Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 228 / Tuesday, November 27, 2012 / Notices 70745 

Weekly Survey Forms: 

EIA–800: 11,585 hours; EIA–802: 

2,519 hours; EIA–803: 1,482 hours; EIA– 

804: 9,464 hours; EIA–805: 62,400 

hours; EIA–809: 7,384 hours; 

Monthly Survey Forms: 

EIA–22M: 5,400 hours; EIA–810: 

9,360 hours; EIA–812: 3,360 hours; EIA– 

813: 4,008 hours; EIA–814: 11,965 

hours; EIA–815: 74,390 hours; EIA–816: 

5,141 hours; EIA–817: 918 hours; EIA– 

819: 3,898 hours; 

Annual Survey Forms: 

EIA–820: 288 hours; 

Total annual response burden for the 

Petroleum Supply Reporting System: 

213,562 hours; 

(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: EIA 

estimates that there are not any 

additional costs to respondents 

associated with the surveys other than 

the costs associated with the burden 

hours. 

Statutory Authority: Section 13(b) of the 

Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974, 

P.L. 93–275, codified at 15 U.S.C. 772(b), and 

the DOE Organization Act of 1977, Public 

Law 95–91, codified at 42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq. 

Issued in Washington, DC, November, 20, 

2012. 

Stephanie Brown, 

Director, Office of Survey Development and 

Statistical Integration, U.S. Energy 

Information Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2012–28712 Filed 11–26–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

U.S. Energy Information 

Administration 

Proposed Change to Data Protection 

AGENCY: U.S. Energy Information 

Administration (EIA), U.S. Department 

of Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Notice and Request for Review 

and Comment. 

SUMMARY: This notice pertains to Forms 

EIA–3, the Quarterly Coal Consumption 

and Quality Report—Manufacturing and 

Transformation/Processing Coal Plants 

and Commercial and Institutional Coal 

Users; EIA–5, the Quarterly Coal 

Consumption and Quality Report—Coke 

Plants; EIA–7A, the Coal Production 

and Preparation Report—Coal Mines 

and Preparation Plants; and EIA–8A, the 

Coal Stocks Report—Traders and 

Brokers. DOE’s proposed changes will 

release or publish data received from 

mandatory respondents that is not 

company identifiable, and does not 

satisfy the criteria for an exemption 

under the Freedom of Information Act 

or satisfy the requirements of the Trade 

Secrets Act. 

No changes are proposed for the 

standby surveys Forms: EIA–1, Weekly 

Coal Monitoring Report—General 

Industries and Blast Furnaces; EIA–4, 

Weekly Coal Monitoring Report—Coke 

Plants; EIA–6Q, Quarterly Coal Report— 

Coal Producers and Distributors; and 

EIA–20, Weekly Coal Monitoring Report 

of Coal Burning Utilities and 

Independent Power Producers. 

Prior to 2011, data reported on Forms 

EIA–1, EIA–3, EIA–4, EIA–5, EIA–6Q, 

EIA–8A, and EIA–20 were protected to 

the extent it satisfied exemption criteria 

under the Freedom of Information Act 

and the Trade Secrets Act. Disclosure 

limitation procedures were applied to 

all data. The data protection policy for 

Form EIA–7A was similar except that 

the name and address of the responding 

company, the mine or plant type, and 

location were considered public 

information. 

Effective January, 2011, EIA changed 

the data protection policy for Forms 

EIA–3, EIA–5, EIA–7A and EIA–8A 

from protecting the data as described 

above, to release all data reported in 

company identifiable form with the 

exception of cost data. Cost data are 

protected and not released in company 

identifiable form to the extent it satisfies 

exemption criteria under the Freedom of 

Information Act and the Trade Secrets 

Act. Disclosure limitation procedures 

(suppression methods) are applied to 

protect against the identifiability of the 

reported cost data. No changes were 

made to the pre-2011 protection policy 

for Forms EIA–1, EIA–4, EIA–6Q, and 

EIA–20. 

The U.S. Energy Information 

Administration proposes to change and 

strengthen the data protection 

provisions on Forms EIA–3, EIA–5, 

EIA–7A and EIA–8A. Currently, data 

reported on these forms are not 

protected except for certain selected 

cost and revenue data elements. For 

Forms EIA–3, EIA–5 and EIA–8A, EIA 

proposes to protect company 

information reported on these forms 

from public release in identifiable form 

to the extent it satisfies exemption 

criteria under the Freedom of 

Information Act and the Trade Secrets 

Act. However, disclosure limitation 

procedures will not be applied to the 

State—and regional-level, statistical, 

and quantity data published from these 

surveys. Thus, there may be some 

statistics that are based on data from 

fewer than three respondents that may 

affect the identifiability of reported data. 

Disclosure limitation procedures will be 

applied to cost data reported on Forms 

EIA–3 and EIA–5 and revenue data 

reported on Forms EIA–7A and EIA–8A. 

With regards to Form EIA–7A only, the 

name and address of the responding 

company, the mine or plant type, and 

location will continue to be considered 

public information. These data elements 

will continue to be released in EIA’s 

public use files and will not be 

protected from disclosure in identifiable 

form when releasing statistical aggregate 

(State-level) information. These data 

elements are currently released on the 

EIA Web site in the Form EIA–7A 

public use file, along with company 

identifiable MSHA data, which are also 

not protected. All other information 

reported on Form EIA–7A will be 

protected from public release in 

identifiable form to the extent it satisfies 

exemption criteria under the Freedom of 

Information Act and the Trade Secrets 

Act. All proposed changes to the data 

protection provisions for Forms EIA–3, 

EIA–5, EIA–7A and EIA–8A will be 

retroactive and apply to data reported 

for calendar years 2011 and 2012. 

Applying this change retroactively to 

data reported for 2011 preserves the 

continuity of certain data series and 

provides continuity for the main 

components of EIA’s pre-2011 data 

protection policy. 

DATES: Comments regarding this 

collection must be received on or before 

December 27, 2012. 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 EIA–3 Survey Manager 

at DOE of your intention to make a 

submission as soon as possible. The 

Survey Manager may be telephoned at 

202–586–8926 or emailed at 

tejasvi.raghuveer@eia.gov. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be sent to: Attn: Tejasvi Raghuveer, 

EIA–3 Survey Manager, U.S. Energy 

Information Administration, EI–24, 

1000 Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

EIA–3: (1) OMB No. 1905–0167; (2) 

Information Collection Request Title: 

Quarterly Coal Consumption and 

Quality Report—Manufacturing and 

Transformation/Processing Coal Plants 

and Commercial and Institutional Coal 

Users; (3) Type of Request: Change to 

respondent-level protection policy and 

disclosure limitation procedures; (4) 

Purpose: To collect all data elements 

from Form EIA–3 respondents, to 

release or publish data that is not 

company identifiable, and does not 

satisfy the criteria for an exemption 

under the Freedom of Information Act 

or satisfy the requirements of the Trade 

Secrets Act; (5) Estimated Number of 


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Respondents Quarterly: 498; (6) 

Estimated Number of Responses 

Annually: 1992; (7) Estimated Number 

of Burden Hours Annually: 2490 hours; 

(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: 

$166,481.40. 

EIA–5: (1) OMB No. 1905–0167; (2) 

Information Collection Request Title: 

Quarterly Coal Consumption and 

Quality Report—Coke Plants; (3) Type of 

Request: Change to respondent-level 

protection policy and disclosure 

limitation procedures; (4) Purpose: To 

collect all data elements from Form 

EIA–5 respondents, to release or publish 

data that is not company identifiable, 

and does not satisfy the criteria for an 

exemption under the Freedom of 

Information Act or satisfy the 

requirements of the Trade Secrets Act; 

(5) Estimated Number of Respondents 

Quarterly: 19; (6) Estimated Number of 

Responses Annually: 76; (7) Estimated 

Number of Burden Hours Annually: 114 

hours; (8) Annual Estimated Reporting 

and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: 

$7,622.04. 

EIA–7A: (1) OMB No. 1905–0167; (2) 

Information Collection Request Title: 

Coal Production and Preparation 

Report—Coal Mines and Preparation 

Plants; (3) Type of Request: Change to 

respondent-level protection policy and 

disclosure limitation procedures; (4) 

Purpose: To collect all data elements 

from Form EIA–7A respondents, to 

release or publish data considered 

public information (name and address 

of the responding company, the mine or 

plant type, and location), and does not 

satisfy the criteria for an exemption 

under the Freedom of Information Act 

or satisfy the requirements of the Trade 

Secrets Act; (5) Estimated Number of 

Respondents Annually: 1306; (6) 

Estimated Number of Responses 

Annually: 1306; (7) Estimated Number 

of Burden Hours Annually: 2350.8; (8) 

Annual Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: 

$157,174.49. 

EIA–8A: (1) OMB No. 1905–0167; (2) 

Information Collection Request Title: 

Coal Stocks Report—Traders and 

Brokers; (3) Type of Request: Change to 

respondent-level protection policy and 

disclosure limitation procedures; (4) 

Purpose: To collect all data elements 

from Form EIA–8A respondents, to 

release or publish data that is not 

company identifiable, and does not 

satisfy the criteria for an exemption 

under the Freedom of Information Act 

or satisfy the requirements of the Trade 

Secrets Act; (5) Estimated Number of 

Respondents Annually: 89; (6) 

Estimated Number of Responses 

Annually: 89; (7) Estimated Number of 

Burden Hours Annually: 89 hours; (8) 

Annual Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $5,950.54. 

Statutory Authority: 15 U.S.C. 772(b), 

Section 13(b) of the Federal Energy 

Administration Act of 1974 (FEA Act), Pub. 

L. 93–275. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on November 

20, 2012. 

Stephanie Brown, 

Director, Statistics and Methods Group, 

Energy Information Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2012–28701 Filed 11–26–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. IC13–1–000] 

Commission Information Collection 

Activities (FERC–592); Comment 

Request; Extension 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection 

and request for comments. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

requirements of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A), the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (Commission or 

FERC) is soliciting public comment on 

the currently approved information 

collection, Standards of Conduct for 

Transmission Provider; and Marketing 

Affiliates of Interstate Pipelines. 

DATES: Comments on the collection of 

information are due January 28, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

(identified by Docket No. IC13–1–000) 

by either of the following methods: 

• eFiling at Commission’s Web Site: 

http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

efiling.asp. 

• Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier: 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

Secretary of the Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

Instructions: All submissions must be 

formatted and filed in accordance with 

submission guidelines at: http:// 

www.ferc.gov/help/submissionguide.asp. For user assistance contact 

FERC Online Support by email at 

ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov, or by phone 

at: (866) 208–3676 (toll-free), or (202) 

502–8659 for TTY. 

Docket: Users interested in receiving 

automatic notification of activity in this 

docket or in viewing/downloading 

comments and issuances in this docket 

may do so at http://www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/docs-filing.asp. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ellen Brown may be reached by email 

at DataClearance@FERC.gov, telephone 

at (202) 502–8663, and fax at (202) 273– 

0873. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: 

FERC–592, Standards of Conduct for 

Transmission Providers; and Marketing 

Affiliates of Interstate Pipelines. 

OMB Control No.: 1 902–0157. 

Type of Request: Three-year extension 

of the FERC–592 information collection 

requirements with no changes to the 

current reporting requirements. 

Abstract: The Commission uses the 

information maintained and posted by 

the respondents to monitor the 

pipeline’s transportation, sales, and 

storage activities for its marketing 

affiliate to deter undue discrimination 

by pipeline companies in favor of their 

marketing affiliates. Non-affiliated 

shippers and other entities (e.g. state 

commissions) also use information to 

determine whether they have been 

harmed by affiliate preference and to 

prepare evidence for proceedings 

following the filing of a complaint. 

18 CFR Part 358 (Standards of Conduct) 

Respondents maintain and provide 

the information required by Part 358 on 

their Internet Web sites. When the 

Commission requires a pipeline to post 

information on its Web site following a 

disclosure of non-public information to 

its marketing affiliate, non-affiliated 

shippers obtain comparable access to 

the non-public transportation 

information, which allows them to 

compete with marketing affiliates on a 

more equal basis. 

18 CFR 250.16, and the FERC–592 Log/ 

Format 

This form (log/format) provides the 

electronic formats for maintaining 

information on discounted 

transportation transactions and capacity 

allocation to support monitoring of 

activities of interstate pipeline 

marketing affiliates. Commission staff 

considers discounts given to shippers in 

litigated rate cases. 

Without this information collection: 

• The Commission would be unable 

to effectively monitor whether pipelines 

are giving discriminatory preference to 

their marketing affiliates; and 

• Non-affiliated shippers and state 

commissions and others would be 

unable to determine if they have been 

harmed by affiliate preference or 

prepare evidence for proceedings 

following the filing of a complaint. 

Type of Respondents: Natural gas 

pipelines. 


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