Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 148 / Wednesday, August 1, 2012 / Notices 45593 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

U.S. Energy Information 

Administration 

Proposed Agency Information 

Collection 

AGENCY: U.S. Energy Information 

Administration (EIA), Department of 

Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; Notice 

and Request for Comments. 

SUMMARY: EIA invites public comment 

on the proposed collection of 

information for the new Form EIA–915, 

‘‘Monthly Gas Processing and Liquids 

Report’’ that EIA is developing for 

submission to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) pursuant to the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This 

new form would replace Form EIA–64A, 

Annual Report of the Origin of Natural 

Gas Liquids, and Form EIA–816, 

Monthly Natural Gas Liquids Report, as 

well as obtain crucial data elements that 

were lost with the recent termination of 

the Form EIA–895, Annual Quantity 

and Value of Natural Gas Production 

Report. 

With the implementation of the 

proposed Form EIA–915, the Form EIA– 

816 will be terminated on Jan 31, 2013 

(after collecting monthly data for 

December 2012), and Form EIA–64A 

will be terminated in 2014 (after 

collecting annual data for 2012). 

Comments are invited on: (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. 

DATES: Comments regarding this 

proposed information collection must 

be received on or before October 1, 

2012. If you anticipate difficulty in 

submitting comments within that 

period, contact the person listed in the 

below ADDRESSES Section as soon as 

possible. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments may be 

sent to Jeffrey Little, EI–24, U.S. Energy 

Information Administration, U.S. 

Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585, or by fax at 

(202) 586–4420, or by email at 

jeffrey.little@eia.gov. Alternatively, Mr. 

Little may be contacted by telephone at 

(202) 586–6284. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument and instructions should be 

directed to Jeffrey Little at the address 

listed above. The collection instrument 

and instructions are also available on 

the internet at: http://www.eia.gov/ 

survey/form/eia_915/proposed/ 

form.pdf. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

information collection request contains: 

(1) OMB No.: NEW; 

(2) Information Collection Request 

Title: Monthly Gas Processing and 

Liquids Report; 

(3) Type of Request: Proposed 

collection; 

(4) Purpose: To improve data 

collection efficiency, EIA proposes a 

new collection form that is a 

combination of the Form EIA–64A, 

Annual Report of the Origin of Natural 

Gas Liquids, Form EIA–816, Monthly 

Natural Gas Liquids Report, and Form 

EIA–895, Annual Quantity and Value of 

Natural Gas Production Report. The 

proposed new Form EIA–915 will 

collect inlet data on natural gas 

volumes, the final disposition of all 

plant products including fuel and nonhydrocarbons, and end-of-month plant 

liquid stocks from natural gas 

processing plants and fractionators. The 

data collected are used to obtain an 

accurate estimate of production of 

marketed natural gas, dry natural gas, 

and natural gas plant liquids by 

geographic region. A summary of the 

data will appear in the following EIA 

publications: Natural Gas Monthly, 

Natural Gas Annual, Petroleum Supply 

Monthly, Monthly Energy Review, 

Annual Energy Review, the Annual 

Energy Outlook, and the EIA Web site. 

The proposed Form EIA–915 will 

supply crucial data elements from the 

terminated EIA–895, Annual Quantity 

and Value of Natural Gas Production 

Report, and Form EIA–64A, Annual 

Report of the Origin of Natural Gas 

Liquids, and Form EIA–816, Monthly 

Natural Gas Liquids Report. The Form 

EIA–895 was designed to obtain 

monthly information on an annual basis 

from the appropriate state agencies that 

collect data related to natural gas 

production. The decision to terminate 

the EIA–895 form was due to data 

quality reporting: given that the EIA– 

895 form was a voluntary survey and 

the data was requested from state 

agencies, issues such as the disparity in 

the quality of the data and the difficulty 

enforcing the survey became 

increasingly problematic. Some of the 

examples of data quality and 

enforcement issues include: state data 

collection of natural gas production 

volumes were often not complete on the 

due date (90 days after the end of the 

report year: March 31) and remained 

incomplete for as many as 14 months 

past the deadline; components of 

natural gas gross and marketed 

production and natural gas lease fuel 

use that were requested on the form 

were not collected by all states; 

comparisons among components 

collected and published on the form 

were difficult to compare because states 

and EIA definitions were not identical; 

and EIA cannot legally require states to 

submit a voluntary form. 

To avoid the unacceptable loss of data 

from the termination of the Form EIA– 

895, the new Form EIA–915 is proposed 

to include information from this form 

and to also efficiently consolidate the 

Forms EIA–64A and EIA–816. The EIA– 

915 form will collect data from the 

universe of facilities that extract liquid 

hydrocarbons from a natural gas stream 

(i.e., natural gas processing plants) and/ 

or separate a liquid hydrocarbon stream 

into its component products (i.e., 

fractionators). In addition, gas 

sweetening plants (plants that extract 

CO2, H2S, sulfur, etc.) will be required 

to submit this form. Approximately 550 

respondents will be included in the 

sample survey frame for the Form EIA– 

915. 

With the forms consolidated, EIA will 

provide monthly marketed and dry 

natural gas production values for Texas, 

Louisiana, Oklahoma, Wyoming, the 

Federal offshore Gulf of Mexico, Other 

States, and Alaska. Monthly Gross 

production values for these EIA-defined 

geographical regions would continue to 

be populated from the EIA–914, 

Monthly Natural Gas Production Report. 

On an annual basis EIA will provide 

gross, marketed, and dry natural gas 

production values for the 31 producing 

states. Information currently collected 

on forms EIA–64A and EIA–816 will be 

available from Form EIA–915. 

The information requested on the 

Form EIA–915 must be provided on a 

monthly basis within 20 days after the 

end of the report period (e.g., the form 

EIA–915 covering the January 2013 

report period must be received by 

February 20, 2013). When the 20th day 

of a calendar month falls on a weekend 

or national holiday, the reports are to be 

filed by the next business day. 

Previously, the information requested 

on the Form EIA–895 was due by the 


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90th day after the end of the report year 

(March 31), Form EIA 64A information 

was due by April 11 following the end 

of the calendar year, and Form 816 

information was due within 20 days of 

the end of the report period. 

Pending authorization to administer 

the proposed new form, EIA has 

terminated the EIA–895. Thus, the 

following items will no longer be 

collected: gas well gas, oil well gas, 

coalbed methane wells, shale gas, gross 

withdrawals, repressured gas, natural 

gas vented and flared, nonhydrocarbon 

gases removed, marketed production, 

natural gas used as fuel on leases, 

wellhead price, and number of 

producing gas wells. However, through 

the EIA–914 and the new form EIA–915 

the following products will be made 

accessible with caveats: 

• Total gross withdrawals: The monthly 

data will be supplied from the EIA– 

914 

• Total dry production: The monthly 

data will be provided by a calculation 

from the EIA–914 and EIA–915 as 

follows: 

D Form EIA–914 will provide natural 

gas lease production 

D Form EIA–915 will provide the total 

plant intake and natural gas sent to 

transmission lines (pipelines) 

D The actual value of the dry natural gas 

production will have two steps: 

1. The difference of subtracting 

natural gas lease production from 

the total plant inlet will result in 

pipeline quality gas that does not 

require processing 

2. The value of total natural gas sent 

to a transmission lines (pipelines) 

will be added to pipeline quality 

gas resulting in dry production 

• Total marketed production is 

calculated by adding together the dry 

production value and the extraction 

loss value 

Better quality data should result in the 

new form, because dry production will 

be calculated as a result of metered 

production from the EIA–915 and EIA– 

914 (Note, the EIA–914 value is 

estimated from a statistical sample). All 

data elements collected from the Form 

EIA–816 are to be transferred to the 

Form EIA–915. Form EIA–64A elements 

will also be collected through the Form 

EIA–915 with the addition of data 

elements such as: 

Volume of Natural Gas Intake 

Processed 

• Gas Received from Operators and Gas 

Gatherers Within a Processor’s State 

Boundaries 

• Gas Received From Other Processing 

Plants (provide the plant and state 

where the gas was previously 

processed) 

Disposition of Plant Intake 

• Plant Outlet (from plant meters) 

• Extraction Loss 

• Non-Hydrocarbons 

• Vented and Flared Hydrocarbon Gas 

from the Processing Plant 

Disposition of Plant Outlet 

• Repressuring/Cycled 

• Returned For Lease Fuel 

• Natural Gas Sent to Fractionators for 

Fuel Use 

• Delivered To Other Process Plant 

• Transmission Line 

Form EIA–915 is mandatory and must 

be completed by the operators of ALL 

facilities that extract liquid 

hydrocarbons from a natural gas stream 

(natural gas processing plants) and/or 

separate a liquid hydrocarbon stream 

into its component products 

(fractionators). In addition, gas 

sweetening plants (plants that extract 

CO2, H2S, sulfur, etc.) will be required 

to submit this form. 

EIA proposes that companyidentifiable data from Form EIA–915 be 

released to the public in order to meet 

increasing data user needs for more 

company-level data. (Currently, 10 

states release the gas plant data for free, 

while Bentek Energy releases the data 

for a fee.) EIA also proposes that the 

survey frame administrative data (e.g., 

company’s name, county) from the EIA– 

915 be available to the public. This 

information can currently be obtained 

free on 10 states agencies’ Web pages, 

the Office of Natural Resources 

Revenue, or for a fee from Bentek 

Energy and Sulpetro Inc.; 

(5) Annual Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 550 monthly respondents; 

(6) Annual Estimated Number of 

Total Responses: 6,660 responses on an 

annual basis; 

(7) Annual Estimated Number of 

Burden Hours: 13,200; 

(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: No 

additional costs beyond burden hours 

are anticipated from the proposed new 

collection instrument. 

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, July 26, 2012. 

Richard Reeves, 

Acting Director, Office of Survey Development 

and Statistical Integration, U. S. Energy 

Information Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2012–18751 Filed 7–31–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 14406–000] 

San Francisco Public Utilities 

Commission; Notice of Application 

Accepted for Filing and Soliciting 

Comments, Motions To Intervene, 

Protests, Recommendations, and 

Terms and Conditions 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection: 

a. Type of Application: Conduit 

Exemption. 

b. Project No.: 14406–000. 

c. Date filed: May 9, 2012, and 

supplemented on July 11 and July 25, 

2012. 

d. Applicant: San Francisco Public 

Utilities Commission (San Francisco 

PUC). 

e. Name of Project: University Mound 

Reservoir Renewable Hydroelectric 

Project. 

f. Location: The proposed University 

Mound Reservoir Renewable 

Hydroelectric Project would be located 

adjacent to the existing McLaren 

Pumping Plant which is located at the 

Northwest corner of the intersection at 

Bowdoin Street and Woosley Street in 

San Francisco, California. The project 

would use the existing Crystal Springs 

Pipelines (CSPL1 and CSPL2), which 

ultimately deliver water from the San 

Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s 

Water Supply and Treatment Divisions 

transmission system (located in San 

Mateo County on the San Francisco 

peninsula) to the University Mound 

Reservoir south and north basins 

(located in San Francisco). The land on 

which all the project structures are 

located is owned by the applicant. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act, 16 U.S.C. 791a–825r. 

h. Applicant Contact: Mr. John Doyle, 

Manager Energy Infrastructure, Planning 

and Development, San Francisco Public 

Utilities Commission, Power Enterprise 

Division, 1155 Market Street, 4th Floor, 

San Francisco, California 94103; 

telephone (415) 554–0725. 

i. FERC Contact: Kim Carter, 

telephone (202) 502–6486, and email 

address Kim.Carter@ferc.gov. 

j. Status of Environmental Analysis: 

This application is ready for 

environmental analysis at this time, and 

the Commission is requesting 

comments, reply comments, 

recommendations, terms and 

conditions, and prescriptions. 


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