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

AGENCY: Energy Information Administration, DOE.

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 collection(s) 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 on or before March 31, 1994. 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.)

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

Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and

Budget, 726 Jackson Place NW., Washington, DC 20503. (Comments should

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

below.)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND COPIES OF RELEVANT MATERIALS CONTACT: Jay

Casselberry, Office of Statistical Standards, (EI-73), Forrestal

Building, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC 20585. Mr.

Casselberry may be telephoned at (202) 254-5348.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The first energy information collection

submitted to OMB for review was:

1. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

2. FERC-544.

3. 1902-0153.

4. Gas Pipeline Rates: Rate Change (Formal).

5. Extension.

6. On occasion.

7. Mandatory.

8. Businesses or other for-profit.

9. 40 respondents.

10. 1 response.

11. 4,582.5 hours per response.

12. 183,300 hours.

13. The filing is required by the Commission to determine whether

or not jurisdictional natural gas rates are ``unjust or unreasonable or

unjustly discriminatory or unduly preferential.'' If after preliminary

review the rate filings are set for formal hearing, the data under

FERC-544 are collected.

The second energy information collection submitted to OMB for

review was:

1. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

2. FERC-546.

3. 1902-0155.

4. Certificated Rate Filings: Gas Pipeline Rates.

5. Extension.

6. On occasion.

7. Mandatory.

8. Businesses or other for-profit.

9. 100 respondents.

10. 4 responses.

11. 40 hours per response.

12. 163,000 hours.

13. Data collected in tariff filings to implement certificated new/

revised service for the transportation and/or sale of natural gas by

jurisdictional pipelines. The data are used by the Commision to

establish a basis for determining just and reasonable rates that should

be charged.

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

of 1980, (Pub. L. 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, DC, February 18, 1994.

Yvonne M. Bishop,

Director, Statistical Standards, Energy Information Administration.

[FR Doc. 94-4632 Filed 2-28-94; 8:45 am]

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