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pursuant to section 3(c) of the NGA, 15
U.S.C. 717b(c).
In reviewing this Application, DOE
will consider any issues required by law
or policy. DOE will consider domestic
need for the natural gas, as well as any
other issues determined to be
appropriate, including whether the
arrangement is consistent with DOE’s
policy of promoting competition in the
marketplace by allowing commercial
parties to freely negotiate their own
trade arrangements. As part of this
analysis, DOE will consider one or more
of the following studies examining the
cumulative impacts of exporting
domestically produced LNG:
• Effect of Increased Levels of
Liquefied Natural Gas on U.S. Energy
Markets, conducted by the U.S. Energy
Information Administration upon DOE’s
request (2014 EIA LNG Export Study); 1
• The Macroeconomic Impact of
Increasing U.S. LNG Exports, conducted
jointly by the Center for Energy Studies
at Rice University’s Baker Institute for
Public Policy and Oxford Economics, on
behalf of DOE (2015 LNG Export
Study); 2 and
• Macroeconomic Outcomes of
Market Determined Levels of U.S. LNG
Exports, conducted by NERA Economic
Consulting on behalf of DOE (2018 LNG
Export Study).3
Additionally, DOE will consider the
following environmental documents:
• Addendum to Environmental
Review Documents Concerning Exports
of Natural Gas From the United States,
79 FR 48132 (Aug. 15, 2014); 4 and
• Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas
Perspective on Exporting Liquefied
Natural Gas from the United States, 79
FR 32260 (June 4, 2014).5
Parties that may oppose this
Application should address these issues
and documents in their comments and/
or protests, as well as other issues
deemed relevant to the Application.
The National Environmental Policy
Act (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.,
1 The 2014 EIA LNG Export Study, published on
Oct. 29, 2014, is available at: https://www.eia.gov/
analysis/requests/fe/.
2 The 2015 LNG Export Study, dated Oct. 29,
2015, is available at: https://energy.gov/sites/prod/
files/2015/12/f27/20151113_macro_impact_of_lng_
exports_0.pdf.
3 The 2018 LNG Export Study, dated June 7, 2018,
is available at: https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/
files/2018/06/f52/Macroeconomic%20LNG
%20Export%20Study%202018.pdf. DOE is
currently evaluating public comments received on
this Study (83 FR 27314).
4 The Addendum and related documents are
available at: https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/
files/2014/08/f18/Addendum.pdf.
5 The Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Report is
available at: https://energy.gov/fe/life-cyclegreenhouse-gas-perspective-exporting-liquefiednatural-gas-united-states.
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requires DOE to give appropriate
consideration to the environmental
effects of its proposed decisions. No
final decision will be issued in this
proceeding until DOE has met its
environmental responsibilities.
Public Comment Procedures
In response to this Notice, any person
may file a protest, comments, or a
motion to intervene or notice of
intervention, as applicable. Interested
parties will be provided 60 days from
the date of publication of this Notice in
which to submit comments, protests,
motions to intervene, or notices of
intervention.
Any person wishing to become a party
to the proceeding must file a motion to
intervene or notice of intervention. The
filing of comments or a protest with
respect to the Application will not serve
to make the commenter or protestant a
party to the proceeding, although
protests and comments received from
persons who are not parties will be
considered in determining the
appropriate action to be taken on the
Application. All protests, comments,
motions to intervene, or notices of
intervention must meet the
requirements specified by the
regulations in 10 CFR part 590.
Filings may be submitted using one of
the following methods: (1) Emailing the
filing to fergas@hq.doe.gov, with FE
Docket No. 18–70–LNG in the title line;
(2) mailing an original and three paper
copies of the filing to the Office of
Regulation and International
Engagement at the address listed in
ADDRESSES; or (3) hand delivering an
original and three paper copies of the
filing to the Office of Regulation and
International Engagement at the address
listed in ADDRESSES. All filings must
include a reference to FE Docket No.
18–70–LNG. Please note: If submitting a
filing via email, please include all
related documents and attachments
(e.g., exhibits) in the original email
correspondence. Please do not include
any active hyperlinks or password
protection in any of the documents or
attachments related to the filing. All
electronic filings submitted to DOE
must follow these guidelines to ensure
that all documents are filed in a timely
manner. Any hardcopy filing submitted
greater in length than 50 pages must
also include, at the time of the filing, a
digital copy on disk of the entire
submission.
A decisional record on the
Application will be developed through
responses to this notice by parties,
including the parties’ written comments
and replies thereto. Additional
procedures will be used as necessary to
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achieve a complete understanding of the
facts and issues. If an additional
procedure is scheduled, notice will be
provided to all parties. If no party
requests additional procedures, a final
Opinion and Order may be issued based
on the official record, including the
Application and responses filed by
parties pursuant to this notice, in
accordance with 10 CFR 590.316.
The Application is available for
inspection and copying in the Office of
Regulation and International
Engagement docket room, Room 3E–
042, 1000 Independence Avenue SW,
Washington, DC 20585. The docket
room is open between the hours of 8:00
a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays. The
Application and any filed protests,
motions to intervene or notice of
interventions, and comments will also
be available electronically by going to
the following DOE/FE web address:
https://www.fe.doe.gov/programs/
gasregulation/.
Signed in Washington, DC, on August 6,
2018.
Shawn Bennett,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Oil and
Natural Gas.
[FR Doc. 2018–17182 Filed 8–9–18; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Energy Information Administration
Proposed Agency Information
Collection
U.S. Energy Information
Administration (EIA), Department of
Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
EIA requests a three-year
extension, with changes, to the Oil and
Gas Reserves System Survey Program as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995. This survey system
includes: Form EIA–64A, Annual
Report of the Origin of Natural Gas
Liquids Production; Form EIA–23L,
Annual Report of Domestic Oil and Gas
Reserves, County Level Report; and
Form EIA–23S, Annual Survey of
Domestic Oil and Gas Reserves,
Summary Level Report.
DATES: EIA must receive all comments
on this proposed information collection
no later than October 9, 2018. If you
anticipate difficulties in submitting your
comments by the deadline, contact the
person listed in the below ADDRESSES
section of this notice as soon as
possible.
SUMMARY:
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Send your comments to
Steven Grape, U.S. Energy Information
Administration, 1000 Independence
Avenue SW, EI–24 Washington, DC
20585.
ADDRESSES:
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument and instructions should be
directed to Steven Grape, telephone
202–586–1868, fax at (202) 586–4420, or
by email at steven.grape@eia.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
information collection request contains:
(1) OMB No. 1905–0057;
(2) Information Collection Request
Title: Oil and Gas Reserves System;
(3) Type of Request: Renewal with
changes;
(4) Purpose: Information reported on
Form EIA–23L is used to provide
national and regional estimates on the
proved reserves of crude oil, natural gas,
and natural gas liquids. Data collected
on this form include proved reserves
and production for crude oil, lease
condensate, and natural gas by state and
federal offshore regions. Information
reported on Form EIA–64A is used to
generate EIA’s state-level and federal
offshore estimates of dry natural gas
reserves and production (natural gas
that remains after natural gas liquids are
extracted). EIA releases annual reserves
and production estimates through its
website. These data are also used in EIA
reports concerning U.S. crude oil,
natural gas, and natural gas liquids
reserves, and are incorporated in a
number of other reports and analyses
such as EIA’s Annual Energy Review,
Annual Energy Outlook, Petroleum
Supply Annual, and Natural Gas
Annual.
Congress and other federal agencies
rely on the objective analysis, quality,
reliability, and usefulness of EIA’s crude
oil and natural gas reserves estimates.
These federal agencies include: The U.S.
Department of Energy; Bureau of Ocean
Energy Management, Department of
Interior; Internal Revenue Service,
Department of the Treasury; and the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
Each federal agency uses EIA’s estimates
on proved reserves for their official use
to meet their data needs. EIA’s
published estimates on proved reserves
of domestic crude oil and natural gas are
essential to the development,
implementation, and evaluation of
energy policy and legislation. There are
no proposed changes to Forms EIA–23L
and EIA–23S.
(4a) Proposed Changes to Information
Collection: EIA proposes to collect the
following additional information on
Form EIA–64A, Annual Report of the
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Origin of Natural Gas Liquids
Production:
• Section 2. Add Item 2.1 to collect
the total outlet volume of residue
natural gas produced and add Item 2.3
to collect the volume of residue natural
gas sent to a pipeline. Add Item 2.4: The
amount of electricity consumed
annually at the natural gas plant. The
number of natural gas processing plants
that are 100% electrically-powered is
increasing. Federal air quality
restrictions imposed on sources of
combustion emissions is one reason for
the increasing trend in using electricity
as a power source rather than relying on
natural gas as a fuel for processing and
other plant operations.
• Section 3.0, Add Item 3.1C: The
annual total of natural gas liquids (NGL)
reported separately by components or
products produced at the natural gas
processing plant by Area of Origin in
Section 3 of Form EIA–64A. Currently,
only the total plant NGL volume shown
on Line 4.8 is reported by Area of
Origin.
• Delete the data element Gas
Shrinkage Resulting from Natural Gas
Liquids Extracted currently shown as
Item 5.0 on Form EIA–64A.
Respondents currently report their
estimate of the volumes of gas shrinkage
in millions of cubic feet (MMCF) caused
from the removal of natural gas liquids
from the natural gas received at the
plant. Respondents will no longer need
to report this information. The
shrinkage volumes for a respondent will
be calculated by EIA using the
component data reported in Section 3.
• The burden per response for Form
EIA–64A changed from 6 hours to 4
hours. Cognitive research showed that
the weighted average time estimate to
gather and report information on the
proposed modified new Form EIA–64A
was less than 3 hours. The majority of
the information reported on this form is
information that companies customarily
track in the normal course of their
business activities. Some companies
may take longer than 3 hours to
complete Form EIA–64A so EIA
extended the burden per response
estimate to 4 hours to account for some
companies that may require additional
time.
The mode of reporting information
will also change. Operators will be
required to log in to the EIA Data
xChange Portal to report their
information and submit Form EIA–64A.
By identifying and selecting each plant
within the portal, respondent
information will be populated
automatically in order to reduce
reporting burden.
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(5) Annual Estimated Number of
Respondents: 1,644;
(6) Annual Estimated Number of
Total Responses: 1,644;
(7) Annual Estimated Number of
Burden Hours: 29,252;
(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping Cost Burden: EIA
estimates that there are no capital and
start-up costs associated with this data
collection. The information is
maintained in the normal course of
business. The cost of burden hours is
estimated to be $2,214,084 (29,252
burden hours times $75.69 per hour).
Therefore, other than the cost of burden
hours, EIA estimates that there are no
additional costs for generating,
maintaining and providing the
information.
Comments are invited on these
proposed changes and: (a) Whether the
proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including through the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology.
Statutory Authority: 15 U.S.C. 772(b), 15
U.S.C. 790(a), and the DOE Organization Act
of 1977, 42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.
Issued in Washington, DC, August 6, 2018.
Nanda Srinivasan,
Director, Office of Survey Development and
Statistical Integration, U.S. Energy
Information Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Energy Information Administration
Proposed Agency Information Collection
AGENCY: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Department of
Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: EIA requests a three-year extension, with changes, to the Oil
and Gas Reserves System Survey Program as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. This survey system includes: Form EIA-64A,
Annual Report of the Origin of Natural Gas Liquids Production; Form
EIA-23L, Annual Report of Domestic Oil and Gas Reserves, County Level
Report; and Form EIA-23S, Annual Survey of Domestic Oil and Gas
Reserves, Summary Level Report.
DATES: EIA must receive all comments on this proposed information
collection no later than October 9, 2018. If you anticipate
difficulties in submitting your comments by the deadline, contact the
person listed in the below ADDRESSES section of this notice as soon as
possible.
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ADDRESSES: Send your comments to Steven Grape, U.S. Energy Information
Administration, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, EI-24 Washington, DC
20585.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection instrument and instructions should
be directed to Steven Grape, telephone 202-586-1868, fax at (202) 586-
4420, or by email at [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This information collection request
contains:
(1) OMB No. 1905-0057;
(2) Information Collection Request Title: Oil and Gas Reserves
System;
(3) Type of Request: Renewal with changes;
(4) Purpose: Information reported on Form EIA-23L is used to
provide national and regional estimates on the proved reserves of crude
oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids. Data collected on this form
include proved reserves and production for crude oil, lease condensate,
and natural gas by state and federal offshore regions. Information
reported on Form EIA-64A is used to generate EIA's state-level and
federal offshore estimates of dry natural gas reserves and production
(natural gas that remains after natural gas liquids are extracted). EIA
releases annual reserves and production estimates through its website.
These data are also used in EIA reports concerning U.S. crude oil,
natural gas, and natural gas liquids reserves, and are incorporated in
a number of other reports and analyses such as EIA's Annual Energy
Review, Annual Energy Outlook, Petroleum Supply Annual, and Natural Gas
Annual.
Congress and other federal agencies rely on the objective analysis,
quality, reliability, and usefulness of EIA's crude oil and natural gas
reserves estimates. These federal agencies include: The U.S. Department
of Energy; Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Department of Interior;
Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury; and the
Securities and Exchange Commission. Each federal agency uses EIA's
estimates on proved reserves for their official use to meet their data
needs. EIA's published estimates on proved reserves of domestic crude
oil and natural gas are essential to the development, implementation,
and evaluation of energy policy and legislation. There are no proposed
changes to Forms EIA-23L and EIA-23S.
(4a) Proposed Changes to Information Collection: EIA proposes to
collect the following additional information on Form EIA-64A, Annual
Report of the Origin of Natural Gas Liquids Production:
Section 2. Add Item 2.1 to collect the total outlet volume
of residue natural gas produced and add Item 2.3 to collect the volume
of residue natural gas sent to a pipeline. Add Item 2.4: The amount of
electricity consumed annually at the natural gas plant. The number of
natural gas processing plants that are 100% electrically-powered is
increasing. Federal air quality restrictions imposed on sources of
combustion emissions is one reason for the increasing trend in using
electricity as a power source rather than relying on natural gas as a
fuel for processing and other plant operations.
Section 3.0, Add Item 3.1C: The annual total of natural
gas liquids (NGL) reported separately by components or products
produced at the natural gas processing plant by Area of Origin in
Section 3 of Form EIA-64A. Currently, only the total plant NGL volume
shown on Line 4.8 is reported by Area of Origin.
Delete the data element Gas Shrinkage Resulting from
Natural Gas Liquids Extracted currently shown as Item 5.0 on Form EIA-
64A. Respondents currently report their estimate of the volumes of gas
shrinkage in millions of cubic feet (MMCF) caused from the removal of
natural gas liquids from the natural gas received at the plant.
Respondents will no longer need to report this information. The
shrinkage volumes for a respondent will be calculated by EIA using the
component data reported in Section 3.
The burden per response for Form EIA-64A changed from 6
hours to 4 hours. Cognitive research showed that the weighted average
time estimate to gather and report information on the proposed modified
new Form EIA-64A was less than 3 hours. The majority of the information
reported on this form is information that companies customarily track
in the normal course of their business activities. Some companies may
take longer than 3 hours to complete Form EIA-64A so EIA extended the
burden per response estimate to 4 hours to account for some companies
that may require additional time.
The mode of reporting information will also change. Operators will
be required to log in to the EIA Data xChange Portal to report their
information and submit Form EIA-64A. By identifying and selecting each
plant within the portal, respondent information will be populated
automatically in order to reduce reporting burden.
(5) Annual Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,644;
(6) Annual Estimated Number of Total Responses: 1,644;
(7) Annual Estimated Number of Burden Hours: 29,252;
(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: EIA
estimates that there are no capital and start-up costs associated with
this data collection. The information is maintained in the normal
course of business. The cost of burden hours is estimated to be
$2,214,084 (29,252 burden hours times $75.69 per hour). Therefore,
other than the cost of burden hours, EIA estimates that there are no
additional costs for generating, maintaining and providing the
information.
Comments are invited on these proposed changes and: (a) Whether the
proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the
information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions
used; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on respondents, including through the use of
automated collection techniques or other forms of information
technology.
Statutory Authority: 15 U.S.C. 772(b), 15 U.S.C. 790(a), and
the DOE Organization Act of 1977, 42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.
Issued in Washington, DC, August 6, 2018.
Nanda Srinivasan,
Director, Office of Survey Development and Statistical Integration,
U.S. Energy Information Administration.
[FR Doc. 2018-17183 Filed 8-9-18; 8:45 am]
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