Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 177 / Thursday, September 14, 2023 / Notices 63097 

1Notice of Intent and Request for Information: 

Responsible Carbon Management Initiative, https:// 

www.energy.gov/fecm/notice-intent-and-requestinformation-responsible-carbon-managementinitiative. 

This notice is being published less 

than 15 days prior to the meeting due 

to scheduling difficulties. 

PCAST operates under the provisions 

of FACA, all public comments and/or 

presentations will be treated as public 

documents and will be made available 

for public inspection, including being 

posted on the PCAST website at: 

www.whitehouse.gov/PCAST/meetings. 

Minutes: Minutes will be available 

within 45 days at: www.whitehouse.gov/ 

PCAST/meetings. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on September 

8, 2023. 

LaTanya Butler, 

Deputy Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2023–19872 Filed 9–13–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Notice of Intent and Request for 

Information Regarding Launching a 

Responsible Carbon Management 

Initiative; Reopening of Comment 

Period 

AGENCY: Office of Fossil Energy and 

Carbon Management, Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Reopening of public comment 

period. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) is reopening the public 

comment period for its Notice of Intent 

(NOI) and Request for Information (RFI) 

regarding launching a Responsible 

Carbon Management Initiative which 

was published in the Federal Register 

on August 11, 2023. The published NOI 

and RFI established a 30-day public 

comment period that ended on 

September 11, 2023. DOE received 

requests to extend the comment period. 

DOE reviewed the requests and 

announced on the Office of Fossil 

Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) 

website on September 6, 2023, that it 

would extend the comment period until 

September 30, 2023. Accordingly, DOE 

is reopening the public comment period 

to allow comments to be submitted until 

September 30, 2023. 

DATES: The comment period for the NOI 

and RFI published on August 11, 2023 

(88 FR 54608), and closed on September 

11, 2023, is reopened until September 

30, 2023. DOE will accept comments 

regarding this NOI and RFI received on 

and before September 30, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties may 

submit comments electronically to 

responsiblecarbonmanagemen

tinitiative@hq.doe.gov and include 

‘‘Responsible Carbon Management 

Initiative’’ in the subject line of the 

email. Responses must be provided as 

attachments to an email. Only electronic 

responses will be accepted. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kelli Roemer, email: responsible

carbonmanagementinitiative@

hq.doe.gov or phone: (240) 309–9639. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 

11, 2023, DOE published a NOI and RFI 

in the Federal Register soliciting public 

input on its intent to launch a 

Responsible Carbon Management 

Initiative to recognize and encourage 

project developers and others in 

industry to pursue the highest levels of 

safety, environmental stewardship, 

accountability, community engagement, 

and societal benefits in carbon 

management projects. DOE stated it 

would accept written comments through 

September 11, 2023. DOE received 

requests to extend the public comment 

period. DOE has reviewed these 

requests and considered the benefit to 

stakeholders in providing additional 

time to review the NOI and RFI and 

provide information that DOE is 

seeking. DOE announced on the FECM 

website on September 6, 2023, that it 

would extend the comment period until 

September 30, 2023.1 Accordingly, DOE 

is reopening the comment period and 

will accept comments on and before 

September 30, 2023. 

Signing Authority 

This document of the Department of 

Energy was signed on September 8, 

2023, by Brad Crabtree, Assistant 

Secretary, Office of Fossil Energy and 

Carbon Management, pursuant to 

delegated authority from the Secretary 

of Energy. That document with the 

original signature and date is 

maintained by DOE. For administrative 

purposes only, and in compliance with 

requirements of the Office of the Federal 

Register, the undersigned DOE Federal 

Register Liaison Officer has been 

authorized to sign and submit the 

document in electronic format for 

publication, as an official document of 

the Department of Energy. This 

administrative process in no way alters 

the legal effect of this document upon 

publication in the Federal Register. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on September 

11, 2023. 

Treena V. Garrett, 

Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. 

Department of Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2023–19877 Filed 9–13–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Environmental Management SiteSpecific Advisory Board Chairs 

AGENCY: Office of Environmental 

Management, Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces an inperson meeting of the Environmental 

Management Site-Specific Advisory 

Board (EM SSAB) Chairs. The Federal 

Advisory Committee Act requires that 

public notice of this meeting be 

announced in the Federal Register. 

DATES: 

Wednesday, October 4, 2023; 9:00 a.m.– 

5:00 p.m. EST 

Thursday, October 5, 2023; 8:30 a.m.– 

12:15 p.m. EST 

ADDRESSES: DoubleTree Hotel, 215 S 

Illinois Avenue, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kelly Snyder, EM SSAB Designated 

Federal Officer. Phone: (702) 918–6715; 

Email: kelly.snyder@em.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of the Board: The purpose of 

the Board is to make recommendations 

to DOE–EM and site management in the 

areas of environmental restoration, 

waste management, and related 

activities. 

Tentative Agenda Topics: 

Wednesday, October 4, 2023 

• Public Comment 

• Presentations by DOE 

• Board Business/Open Discussion 

Thursday, October 5, 2023 

• Public Comment 

• Board Business/Open Discussion 

Public Participation: DOE welcomes 

the attendance of the public at their 

advisory committee meetings and will 

make every effort to accommodate 

persons with physical disabilities or 

special needs. If you require special 

accommodations due to a disability, 

please contact Kelly Snyder at least 

seven days in advance of the meeting at 

the phone number or email listed above. 

Written public comment statements may 

be filed either before or after the 

meeting with the Designated Federal 

Officer, Kelly Snyder, at the phone 

number or email listed above. 

Individuals who wish to make oral 

public comment should also contact 

Kelly Snyder. Requests must be received 

five days prior to the meeting. 

Individuals wishing to make public 

comment will be provided a maximum 

of five minutes to present their 

comments. The Designated Federal 

Officer is empowered to conduct the 

meeting in a fashion that will facilitate 

the orderly conduct of business. 


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63098 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 177 / Thursday, September 14, 2023 / Notices 

Minutes: Minutes will be available at 

the following website: https://

energy.gov/em/listings/chairs-meetings. 

Signed in Washington, DC on September 8, 

2023. 

LaTanya Butler, 

Deputy Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2023–19871 Filed 9–13–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Energy Information Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Proposed Extension 

AGENCY: U.S. Energy Information 

Administration (EIA), Department of 

Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: EIA invites public comment 

on the proposed three-year extension, 

with changes, to the Natural Gas Data 

Collection Program, OMB Control 

Number 1905–0175, as required under 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

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 

storage, supply, processing, distribution, 

consumption, and prices, by sector, 

within the United States. 

DATES: EIA must receive all comments 

on this proposed information collection 

no later than November 13, 2023. If you 

anticipate any difficulties in submitting 

your comments by the deadline, contact 

the email address listed in the 

ADDRESSES section of this notice as soon 

as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments may be 

sent to: OOG.Surveys@eia.gov with the 

subject line ‘‘Regarding EIA’s Natural 

Gas Data Collection Package 60-Day 

FRN.’’ 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you need additional 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 produces 

estimates of the natural gas industry. 

The statistics generated from these 

surveys are published on EIA’s website, 

https://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), and 

Annual Energy Outlook (AEO). 

(4a) Proposed 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. During the previous collection 

package, EIA modified 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. As 

such, EIA requests an increase in 

respondent count and burden to 

accommodate additions of new 

respondents to the survey frame. 

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 or less 

frequently. 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. 

EIA proposes to discontinue 

collection of Form EIA–757 Schedule A, 

and burden hours have been adjusted 

downward accordingly. As part of the 

Terms of Clearance of the package prior 

to this, EIA has investigated potential 

consolidation of the EIA–757 Schedule 

A survey with another, more frequent 

natural gas processing plant survey, the 

EIA–64A Survey (OMB number 1905– 

0057). As a result of this research, EIA 

proposes that the EIA–64A Survey will 

absorb several key data items from the 

EIA–757 Schedule A Survey in order to 

reduce overall respondent burden and 

eliminate duplicative data collection 

efforts. This resolves the prior Terms of 

Clearance. 

EIA–757 Schedule B, which is a 

standby survey, is active in instances of 

a natural disaster or incident resulting 

in widespread closures of natural gas 

processing plants. However, since the 

agency has not elected to activate the 

survey at any point in the last six years 

(two clearance cycles), EIA is reducing 

the requested burden hours by 50% to 

allow an activation once every three 

years, rather than twice every three 

years. 

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. EIA 

is increasing the requested burden to 

accommodate increased sample 

coverage, parallel to the increased scope 

of the EIA–176, the universe from which 

this survey’s sample is drawn. 

Form EIA–912, Weekly Natural Gas 

Storage Report 

Form EIA–912 collects information on 

weekly inventories of natural gas in 

underground storage facilities. EIA is 

slightly decreasing the requested burden 

to more accurately reflect demonstrated 

sample sizes over the past six years. 

Forms EIA–191, Monthly Underground 

Natural Gas Storage Report, EIA–191L, 

Monthly Underground Natural Gas 

Storage Report, and EIA–910, Monthly 

Natural Gas Marketer Survey, Have No 

Changes 

(5) Annual Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 3,045; 

(6) Annual Estimated Number of 

Total Responses: 15,993; 

(7) Annual Estimated Number of 

Burden Hours: 56,776; 

(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $4,959,951 


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