[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 10, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 10CFR207.3]

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                            TITLE 10--ENERGY
 
                    CHAPTER II--DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
 
PART 207_COLLECTION OF INFORMATION--Table of Contents
 
    Subpart A_Collection of Information Under the Energy Supply and 
                 Environmental Coordination Act of 1974
 
Sec. 207.3  Method of collecting energy information under ESECA.

    (a) Whenever the Administrator determines that:
    (1) Certain energy information is necessary to assist in the 
formulation of energy policy or to carry out the purposes of the ESECA 
of the EPAA; and
    (2) Such energy information is not available to DOE under the 
authority of statutes other than ESECA or that such energy information 
should, as a matter of discretion, be collected under the authority of 
ESECA;


He shall require reports of such information to be submitted to DOE at 
least every ninety calendar days.
    (b) The Administrator may require such reports of any person who is 
engaged in the production, processing, refining, transportation by 
pipeline, or distribution (at other than the retail level) of energy 
resources.
    (c) The Administrator may require such reports by rule, order, 
questionnaire, or such other means as he determines appropriate.
    (d) Whenever reports of energy information are requested under this 
subpart, the rule, order, questionnaire, or other means requesting such 
reports shall contain (or be accompanied by) a recital that such reports 
are being requested under the authority of ESECA.
    (e) In addition to requiring reports, the Administrator may, at his 
discretion, in order to obtain energy information under the authority of 
ESECA:
    (1) Sign and issue subpoenas in accordance with the provisions of 
Sec. 205.8 of this chapter for the attendance and testimony of 
witnesses and the production of books, records, papers, and other 
documents;
    (2) Require any person, by rule or order, to submit answers in 
writing to interrogatories, requests for reports or for other 
information, with such answers or other submissions made within such 
reasonable period as is specified in the rule or order, and under oath; 
and
    (3) Administer oaths.

Any such subpoena or rule or order shall contain (or be accompanied by) 
a

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recital that energy information is requested under the authority of 
ESECA.
    (f) For the purpose of verifying the accuracy of any energy 
information requested, acquired, or collected by the DOE, the 
Administrator, or any officer or employee duly designated by him, upon 
presenting appropriate credentials and a written notice from the 
Administrator to the owner, operator, or agent in charge, may--
    (1) Enter, at reasonable times, any business premise of facility; 
and
    (2) Inspect, at reasonable times and in a reasonable manner, any 
such premise or facility, inventory and sample any stock of energy 
resources therein, and examine and copy books, records, papers, or other 
documents, relating to any such energy information.

Such written notice shall reasonably describe the premise or facility to 
be inspected, the stock to be inventoried or sampled, or the books, 
records, papers or other documents to be examined or copied.