[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 225 (Tuesday, November 21, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 69918]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-29736]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Energy Information Administration
Agency information collection activities: submission for OMB
review; comment request
AGENCY: Energy Information Administration (EIA), Department of Energy
(DOE).
ACTION: Agency information collection activities: submission for OMB
review; comment request.
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SUMMARY: The EIA has submitted the energy information collections
listed at the end of this notice to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and a three-year extension under section 3507(h)(1) of
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et
seq.).
DATES: Comments must be filed on or before December 21, 2000. If you
anticipate that you will be submitting comments but find it difficult
to do so within that period, you should contact the OMB Desk Officer
for DOE listed below as soon as possible.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to the OMB Desk Officer for DOE, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget,
726 Jackson Place N.W., Washington, D.C. 20503. The OMB DOE Desk
Officer may be telephoned at (202) 395-3084. (A copy of your comments
should also be provided to EIA's Statistics and Methods Group at the
address below.)
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information
should be directed to Herbert Miller, Statistics and Methods Group (EI-
70), Forrestal Building, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC
20585-0670. Mr. Miller may be contacted by telephone at (202) 287-1711,
FAX at (202) 287-1705, or e-mail at [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This section contains the following
information about the energy information collection submitted to OMB
for review: (1) The collection numbers and title; (2) the sponsor
(i.e., the Department of Energy component); (3) the current OMB docket
number (if applicable); (4) the type of request (i.e., new, revision,
extension, or reinstatement); (5) response obligation (i.e., mandatory,
voluntary, or required to obtain or retain benefits); (6) a description
of the need for and proposed use of the information; (7) a categorical
description of the likely respondents; and (8) an estimate of the total
annual reporting burden (i.e., the estimated number of likely
respondents times the proposed frequency of response per year times the
average hours per response).
1. Form FE-781R, Report of International Electricity Import/Export
Data
2. Fossil Energy, Office of Coal and Power Import and Export
Activities
3. OMB Number 1901-0296
4. Revision--Reports submitted pursuant to conditions in
electricity export authorizations must be submitted either quarterly
within 30 days following each calendar quarter, or annually by February
15 of each year, as required by the terms and conditions in a
respondent's particular export authorization.
5. Mandatory
6. 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 publications. Holders of Presidential
Permits are required to report.
7. Business or other for-profit
8. 1,650 hours (Reporting quarterly = 125 respondents x 4
responses per year x 2.5 hours per response; Reporting annually = 40
x 1 response x 10 hours).
Statutory Authority: Section 3507(h)(1) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. No. 104-13).
Issued in Washington, DC, November 15, 2000.
Jay H. Casselberry,
Agency Clearance Officer, Statistics and Methods Group, Energy
Information Administration.
[FR Doc. 00-29736 Filed 11-20-00; 8:45 am]
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