Agency Information Collections Under Review by the Office of Management and Budget

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Energy Information Administration

Agency Information Collections Under Review by the Office of

Management and Budget

ACTION: Notice of requests 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 collections 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. 96-511, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).

The 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 of Energy (DOE).

Each entry contains the following information: (1) The sponsor of

the collection; (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) Frequency of collection; (7)

Response obligation, i.e., mandatory, voluntary, or required to obtain

or retain benefit; (8) Affected public; (9) An estimate of the number

of respondents per report period; (10) An estimate of the number of

responses per respondent annually; (11) An estimate of the average

hours per response; (12) The estimated total annual respondent burden;

and (13) A brief abstract describing the proposed collection and the

respondents.

DATES: Comments must be filed within 30 days of publication of this

notice. 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

(202) 395-3084. (Also, please notify the EIA contact listed below.)

ADDRESS: Address comments to the Department of Energy Desk Officer,

Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and

Budget, 726 Jackson Place N.W., Washington, D.C. 20503. (Comments

should also be addressed to the Office of Statistical Standards at the

address below.)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Herbert Miller, Office of Statistical

Standards, (EI-73), Forrestal Building, U.S. Department of Energy,

Washington, D.C. 20585. Mr. Miller may be telephoned at (202) 254-5346.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The first energy information collection

submitted to OMB for review was:

1. Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy

2. FE-781R

3. 1901-0296

4. Annual Report of International Electrical Export/Import Data

5. Extension

6. Annually

7. Mandatory

8. Businesses or other for-profit

9. 37 respondents

10. 1 response

11. 10 hours per response

12. 370 hours

13. FE-781R collects electrical import/export data from entities

authorized to export electric energy to construct, connect, operate, or

maintain facilities for the transmission of electric energy at an

international boundary as required by 10 CFR 205.308 and 205.325. The

data are also used by EIA for publication. Holders of Presidential

Permits are required to report.

The second energy information collection submitted to OMB for

review was:

1. Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management

2. RW-859

3. 1901-0287

4. Nuclear Fuel Data Form

5. Extension

6. Annually, On occasion

7. Mandatory

8. Businesses or other for-profit

9. 59 respondents

10. 2.15 responses per respondent

11. 60 hours per response

12. 7,611 hours

13. RW-859 collects data to be used by the Office of Civilian

Radioactive Waste Management to define, develop, and operate its

program that requires information on spent nuclear fuel inventories,

generation rates, and storage capacities. Respondents are all owners of

nuclear power plants and owners of spent nuclear fuel.

Statutory Authority: Section 2(a) of the Paperwork Reduction Act

of 1980, (Pub. L. No. 96-511), which amended Chapter 35 of Title 44

United States Code (See 44 U.S.C. 3506(a) and (c)(1)).

Issued in Washington, D.C., October 21, 1994.

Yvonne M. Bishop,

Director, Office of Statistical Standards, Energy Information

Administration.

[FR Doc. 94-26785 Filed 10-27-94; 8:45 am]

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