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determining satisfaction levels for
existing services. These voluntary
customer surveys will be used to
ascertain customer satisfaction with the
Department of Energy in terms of
services and products. Respondents will
be individuals and organizations that
are the recipients of the Department’s
services and products. Previous
customer surveys have provided useful
information to the Department for
assessing how well the Department is
delivering its services and products and
for making improvements. The results
are used internally and summaries are
provided to the Office of Management
and Budget on an annual basis, and are
used to satisfy the requirements and the
spirit of Executive Order No. 12862.
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II. Current Actions
The request to OMB will be for a
three-year extension of the expiration
date of approval for the Form DOE–887
‘‘DOE Customer Surveys.’’ Examples of
previously conducted customer surveys
are available upon request. Planned
activities in the next three years reflect
an increased emphasis on and
expansion of these activities, including
an increased use of Web-based and
electronic means for obtaining customer
input.
III. Request for Comments
Prospective respondents and other
interested parties should comment on
the actions discussed in item II. The
following guidelines are provided to
assist in the preparation of comments.
As a Potential Respondent to the
Request for Information:
A. Is the proposed collection of
information necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency and does the information have
practical utility?
B. What actions could be taken to
help ensure and maximize the quality,
objectivity, utility, and integrity of the
information to be collected?
C. Are the instructions and definitions
clear and sufficient? If not, which
instructions need clarification?
D. Can the information be submitted
by the respondent by the due date?
E. Public reporting burden for this
collection is estimated to average .25
hours per response. The estimated
burden includes the total time necessary
to provide the requested information. In
your opinion, how accurate is this
estimate?
F. The agency estimates that the only
cost to a respondent is for the time it
will take to complete the collection.
Will a respondent incur any start-up
costs for reporting, or any recurring
annual costs for operation, maintenance,
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and purchase of services associated with
the information collection?
G. What additional actions could be
taken to minimize the burden of this
collection of information? Such actions
may involve the use of automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
H. Does any other Federal, State, or
local agency collect similar information?
If so, specify the agency, the data
element(s), and the methods of
collection.
As a Potential User of the Information
to be Collected:
A. Is the proposed collection of
information necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency and does the information have
practical utility?
B. What actions could be taken to
help ensure and maximize the quality,
objectivity, utility, and integrity of the
information disseminated?
C. Is the information useful at the
levels of detail to be collected?
D. For what purpose(s) would the
information be used? Be specific.
E. Are there alternate sources for the
information and are they useful? If so,
what are their weaknesses and/or
strengths?
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for OMB
approval of the form. They also will
become a matter of public record.
Statutory Authority: Executive Order
12,862 § 1, 58 FR 48,257 (Sept. 11, 1993).
Issued in Washington, DC, April 23, 2009.
Stanley R. Freedman,
Acting Director, Statistics and Methods
Group, Energy Information Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. IC09–567–001]
Commission Information Collection
Activities (FERC–567); Comment
Request; Submitted for OMB Review
April 22, 2009.
AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, DOE.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: In compliance with the
requirements of section 3507 of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44
U.S.C. 3507, the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (Commission or
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FERC) has submitted the information
collection described below to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review of the information collection
requirements. Any interested person
may file comments directly with OMB
and should address a copy of those
comments to the Commission as
explained below. The Commission
received no comments in response to
the Federal Register notice (73 FR
74163, 12/5/2008) and has made this
notation in its submission to OMB.
DATES: Comments on the collection of
information are due by May 28, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Address comments on the
collection of information to the Office of
Management and Budget, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Attention: Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission Desk Officer. Comments to
OMB should be filed electronically, c/o
oira__submission@omb.eop.gov and
include OMB Control No. 1902–0005 as
a point of reference. The OMB Desk
Officer may be reached by telephone at
202–395–4638.
A copy of the comments should also
be sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission and should refer to Docket
No. IC09–567–001. Comments may be
filed either electronically or in paper
format. Those persons filing
electronically do not need to make a
paper filing. Documents filed
electronically via the Internet must be
prepared in an acceptable filing format
and in compliance with the FERC
submission guidelines. Complete filing
instructions and acceptable filing
formats are available at https://
www.ferc.gov/help/submission-guide/
electronic-media.asp. To file the
document electronically, access the
Commission’s Web site and click on
Documents & Filing, E-Filing (https://
www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp),
and then follow the instructions for
each screen. First time users will have
to establish a user name and password.
The Commission will send an automatic
acknowledgement to the sender’s e-mail
address upon receipt of comments.
For paper filings, an original and 2
copies of the comments should be
submitted to the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, Secretary of the
Commission, 888 First Street, NE.,
Washington, DC 20426, and should refer
to Docket No. IC09–567–001.
All comments may be viewed, printed
or downloaded remotely via the Internet
through FERC’s homepage using the
‘‘eLibrary’’ link. For user assistance,
contact fercolinesupport@ferc.gov or
toll-free at (866) 208–3676 or for TTY,
contact (202) 502–8659.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ellen Brown may be reached by
telephone at (202) 502–8663, by fax at
(202) 273–0873, and by e-mail at
ellen.brown@ferc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FERC
is requesting comments on the FERC–
567,1 Gas Pipeline Certificates: Annual
Reports of System Flow Diagrams.
FERC–567 is an existing data collection
(OMB Control No. 1902–0005)
consisting of a set of filing requirements,
as contained in 18 CFR 260.8.
The information from the FERC–567
is used by the Commission staff to
obtain accurate data on pipeline
facilities and to validate the need for
new facilities proposed by pipelines in
certificate applications. In modeling a
pipeline applicant’s system,
Commission staff utilizes the FERC–567
data to determine configuration and
location of installed pipeline facilities;
verify and determine the receipt and
delivery points between shippers,
producers and pipeline companies;
determine the location of receipt and
delivery points and emergency
interconnections on a pipeline system;
determine the location of pipeline
segments, laterals and compressor
stations on a pipeline system; verify
pipeline segment lengths and pipeline
diameters; justify the maximum
allowable operating pressures and
suction and discharge pressures at
compressor stations; verify the installed
horsepower and volumes compressed at
each compressor station; determine the
existing shippers and producers
currently using each pipeline company;
and develop and evaluate alternatives to
the proposed facilities as a means to
mitigate environmental impact of new
pipeline construction.
18 CFR 260.8 requires each major
natural gas pipeline with a system
delivery capacity exceeding 100,000
Mcf per day to file, to submit by June
1 of each year, diagrams reflecting
operating conditions on the pipeline’s
main transmission system during the
previous 12 months ended December
31. These data are physical/engineering
data which are not included as part of
any other data collection requirement.
Action: The Commission is requesting
a three-year extension of the current
expiration date, with no change to the
existing requirements.1
Burden Statement: Annual reporting
burden for this collection is estimated
as:
Number of
respondents
annually
FERC–567 ...............................................................................
Number of
responses per
respondent
Average
burden hours
per response
Total annual
burden hours 2
(1)
FERC data
collection
(2)
(3)
(1) × (2) × (3)
94 3
1.714
81.28
13,095.5
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The estimated annual cost burden 2 to
respondents is $807,747 (13,095.5
hours/2080 hours per year times
$128,297 per year average per employee
= $807,747). The estimated cost per
respondent is $8,593.
The reporting burden includes the
total time, effort, or financial resources
expended to generate, maintain, retain,
disclose, or provide the information
including: (1) Reviewing instructions;
(2) developing, acquiring, installing, and
utilizing technology and systems for the
purposes of collecting, validating,
verifying, processing, maintaining,
disclosing and providing information;
(3) adjusting the existing ways to
comply with any previously applicable
instructions and requirements; (4)
training personnel to respond to a
collection of information; (5) searching
data sources; (6) completing and
reviewing the collection of information;
and (7) transmitting, or otherwise
disclosing the information.
The estimate of cost for respondents
is based upon salaries for professional
and clerical support, as well as direct
and indirect overhead costs. Direct costs
include all costs directly attributable to
providing this information, such as
administrative costs and the cost for
information technology. Indirect or
overhead costs are costs incurred by an
organization in support of its mission.
These costs apply to activities which
benefit the whole organization, rather
than any one particular function or
activity.
Comments are invited on: (1) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the Commission,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; (2) the accuracy of
the agency’s estimates of the burden of
the proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (3)
ways to enhance the quality, utility and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (4) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on those who are to respond, including
the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
1 FERC–567 was formerly known as ‘‘Gas Pipeline
Certificates: Annual Reports of System Flow
Diagrams and System Capacity’’. The capacity
reporting requirements under 18 CFR 284.13 had
been inadvertently included under both the FERC–
567 and the FERC–549B (‘‘Gas Pipeline Rates:
Capacity Information’’; OMB Control No. 1902–
0169). To correct the inadvertent ‘double-counting’,
the capacity reporting requirements under 18 CFR
284.13 are removed from FERC–567, and remain a
part of FERC–549B for the purpose of OMB
clearance. FERC–549B is not a subject of this
Notice.
2 The burden and cost figures may not be exact,
due to rounding. For these calculations, the number
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e.g. permitting electronic submission of
responses.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Energy Information Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
AGENCY: Energy Information
Administration (EIA), Department of
Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Agency information collection
activities: proposed collection; comment
request.
SUMMARY: The EIA is soliciting
comments on the proposed revisions
and a three-year extension to the Forms:
EIA–851A, ‘‘Domestic Uranium
Production Report (Annual),’’ EIA–
851Q, ‘‘Domestic Uranium Production
Report (Quarterly),’’ and EIA–858,
‘‘Uranium Marketing Annual Survey.’’
of hours an employee works each year is 2,080, and
the average annual salary per employee is estimated
to be $128,297.
3 An estimate of 100 respondents was included in
the 60-day notice. That estimate has been updated
here, based on the number of filings submitted in
2008.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. IC09-567-001]
Commission Information Collection Activities (FERC-567); Comment
Request; Submitted for OMB Review
April 22, 2009.
AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, DOE.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirements of section 3507 of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3507, the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (Commission or FERC) has submitted the
information collection described below to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review of the information collection requirements. Any
interested person may file comments directly with OMB and should
address a copy of those comments to the Commission as explained below.
The Commission received no comments in response to the Federal Register
notice (73 FR 74163, 12/5/2008) and has made this notation in its
submission to OMB.
DATES: Comments on the collection of information are due by May 28,
2009.
ADDRESSES: Address comments on the collection of information to the
Office of Management and Budget, Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Attention: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Desk Officer.
Comments to OMB should be filed electronically, c/o oira__submission@omb.eop.gov and include OMB Control No. 1902-0005 as a point
of reference. The OMB Desk Officer may be reached by telephone at 202-
395-4638.
A copy of the comments should also be sent to the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission and should refer to Docket No. IC09-567-001.
Comments may be filed either electronically or in paper format. Those
persons filing electronically do not need to make a paper filing.
Documents filed electronically via the Internet must be prepared in an
acceptable filing format and in compliance with the FERC submission
guidelines. Complete filing instructions and acceptable filing formats
are available at https://www.ferc.gov/help/submission-guide/electronic-media.asp. To file the document electronically, access the Commission's
Web site and click on Documents & Filing, E-Filing (https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp), and then follow the instructions
for each screen. First time users will have to establish a user name
and password. The Commission will send an automatic acknowledgement to
the sender's e-mail address upon receipt of comments.
For paper filings, an original and 2 copies of the comments should
be submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Secretary of
the Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426, and should
refer to Docket No. IC09-567-001.
All comments may be viewed, printed or downloaded remotely via the
Internet through FERC's homepage using the ``eLibrary'' link. For user
assistance, contact fercolinesupport@ferc.gov or toll-free at (866)
208-3676 or for TTY, contact (202) 502-8659.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ellen Brown may be reached by
telephone at (202) 502-8663, by fax at (202) 273-0873, and by e-mail at
ellen.brown@ferc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FERC is requesting comments on the FERC-
567,\1\ Gas Pipeline Certificates: Annual Reports of System Flow
Diagrams. FERC-567 is an existing data collection (OMB Control No.
1902-0005) consisting of a set of filing requirements, as contained in
18 CFR 260.8.
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\1\ FERC-567 was formerly known as ``Gas Pipeline Certificates:
Annual Reports of System Flow Diagrams and System Capacity''. The
capacity reporting requirements under 18 CFR 284.13 had been
inadvertently included under both the FERC-567 and the FERC-549B
(``Gas Pipeline Rates: Capacity Information''; OMB Control No. 1902-
0169). To correct the inadvertent `double-counting', the capacity
reporting requirements under 18 CFR 284.13 are removed from FERC-
567, and remain a part of FERC-549B for the purpose of OMB
clearance. FERC-549B is not a subject of this Notice.
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The information from the FERC-567 is used by the Commission staff
to obtain accurate data on pipeline facilities and to validate the need
for new facilities proposed by pipelines in certificate applications.
In modeling a pipeline applicant's system, Commission staff utilizes
the FERC-567 data to determine configuration and location of installed
pipeline facilities; verify and determine the receipt and delivery
points between shippers, producers and pipeline companies; determine
the location of receipt and delivery points and emergency
interconnections on a pipeline system; determine the location of
pipeline segments, laterals and compressor stations on a pipeline
system; verify pipeline segment lengths and pipeline diameters; justify
the maximum allowable operating pressures and suction and discharge
pressures at compressor stations; verify the installed horsepower and
volumes compressed at each compressor station; determine the existing
shippers and producers currently using each pipeline company; and
develop and evaluate alternatives to the proposed facilities as a means
to mitigate environmental impact of new pipeline construction.
18 CFR 260.8 requires each major natural gas pipeline with a system
delivery capacity exceeding 100,000 Mcf per day to file, to submit by
June 1 of each year, diagrams reflecting operating conditions on the
pipeline's main transmission system during the previous 12 months ended
December 31. These data are physical/engineering data which are not
included as part of any other data collection requirement.
Action: The Commission is requesting a three-year extension of the
current expiration date, with no change to the existing
requirements.\1\
Burden Statement: Annual reporting burden for this collection is
estimated as:
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Number of Number of Average burden
FERC data collection respondents responses per hours per Total annual
annually respondent response burden hours \2\
(1) (2) (3) (1) x (2) x (3)
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FERC-567........................ 94 \3\ 1.714 81.28 13,095.5
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The estimated annual cost burden \2\ to respondents is $807,747
(13,095.5 hours/2080 hours per year times $128,297 per year average per
employee = $807,747). The estimated cost per respondent is $8,593.
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\2\ The burden and cost figures may not be exact, due to
rounding. For these calculations, the number of hours an employee
works each year is 2,080, and the average annual salary per employee
is estimated to be $128,297.
\3\ An estimate of 100 respondents was included in the 60-day
notice. That estimate has been updated here, based on the number of
filings submitted in 2008.
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The reporting burden includes the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended to generate, maintain, retain, disclose, or provide
the information including: (1) Reviewing instructions; (2) developing,
acquiring, installing, and utilizing technology and systems for the
purposes of collecting, validating, verifying, processing, maintaining,
disclosing and providing information; (3) adjusting the existing ways
to comply with any previously applicable instructions and requirements;
(4) training personnel to respond to a collection of information; (5)
searching data sources; (6) completing and reviewing the collection of
information; and (7) transmitting, or otherwise disclosing the
information.
The estimate of cost for respondents is based upon salaries for
professional and clerical support, as well as direct and indirect
overhead costs. Direct costs include all costs directly attributable to
providing this information, such as administrative costs and the cost
for information technology. Indirect or overhead costs are costs
incurred by an organization in support of its mission. These costs
apply to activities which benefit the whole organization, rather than
any one particular function or activity.
Comments are invited on: (1) Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the Commission, including whether the information will have practical
utility; (2) the accuracy of the agency's estimates of the burden of
the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance the quality,
utility and clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are
to respond, including the use of appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms
of information technology, e.g. permitting electronic submission of
responses.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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