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[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 17 (Tuesday, January 27, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4261-4262]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-01402]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Proposed Agency Information Collection

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice and Request for OMB Review and Comment.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy (DOE) has submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for clearance, a proposal for collection of 
information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995. The

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proposed collection will support a study on how consumers value vehicle 
fuel economy, compare the current results with those from a similar 
study conducted in 2003 (published in 2007), and estimate distributions 
of these valuation processes across the national population of car-
owning and car-leasing households. The data derived from this study 
will be used to provide consumers with information that will help them 
value increased fuel economy as a means of reducing petroleum 
consumption, saving money on fuel, and reducing greenhouse gas 
emissions.

DATES: Comments regarding this collection must be received on or before 
February 26, 2015. If you anticipate that you will be submitting 
comments, but find it difficult to do so within the period of time 
allowed by this notice, please advise the DOE Desk Officer at OMB of 
your intention to make a submission as soon as possible. The Desk 
Officer may be telephoned at 202-395-4718.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should be sent to the DOE Desk Officer, 
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and 
Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10102, 735 17th Street NW., 
Washington, DC 20503.
    And to Mr. Dennis A. Smith, U.S. Department of Energy, EE-2G, 1000 
Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585-0121, Phone: 202-586-
1791, Fax: 202-586-2476, Email: dennis.a.smith@ee.doe.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Dennis A. Smith, Office of Energy 
Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, EE-2G, 1000 
Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585-0121, by phone at 202-
586-1791, or by fax at 202-586-2476, or by email at 
dennis.a.smith@ee.doe.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This information collection request 
contains: (1) OMB No. New; (2) Information Collection Request Title: 
Consumers and Fuel Economy; (3) Type of Request: New Collection; (4) 
Purpose: The Consumers and Fuel Economy Study is a follow-on study of 
consumers' valuation of automotive fuel economy conducted in 2003. The 
purpose is to provide both a qualitative description based on in-home 
interviews and a quantitative estimate based on a national sample 
survey of the prevalence of consumers' fuel economy valuations across 
the population of car-owning households in the United States. The goals 
include the description of similarities and differences from the 2003 
study and the further development of theory, models, or heuristics to 
explain consumers' valuations of fuel economy. This information will be 
made available to the general public via the joint DOE and 
Environmental Protection Agency Web site www.fueleconomy.gov; (5) 
Annual Estimated Number of Respondents: 54 household interviews (not an 
annual collection); (6) Annual Estimated Number of Total Responses: 54; 
(7) Annual Estimated Number of Burden Hours: 108 (2 hours per 
Respondent); (8) Annual Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost 
Burden: $0.

    Statutory Authority:  42 U.S.C. 13233; 42 U.S.C. 13252(a)-(b); 
42 U.S.C. 16191; 49 U.S.C. 32908(g)-(2)-(A).

    Issued in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2015.
Patrick B. Davis,
Program Manager, Vehicle Technologies Program, Energy Efficiency and 
Renewable Energy.
[FR Doc. 2015-01402 Filed 1-26-15; 8:45 am]
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