Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 40 / Thursday, February 28, 2008 / Notices 10745 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The OAC 

is meeting to review and provide final 

recommendations on a regulatory 

amendment package that will make 

technical and operational fixes to the 

North Pacific Groundfish Observer 

Program. 

Special Accommodations 

This meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to Gail 

Bendixen at (907) 271–2809 at least 7 

working days prior to the meeting date. 

Dated: February 25, 2008. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. E8–3742 Filed 2–27–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–S 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meeting 

TIME AND DATE: 10 a.m., Friday, March 

7, 2008. 

PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, 

DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference 

Room. 

STATUS: Closed. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Clearing 

and Intermediary Oversight Matters. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Sauntia S. Warfield, 202–418–5084. 

David A. Stawick, 

Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 08–897 Filed 2–26–08; 1:06 pm] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Energy Information Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Energy Information 

Administration (EIA), Department of 

Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request. 

SUMMARY: EIA is soliciting comments on 

a proposal to conduct a new survey 

titled ‘‘Report of Refinery Outages.’’

DATES: Comments must be filed by April 

28, 2008. If you anticipate difficulty in 

submitting comments within that 

period, contact the person listed below 

as soon as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Ms. 

Joanne Shore. To ensure receipt of the 

comments by the due date, submission 

by e-mail to Joanne.Shore@eia.doe.gov 

is recommended. Ms. Shore may be 

contacted by telephone at 202–586–

4677 or facsimile at 202–586–9739; 

however, e-mail is the preferred 

medium for correspondence. The 

mailing address is: Petroleum Division 

(Attn: Comments on Report of Refinery 

Outages), EI–42, Forrestal Building, U.S. 

Department of Energy, Washington, DC 

20585. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information 

should be directed to Ms. Shore using 

the contact information listed above. An 

example of the information that may be 

reported on refinery outages is available 

on the EIA Web site at http:// 

www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/ 

petroleum/survey_forms/eia810-part6- 

proposed-example.pdf. The example is 

also available from Ms. Shore at the 

addresses listed above. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

II. Current Actions 

III. Request for Comments 

I. Background 

The Federal Energy Administration 

Act of 1974 (Pub. L. 93–275, 15 U.S.C. 

761 et seq.) and the DOE Organization 

Act (Pub. L. 95–91, 42 U.S.C. 7101 et 

seq.) require EIA to carry out a 

centralized, comprehensive, and unified 

energy information program. This 

program collects, evaluates, assembles, 

analyzes, and disseminates information 

on energy resource reserves, production, 

demand, technology, and related 

economic and statistical information. 

This information is used to assess the 

adequacy of energy resources to meet 

near- and long-term domestic demands. 

The EIA, as part of its effort to comply 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995 (Pub. L. 104–13, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 

35), provides the general public and 

other Federal agencies with 

opportunities to comment on collections 

of energy information conducted by or 

in conjunction with EIA. Any comments 

received help EIA to prepare surveys 

that maximize the utility of the 

information collected, and to assess the 

impact of collection requirements on the 

public. Also, after considering any 

comments received, EIA may seek 

approval by the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) under Section 

3507(a) of the Paperwork Reduction Act 

of 1995. 

The purpose of the ‘‘Report of 

Refinery Outages’’ would be to collect 

data for each affected refinery unit 

regarding the unit type, the outage type 

(scheduled or unscheduled), the outage 

timing (beginning and ending dates), 

unit capacity, and the estimated effects 

of outages on output. The information 

would be collected as a new Part 6 on 

EIA’s ‘‘Monthly Refinery Report’’ (Form 

EIA–810). 

EIA would propose to collect both 

scheduled and unscheduled outage 

information for the report month, and 

scheduled outage information for the 

subsequent 12 months. For example, a 

company reporting data for February 

(Form EIA–810 for February is due to 

EIA by March 20 and statistics based on 

the reported data are published in 

April), would include information on 

both scheduled and unscheduled 

outages that occurred in February as 

well as information on outages 

scheduled for March 2008 through 

February 2009. Information to be 

reported would be limited to a 

minimum outage length, such as any 

outage lasting 5 days or more. The units 

for reporting would be: (1) Crude 

Distillation Unit, (2) Reformer Unit, (3) 

Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit, (4) 

Alkylation Unit, (5) Distillate 

Hydrocracking Unit, (6) Gas Oil 

Hydrocracking Unit, (7) Residual Fuel 

Oil Hydrocracking Unit, (8) Gasoline 

Hydrotreater Unit, (9) Distillate Fuel Oil 

Hydrotreater Unit, and (10) Coking Unit. 

EIA also proposes to require estimates 

of the outage impacts on net product 

output for gasoline, gasoline blending 

components, jet fuel, kerosene, and 

other distillates. Product impacts may 

result from several units being out at the 

same time. As a result, reporting of 

impacts might have to be organized by 

grouping overlapping unit outages into 

a single Outage Event, with estimated 

product impacts being recorded for the 

event in total. Generally, if unit outages 

did not overlap, each unit outage would 

be a separate event with its own product 

impacts. An example of the type of 

information that might be collected is 

shown on EIA’s Web site at http:// 

www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/ 

petroleum/survey_forms/eia810-part6- 

proposed-example.pdf. 

Survey respondents would include all 

current EIA–810 respondents; i.e., the 

operators of all operating and idle 

petroleum refineries located in the 50 

States, District of Columbia, Puerto 

Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and 

other U.S. possessions. Response to the 

survey would be mandatory pursuant to 

the Federal Energy Administration Act 

of 1974, Public Law 93–275. 

The information collected would be 

processed and then disseminated in 

EIA’s Petroleum Supply Monthly. The 

information would also be used in 


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