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

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Energy Information Administration

Agency Information Collection Under Review by the Office of

Management and Budget

AGENCY: Energy Information Administration, Department of Energy.

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.). This 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

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 May 1, 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 NW., Washington, DC 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, DC 20585. Ms. White may be telephoned at (202) 254-5327.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The energy information collection submitted

to OMB for review was:

1. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

2. FERC-555

3. 1902-0098

4. Preservation of Records of Public Utilities and Licenses, Natural

Gas Companies and Oil Pipeline Companies

5. Extension

6. Mandatory

7. Business or other for-profit

8. 500 responses

9. 1 response

10. 24,400 hours per response

11. 1,200,000 hours

12. The records retention regulations establish retention periods and

necessary guidelines and requirements to sustain retention of

applicable records for the 500 regulated public utilities, natural gas

and oil pipeline companies subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission.

Statutory Authority: Sec. 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).

[[Page 16632]] Issued in Washington, D.C., March 25, 1995.

Yvonee M. Bishop,

Director, Office of Statistical Standards, Energy Information

Administration.

[FR Doc. 95-7976 Filed 3-30-95; 8:45 am]

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