[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 186 (Monday, September 28, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 49366]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-23323]


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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 Petroleum Marketing Program package 
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., at 3507(h)(1)).

DATES: Comments must be filed by October 28, 2009. 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 OMB Desk Officer for DOE, Office of 
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget. To 
ensure receipt of the comments by the due date, submission by FAX at 
202-395-7285 or e-mail to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#cc8fa4bea5bfb8a5a2a99387b5a1a28ca3a1aee2a9a3bce2aba3ba"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d192b9a3b8a2a5b8bfb48e9aa8bcbf91bebcb3ffb4bea1ffb6bea7">[email protected]</span></a> is recommended. 
The mailing address is 726 Jackson Place, NW., Washington, DC 20503. 
The OMB DOE Desk Officer may be telephoned at (202) 395-4638. (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 Grace Sutherland. To ensure receipt of the 
comments by the due date, submission by FAX (202-586-5271) or e-mail 
(<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#1374617270763d6066677b76617f727d7753767a723d777c763d747c65"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="187f6a797b7d366b6d6c707d6a7479767c587d7179367c777d367f776e">[email protected]</span></a>) is also recommended. The mailing address 
is Statistics and Methods Group (EI-70), Forrestal Building, 1000 
Independence Ave., SW., U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC 
20585-0670. Ms. Sutherland may be contacted by telephone at (202) 586-
6264.

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. Forms EIA-14, 182, 782A/B/C, 821, 856, 863, 877, 878, and 888, 
``Petroleum Marketing Program''.
    2. Energy Information Administration.
    3. OMB Number 1905-0174.
    4. Three-year extension.
    5. Mandatory.
    6. EIA's Petroleum Marketing Program collects basic data necessary 
to meet EIA's legislative mandates as well as the needs of EIA's public 
and private customers. Data collected include costs, sales, prices, and 
distribution of crude oil and petroleum products. The data are used for 
analyses, publications, and multi-fuel reports. Respondents are 
refiners, first purchasers, gas plant operators, resellers/retailers, 
motor gasoline wholesalers, suppliers, distributors and importers.
    7. Business or other for-profit.
    8. 121,293 total annual hours; 13,947 total annual respondents, and 
frequency is as follows: Forms EIA-878 and EIA-888 collected weekly; 
EIA-14, EIA-182, EIA-782A, EIA-782B, EIA-782C, and EIA-856 collected 
monthly; EIA-877 collected semi-monthly (during the heating season); 
EIA-821 collected annually; and EIA-863 collected Quadrennially.
    Please refer to the supporting statement as well as the proposed 
forms and instructions for more information about the purpose, who must 
report, when to report, where to submit, the elements to be reported, 
detailed instructions, provisions for confidentiality, and uses 
(including possible nonstatistical uses) of the information. For 
instructions on obtaining materials, see the For Further Information 
Contact section.

    Statutory Authority: Section 13(b) of the Federal Energy 
Administration Act of 1974, Pub. L. 93-275, codified at 15 U.S.C. 
772(b).

    Issued in Washington, DC, September 21, 2009.
Stephanie Brown,
Director, Statistics and Methods Group, Energy Information 
Administration.
[FR Doc. E9-23323 Filed 9-25-09; 8:45 am]
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