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Weekly Survey Forms:
EIA–800: 11,585 hours; EIA–802:
2,519 hours; EIA–803: 1,482 hours; EIA–
804: 9,464 hours; EIA–805: 62,400
hours; EIA–809: 7,384 hours;
Monthly Survey Forms:
EIA–22M: 5,400 hours; EIA–810:
9,360 hours; EIA–812: 3,360 hours; EIA–
813: 4,008 hours; EIA–814: 11,965
hours; EIA–815: 74,390 hours; EIA–816:
5,141 hours; EIA–817: 918 hours; EIA–
819: 3,898 hours;
Annual Survey Forms:
EIA–820: 288 hours;
Total annual response burden for the
Petroleum Supply Reporting System:
213,562 hours;
(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping Cost Burden: EIA
estimates that there are not any
additional costs to respondents
associated with the surveys other than
the costs associated with the burden
hours.
Statutory Authority: Section 13(b) of the
Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974,
P.L. 93–275, codified at 15 U.S.C. 772(b), and
the DOE Organization Act of 1977, Public
Law 95–91, codified at 42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.
Issued in Washington, DC, November, 20,
2012.
Stephanie Brown,
Director, Office of Survey Development and
Statistical Integration, U.S. Energy
Information Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
U.S. Energy Information
Administration
Proposed Change to Data Protection
U.S. Energy Information
Administration (EIA), U.S. Department
of Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Notice and Request for Review
and Comment.
AGENCY:
This notice pertains to Forms
EIA–3, the Quarterly Coal Consumption
and Quality Report—Manufacturing and
Transformation/Processing Coal Plants
and Commercial and Institutional Coal
Users; EIA–5, the Quarterly Coal
Consumption and Quality Report—Coke
Plants; EIA–7A, the Coal Production
and Preparation Report—Coal Mines
and Preparation Plants; and EIA–8A, the
Coal Stocks Report—Traders and
Brokers. DOE’s proposed changes will
release or publish data received from
mandatory respondents that is not
company identifiable, and does not
satisfy the criteria for an exemption
under the Freedom of Information Act
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or satisfy the requirements of the Trade
Secrets Act.
No changes are proposed for the
standby surveys Forms: EIA–1, Weekly
Coal Monitoring Report—General
Industries and Blast Furnaces; EIA–4,
Weekly Coal Monitoring Report—Coke
Plants; EIA–6Q, Quarterly Coal Report—
Coal Producers and Distributors; and
EIA–20, Weekly Coal Monitoring Report
of Coal Burning Utilities and
Independent Power Producers.
Prior to 2011, data reported on Forms
EIA–1, EIA–3, EIA–4, EIA–5, EIA–6Q,
EIA–8A, and EIA–20 were protected to
the extent it satisfied exemption criteria
under the Freedom of Information Act
and the Trade Secrets Act. Disclosure
limitation procedures were applied to
all data. The data protection policy for
Form EIA–7A was similar except that
the name and address of the responding
company, the mine or plant type, and
location were considered public
information.
Effective January, 2011, EIA changed
the data protection policy for Forms
EIA–3, EIA–5, EIA–7A and EIA–8A
from protecting the data as described
above, to release all data reported in
company identifiable form with the
exception of cost data. Cost data are
protected and not released in company
identifiable form to the extent it satisfies
exemption criteria under the Freedom of
Information Act and the Trade Secrets
Act. Disclosure limitation procedures
(suppression methods) are applied to
protect against the identifiability of the
reported cost data. No changes were
made to the pre-2011 protection policy
for Forms EIA–1, EIA–4, EIA–6Q, and
EIA–20.
The U.S. Energy Information
Administration proposes to change and
strengthen the data protection
provisions on Forms EIA–3, EIA–5,
EIA–7A and EIA–8A. Currently, data
reported on these forms are not
protected except for certain selected
cost and revenue data elements. For
Forms EIA–3, EIA–5 and EIA–8A, EIA
proposes to protect company
information reported on these forms
from public release in identifiable form
to the extent it satisfies exemption
criteria under the Freedom of
Information Act and the Trade Secrets
Act. However, disclosure limitation
procedures will not be applied to the
State—and regional-level, statistical,
and quantity data published from these
surveys. Thus, there may be some
statistics that are based on data from
fewer than three respondents that may
affect the identifiability of reported data.
Disclosure limitation procedures will be
applied to cost data reported on Forms
EIA–3 and EIA–5 and revenue data
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reported on Forms EIA–7A and EIA–8A.
With regards to Form EIA–7A only, the
name and address of the responding
company, the mine or plant type, and
location will continue to be considered
public information. These data elements
will continue to be released in EIA’s
public use files and will not be
protected from disclosure in identifiable
form when releasing statistical aggregate
(State-level) information. These data
elements are currently released on the
EIA Web site in the Form EIA–7A
public use file, along with company
identifiable MSHA data, which are also
not protected. All other information
reported on Form EIA–7A will be
protected from public release in
identifiable form to the extent it satisfies
exemption criteria under the Freedom of
Information Act and the Trade Secrets
Act. All proposed changes to the data
protection provisions for Forms EIA–3,
EIA–5, EIA–7A and EIA–8A will be
retroactive and apply to data reported
for calendar years 2011 and 2012.
Applying this change retroactively to
data reported for 2011 preserves the
continuity of certain data series and
provides continuity for the main
components of EIA’s pre-2011 data
protection policy.
DATES: Comments regarding this
collection must be received on or before
December 27, 2012. If you anticipate
that you will be submitting comments,
but find it difficult to do so within the
period of time allowed by this notice,
please advise the EIA–3 Survey Manager
at DOE of your intention to make a
submission as soon as possible. The
Survey Manager may be telephoned at
202–586–8926 or emailed at
tejasvi.raghuveer@eia.gov.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be sent to: Attn: Tejasvi Raghuveer,
EIA–3 Survey Manager, U.S. Energy
Information Administration, EI–24,
1000 Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20585.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
EIA–3: (1) OMB No. 1905–0167; (2)
Information Collection Request Title:
Quarterly Coal Consumption and
Quality Report—Manufacturing and
Transformation/Processing Coal Plants
and Commercial and Institutional Coal
Users; (3) Type of Request: Change to
respondent-level protection policy and
disclosure limitation procedures; (4)
Purpose: To collect all data elements
from Form EIA–3 respondents, to
release or publish data that is not
company identifiable, and does not
satisfy the criteria for an exemption
under the Freedom of Information Act
or satisfy the requirements of the Trade
Secrets Act; (5) Estimated Number of
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Respondents Quarterly: 498; (6)
Estimated Number of Responses
Annually: 1992; (7) Estimated Number
of Burden Hours Annually: 2490 hours;
(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping Cost Burden:
$166,481.40.
EIA–5: (1) OMB No. 1905–0167; (2)
Information Collection Request Title:
Quarterly Coal Consumption and
Quality Report—Coke Plants; (3) Type of
Request: Change to respondent-level
protection policy and disclosure
limitation procedures; (4) Purpose: To
collect all data elements from Form
EIA–5 respondents, to release or publish
data that is not company identifiable,
and does not satisfy the criteria for an
exemption under the Freedom of
Information Act or satisfy the
requirements of the Trade Secrets Act;
(5) Estimated Number of Respondents
Quarterly: 19; (6) Estimated Number of
Responses Annually: 76; (7) Estimated
Number of Burden Hours Annually: 114
hours; (8) Annual Estimated Reporting
and Recordkeeping Cost Burden:
$7,622.04.
EIA–7A: (1) OMB No. 1905–0167; (2)
Information Collection Request Title:
Coal Production and Preparation
Report—Coal Mines and Preparation
Plants; (3) Type of Request: Change to
respondent-level protection policy and
disclosure limitation procedures; (4)
Purpose: To collect all data elements
from Form EIA–7A respondents, to
release or publish data considered
public information (name and address
of the responding company, the mine or
plant type, and location), and does not
satisfy the criteria for an exemption
under the Freedom of Information Act
or satisfy the requirements of the Trade
Secrets Act; (5) Estimated Number of
Respondents Annually: 1306; (6)
Estimated Number of Responses
Annually: 1306; (7) Estimated Number
of Burden Hours Annually: 2350.8; (8)
Annual Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping Cost Burden:
$157,174.49.
EIA–8A: (1) OMB No. 1905–0167; (2)
Information Collection Request Title:
Coal Stocks Report—Traders and
Brokers; (3) Type of Request: Change to
respondent-level protection policy and
disclosure limitation procedures; (4)
Purpose: To collect all data elements
from Form EIA–8A respondents, to
release or publish data that is not
company identifiable, and does not
satisfy the criteria for an exemption
under the Freedom of Information Act
or satisfy the requirements of the Trade
Secrets Act; (5) Estimated Number of
Respondents Annually: 89; (6)
Estimated Number of Responses
Annually: 89; (7) Estimated Number of
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Burden Hours Annually: 89 hours; (8)
Annual Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $5,950.54.
Statutory Authority: 15 U.S.C. 772(b),
Section 13(b) of the Federal Energy
Administration Act of 1974 (FEA Act), Pub.
L. 93–275.
Issued in Washington, DC, on November
20, 2012.
Stephanie Brown,
Director, Statistics and Methods Group,
Energy Information Administration.
[FR Doc. 2012–28701 Filed 11–26–12; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. IC13–1–000]
Commission Information Collection
Activities (FERC–592); Comment
Request; Extension
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, Energy.
ACTION: Notice of information collection
and request for comments.
AGENCY:
In compliance with the
requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A), the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (Commission or
FERC) is soliciting public comment on
the currently approved information
collection, Standards of Conduct for
Transmission Provider; and Marketing
Affiliates of Interstate Pipelines.
DATES: Comments on the collection of
information are due January 28, 2013.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
(identified by Docket No. IC13–1–000)
by either of the following methods:
• eFiling at Commission’s Web Site:
https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/
efiling.asp.
• Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier:
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
Secretary of the Commission, 888 First
Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.
Instructions: All submissions must be
formatted and filed in accordance with
submission guidelines at: https://
www.ferc.gov/help/submissionguide.asp. For user assistance contact
FERC Online Support by email at
ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov, or by phone
at: (866) 208–3676 (toll-free), or (202)
502–8659 for TTY.
Docket: Users interested in receiving
automatic notification of activity in this
docket or in viewing/downloading
comments and issuances in this docket
may do so at https://www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/docs-filing.asp.
SUMMARY:
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ellen Brown may be reached by email
at DataClearance@FERC.gov, telephone
at (202) 502–8663, and fax at (202) 273–
0873.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title:
FERC–592, Standards of Conduct for
Transmission Providers; and Marketing
Affiliates of Interstate Pipelines.
OMB Control No.: 1 902–0157.
Type of Request: Three-year extension
of the FERC–592 information collection
requirements with no changes to the
current reporting requirements.
Abstract: The Commission uses the
information maintained and posted by
the respondents to monitor the
pipeline’s transportation, sales, and
storage activities for its marketing
affiliate to deter undue discrimination
by pipeline companies in favor of their
marketing affiliates. Non-affiliated
shippers and other entities (e.g. state
commissions) also use information to
determine whether they have been
harmed by affiliate preference and to
prepare evidence for proceedings
following the filing of a complaint.
18 CFR Part 358 (Standards of Conduct)
Respondents maintain and provide
the information required by Part 358 on
their Internet Web sites. When the
Commission requires a pipeline to post
information on its Web site following a
disclosure of non-public information to
its marketing affiliate, non-affiliated
shippers obtain comparable access to
the non-public transportation
information, which allows them to
compete with marketing affiliates on a
more equal basis.
18 CFR 250.16, and the FERC–592 Log/
Format
This form (log/format) provides the
electronic formats for maintaining
information on discounted
transportation transactions and capacity
allocation to support monitoring of
activities of interstate pipeline
marketing affiliates. Commission staff
considers discounts given to shippers in
litigated rate cases.
Without this information collection:
• The Commission would be unable
to effectively monitor whether pipelines
are giving discriminatory preference to
their marketing affiliates; and
• Non-affiliated shippers and state
commissions and others would be
unable to determine if they have been
harmed by affiliate preference or
prepare evidence for proceedings
following the filing of a complaint.
Type of Respondents: Natural gas
pipelines.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
U.S. Energy Information Administration
Proposed Change to Data Protection
AGENCY: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), U.S. Department
of Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Notice and Request for Review and Comment.
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SUMMARY: This notice pertains to Forms EIA-3, the Quarterly Coal
Consumption and Quality Report--Manufacturing and Transformation/
Processing Coal Plants and Commercial and Institutional Coal Users;
EIA-5, the Quarterly Coal Consumption and Quality Report--Coke Plants;
EIA-7A, the Coal Production and Preparation Report--Coal Mines and
Preparation Plants; and EIA-8A, the Coal Stocks Report--Traders and
Brokers. DOE's proposed changes will release or publish data received
from mandatory respondents that is not company identifiable, and does
not satisfy the criteria for an exemption under the Freedom of
Information Act or satisfy the requirements of the Trade Secrets Act.
No changes are proposed for the standby surveys Forms: EIA-1,
Weekly Coal Monitoring Report--General Industries and Blast Furnaces;
EIA-4, Weekly Coal Monitoring Report--Coke Plants; EIA-6Q, Quarterly
Coal Report--Coal Producers and Distributors; and EIA-20, Weekly Coal
Monitoring Report of Coal Burning Utilities and Independent Power
Producers.
Prior to 2011, data reported on Forms EIA-1, EIA-3, EIA-4, EIA-5,
EIA-6Q, EIA-8A, and EIA-20 were protected to the extent it satisfied
exemption criteria under the Freedom of Information Act and the Trade
Secrets Act. Disclosure limitation procedures were applied to all data.
The data protection policy for Form EIA-7A was similar except that the
name and address of the responding company, the mine or plant type, and
location were considered public information.
Effective January, 2011, EIA changed the data protection policy for
Forms EIA-3, EIA-5, EIA-7A and EIA-8A from protecting the data as
described above, to release all data reported in company identifiable
form with the exception of cost data. Cost data are protected and not
released in company identifiable form to the extent it satisfies
exemption criteria under the Freedom of Information Act and the Trade
Secrets Act. Disclosure limitation procedures (suppression methods) are
applied to protect against the identifiability of the reported cost
data. No changes were made to the pre-2011 protection policy for Forms
EIA-1, EIA-4, EIA-6Q, and EIA-20.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration proposes to change and
strengthen the data protection provisions on Forms EIA-3, EIA-5, EIA-7A
and EIA-8A. Currently, data reported on these forms are not protected
except for certain selected cost and revenue data elements. For Forms
EIA-3, EIA-5 and EIA-8A, EIA proposes to protect company information
reported on these forms from public release in identifiable form to the
extent it satisfies exemption criteria under the Freedom of Information
Act and the Trade Secrets Act. However, disclosure limitation
procedures will not be applied to the State--and regional-level,
statistical, and quantity data published from these surveys. Thus,
there may be some statistics that are based on data from fewer than
three respondents that may affect the identifiability of reported data.
Disclosure limitation procedures will be applied to cost data reported
on Forms EIA-3 and EIA-5 and revenue data reported on Forms EIA-7A and
EIA-8A. With regards to Form EIA-7A only, the name and address of the
responding company, the mine or plant type, and location will continue
to be considered public information. These data elements will continue
to be released in EIA's public use files and will not be protected from
disclosure in identifiable form when releasing statistical aggregate
(State-level) information. These data elements are currently released
on the EIA Web site in the Form EIA-7A public use file, along with
company identifiable MSHA data, which are also not protected. All other
information reported on Form EIA-7A will be protected from public
release in identifiable form to the extent it satisfies exemption
criteria under the Freedom of Information Act and the Trade Secrets
Act. All proposed changes to the data protection provisions for Forms
EIA-3, EIA-5, EIA-7A and EIA-8A will be retroactive and apply to data
reported for calendar years 2011 and 2012. Applying this change
retroactively to data reported for 2011 preserves the continuity of
certain data series and provides continuity for the main components of
EIA's pre-2011 data protection policy.
DATES: Comments regarding this collection must be received on or before
December 27, 2012. If you anticipate that you will be submitting
comments, but find it difficult to do so within the period of time
allowed by this notice, please advise the EIA-3 Survey Manager at DOE
of your intention to make a submission as soon as possible. The Survey
Manager may be telephoned at 202-586-8926 or emailed at
tejasvi.raghuveer@eia.gov.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be sent to: Attn: Tejasvi Raghuveer,
EIA-3 Survey Manager, U.S. Energy Information Administration, EI-24,
1000 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
EIA-3: (1) OMB No. 1905-0167; (2) Information Collection Request
Title: Quarterly Coal Consumption and Quality Report--Manufacturing and
Transformation/Processing Coal Plants and Commercial and Institutional
Coal Users; (3) Type of Request: Change to respondent-level protection
policy and disclosure limitation procedures; (4) Purpose: To collect
all data elements from Form EIA-3 respondents, to release or publish
data that is not company identifiable, and does not satisfy the
criteria for an exemption under the Freedom of Information Act or
satisfy the requirements of the Trade Secrets Act; (5) Estimated Number
of
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Respondents Quarterly: 498; (6) Estimated Number of Responses Annually:
1992; (7) Estimated Number of Burden Hours Annually: 2490 hours; (8)
Annual Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $166,481.40.
EIA-5: (1) OMB No. 1905-0167; (2) Information Collection Request
Title: Quarterly Coal Consumption and Quality Report--Coke Plants; (3)
Type of Request: Change to respondent-level protection policy and
disclosure limitation procedures; (4) Purpose: To collect all data
elements from Form EIA-5 respondents, to release or publish data that
is not company identifiable, and does not satisfy the criteria for an
exemption under the Freedom of Information Act or satisfy the
requirements of the Trade Secrets Act; (5) Estimated Number of
Respondents Quarterly: 19; (6) Estimated Number of Responses Annually:
76; (7) Estimated Number of Burden Hours Annually: 114 hours; (8)
Annual Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $7,622.04.
EIA-7A: (1) OMB No. 1905-0167; (2) Information Collection Request
Title: Coal Production and Preparation Report--Coal Mines and
Preparation Plants; (3) Type of Request: Change to respondent-level
protection policy and disclosure limitation procedures; (4) Purpose: To
collect all data elements from Form EIA-7A respondents, to release or
publish data considered public information (name and address of the
responding company, the mine or plant type, and location), and does not
satisfy the criteria for an exemption under the Freedom of Information
Act or satisfy the requirements of the Trade Secrets Act; (5) Estimated
Number of Respondents Annually: 1306; (6) Estimated Number of Responses
Annually: 1306; (7) Estimated Number of Burden Hours Annually: 2350.8;
(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden:
$157,174.49.
EIA-8A: (1) OMB No. 1905-0167; (2) Information Collection Request
Title: Coal Stocks Report--Traders and Brokers; (3) Type of Request:
Change to respondent-level protection policy and disclosure limitation
procedures; (4) Purpose: To collect all data elements from Form EIA-8A
respondents, to release or publish data that is not company
identifiable, and does not satisfy the criteria for an exemption under
the Freedom of Information Act or satisfy the requirements of the Trade
Secrets Act; (5) Estimated Number of Respondents Annually: 89; (6)
Estimated Number of Responses Annually: 89; (7) Estimated Number of
Burden Hours Annually: 89 hours; (8) Annual Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $5,950.54.
Statutory Authority: 15 U.S.C. 772(b), Section 13(b) of the
Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974 (FEA Act), Pub. L. 93-275.
Issued in Washington, DC, on November 20, 2012.
Stephanie Brown,
Director, Statistics and Methods Group, Energy Information
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2012-28701 Filed 11-26-12; 8:45 am]
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