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.

ACTION: Notice of request 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. No. 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 April 7, 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 energy information collection submitted

to OMB for review was:

1. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

2. FERC-541

3. 1902-0066

4. Gas Pipeline Certificates: Curtailment Plan

5. Extension

6. On occasion

7. Mandatory

8. Businesses or other for-profit

9. 25 respondents

10. 1 response

11. 256 hours per response

12. 6,400 hours

13. FERC-541 is required to determine the just and reasonableness of

allocation methods used by jurisdictional pipelines to allocate

remaining gas supplies during curtailment periods. It is necessary for

the determination that such methods of allocation are not unduly

discriminatory between persons, localities, or classes of service.

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, DC, March 2, 1994.

Yvonne M. Bishop,

Director, Statistical Standards, Energy Information Administration.

[FR Doc. 94-5253 Filed 3-7-94; 8:45 am]

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