[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 198 (Friday, October 11, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 82598-82599]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-23621]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Energy Information Administration


Agency Information Collection Proposed New Survey

AGENCY: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), U.S. Department 
of Energy (DOE).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: EIA submitted an information collection request for clearance 
of the Residential Utility Disconnections Survey as required by the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The collection requests a three-year 
clearance of a new data collection survey--Form EIA-112. Form EIA-112 
is an annual survey that collects information on the number of monthly 
natural gas and electric service final notices, disconnections, and 
reconnections for bill non-payment across residential customers.

DATES: Comments on this information collection must be received no 
later than November 12, 2024. Written comments and recommendations for 
the proposed information collection should be sent within 30 days of 
publication of this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find 
this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently under 
30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search 
function.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kenneth Pick, EIA Clearance Officer, 
at (202) 586-5562. The form and instructions are available at https://www.eia.gov/survey/.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This information collection request 
contains:
    (1) OMB No.: New;
    (2) Information Collection Request Title: Residential Utility 
Disconnections Survey;
    (3) Type of Request: New;
    (4) Purpose: Form EIA-112 is an annual form that will collect 12 
months of data from electric and natural gas providers about final 
termination notices sent to residential customers due to bill 
nonpayment, service disconnections of residential customers due to bill 
nonpayment, and service reconnections of residential customers who were 
disconnected due to bill nonpayment.
    No national data is currently collected on this information. Some 
States collect some of the data described above, but the data are 
inconsistent, and publication is not uniform. Form EIA-112 aims to 
better inform State and Federal policymakers on utility disconnections 
by providing reliable data that can help inform appropriate levels of 
budgetary support for various assistance programs across the United 
States. The results of the survey will be published on the EIA website 
at the aggregated national and State level, as well as at the utility 
level for respondents.
    EIA will conduct periodic censuses of all natural gas and electric 
utilities above a certain size threshold. These censuses will cover 
respondents that complete Form EIA-176 and Form EIA-861, excluding the 
small electric utilities receiving Form EIA-861S. To reduce the 
respondent burden of this proposed data collection, while also 
considering data quality, for the years in between censuses, EIA will 
use cut-off samples from Form EIA-857 and Form EIA-861M, based on 
utility size and State coverage. This strategy will allow EIA to reduce 
respondent burden on smaller utilities, while also producing population 
estimates at the State level

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by modeling data for the utilities on the frames that were subjected to 
sampling but not selected.
    (5) Annual Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,130;
    (6) Annual Estimated Number of Total Responses: 1,130;
    (7) Annual Estimated Number of Burden Hours: 2,260;
    (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 during the normal 
course of business. The cost of the burden hours is estimated to be 
$206,021.60 (2,260 burden hours times $91.16 per hour). Other than the 
cost of burden hours, EIA estimates that there are no additional costs 
for generating, maintaining, and providing this information.
    Statutory Authority: 15 U.S.C. 772(b) and 42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.

    Signed in Washington, DC, on October 8, 2024.
Samson A. Adeshiyan,
Director, Office of Statistical Methods and Research, U.S. Energy 
Information Administration.
[FR Doc. 2024-23621 Filed 10-10-24; 8:45 am]
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