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, Department of Energy.

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 of 1995. The listing does not include

collections of information contained in new or revised regulations

which are to be submitted under section 3507 (d)(1)(A) 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 (the DOE component or Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission (FERC)); (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) Response

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

benefit; (7) Affected public; (8) An estimate of the number of

respondents per report period; (9) An estimate of the number of

responses per respondent annually; (10) An estimate of the average

hours per response; (11) The estimated total annual respondent burden;

and (12) A brief abstract describing the proposed collection and the

respondents.

DATES: Comments must be filed on or before August 14, 1995. 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 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: Requests for additional information or

copies of the forms and instructions should be directed to Norma White,

Office of Statistical Standards, (EI-73), Forrestal Building, U.S.

Department of Energy, Washington, D.C. 20585. Ms. White may be

telephoned at (202) 254-5327.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The first energy information collection

submitted to OMB for review was:

1. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

2. FERC-521

3. 1902-0087

4. Payments for Benefits from Headwater Improvements

5. Extension

6. Required to obtain or retain benefits

7. Individuals or households; business or other for-profit; not-for-

profit institutions; farms, Federal Government; and State, Local or

Tribal Government

8. 25 respondents

9. 1 response

10. 33.6 hours per response

11. 840 hours

12. This survey carries out the legislative requirements of the Federal

Power Act, Section 10(f) which directs the Commission to determine the

benefits that have been received by downstream parties from the

operation or storage reservoir(s) or other headwater improvement(s),

and to assess the downstream beneficiaries for a part of the annual

charges for interest, maintenance and depreciation.

The second energy information collection submitted to OMB for

review was:

1. Fossil Energy

2. FE-329R

3. 1901-0297

4. Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978; Final Rule

5. Extension

6. Mandatory

7. Business or other for profit

8. 30 respondents

9. 30 responses

10. 20 hours per response

11. 600 hours

12. FE-329R Final Rule (1) incorporates Pub. L. 100-42 FUA amendments

into regulations, (2) revises and updates cost test fuel price and

inflation indices, (3) clarifies how to claculate fuel price when using

natural gas, and

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(4) revises and updates oil/gas savings estimates for cogenerators.

The third energy information collection submitted to OMB for review

was:

1. Nonproliferation and National Security

2. NN-417R

3. 1901-0288

4. Power System Emergency Reporting Procedures

5. Extension

6. Mandatory

7. Business or other for profit

8. 40 respondents

9. 1 response

10. 3.25 hours per response

11. 130 hours

12. NN-417R will provide the DOE with information regarding the

location of where emergency electric power supply situations exist on

an electrical power system or on a regional electric system. The data

also provide DOE with a basis for determining the appropriate Federal

action to relieve an electrical energy supply emergency. Respondents

are electric utilities.

The fourth energy information collection submitted to OMB for

review was:

1. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

2. FERC-550

3. 1902-0089

4. Oil Pipeline Rates: Tariff Filings

5. Extension

6. Mandatory

7. Business or other for-profit

8. 150 respondents

9. 3.58 responses

10. 10.91 hours per response

11. 5,860 hours

12. The data is collected to ensure that the Commission has timely

rate/tariff information available to determine whether or not proposed

oil pipeline rates are just and reasonable and to help ``streamline''

the ratemaking process both for industry and the Commission staff.

Statutory Authority: Section 3506 (c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. No. 104-13).

Issued in Washington, D.C., July 7, 1995.

John Gross,

Acting Director, Office of Statistical Standards, Energy Information

Administration.

[FR Doc. 95-17364 Filed 7-13-95; 8:45 am]

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