in the U.S.
Please refer to the supporting statement as well as the proposed
forms and instructions for more information about the purpose, who must
report, when to report, where to submit, the elements to be reported,
detailed instructions, provisions for confidentiality, and uses
(including possible nonstatistical uses) of the information. For
instructions on obtaining materials, see the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section.
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.,
at 3507(h)(1))
Issued in Washington, DC, February 5, 2008.
Jay H. Casselberry,
Agency Clearance Officer, Agency Clearance Officer, Energy Information
Administration.
[FR Doc. E8-2486 Filed 2-8-08; 8:45 am]
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