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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, Analysis, and 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, 

notices of interventions, and comments 

will also be available electronically by 

going to the following DOE/FE Web 

address: https://www.energy.gov/fe/ 

services/natural-gas-regulation. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on December 2, 

2020. 

Amy Sweeney, 

Director, Office of Regulation, Analysis, and 

Engagement, Office of Oil and Natural Gas. 

[FR Doc. 2020–26913 Filed 12–7–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Energy Information Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Extension 

AGENCY: U.S. Energy Information 

Administration (EIA), U.S. Department 

of Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Notice and request for OMB 

review and comment. 

SUMMARY: EIA submitted an information 

collection request for extension as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995. The information collection 

requests a three-year extension of the 

Natural Gas Data Collection Program, 

OMB Control Number 1905–0175. The 

surveys covered by this request include; 

Form EIA–176 Annual Report of 

Natural and Supplemental Gas Supply 

and Disposition; Form EIA–191 Monthly 

Underground Natural Gas Storage 

Report; Form EIA–191L Monthly 

Liquefied Natural Gas Storage Report; 

Form EIA–757 Natural Gas Processing 

Plant Survey; Form EIA–857 Monthly 

Report of Natural Gas Purchases and 

Deliveries to Consumers; Form EIA–910 

Monthly Natural Gas Marketer Survey; 

and Form EIA–912 Weekly Natural Gas 

Storage Report. The Natural Gas Data 

Collection Program provides 

information on natural gas production, 

underground storage, supply, 

processing, transmission, distribution, 

and consumption by sector within the 

United States. 

DATES: Comments on this information 

collection must be received no later 

than January 7, 2021. Written comments 

and recommendations for the 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to https://www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain. Find this 

particular information collection by 

selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day 

Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or 

by using the search function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael Kopalek, U.S. Energy 

Information Administration, telephone 

(202) 586–4001, or by email at 

michael.kopalek@eia.gov. The forms 

and instructions are available on EIA’s 

website at www.eia.gov/survey/. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

information collection request contains 

(1) OMB No.: 1905–0175; 

(2) Information Collection Request 

Title: Natural Gas Data Collection 

Program; 

(3) Type of Request: Three-year 

extension with changes; 

(4) Purpose: The surveys included in 

the Natural Gas Data Collection 

Program collect information on natural 

gas underground storage, supply, 

processing, transmission, distribution, 

consumption by sector, and consumer 

prices. The data collected supports 

public policy analyses and produce 

estimates of the natural gas industry. 

The statistics generated from these 

surveys are published on EIA’s website, 

http://www.eia.gov, and are used in 

various EIA information products, 

including the Weekly Natural Gas 

Storage Report (WNGSR), Natural Gas 

Monthly (NGM), Natural Gas Annual 

(NGA), Monthly Energy Review (MER), 

Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), 

Annual Energy Outlook (AEO), and 

Annual Energy Review (AER). 

(4a) Changes to Information 

Collection: 

Form EIA–176 Annual Report of 

Natural and Supplemental Gas 

Supply and Disposition 

Form EIA–176 collects data on 

natural, synthetic, and other 

supplemental gas supplies, their 

disposition, and certain revenues by 

state. EIA is modifying the survey 

instructions to include Renewable 

Natural Gas (RNG) producers who inject 

high-Btu RNG into an interstate 

pipeline, intra-state pipeline, or natural 

gas distribution company system. This 

excludes on-site and local pipelines that 

deliver to a nearby end-user, such as to 

a CNG fueling station or power plant. 

EIA is adding this type of RNG producer 

because these facilities produce the 

equivalent of pipeline-quality natural 

gas that is not captured elsewhere in 

EIA’s production statistics. 

Form EIA–191 Monthly 

Underground Natural Gas Storage 

Report 

Form EIA–191 collects data on the 

operations of all active underground 

storage facilities. The name of the 

survey is changing from Monthly 

Underground Gas Storage Report to 

Monthly Underground Natural Gas 

Storage Report. 

Form EIA–191L Monthly Liquefied 

Natural Gas Storage Report 

EIA is adding a new survey, Form 

EIA–191L Monthly Liquefied Natural 

Gas Storage Report to collect natural gas 

inventory storage data from 

approximately 85 operators of Liquefied 

Natural Gas (LNG) facilities. These 

facilities include LNG peakshavers and 

satellite LNG facilities. EIA is 

specifically excluding marine terminals 

(due to their high variability in stock 

levels), on-site power plant LNG storage 

tanks, and LNG fueling tanks. Form 

EIA–191L is a shorter version of Form 

EIA–191 and will collect the same 

natural gas data as Form EIA–191 except 

it will not collect information on base 

gas, working gas, field type, and facility 

type. 

Form EIA–757 Natural Gas 

Processing Plant Survey 

Form EIA–757 collects information on 

the capacity, status, and operations of 

natural gas processing plants, and 

monitors their constraints to natural gas 

supplies during catastrophic events, 

such as hurricanes. Schedule A of Form 

EIA–757 collects baseline operating and 

capacity information from all 

respondents on a triennial basis. 

Schedule B is used on an emergency 

standby basis and is activated during 

natural disasters or other energy 

disruptive events. Schedule B collects 

data from a sample of respondents in 

the affected areas. There are no changes 

to Form EIA–757. 

Form EIA–857 Monthly Report of 

Natural Gas Purchases and 

Deliveries to Consumers 

Form EIA–857 collects data on the 

quantity and cost of natural gas 

delivered to distribution systems and 

the quantity and revenue of natural gas 

delivered to consumers by end-use 

sector, on a monthly basis by state. 

There are no changes to this survey. 


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Form EIA–910 Monthly Natural Gas 

Marketer 

Form EIA–910 collects information on 

natural gas sales from marketers in 

selected states that have active 

consumer choice programs. EIA is 

increasing the number of respondents to 

this survey due to the increased number 

of natural gas market participants. 

Form EIA–912 Weekly Underground 

Natural Gas Storage Report 

Form EIA–912 collects information on 

weekly inventories of natural gas in 

underground storage facilities. EIA is 

increasing the requested burden by 5 

additional respondents to accommodate 

future changes in required reporting 

sample sizes. 

(5) Annual Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 3,510. 

Form EIA–176 consists of 2,070 

respondents; 

Form EIA–191 consists of 145 

respondents; 

Form EIA–191L consists of 85 

respondents; 

Form EIA–757 Schedule A consists of 

600 respondents 

Form EIA–757 Schedule B consists of 

20 respondents; 

Form EIA–857 consists of 330 

respondents; 

Form EIA–910 consists of 160 

respondents; 

Form EIA- 912 consists of 100 

respondents. 

(6) Annual Estimated Number of 

Total Responses: 16,297. 

(7) Annual Estimated Number of 

Burden Hours: 55,296. 

(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $4,431,421 

(55,296 burden hours times $80.14 per 

hour). EIA estimates that respondents 

will have no additional costs associated 

with the survey other than the burden 

hours and the maintenance of the 

information as part of the normal course 

of business. 

Comments are invited on whether or 

not: (a) The proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of agency functions, 

including whether the information will 

have a practical utility; (b) EIA’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

collection of information, including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used, is accurate; (c) EIA 

can improve the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information it will collect; 

and (d) EIA can minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on 

respondents, such as automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

Statutory Authority: 15 U.S.C. 772(b) and 

42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on December 2, 

2020. 

Samson A. Adeshiyan, 

Office Director, Office of Statistical Methods 

& Research, U.S. Energy Information 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2020–26884 Filed 12–7–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 3472–024] 

Aspinook Hydro, LLC; Notice Soliciting 

Scoping Comments 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: New Major 

License. 

b. Project No.: 3472–024. 

c. Date Filed: April 30, 2020; and 

revised on October 13, 2020. 

d. Applicant: Aspinook Hydro, LLC, a 

subsidiary of Gravity Renewables, Inc. 

e. Name of Project: Wyre Wynd 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: On the Quinebaug River 

in New London and Windham Counties, 

Connecticut. No federal lands are 

occupied by the project works or located 

within the project boundary. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: Mark 

Boumansour, Chief Operating Officer, 

Gravity Renewables, Inc.; 1401 Walnut 

Street, Boulder, Colorado 80302; Phone 

at (303) 440–3378, or email at mark@

gravityrenewables.com. 

i. FERC Contact: Kristine Sillett at 

(202) 502–6575, or kristine.sillett@

ferc.gov. 

j. Deadline for filing scoping 

comments: January 31, 2021. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file scoping 

comments using the Commission’s 

eFiling system at https://

ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx. 

Commenters can submit brief comments 

up to 6,000 characters, without prior 

registration, using the eComment system 

at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/ 

QuickComment.aspx. You must include 

your name and contact information at 

the end of your comments. For 

assistance, please contact FERC Online 

Support at FERCOnlineSupport@

ferc.gov, (866) 208–3676 (toll free), or 

(202) 502–8659 (TTY). In lieu of 

electronic filing, you may submit a 

paper copy. Submissions sent via the 

U.S. Postal Service must be addressed 

to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, 

DC 20426. Submissions sent via any 

other carrier must be addressed to: 

Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225 

Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 

20852. All filings must clearly identify 

the project name and docket number on 

the first page: Wyre Wynd Hydroelectric 

Project (P–3472–024). 

The Commission’s Rules of Practice 

and Procedure require all interveners 

filing documents with the Commission 

to serve a copy of that document on 

each person on the official service list 

for the project. Further, if an intervener 

files comments or documents with the 

Commission relating to the merits of an 

issue that may affect the responsibilities 

of a particular resource agency, they 

must also serve a copy of the document 

on that resource agency. 

k. The application is not ready for 

environmental analysis at this time. 

l. The existing Wyre Wynd Project 

consists of: (1) A concrete-encased 

masonry dam that includes: (a) A 473- 

foot-long, 18-foot-high spillway with 2- 

foot-high wooden flashboards, and one, 

5-foot-wide by 3-foot-high sluice gate; 

(b) a 100-foot-long left abutment that 

includes a 65-foot-wide headgate 

structure with five, 10-foot-wide by 12- 

foot-high headgates; and (c) a 4-footlong right abutment; (2) a 333-acre 

impoundment with a usable storage 

capacity of 167-acre-feet at a normal 

elevation of 97.3 feet National Geodetic 

Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD29); (3) a 

170-foot-long, 50-foot-wide forebay that 

includes: (a) A 60-foot-long, 10-foothigh auxiliary spillway; and (b) two, 10- 

foot-wide, 12-foot-high arched-top lowlevel outlet gates; (4) a powerhouse 

intake structure located at the 

downstream end of the forebay that 

includes: (a) A 37-foot-high steel trash 

rack structure varying in width from 

19.5 feet to 21.3 feet, with a clear bar 

spacing of 2.6 inches; and (b) a 16-footlong, 12-foot-diameter steel penstock 

that supplies flow to the main 2.7- 

megawatt (MW) S-type Kaplan turbinegenerator unit housed within the 30- 

foot-wide, 100-foot-long concrete 

powerhouse; (5) a 450-foot-long, 50-footwide tailrace that receives discharges 

from the main turbine-generator unit; (6) 

a second intake structure branching off 

of the right side of the forebay, 

approximately 35 feet downstream of 

the headgate structure, that includes: (a) 

A 4-foot-wide, 4-foot-high head gate; (b) 

a 9-foot-wide, 20-foot-high trash rack 

structure with 1.5-inch clear bar spacing 

that extends from the floor of the 

headgate structure to approximately 12 


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