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1The 2014 EIA LNG Export Study, published on 

Oct. 29, 2014, is available at: https://www.eia.gov/ 

analysis/requests/fe/. 

2The 2015 LNG Export Study, dated Oct. 29, 

2015, is available at: http://energy.gov/sites/prod/ 

files/2015/12/f27/20151113_macro_impact_of_lng_

exports_0.pdf. 

3The 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). 

4The Addendum and related documents are 

available at: https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/ 

files/2014/08/f18/Addendum.pdf. 

5The Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Report is 

available at: http://energy.gov/fe/life-cyclegreenhouse-gas-perspective-exporting-liquefiednatural-gas-united-states. 

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., 

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 

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: 

http://www.fe.doe.gov/programs/ 

gasregulation/index.html. 

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] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

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. 

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 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 

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. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. ER18–2159–000] 

Supplemental Notice That Initial 

Market-Based Rate Filing Includes 

Request for Blanket Section 204 

Authorization; Crazy Mountain Wind 

LLC 

This is a supplemental notice in the 

above-referenced proceeding of Crazy 

Mountain Wind LLC’s application for 

market-based rate authority, with an 

accompanying rate tariff, noting that 


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